WFMU: Circle Time with Mark R.: Playlist from January 11, 2016

Listener comments!
	♥ 3:11am coelacanth: greetings Mark and others
	♥ 3:17am Ken From Hyde Park: Hi, coelacanth. Hi, Mark R. Hi, everyone else. These songs from Blackstar sound pretty good, I think.
	3:20am Mark R.: Some of those lyrics--"I'm in heaven"--God.
	3:25am (Eyepatch) Fox: From what I've heard, it reminds me of Outside, which is probably my favorite Bowie album (not a popular stance, I realise)
	3:26am (Eyepatch) Fox: The reports are that he was fighting cancer for the past 18 months. So I suppose the notion that this was going to be his last album may have been in the forefront of his mind throughout the making of this album.
	♥ 3:32am pacific standard simon: The 1980 Floor Show!
	3:37am Mark R.: Sorry for the sketchy sound quality on this Cavett appearance, but I think the content makes up for it--I hope you agree.
	♥ 3:38am pacific standard simon: Frankly, I thought he was full of shit most of the time he was around, but I was glad that he was around anyway. He was worth having around.
	♥ 3:38am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Thx WFMU - I'm glad I heard it here.
	3:39am Pete from Boston (and NJ): I have always loved this version. Luther Vandross's intensity in the background makes me want to dance.
	♥ 3:39am pacific standard simon: I've watched this Dick Cavett show before.
	3:40am Pete from Boston (and NJ): What Rabbit said.
	♥ 3:45am mariano: God. I really wish I hadn't just read that headline.
	3:46am Pete from Boston (and NJ): Guess it's time to shove nutmeg under our cuticles in tribute.
	♥ 3:48am joeray: Thanks for this impromptu Bowie tribute show, Mark R. and Therese!
	♥ 3:53am pacific standard simon: Come on square, Cavett!
	♥ 3:56am pacific standard simon: Same backing music as "Fame".
	♥ 4:00am tomasz.: hi everyone, hi Mark. what joeray said really, thanks for this show
	♥ 4:01am Smilty69: RIP Starman
	♥ 4:01am Caryn: Ground control has finally lost contact with Major Tom... RIP
	♥ 4:02am pacific standard simon: This might be the first Bowie album I ever bought, too.
	♥ 4:05am pacific standard simon: I had a cut-out copy of The Man Who Sold The World, and Pin Ups, but I don't remember what order I bought them in.
	4:08am lisa: Thank you Mark R and Therese for breaking it to me softly. Glad I didn't have to wake up (on the west coast) to the print headlines.
	♥ 4:09am coelacanth: this was my first Bowie album; but i didn't buy it. "panic in detroit" inspired me to start writing.
	♥ 4:09am pacific standard simon: I will say that I loved Pin Ups the best, because the songwriting was the most consistently best.
	♥ 4:11am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...even Paul Simonon 'asked for an autograph': www.facebook.com...
	4:12am greysquad: +1 ^"Pinups"
	♥ 4:15am pacific standard simon: See, here's my favorite dong from Aladdin Sane.
	♥ 4:15am pacific standard simon: Ha, song.
	4:15am Joe B: Hi Mark
	4:16am Mary: Thank you! I need to hear this with you all. Gutted.
	♥ 4:19am pacific standard simon: Bowie was at his best as an interpretive performer.
	♥ 4:20am pacific standard simon: "Queen Bitch" is the equal of any song that Lou Reed ever wrote or sang.
	4:21am V Priceless: Jeezus I am numb. Thank you for this.
	♥ 4:22am joeray: Aladdin Sane is my fav Bowie LP, and I mean LP! The first RCA cd re-issue of it had the worst audio quality. I always recall that disc as one (of many) that made me realize that records were much better than CD's!
	♥ 4:25am pacific standard simon: I'm envisioning Mark R. rampaging through the record library while Therese looked on, shocked, yet understanding.
	♥ 4:28am pacific standard simon: I loved the American version of the TV series Life On Mars, largely because of its faithfulness to the music of that era.
	4:28am V Priceless: bawling like a 55 year old baby here.
	♥ 4:29am joeray: @PSS: Therese was also doing some quick programming, since her last hour was all Bowie.
	4:30am Mark R.: Actually Therese already had all the Bowie albums in the studio, so I just said, "Leave 'em!"
	♥ 4:30am pacific standard simon: @joeray - I tuned in near the end.
	4:32am davidbaker99: Great show - you've got the tone JUST RIGHT... any chance of Where are we now? - thanks from London, UK
	♥ 4:33am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Oh - Bowie unquestionably introduced & acclimated individuals & Society to Gayness more than anyone ever.
	4:35am Marc15: As a gay man who was a teen in the early 80s, I feared being called that 3-letter f-word
	♥ 4:36am pacific standard simon: Hunky Dory is pretty much my favorite Bowie album. I didn't worry much about the F word, because they called me (and everybody else THEY didn't like) that before the glam thing hit anyway.
	4:38am @lollydeskpotato: Such fantastic choices, thank you, thank you for this lovely show. Saw Bowie @ BostonGarden my first concert age 12 he saved me fr Jr. hi gloom
	♥ 4:38am pacific standard simon: This album was HATED by the rock critic establishment when it was released. Assholes.
	4:39am greysquad: oh yea! I'm from Detroit and i remember hearing "panic in detroit" on wabx all the time! Thanks for the flashback!
	4:39am Parq: Mrs. Parq couldn't sleep, and when she came to bed, she told me the news. Now I can't sleep. Impossible to synthesize all that's on my mind into a few choice words. So glad to be able to count on FMU to be playing just what I want to hear.
	♥ 4:39am coelacanth: i was called a girl a lot and a sissy from 3rd grade on,after my parents let me grow my hair long. i was the only boy my age in my town with long hair. my friends' older sisters liked me. my friends' parents usually hated me!
	4:42am greysquad: thanks for playing "pin-ups" too... one of his best!
	♥ 4:46am joeray: I'm probably close to your age, Mark R. but my experience was different. in the mid-seventies. I was in a band with my cousin- a guitarist who was so steeped in Bowie and the "glam" scene that I had to join in with eye make up and snarled pigtailed hair - a style I got from Zappa on the cover of "We're Only in it for the Money"!
	♥ 4:46am pacific standard simon: This album introduced me to some awesome 60s songs that I was too young to catch the first time around. When I was old enough to round up the originals, I found that many of the covers stood up very well against their parents.
	4:47am brendanswfmuaccount: I listened to Station to Station tonight while doing some work before bed. Turned on FMU as Therese was playing a track fro Low and the new record. I woke up to hear Mark announce Bowie's death on his first mic break. Haven't been able to sleep since. RIP :(
	♥ 4:51am pacific standard simon: Try to imagine Elvis Costello's bonus tracks without Pin-Ups.
	4:51am :-(: Thank you so much WFMU...for sharing Bowie love with us all.
	♥ 4:52am coelacanth: it's too weird. there's been so much Bowie on fmu the last few days.
	♥ 4:53am coelacanth: (relatively)
	4:57am V Priceless: I was at the Woodmansey gig in NYC Friday..,Visconti held up his cell phone to the audience and we all sang happy birthday to him! No words...thanks for this show.
	♥ 4:58am pacific standard simon: I really hated that "Ashes To Ashes" song, but "Putting Out The Fire With Gasoline" was OK.
	♥ 5:01am joeray: Ansley Dunbar drumming!
	♥ 5:02am pacific standard simon: Jebus just don't play the bonus tracks from the Pin-Ups CD! Those things are awful!
	♥ 5:05am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: I was a little brother - my Big Brother nine years older than me - & into Rawk & Glam even in smalltown NewHampshire. So - more often than not - the music would come half-clear from the other room - thru walls & under doors. Things like Bowie in the early 1970s & my pre-teenage years, then, were powerful & mysterious indeed. Then came self-made cassettes (later taping everybody's albums they had: Bowie was an Artist whose oeuvre was large & diverse & impactful enuff, it was worth long pursuit) & eventually LPs - then occasional films & finally CDs. He was always there. Just read a tribute someone said Thx for being an Artist til the end. Damn.
	5:06am greysquad: I love that version of "shapes of things" with the heavy Anthony Newley vocal stylizations....
	5:08am :-(: I'll never forgive my mother for forbidding me from seeing Bowie during his 1974 Diamond Dogs tour (well, I forgive her, but you know what I mean). I'd loved his music since 1972, and had read about him in Creem, so I was dying to see him live. A few of my jr. high girlfriends had an extra ticket and invited me. Alas, it was not to be...
	♥ 5:11am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...videos before 'videos' & of course the visual & theatrical expression: he was an Auteur who seemed to have another level or dimension (or @ least - or even better - suggest them) than other Rawkers...
	♥ 5:11am coelacanth: it's probably my least favorite album until Lodger...still like it and glad to hear it. it's been a while.
	♥ 5:13am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: A brilliant arranger - one of the great bandleaders, yup It wasn't until the 90s til we'd be glutted by Tribute albums as a standard Genre...
	♥ 5:14am coelacanth: Bowie never hesitated to say that it was all marketing. he wasn't pretending it was real, he was just playing and experimenting. i always respected him for that- even during those phases when i hated his image.
	5:15am :-(: Yeah, his touring schedule was insane, so that's a good thought that he chose to do covers instead of writing more songs. But Pin Ups was so creative for the time....it sort of presaged John Lennon's Rock n Roll LP.
	♥ 5:16am pacific standard simon: On "Drive In Saturday". he mentions "Twig the wonderkid" -- Twiggy.
	♥ 5:16am coelacanth: he said in an interview once,something like" it's just a game,right? i mean, if you didn't laugh you'd fucking cry."
	5:19am greysquad: oh man... you are really hitting the sweet spots in his career.... this really was his last great album!
	♥ 5:20am Nasty Les: I'm very glad WFMU and the listener community exists right now, as it feels like exactly the right way to mourn the passing of a great, and celebrate his music. Can't really face "Social Media" right now with an endless stream of identical "RIP David Bowie" status updates... Thanks Mark R!
	♥ 5:20am pacific standard simon: Pin-Ups invented the whole genre of rock inspirational cover albums which has been mined like the mother lode ever since.
	5:22am :-(: @Nasty Les: agree 100%
	5:25am greysquad: david bowie and earl slick... golden years indeed!
	♥ 5:28am coelacanth: at least Earl is okay.
	♥ 5:29am pacific standard simon: Station to Station was just amazing. It introduced me to Professor Longhair (via TVC15) long before I might have otherwise been introduced.
	5:38am :-(: What was Professor Longhair's connection to TVC15?
	♥ 5:38am pacific standard simon: OOOHHH yeah...
	♥ 5:41am pacific standard simon: Just listen to that piano. That's the Fess sound!
	♥ 5:42am coelacanth: (aladin sane>hunky dory>david live>the man who sold the world> ziggy.)
	5:43am V Priceless: thank you for a fine tribute of words and music, Mark.
	5:44am greysquad: Fess sound played by roy bittan courtesy of the e street band...
	5:47am greysquad: great show! though I wonder when and who will play "the laughing gnome".
	5:47am :-(: Ha...yeah
	5:47am Mark R.: It was a privilege spending this time with you all. Take care, everyone.
	♥ 5:48am joeray: Thanks, Mark R.!
	♥ 5:48am Caryn: The persona of Ziggy was a fantastic creation, but never cared for this album that much. Great show, Mark R.!
	5:49am pierre: Bonjour WFMU, sad to hear the news
	5:50am Frank O'Toole: sorry about David... rest in piece.
	♥ 5:50am pacific standard simon: @greysquad - I would at least add the phrase "borrowed from", if I didn't want to see the phrase "stolen from".
	♥ 5:50am coelacanth: Thank you Mark. i'm glad you were here.
	5:50am :-(: "the church of mad love is such a holy place to be"...Thanks Mark
	♥ 5:52am coelacanth: ...i'm still doubting sleep.
	♥ 5:54am pacific standard simon: Someone will play "The London Boys". Bet on it.
	5:54am :-(: OH YEAH...Hang Onto Yourself is still one of all my all time favorite songs ever
	5:56am greysquad: bowie did a whole lot of "borrowing" during his career... but so did picasso and warhol... so it's all good (i think)
	♥ 5:56am pacific standard simon: OK, now I need to find the ukulele chords for "Hang Onto Yourself".
	5:57am :-(: that would be cool
	♥ 5:57am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Someone somewhere said that Bowie had six good songs @ best - I replied there were more than that on 'Ziggy Stardust' alone.
	5:57am greysquad: bewlay bros please!
	9:29am thedunkel: great set! thanks for putting this all together!

Circle Time with Mark R.: Playlist from January 11, 2016

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January 11, 2016: The Man Who Fell to Earth...for A While

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	New	Approx. start time
David Bowie	Blackstar "Blackstar" by "David Bowie"	Blackstar	Columbia		David's newest album--released Friday	*	0:00:00 (Pop-up)

David Bowie	Lazarus "Lazarus" by "David Bowie"	Blackstar	Columbia			*	0:12:51 (Pop-up)
David Bowie	Sue (Or in A Season of Crime)	Blackstar	Columbia			*	0:19:30 (Pop-up)
David Bowie	Dollar Days "Dollar Days" by "David Bowie"	Blackstar	Columbia			*	0:23:54 (Pop-up)

David Bowie	Various+Interview "Various+Interview" by "David Bowie"	Dick Cavett Show 12/5/74			youtube		0:33:22 (Pop-up)

David Bowie	Watch That Man "Watch That Man" by "David Bowie"	Aladdin Sane	Ryko	1973	The first Bowie album I ever bought		1:00:37 (Pop-up)
David Bowie	Aladdin Sane "Aladdin Sane" by "David Bowie"	Aladdin Sane	Ryko	1973			1:03:48 (Pop-up)
David Bowie	Panic in Detroit "Panic in Detroit" by "David Bowie"	Aladdin Sane	RYKO	1973			1:08:52 (Pop-up)
David Bowie	Let's Spend the Night Together	Aladdin Sane	RYKO	1973			1:13:19 (Pop-up)
David Bowie	Lady Grinning Soul "Lady Grinning Soul" by "David Bowie"	Aladdin Sane	RYKO	1973			1:16:24 (Pop-up)
David Bowie	Changes "Changes" by "David Bowie"	Hunky Dory	RYKO	1971			1:20:08 (Pop-up)
David Bowie	Oh! You Pretty Things	Hunky Dory	RYKO	1971			1:23:36 (Pop-up)
David Bowie	Life on Mars? "Life on Mars?" by "David Bowie"	Hunky Dory	RYKO	1971			1:26:59 (Pop-up)

David Bowie	Rosalyn "Rosalyn" by "David Bowie"	Pin-Ups	RYKO	1973	There seems to be a lot of sentiment for this album. We're all in this together, so settle in for the long haul.		1:35:05 (Pop-up)
Davie Bowie	Here Comes The Night "Here Comes The Night" by "Davie Bowie"	Pin-Ups	RYKO	1973			1:37:13 (Pop-up)
Davie Bowie	I Wish You Would "I Wish You Would" by "Davie Bowie"	Pin-Ups	RYKO	1973			1:40:30 (Pop-up)
David Bowie	See Emily Play "See Emily Play" by "David Bowie"	Pin-Ups	RYKO	1973			1:43:18 (Pop-up)
David Bowie	Everything's Alright "Everything's Alright" by "David Bowie"	Pin-Ups	RYKO	1973			1:47:29 (Pop-up)
David Bowie	I Can't Explain "I Can't Explain" by "David Bowie"	Pin-Ups	RYKO	1973			1:49:58 (Pop-up)
David Bowie	Friday on My Mind "Friday on My Mind" by "David Bowie"	Pin-Ups	RYKO	1973			1:52:09 (Pop-up)
David Bowie	Sorrow "Sorrow" by "David Bowie"	Pin-Ups	RYKO	1973			1:55:08 (Pop-up)
David Bowie	Don't Bring Me Down "Don't Bring Me Down" by "David Bowie"	Pin-Ups	RYKO	1973			1:58:03 (Pop-up)
David Bowie	Shapes of Things "Shapes of Things" by "David Bowie"	Pin-Ups	RYKO	1973			2:00:27 (Pop-up)
David Bowie	Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere	Pin-Ups	RYKO	1973			2:03:00 (Pop-up)
David Bowie	Where Have All the Good Times Gone	Pin-Ups	RYKO	1973			2:06:16 (Pop-up)

David Bowie	Station to Station "Station to Station" by "David Bowie"	Station to Station	RYKO	1976			2:14:26 (Pop-up)
David Bowie	Golden Years "Golden Years" by "David Bowie"	Station to Station	RYKO	1976			2:23:58 (Pop-up)

David Bowie	TVC15 "TVC15" by "David Bowie"	Station to Station	RYKO	1976			2:34:20 (Pop-up)

David Bowie	Five Years "Five Years" by "David Bowie"	The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars	RYKO	1972			2:40:17 (Pop-up)
David Bowie	Soul Love "Soul Love" by "David Bowie"	The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars	RYKO	1972			2:45:02 (Pop-up)
David Bowie	Moonage Daydream "Moonage Daydream" by "David Bowie"	The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars					2:48:48 (Pop-up)
David Bowie	Hang Onto Yourself "Hang Onto Yourself" by "David Bowie"	The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars	RYKO	1973			2:53:04 (Pop-up)
David Bowie	Ziggy Stardust "Ziggy Stardust" by "David Bowie"	The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars	RYKO	1972			2:55:39 (Pop-up)
David Bowie	Rock 'N' Roll Suicide	The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars	RYKO	1972			2:59:04 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	♥ 3:11am coelacanth: greetings Mark and others
	♥ 3:17am Ken From Hyde Park: Hi, coelacanth. Hi, Mark R. Hi, everyone else. These songs from Blackstar sound pretty good, I think.
	3:20am Mark R.: Some of those lyrics--"I'm in heaven"--God.
	3:25am (Eyepatch) Fox: From what I've heard, it reminds me of Outside, which is probably my favorite Bowie album (not a popular stance, I realise)
	3:26am (Eyepatch) Fox: The reports are that he was fighting cancer for the past 18 months. So I suppose the notion that this was going to be his last album may have been in the forefront of his mind throughout the making of this album.
	♥ 3:32am pacific standard simon: The 1980 Floor Show!
	3:37am Mark R.: Sorry for the sketchy sound quality on this Cavett appearance, but I think the content makes up for it--I hope you agree.
	♥ 3:38am pacific standard simon: Frankly, I thought he was full of shit most of the time he was around, but I was glad that he was around anyway. He was worth having around.
	♥ 3:38am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Thx WFMU - I'm glad I heard it here.
	3:39am Pete from Boston (and NJ): I have always loved this version. Luther Vandross's intensity in the background makes me want to dance.
	♥ 3:39am pacific standard simon: I've watched this Dick Cavett show before.
	3:40am Pete from Boston (and NJ): What Rabbit said.
	♥ 3:45am mariano: God. I really wish I hadn't just read that headline.
	3:46am Pete from Boston (and NJ): Guess it's time to shove nutmeg under our cuticles in tribute.
	♥ 3:48am joeray: Thanks for this impromptu Bowie tribute show, Mark R. and Therese!
	♥ 3:53am pacific standard simon: Come on square, Cavett!
	♥ 3:56am pacific standard simon: Same backing music as "Fame".
	♥ 4:00am tomasz.: hi everyone, hi Mark. what joeray said really, thanks for this show
	♥ 4:01am Smilty69: RIP Starman
	♥ 4:01am Caryn: Ground control has finally lost contact with Major Tom... RIP
	♥ 4:02am pacific standard simon: This might be the first Bowie album I ever bought, too.
	♥ 4:05am pacific standard simon: I had a cut-out copy of The Man Who Sold The World, and Pin Ups, but I don't remember what order I bought them in.
	4:08am lisa: Thank you Mark R and Therese for breaking it to me softly. Glad I didn't have to wake up (on the west coast) to the print headlines.
	♥ 4:09am coelacanth: this was my first Bowie album; but i didn't buy it. "panic in detroit" inspired me to start writing.
	♥ 4:09am pacific standard simon: I will say that I loved Pin Ups the best, because the songwriting was the most consistently best.
	♥ 4:11am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...even Paul Simonon 'asked for an autograph': www.facebook.com...
	4:12am greysquad: +1 ^"Pinups"
	♥ 4:15am pacific standard simon: See, here's my favorite dong from Aladdin Sane.
	♥ 4:15am pacific standard simon: Ha, song.
	4:15am Joe B: Hi Mark
	4:16am Mary: Thank you! I need to hear this with you all. Gutted.
	♥ 4:19am pacific standard simon: Bowie was at his best as an interpretive performer.
	♥ 4:20am pacific standard simon: "Queen Bitch" is the equal of any song that Lou Reed ever wrote or sang.
	4:21am V Priceless: Jeezus I am numb. Thank you for this.
	♥ 4:22am joeray: Aladdin Sane is my fav Bowie LP, and I mean LP! The first RCA cd re-issue of it had the worst audio quality. I always recall that disc as one (of many) that made me realize that records were much better than CD's!
	♥ 4:25am pacific standard simon: I'm envisioning Mark R. rampaging through the record library while Therese looked on, shocked, yet understanding.
	♥ 4:28am pacific standard simon: I loved the American version of the TV series Life On Mars, largely because of its faithfulness to the music of that era.
	4:28am V Priceless: bawling like a 55 year old baby here.
	♥ 4:29am joeray: @PSS: Therese was also doing some quick programming, since her last hour was all Bowie.
	4:30am Mark R.: Actually Therese already had all the Bowie albums in the studio, so I just said, "Leave 'em!"
	♥ 4:30am pacific standard simon: @joeray - I tuned in near the end.
	4:32am davidbaker99: Great show - you've got the tone JUST RIGHT... any chance of Where are we now? - thanks from London, UK
	♥ 4:33am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Oh - Bowie unquestionably introduced & acclimated individuals & Society to Gayness more than anyone ever.
	4:35am Marc15: As a gay man who was a teen in the early 80s, I feared being called that 3-letter f-word
	♥ 4:36am pacific standard simon: Hunky Dory is pretty much my favorite Bowie album. I didn't worry much about the F word, because they called me (and everybody else THEY didn't like) that before the glam thing hit anyway.
	4:38am @lollydeskpotato: Such fantastic choices, thank you, thank you for this lovely show. Saw Bowie @ BostonGarden my first concert age 12 he saved me fr Jr. hi gloom
	♥ 4:38am pacific standard simon: This album was HATED by the rock critic establishment when it was released. Assholes.
	4:39am greysquad: oh yea! I'm from Detroit and i remember hearing "panic in detroit" on wabx all the time! Thanks for the flashback!
	4:39am Parq: Mrs. Parq couldn't sleep, and when she came to bed, she told me the news. Now I can't sleep. Impossible to synthesize all that's on my mind into a few choice words. So glad to be able to count on FMU to be playing just what I want to hear.
	♥ 4:39am coelacanth: i was called a girl a lot and a sissy from 3rd grade on,after my parents let me grow my hair long. i was the only boy my age in my town with long hair. my friends' older sisters liked me. my friends' parents usually hated me!
	4:42am greysquad: thanks for playing "pin-ups" too... one of his best!
	♥ 4:46am joeray: I'm probably close to your age, Mark R. but my experience was different. in the mid-seventies. I was in a band with my cousin- a guitarist who was so steeped in Bowie and the "glam" scene that I had to join in with eye make up and snarled pigtailed hair - a style I got from Zappa on the cover of "We're Only in it for the Money"!
	♥ 4:46am pacific standard simon: This album introduced me to some awesome 60s songs that I was too young to catch the first time around. When I was old enough to round up the originals, I found that many of the covers stood up very well against their parents.
	4:47am brendanswfmuaccount: I listened to Station to Station tonight while doing some work before bed. Turned on FMU as Therese was playing a track fro Low and the new record. I woke up to hear Mark announce Bowie's death on his first mic break. Haven't been able to sleep since. RIP :(
	♥ 4:51am pacific standard simon: Try to imagine Elvis Costello's bonus tracks without Pin-Ups.
	4:51am :-(: Thank you so much WFMU...for sharing Bowie love with us all.
	♥ 4:52am coelacanth: it's too weird. there's been so much Bowie on fmu the last few days.
	♥ 4:53am coelacanth: (relatively)
	4:57am V Priceless: I was at the Woodmansey gig in NYC Friday..,Visconti held up his cell phone to the audience and we all sang happy birthday to him! No words...thanks for this show.
	♥ 4:58am pacific standard simon: I really hated that "Ashes To Ashes" song, but "Putting Out The Fire With Gasoline" was OK.
	♥ 5:01am joeray: Ansley Dunbar drumming!
	♥ 5:02am pacific standard simon: Jebus just don't play the bonus tracks from the Pin-Ups CD! Those things are awful!
	♥ 5:05am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: I was a little brother - my Big Brother nine years older than me - & into Rawk & Glam even in smalltown NewHampshire. So - more often than not - the music would come half-clear from the other room - thru walls & under doors. Things like Bowie in the early 1970s & my pre-teenage years, then, were powerful & mysterious indeed. Then came self-made cassettes (later taping everybody's albums they had: Bowie was an Artist whose oeuvre was large & diverse & impactful enuff, it was worth long pursuit) & eventually LPs - then occasional films & finally CDs. He was always there. Just read a tribute someone said Thx for being an Artist til the end. Damn.
	5:06am greysquad: I love that version of "shapes of things" with the heavy Anthony Newley vocal stylizations....
	5:08am :-(: I'll never forgive my mother for forbidding me from seeing Bowie during his 1974 Diamond Dogs tour (well, I forgive her, but you know what I mean). I'd loved his music since 1972, and had read about him in Creem, so I was dying to see him live. A few of my jr. high girlfriends had an extra ticket and invited me. Alas, it was not to be...
	♥ 5:11am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...videos before 'videos' & of course the visual & theatrical expression: he was an Auteur who seemed to have another level or dimension (or @ least - or even better - suggest them) than other Rawkers...
	♥ 5:11am coelacanth: it's probably my least favorite album until Lodger...still like it and glad to hear it. it's been a while.
	♥ 5:13am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: A brilliant arranger - one of the great bandleaders, yup It wasn't until the 90s til we'd be glutted by Tribute albums as a standard Genre...
	♥ 5:14am coelacanth: Bowie never hesitated to say that it was all marketing. he wasn't pretending it was real, he was just playing and experimenting. i always respected him for that- even during those phases when i hated his image.
	5:15am :-(: Yeah, his touring schedule was insane, so that's a good thought that he chose to do covers instead of writing more songs. But Pin Ups was so creative for the time....it sort of presaged John Lennon's Rock n Roll LP.
	♥ 5:16am pacific standard simon: On "Drive In Saturday". he mentions "Twig the wonderkid" -- Twiggy.
	♥ 5:16am coelacanth: he said in an interview once,something like" it's just a game,right? i mean, if you didn't laugh you'd fucking cry."
	5:19am greysquad: oh man... you are really hitting the sweet spots in his career.... this really was his last great album!
	♥ 5:20am Nasty Les: I'm very glad WFMU and the listener community exists right now, as it feels like exactly the right way to mourn the passing of a great, and celebrate his music. Can't really face "Social Media" right now with an endless stream of identical "RIP David Bowie" status updates... Thanks Mark R!
	♥ 5:20am pacific standard simon: Pin-Ups invented the whole genre of rock inspirational cover albums which has been mined like the mother lode ever since.
	5:22am :-(: @Nasty Les: agree 100%
	5:25am greysquad: david bowie and earl slick... golden years indeed!
	♥ 5:28am coelacanth: at least Earl is okay.
	♥ 5:29am pacific standard simon: Station to Station was just amazing. It introduced me to Professor Longhair (via TVC15) long before I might have otherwise been introduced.
	5:38am :-(: What was Professor Longhair's connection to TVC15?
	♥ 5:38am pacific standard simon: OOOHHH yeah...
	♥ 5:41am pacific standard simon: Just listen to that piano. That's the Fess sound!
	♥ 5:42am coelacanth: (aladin sane>hunky dory>david live>the man who sold the world> ziggy.)
	5:43am V Priceless: thank you for a fine tribute of words and music, Mark.
	5:44am greysquad: Fess sound played by roy bittan courtesy of the e street band...
	5:47am greysquad: great show! though I wonder when and who will play "the laughing gnome".
	5:47am :-(: Ha...yeah
	5:47am Mark R.: It was a privilege spending this time with you all. Take care, everyone.
	♥ 5:48am joeray: Thanks, Mark R.!
	♥ 5:48am Caryn: The persona of Ziggy was a fantastic creation, but never cared for this album that much. Great show, Mark R.!
	5:49am pierre: Bonjour WFMU, sad to hear the news
	5:50am Frank O'Toole: sorry about David... rest in piece.
	♥ 5:50am pacific standard simon: @greysquad - I would at least add the phrase "borrowed from", if I didn't want to see the phrase "stolen from".
	♥ 5:50am coelacanth: Thank you Mark. i'm glad you were here.
	5:50am :-(: "the church of mad love is such a holy place to be"...Thanks Mark
	♥ 5:52am coelacanth: ...i'm still doubting sleep.
	♥ 5:54am pacific standard simon: Someone will play "The London Boys". Bet on it.
	5:54am :-(: OH YEAH...Hang Onto Yourself is still one of all my all time favorite songs ever
	5:56am greysquad: bowie did a whole lot of "borrowing" during his career... but so did picasso and warhol... so it's all good (i think)
	♥ 5:56am pacific standard simon: OK, now I need to find the ukulele chords for "Hang Onto Yourself".
	5:57am :-(: that would be cool
	♥ 5:57am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Someone somewhere said that Bowie had six good songs @ best - I replied there were more than that on 'Ziggy Stardust' alone.
	5:57am greysquad: bewlay bros please!
	9:29am thedunkel: great set! thanks for putting this all together!

Circle Time with Mark R.: Playlist from January 11, 2016

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