RIP Bowie: Three Chord Monte with Joe Belock

Listener comments!

12:03pm Cecile:

RIP

12:03pm Stevel:

Rock the fuck on, David Bowie and the rest of us.

12:03pm Greg from ZONE 5:

Afternoon, Joe—sad day...

12:04pm Fred:

Go Joe!

12:04pm V Priceless:

Hey Joe - thank you for this - Jeez, I am beyond numb.

12:04pm Woo:

Glad you're on today Joe. Big one.

12:04pm redkayak:

Thanks for playing this, Joe....

12:04pm pinto bean:

Lemmy, Otis Clay, and now Bowie...major bummer

12:06pm V Priceless:

pardon my French..Fuck yeah, Joe! Go!

12:07pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

He added to the lexicon & vocabulary as much as anyone. As Abstract Art becomes Universal by not being Representational - by mirroring the internal world of every individual - so Bowie became the strangest kind of Folk Music of the people w/ concepts & artifice.
Titanic.

12:07pm Polyus:

The Reality Tour, oh man.

12:07pm kevlicki:

God damn I'm so effin sad this morning.

12:08pm mekon86:

Morning Joe

12:09pm Cecile:

exactly RevRab. People had a visceral reaction to him, like he was insincere for changing a lot. But he was more like us then he was unlike us. Very few of us stay frozen in time. But some people want our pop stars to do that.

12:11pm dale:

i just posted in the heat of the morning - this morning. i think it's fab, arrangement is pure gold.

12:11pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

I love - love the pre-huge fame Bowie.

12:12pm V Priceless:

plus he left us 'Blackstar'..which, I realize now, was/is his deliberate farewell to us Earthlings...everything about it spelled his return to the cosmos..especially the black on black of the liner notes..how cool is THAT?

12:13pm Joe B:

hi everyone, thanks for tuning in and checking in!

12:13pm common:

well said, vp. i agree

12:13pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

That was an Artist.

12:13pm Cecile:

I think all humans should end in mid-sentence if possible, instead of fading away. If you can't do that, then tie up the ends neatly like Bowie did.

12:14pm V Priceless:

hey common..thanks..

12:14pm coelacanth:

hey Joe n all

12:14pm drr:

Thanks for playing this one ("You've Got A Habit Of Leaving"); I have it on an unlabeled mix tape and wondered who it was.

12:14pm Chris M.:

thanks Joe! RIP

12:15pm Cecile:

yeah, wham bam thank you, man.

12:15pm joe:

@vpriceless very well said...although your French is pretty bad.

12:16pm Caryn:

I'm dreading the moment when a WFMU DJ will play "When the Wind Blows". It always shatters me (partly because the movie is so devastating), but right now it would reduce me to a heap on the floor.

12:16pm mekon86:

Love this version. Did he record any other Springsteen songs besides this and Growin' Up?

12:17pm Joe B:

Mekon, those are the only 2 I know of, there could be more

12:18pm Cecile:

If I hear "Wild is the Wind" I'll be on the floor.

12:19pm pierre:

bonsoir Joe !

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12:19pm Ken From Hyde Park:

Gosh, you never know how much you'll wind up missing someone until they're gone. Thanks for the DB, Joe.

12:19pm Eric M S:

Love this Joe, thanks. RIP

12:19pm V Priceless:

what Cecile said..and I'm not making any apologies today for being totally out of control, sorry ; )

12:19pm SmokinJ:

Tanks Joe! Cheers DB..

12:20pm Cecile:

this board is for being out of control.

12:21pm Woo:

Thinking of when my friend painted the Aladdin Sane bolt across his face and his father threw him out of the house.

12:21pm V Priceless:

correction..change 'today' to 'this week'..carry on.

12:21pm Caryn:

@VP: yep. I was supposed to do stuff today. Sod that, been sitting on the sofa in my pyjamas, crying and ordering in food. I ain't moving for a while.

12:21pm Cecile:

how many kids got thrown out of the house because of Bowie?

12:22pm foreign_listener_k:

Any chance of a set with exquisitely selected reverse Bowie covers, so to speak?

Tina Turner and 'Cat People (Putting Out Fire)' would be an example of the idea.

12:22pm Cecile:

you guys are in the place where I was with Lemmy last week. I admired Bowie more than I liked him, but there was a lot of admire.

12:22pm Greg from ZONE 5:

Whoa.
25.media.tumblr.com...

12:23pm dale:

lulu?

12:23pm Stevel:

Greg: Nice!

12:24pm coelacanth:

hahaha! that's beautiful!

12:24pm redkayak:

Lulu? Never would've guessed :)

12:24pm Cecile:

lulu is really so fucking cool. She gets a bad rap over here, but the UK knows.

12:24pm Parq:

Hah. Thought that sounded like the Duke on backing vox.

12:25pm Caryn:

So, WFMU have today played this and the Nirvana cover. Any bets on which version of this is next? I'm kinda rooting for the The Divine Comedy one.

12:27pm Joe B:

who played the Nirvana version? that is fantastic

12:27pm Caryn:

Lulu's 60s' tv show was cool. Especially remember Hendrix playing a Cream cover I think on the day Cream announced they were splitting.

12:27pm Joe B:

cecile you should check out the video on youtube of Lulu doing this. even cooler than you thought!

12:27pm V Priceless:

was just listening to Moz cover 'Drive In Saturday' last nite too...pretty damned good version. Not sure what kinda respect he gets here, but I dig him. Plus, he had Ronno produce "Your Arsenal".

12:28pm Cecile:

Morrisey makes me laugh. And that 'a good thing.

12:28pm dale:

streisand did a version of life on mars

www.youtube.com...

12:29pm Joe B:

Morrisey not in my arsenal

12:29pm Cecile:

I think I'm going to watch Life On Mars - lots of Bowie and vintage music in that.

12:29pm V Priceless:

ha @ Joe! Good one!

12:29pm Cecile:

doesn't someone do a killer cover of ashes to ashes?

12:29pm Julie:

Great version of Changes. I hope there is a Lazarus soundtrack, I quite enjoyed Cristin Millioti's version. (although some numbers were somewhat broadway-fied)

12:30pm V Priceless:

Love TM!

12:30pm pseydtonne:

I've been thinking about Bus Stop for WEEEKS! Thank you!

12:30pm dale:

soupy's boys!

12:30pm Stevel:

TIN MACHINE!!

(It was all so fucking good.)

12:30pm Julie:

Brix E Smith did a nice space oddity IIRC

12:30pm coelacanth:

i'm sorry but if Morrissey moans a Bowie song, i need not know.

12:31pm Cecile:

I have to say I do love FoTC's Bowie, and even better the rumor that Bowie had it on his iPod.

12:31pm V Priceless:

I really think TM saved DB from the brink of the creative abyss...

12:31pm Caryn:

Hmm, there's at least 36 covers of "Ashes to Ashes"...

12:31pm joe:

Oh the amount of times I listened to this song over and over and over again.

12:32pm pseydtonne:

Caryn: does that include Rik Mayall reciting it during an episode of The Young Ones?

12:32pm Cecile:

Also, the actual TV episode Bowie from FoTC is pretty great too.

12:33pm Caryn:

@pseydtonne: that's no. 37

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12:33pm Ken From Hyde Park:

At this rate, Ken will need to hire someone to catalog all the tribute shows that are piling up at the station.

12:33pm Cecile:

Bic Runga's version. Excellent.

12:34pm Cecile:

www.youtube.com...

12:34pm Stevel:

One of the things that define Bowie as the great artist he (and Lou Reed, Neil Young, etc) was is that he never hesitated to veer away from what was 'successful' for him. A working artist.

12:34pm Mike East:

Bowie's appearance on "Extras" is a pretty good bit with a fun song on it.
Thanks for the tribute, Joe B!

12:35pm Cecile:

Stevel, very true. He wasn't poor, but he could be a lot wealthier by playing it safer.

12:35pm joe:

Bowie and Morrissey had a bit of a tumultuous attempt at a tour at one point. Didn't really work out.

12:37pm dale:

i'm still wishing this is all a publicity stunt.

12:38pm V Priceless:

a great DB moment: seeing him & Ray Davies sing 'Waterloo Sunset' @ Tibetan Freedom show @ Carnegie Hall.

12:39pm crateslinger:

this is good too. DB and Ricky Gervais...

www.youtube.com...

12:39pm Amy:

When I heard the news on NPR, my first thought was "No, that can't be right."

12:39pm joe:

Looks like that Best of 74/79 was actually Disc two of the Platinum Collection which EMI also released in separate pieces as well. 69/74, 74/79, 80/87

12:40pm thejennyb:

this is everything right now. thank you.

12:40pm Tome:

never was aware of this one from the 1st Neil record wow !

12:40pm Caryn:

Because of that Bowie/Morrissey record cover hoohah, I'm now suddenly hoping a dj will rickroll us with some Rick Astley. A salute to Bowie's sense of humour, if you will. Did Astley ever do a Bowie cover?

12:42pm Joe B:

thanks Joe. that explains why it was called the platinum collection when I ripped it to the computer to put on the device, thanks!

12:42pm Joe B:

VP, that must have been cool

12:42pm coelacanth:

dale- that's what first came to mind last night...he's pulling a Paul McCartney!
...alas,we know it's real.

12:44pm Mike Sin:

Glad I have the opportunity to drop in on this fine tribute. Thanks Joe.

12:45pm Bluesman:

Heard what you just said about what was hoped to be some kind of "publicity stunt."

Weird thing is a few days ago I happened upon what appeared to be a recent photo of David. Didn't think much of it other than "boy he looked surprisingly old and leathery." It all makes sense now.

12:45pm V Priceless:

@ Joe B - it was pretty surreal!

12:46pm Polyus:

Hours is kind of a strange 'bridge' record to me, but it does contain some really good bits.

12:46pm Amy:

V Priceless, I am insanely jealous.

12:46pm coelacanth:

(i dont know why i say "last night". it was technically morning,and i haven't slept in-between.)

12:46pm Joe B:

weird about Hours, I pulled it out a week or so ago for no reason

12:47pm pseydtonne:

Lulu covered "Man Who Sold the World" again on an episode of French & Saunders in... what, 1990 or so?

12:47pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Reverse of a publicity stunt almost: didn't tell anybody & released his work about it.

12:49pm V Priceless:

ahhh...thanks for this, JB.
@ Rev Rabbit: it's mind-boggling, really. Gonna take me a while to do all the math on that feat.

12:54pm Stevel:

By most accounts he saved Iggy's life, teaching him how to tour without killing himself.

12:55pm glenn:

morrisey is a morose whiny twat.

12:56pm Claw!:

Morrisey is the worst. He is on my list of "Turn-Offs."

12:56pm Cecile:

speaking of people I'm shocked ar estill around, it looks like Wilko Johnson's pancreatic cancer was operable. Life's not easy, but he has a lot more to look forward to than he did.

12:57pm Cecile:

In small doses, Mozza is hilarious. he didn't used to take himself so seriously. A lot of those Smiths songs are funny.

12:58pm Ajax:

Thanks for doing some tribute Joe. All radio stations should be playing all Bowie for a week at least.

12:59pm Amy:

Goes without saying, but Joe, thank you for this.

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12:59pm Hoboken Jack:

thanks Joe

12:59pm pseydtonne:

I feel like I missed something. Why does everyone hate Morrissey? Heck, you could get your tuchas handed to you for that in some parts of Los Angeles. There are a surprising number of Hispanic hard-core Morrissey fans there.

1:00pm V Priceless:

@ Cecile - the Wilko saga is nothing short of freaky miraculous, to say the least.

1:00pm Sonny Rickles:

yeah, should be Bowie everywhere all day. Thanks Joe.

1:00pm joe:

I hope someone has the opportunity to put something that explores the other artists that Bowie was responsible for exposing and nurturing. So So many

1:01pm Julie:

Whether you like his music or not, Morissey has the reputation of being an asshole. I have friends in the music business who've personally been mistreated by him.

1:01pm Polyus:

Oh yeah, the Ziggy movie was on TV this weekend. Mick Ronson goes so over the top on this solo, yikes.

1:01pm glenn:

yes, i found the mexican love for morrissey hard to grasp, but it's true.

1:01pm Cecile:

I don't think it's so much the music for some people. It's his general humorlessness in interviews and a lot of his diva-like behavior. But at the same time, a lot of people have hated the Smiths since day one.

1:01pm Joe B:

and the music

1:01pm Cecile:

ha! Julie! Great minds.

1:02pm Caryn:

Morrissey is one of those artists where the music is great, the rest... has its ups and downs. That novel of his released last year I do think should be nominated for that award they give for worst writing about sex. Sheesh. Hilariously awful. (And Charles Dance reading some of it out loud in utter disbelief has given me plenty of chuckles the past few days.)

1:02pm V Priceless:

yeah the Pennebaker footage of this is nuts!

1:02pm Claw!:

Morrissey is awful. Pretentious, self-righteous, hateful. And his music isn't all that good, either. Ugh.

1:02pm glenn:

but mostly, it's because he's a major league asshole.

1:03pm Cecile:

I can take the early stuff in small doses. The best way to experience the Smiths I thought was to wait for their singles to come out. a perfect dose. Then they became an albums band. Sigh.

1:03pm pseydtonne:

Julie: ah, gotcha. So he's like Alex Chilton was: you can't help but love the songs, but he is a horror to meet or play with.

1:03pm jamesie:

Tripping in my bedroom 1972

1:03pm joe:

@pseydtonne I think the hatred for Morrissey is very much based on his non music persona. Something that it took me many many many years to get past and still have a difficult time getting by. Yes he does have very that LA Hispanic love I was privy to that when I saw him Vegas a few years ago.

1:03pm Cecile:

he did one nice thing by reuniting the remaining NY Dolls before Arthur Kane died.

1:03pm Tim allegedly at work:

You're killing it Joe! And special thanks for Drive-In Saturday.

1:04pm Joe B:

or based on his terrible voice

1:04pm Claw!:

This East Coast Latina cannot stand him.

1:04pm jamesie:

Widrh of a circle . Mick Ronson, bless x

1:04pm DAHBOO0077:

chasing the famewhore makes you crazy

1:04pm common:

almost bought this on vinyl 4 days ago for my partner's bday, but was too broke. dammit. thanks for the tribute joe

1:04pm Cecile:

I really don't like his solo stuff or anything after the hatfull of hollow collection

1:05pm Julie:

his non music persona being his actual personality? I like the Smiths, but his solo stuff is boring.

1:05pm Cecile:

ha! again.

1:06pm jamesie:

David Cameron fucking to the lyrics right ?

1:06pm MenfussMike:

I'm not a huge Bowie fan. I can appreciate his contribution to music. Personally, my favorite contribution he made was pulling Iggy out of the hole.

1:06pm glenn:

and he unleashed johnny marr on the world, so there's that, although johnny would have been eventually discovered, he's that good.

1:06pm Mike East:

@common - I found this record a few months back for 3 bucks...not a mint copy, but the music's all there!

1:07pm joe:

@Julie yes I mean separating the music he creates from his personality

1:07pm Cecile:

Morrissey needed Marr. If you liked the Smiths, you generally thought that they pulled best of out of each other.

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1:07pm ChrisB.:

Is Morrissey dead as well?

1:08pm common:

glad you got it, mike east!

1:08pm Cecile:

ha, no. Someone evoked his name, and then the thread changed.

1:08pm joe:

@glenn and Johnny just seems to get better. Saw him at the Stone Pony on his last tour and was very very impressed.

1:10pm Claw!:

@MenfussMike - That's pretty much exactly how I feel. Lots of respect for the guy and I can get down to *some* of his songs, but his cultural significance went way beyond just music.

1:10pm glenn:

johnny marr is the polar opposite of morrissey. talented, and definitely not a morose whiny twat.

1:10pm Claw!:

@ChrisB - Sadly, no.

1:10pm V Priceless:

yeah, it's all my fault. I'm stirring the pot today. I think Moz is funny, writes some clever, albeit humorously morose stuff, makes no apologies, has a kick-ass Rock & Roll band, and generally prefers the company of animals to humans. Most of which I can relate to. I actually think his solo stuff is by far more sonically satisfying than his Smiths-era work. But what do I know?

1:11pm Claw!:

Ha! Nice, Glenn.

1:11pm GH:

Awesome tribute Joe! I forgot all about this version of Like A Rolling Stone.

1:11pm Cecile:

plenty, vp.

1:12pm doctorjazz:

Great ...Rolling Stone!

1:13pm Claw!:

Nah, V. You're fine.
You had to have a flaw *somewhere*...

1:13pm glenn:

i wonder who has mick's white les paul now?

1:15pm V Priceless:

whoa...JB..nice job meeting Ronno! Woo!
@glenn - it WAS the guy at The Guitar Hanger in CT - if you search on it, there's a whole saga about how he sold it, yada yada..

1:16pm GH:

Joe, speaking of that great 2004 tour, believe it or not it seems Bowie's last U.S. show was in June of that year, in that the vaunted rock 'n' roll hotbed of Holmdel, N.J.

1:17pm Cecile:

Oooh, what about something from that Alejandro Escovedo Tony Visconti produced album

1:17pm Rory:

Just heard that Bowie about an hour ago. Damn, another huge loss! RIP

1:18pm Joe B:

I remember considering going to that but passing because the venue is so lame!

1:18pm V Priceless:

@ glenn: if you're interested in exploring that Ronson guitar adventure: www.youtube.com...

1:20pm crateslinger:

Bowie was the first music I heard that wasn't Lynyrd Skynyrd. Shaved the side of my head and moved to Boston.

1:20pm glenn:

yeah, i'm looking at it now, v.p.

1:21pm glenn:

funny, i would have sworn his guitar was white. must be macular degeneration. or senility.

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1:24pm ChrisB.:

Amazon seems to be out of most all of David Bowie's catalog. High tail it down to your local indie!

1:24pm Guido from Cologne:

Thanks to Pepples "mod"-edition for introducing us to this early gem!

1:25pm frenchee:

serendipity: reading the GUARDIAN obit and just got to the King Bees part. Thought, wonder how LIZA JANE sounds....and then the mighty Belock plays it!

1:27pm Mike East:

always liked his adjustment to the chorus melody of this VU cover.

1:27pm Parq:

Listened to Liza Jane and got to thinking of the Beatle-backed Tony Sheridan reading of "My Bonnie". Brit producers in the early 60s would do just about anything to fill an artist's repertoire, wouldn't they?

1:28pm fekner:

on this day,
your playlist is a beauty of tribute

1:29pm doctorjazz:

Yup, fabulous playlist!

1:30pm Rory:

I remember when I was about 17 when I first started listening to Bowie. Me and a couple of my friends were riding around in my friend's first car listening to mostly punk and metal stuff then, I put on some David Bowie and they said "wtf is this weird hippie shit"! haha

1:30pm John Trembly:

Enjoying Three Chord Monte on a cold, snowy day in Northern Michigan

1:30pm Guido from Cologne:

Davie Jones & The King Bees (nice photos)
www.discogs.com...

according to discocs, yes, 1964

1:31pm tadpoles:

I remember in an interview Bowie saying when he found Mick Ronson he had found his own Jeff Beck. Yes!

1:31pm The Not So Thin But White Bluesman:

Joe, you sure have put together a great celebration of Bowie's music! You're the best!

1:33pm Uncle Michael:

I'm not much of an archives guy, but this playlist...yep, I'll be hearing it all this afternoon.

1:34pm jamesie:

Joe this is a great great show man

1:34pm DAHBOO77:

1st illuminati sacrifice of the year ---millions more to follow

1:34pm Joe B:

thanks VP i forgot.

1:35pm Sissophonic Cheryl:

Just getting to my desk now, but had my phone earlier, thanks for this beautiful show, Joe. Now it's really hitting me.

1:37pm joe:

Gabrels wound sticking with Bowie pretty much through out the whole of the 90's right?

1:37pm frenchee:

@sissophonic C: same here. bittersweet.

1:38pm Claw!:

We have been receiving calls at the shop from people looking for Bowie LPs like it's going out of style.

1:38pm Rory:

Great live version

1:38pm Grok-o-matic:

Dang, looks like I've been missing out n all this Bowie. that's it. That's the last time I go get lunch.

1:39pm #4:

Knew I would hear the most fitting tribute by tuning in.
Thanks David.
Thx Joe!

1:39pm Rory:

That simple sitar part damn!

1:39pm Grok-o-matic:

Saw Bowie just released a new album.

1:44pm Cecile:

Do you have Bowie's version of Tom Verlaine's Kingdom Come?

1:45pm Joe B:

it's on this album. i had it cued up but then switched to this one on the same side

1:45pm dcp:

I'm glad other folks dig Scary Monsters.

1:47pm V Priceless:

I love "Scream Like A Baby" too - a lost classic on SM's.

1:47pm Cecile:

who's playing guitar on this. It sounded like Adrian belew there for a second.

1:47pm Stevel:

Loved Scary Monsters. Deeply influenced by what was going on in the music world of the early 80s and very unique.

1:47pm Julie:

That album came out like 4 days ago or something.

1:48pm Stevel:

Superchunk cover is killer!

1:48pm dcp:

Robert Fripp?

1:48pm dale:

meant to ask you mr deejay - i was sad when wnti disappeared a short while ago. was it just a money thing?

1:49pm V Priceless:

@ C - pretty sure it's Fripp

1:49pm drewo:

Making a tough day easier Joe. Thanks.

1:49pm Jeff Golick:

This Superchunk is great. They know what's up.

1:49pm Cecile:

ha! close in a way.

1:49pm Tim allegedly at work:

Scary Monsters was released the week I arrived at college for my freshman year. I bought it the day it came out and had to ask the guy in the room next to me if I could listen to it on his stereo, because mine wasn't scheduled to arrive for a few weeks. And that guy is now my best friend.

1:49pm Stevel:

The list of Bowie guitarists is terrifying, in the best possible way.

1:49pm dcp:

Pete Townshend plays a tune on that album too.

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1:50pm acid casualty:

this is the stuff!

1:50pm Parq:

Julie, tell me about it. That album had an outsized influence on me, coming at a particularly important time of my life. I even tried to get "scary monsters and super creeps" going as a graffiti campaign. Also, videos were still fairly new to me at the time, and the one for "Ashes" really knocked me out.

1:50pm Joe B:

Fripp and Chuck Hammer on teenage wildlife

1:50pm Joe B:

pete is on Because You're Young

1:51pm Cecile:

Fripp and Belew's styles have melded together a little in places. Only just a little, though.

1:51pm Julie:

sorry @parq I was speaking of the new one, Blackstar. literally days ago. He went out with a bang.

1:52pm Cecile:

I'm sure I had a bias against Bowie because my first exposure to him was Station to Station, and so many rock critics in the US completely trashed him. now I wonder if it was only about the music.

1:52pm Cecile:

YAH

1:53pm emptydesk:

Station to Station is a masterpiece

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1:54pm ChrisB.:

Seriously, JoeB, this Bowie tribute is some of your finest work.

1:55pm dcp:

Joe B's tribute shows are the best. Too bad somebody has to die..

1:55pm Cecile:

I liked it better as I got older. But it's a lot when you're going from listening to next to no pop music, to that.

1:55pm dcp:

Jinx ChrisB

1:56pm Joe B:

He played the title cut to S to S at that last tour i saw him on, unreal

1:56pm velvetboots:

Dear Joe Belock, thank you for this amazing tribute! brings tears to my eyes...and thank you David Bowie, RIP

1:56pm Parq:

@Julie - well, believe me, it feels that was for "Monsters". I didn't *think* you were that old, but I figured you were a prodigy in your musical tastes or something.

1:57pm joe:

@dale I live up that way. My understanding is yes the school was just made an offer "they could not refuse".

1:57pm V Priceless:

thanks Joe - great cut.."hours..." is a fine record...kind of forgotten...

1:57pm Cecile:

I hadn't heard this song before. It works not just a Bowie song, but a song song.

1:58pm Stevel:

The live version of Stay from Station to Station (CD extra, I believe) is an incredible jam. One of my favorite tracks, period.

1:58pm crateslinger:

Babysitter's junky boyfriend stole all my bowie vinyl in 97. I heard his skateboard on my block a week later, chased him down, and was beating him up on the street when his dealer came at me with a knife. I told him what was up and he backed off. Never got the vinyl back tho.

1:58pm Cecile:

Parq, I thought Bowie toured just last year. Der.

2:00pm spidermank:

What velvetboots says. It's like losing a close friend.

2:01pm Tommy:

Joe, you brought it !!!!! and BTW Classy layout

2:01pm Cecile:

For me, it's like one of my best friends losing a friend.

2:03pm KP:

Hi, Joe. Great work today

2:06pm V Priceless:

among some of the heart-felt sentiments: Pete Townsend: "David Bowie was my Salvador Dali"

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2:08pm Jeff from Rahway:

Fantastic Bowie tribute, Joe.

2:08pm dan:

thanks for throwing in boogarins!

2:08pm Pete from Boston (and NJ):

Now, now – it was Roger Clemens who coined the misremembering gem, speculating that when Pettitte incriminated him Pettitte must have been misremembering. Pettitte told what he knew, saying in effect that he was more concerned about answering to god than to Roger Clemens.

They both probably cheated, but I feel inclined to defend Pettit because he at least owned up to it some.

2:09pm dcp:

right on @Cecile.

2:09pm Joe B:

pettitte had the bagman as his 'personal trainer' for 9 years. what do you think was going on that whole time?

2:09pm Mike East:

whoa, dig this Boogarins. nice spin!

2:11pm Lizardner Dave:

Townshend on Bowie: thewho.com...

2:12pm FernandoBelmondo:

This Boogarins album reminds me so much of another brazilian psych rock band (but from the 80's), called Violeta de Outono. If you dig Boogarins check it out!

2:13pm glenn:

roger clemens is the morrissey of baseball.

2:15pm crateslinger:

Roger Clemens is the type of Louisiana boy that would drag somebody behind his pickup truck and throw the body in a swamp.

2:17pm Guido from Cologne:

Boogarins' new one:
Current breakfast-CD
even better than the debut IMHO

2:20pm George Kopp:

Good to see you out and about on Friday, Joe. We gonna hear some Girls on Grass today? They did a great set. And like I said, perfect 3 chord monte material!

2:23pm glenn:

hmmmm. bit of a buzzcocks vibe there.

2:28pm Pat Byrne:

Todd told me it's pronounced:
"Jock Le Crock"

2:32pm Joe B:

thanks pat

yes Glenn good call

👻

2:33pm Jeff from Rahway:

Even the boardwalk bars are closed or mostly empty on January weekends Joe.

2:36pm Joe B:

even EJ's? say it aint so!

👻

2:38pm Jeff from Rahway:

EJ's was CLOSED when I was down Jan. 1-3. Nowhere to play pool & raid the jukebox! Spicy's appeared to have 5 patrons inside. Lucky Leo's was the busiest place on the boardwalk. Free Maruca's pizza on Friday nights!

2:42pm Cecile:

glenn, you've obviously thought long and hard about your Clemens portrait. I appreciate the white-hot hate.

2:42pm Cecile:

and you too crateslinger.

2:43pm Caryn:

Just going to post some links for the heck of it. For the Tin Machine fans: www.youtube.com...

A couple of perhaps overly-faithful (in arrangement) but interesting Scandinavian covers of Life on Mars?:
www.youtube.com... (just lovely) and www.youtube.com... (by the leading art rock guy at the time, known for his affecting yet distant and hard-to-interpret lyrics - so kinda Bowiesque in his own way - who not so much translated as rewrote the lyrics)

2:44pm Polk Biggins:

Hi all. It's me.

2:46pm Polk Biggins:

Just in time for some Zoltars. Perfect. Love this band. Joe have you heard Jared Leibowich's album?

2:46pm victor wooten:

good show today. clemens/morissey hate a bonus.

2:47pm Nate K.:

Digging this last set a lot.

2:48pm Steve Harsh:

Awesome show Joe, a great tribute

2:49pm Nate K.:

Who is this Tall David dude? It's cool stuff.

2:49pm Joe B:

memphis cat. whole album is great

2:50pm Caryn:

My fave Bowie talk show appearance (whole show just dedicated to him): www.youtube.com...
4 live performances, a Stylophone battle, Bowie impersonating his baby daughter, laughing at Eno etc.

2:50pm Nate K.:

I'll have to check it out.

2:51pm Cecile:

BUGALOOS!

2:52pm Bill in W.O.:

Great Bowie tribute, Joe, but this last hour of new stuff is smokin'.

2:52pm Joe B:

thanks Bill

nate his whole LP is on bandcamp. i have a cd but it is malfunctioning

2:52pm KevinfromBayRidge:

There's gonna be a lot of tributes out there in the next few days. I'm sure that yours will have been amongst the best! Thanks, Joe.

2:53pm V Priceless:

Thank you Joe, for putting this fine show and tribute together. "Let all the children boogie" forever and then some!

2:55pm Amy:

I always end up spending a bunch of money on Bandcamp while I listen to your show, Joe. Looks like today won't be any different.

Also, this Peter Stringer-Hye song is gorgeous.

2:56pm Greg from ZONE 5:

Thanks, Joe!

2:57pm Claw!:

Great tribute, Joe! Very nice.

2:57pm suea:

my dad always said "someone must have thrown it in the garbage" :-D

4:37pm Pete from Boston (and NJ):

I remember so well when Jonesey played "Five Years" right after 9/11. It brought tears to my eyes whenever I heard it for a long time after that.

Artist	Title	Album	Label	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
David Bowie	All The Young Dudes	Nothing Has Changed	Legacy		Aladdin Sane outtake	0:00:00 MP3 \| Pop-up)
David Bowie	Up the Hill Backwards	Scary Monsters	Rykodisc			0:02:30 MP3 \| Pop-up)
David Bowie	New Killer Star (radio edit)					0:05:47 MP3 \| Pop-up)
David Bowie	In the Heat of the Morning				stereo mix	0:09:29 MP3 \| Pop-up)
Davy Jones & the Lower Third	You've Got a Habit of Leaving					0:12:31 MP3 \| Pop-up)
David Bowie	It's Hard to Be a Saint In the City	Best of 1974/1979	Virgin		station to station outtake that first appeared on sound & vision box then on this weird comp from 1998	0:15:33 MP3 \| Pop-up)
David Bowie	Growin' Up	Pin Ups			bonus track	0:19:06 MP3 \| Pop-up)
Lulu	The Man Who Sold the World	From Crayons to Perfume: The Best of Lulu	Rhino		bowie on sax, backing vocals, production. 1974?	0:22:32 MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Muffs	Changes					0:26:32 MP3 \| Pop-up)
Tin Machine	Bus Stop	s/t	EMI			0:29:45 MP3 \| Pop-up)

David Bowie	I've Been Waiting For You	Heathen	ISO	2002		0:40:12 MP3 \| Pop-up)
David Bowie	Something In the Air	Hours	Virgin	1999		0:42:02 MP3 \| Pop-up)
David Bowie	Drive-In Saturday	Aladdin Sane			for Tim G	0:46:54 MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jim Osterberg	Neighborhood Threat	Lust For Life			co-write, piano and produce by Bowie, who did it 7 years later on the Tonight LP	0:51:31 MP3 \| Pop-up)
Iggy Pop	Sister Midnight	The Idiot				0:55:59 MP3 \| Pop-up)
David Bowie	Width of a Circle	The Man Who Sold the World				0:59:22 MP3 \| Pop-up)
Mick Ronson	Like a Rolling Stone	Heaven and Hull	Epic			1:07:10 MP3 \| Pop-up)

David Bowie	London Bye Ta-Ta	Bowie at the Beeb	Virgin			1:18:14 MP3 \| Pop-up)
David Bowie	Silly Boy Blue	Nothing Has Changed			originally 1967?	1:19:07 MP3 \| Pop-up)
David Jones and the King Bees	Liza Jane				1964?	1:22:57 MP3 \| Pop-up)
David Bowie	White Light / White Heat					1:26:47 MP3 \| Pop-up)
Bowie	I Wish You Would	Pinups				1:28:46 MP3 \| Pop-up)
Tin Machine	I Can't Read	s/t				1:33:24 MP3 \| Pop-up)
David Bowie	The Man Who Sold the World				live at the bridge school benefit, 1996	1:37:46 MP3 \| Pop-up)
Bowie	Teenage Wildlife	Scary Monsters	RCA			1:40:28 MP3 \| Pop-up)
Superchunk	Scary Monsters	1,000 Pounds single	Merge			1:47:16 MP3 \| Pop-up)
Bowie	Kingdom Come	Scary Monsters			tom verlaine cover	1:51:34 MP3 \| Pop-up)
David Bowie	Survive	Hours	Virgin	1999		1:55:17 MP3 \| Pop-up)

Boogarins	6000 Dias	Manual	Fat Possum / Other Music	2015		2:06:17 MP3 \| Pop-up)
Cheap Time	Woodland Drive	Fantastic Explanations (And Similar Situations)	In the Red	2010		2:10:07 MP3 \| Pop-up)
Sonny Vincent	Till There Was You	Bizarro Hymns	Get Hip	2015		2:11:48 MP3 \| Pop-up)
Clorox Girls	Tara	This Dimension		2005?		2:14:09 MP3 \| Pop-up)
Flesh Lights	Lens	Too Big To Fail double 7"	Super Secret			2:16:34 MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jacques Le Coque	Tip of My Tongue	7"	Windian	2015	playing live saturday on the todd o phonic todd show	2:19:35 MP3 \| Pop-up)
Sweet Talk	Tightrope	Double Perfect	12XU	2015		2:22:18 MP3 \| Pop-up)

Saucy Jacks	Summer's Almost Over	You Make Your Own World	Chocolate Covered	2015		2:32:27 MP3 \| Pop-up)
Sally Crewe	Only Luck Can Save Us Now	Later Than You Think	8-Track Mind	2015		2:35:41 MP3 \| Pop-up)
Thee Fine Lines	Too Much of You	Splittin' Time	Wee Rock	2015		2:39:04 MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Mighty Go-Go Players	She Got It Too	If You Wanna Play... 7"				2:41:21 MP3 \| Pop-up)
Zoltars	We Missed Out	s/t	Happenin'	2015		2:44:50 MP3 \| Pop-up)
Tall David	Maladjusted Man	Remedies		2015		2:47:03 MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Bugaloos	If You Become a Bugaloo					2:50:23 MP3 \| Pop-up)
Peter Stringer-Hye	Girl With No Name	7"	Trouble In Mind	2015		2:52:37 MP3 \| Pop-up)

Chatham County Line	Savoy Special	Speed of the Whipoorwill				2:57:09 MP3 \| Pop-up)

January 11, 2016

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