Klassisk, spoken word og god gammel undergrunnsrock. Her er favorittene den avdøde legenden plukket ut i 2003.
Interessen for David Bowie ser ikke ut til å avta med det første. Nylig ble det klart at noen av landets fremste musikere vil samles på Rockefeller i Oslo på det som ville vært den avdøde legendens 70-årsdag 8. januar 2017 for å kjøre hyllestkonsert, og denne uken fant også Open Culture frem en liste Bowie skrev i 2003 hvor han plukket ut sine 25 favoritt-vinylutgivelser.
Og en slik liste er jo som kjent en ny mulighet til å bli kjent med mannen bak platesamlingen og en snarvei inn i hans dypeste tanker, alt etter hva man legger i det, selvsagt. Og Bowie skuffer ikke. På listen finner man alt fra spoken word, klassisk og god gammeldags undergrunnsrock (Velvet Underground & Nico).
Under følger de 25 vinylplatene Bowie valgte ut (det meste av musikken ligger tilgjengelig via strømmetjenestene Spotify, Tidal og Apple Music).
The Last Poets — The Last Poets
Shipbuilding — Robert Wyatt
The Fabulous Little Richard — Little Richard
Music for 18 Musicians — Steve Reich
The Velvet Underground & Nico — The Velvet Underground
Tupelo Blues — John Lee Hooker
Blues, Rags and Hollers — Koerner, Ray and Glover
The Apollo Theatre Presents: In Person! The James Brown Show — James Brown
Forces of Victory — Linton Kwesi Johnson
The Red Flower of Tachai Blossoms Everywhere: Music Played on National Instruments — Various Artists
Banana Moon — Daevid Allen
Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris — Cast Album
The Electrosoniks: Electronic Music — Tom Dissevelt
The 5000 Spirits of the Layers of the Onion — The Incredible String Band
Ten Songs by Tucker Zimmerman — Tucker Zimmerman
Four Last Songs (Strauss) — Gundula Janowitz
The Ascension — Glenn Branca
The Madcap Laughs — Syd Barrett
Black Angels — George Crumb
Funky Kingston — Toots & The Maytals
Delusion of the Fury — Harry Partch
Oh Yeah — Charles Mingus
Le Sacre du Printemps — Igor Stravinsky
The Fugs — The Fugs
The Glory (????) of the Human Voice — Florence Foster Jenkins
Her kan du lese en introduksjon til lista, ført i pennen av Bowie selv:
"There is really no way to do a list of my favorite albums with any rationality. I do only have about 2,500 vinyls. There is a possibility there. I’ll look through the albums and pull together a list of those I have re-bought or am in the process of re-buying on CD. I have little time, and there are just too many to sort through. So, I’ll keep pulling stuff out blindly, and if it’s too obvious (Sgt. Pepper, Nirvana) I’ll put it back again till I find something more interesting. A lot of the rock stuff I have is the same as everyone else’s, and I have so many blues and R&B albums that it would topple over into trainspotter world if I went that route.
O.K., no rules then. I’ll just make ’em up as I go along. I’d say half of this list below is now on my CD racks, but many are finding impossible to trace. The John Lee Hooker album, for instance, or The Red Flower of Tachai Blossoms Everywhere. I have done the only thing possible and burned them to CD myself, reduced the cover art down to size, and made reasonable simulacrums of the originals.
If you can possibly get your hands on any of these, I guarantee you evenings of listening pleasure, and you will encourage a new high-minded circle of friends, although one or two choices will lead some of your old pals to think you completely barmy. So, without chronology, genre, or reason, herewith, in no particular order, 25 albums that could change your reputation.”
Vi har samlet storparten av albumene i denne spillelisten:
