I had thought I was on fairly safe ground slagging off D.Bowie on the Fall website. How wrong I was. Every person other than myself who has mentioned Bowie on this forum has said that they liked and valued his music. Also, that they loved David and combed their hair in a special way to make themselves look more like him. Since making anti-Bowie comments here I have received death threats, nasty looks and most shockingly of all, my hot dog kart was overturned this tuesday by five yobs with bright orange hair. Eleven hot dog sausages were spilled onto the pavement and badly soiled during the attack. Three of them were rendered totally unsaleable. As they ran off one of the yobs yelled at me "Nail me to your car and I'll tell you who you are"! I attach no particular significance to this remark but include it here for the sake of completeness. I would just like to conclude by saying that these attempts to intimidate me have been unsuccessful and my hatred of D.Bowie is, if anything, greater than before.

D Bowie lookalikes most definitely DO permeate carparks.
I love John Peel's alleged comment to him about his origins in mime, ie that that was his favourite period of Bowie's art...
I used to absolutely detest him but got over it. I think Bowie has spent his career ripping off more talented people (Dylan, Scott Walker) or leaning on greater talents (Iggy, Eno).
I like Low though.
Check out the Langley Schools Music Project's version of Space Oddity :o
The "Bowie bonds" were recently relegated to a status just above junk bonds... whatever that means...
I do an hilarious Bowie impression...

I've got to admit to liking Bowie although he does deserve PLENTY of slagging off.
Can't do the hair though cos I've got none...
Davey B, if hunted down and captured, should be forced to watch Labyrinth and listen to 'Laughing Gnome' over and over until he is brainwashed...

I think he (Davey B, not Davey B) is a brave and noble man... but that Gary B pic really fraks me out* and upsets me for some reason.

*Typo for "freaks me out" but "fraks" describes my feelings much better.

I had a friend who was a Bowie fan who used to get v. upset about my pronunciation of his name so that the first syllable rhymed with "cow" rather than "low"... so naturally I made a point of it :D she was a daft lass anyway -_-

Dang! Foiled again by the smilie default thingies, spoiling my funny "Davey B not Davey B" quip

Viz comic used to do good send ups of Bushell, even likening his beard/mouth to one of those plastic vibrating vaginas you can buy from sex shops

Great! Now I'm 50 times more fraked out :sick:

and i thought it was leigh bowery lookalikes.... :wacko:
must get me ears syringed........

Yes Mr. Bowie is officially evil as he helped screw up the attendance along with ludacris for the stills show that i was working, but thats ok, as I got to party with the excellent group the stills, and metric and sea ray, sea ray is fucking fantastic live, metric has a hot lead singer too, and to top it off the stills are marvelous live.

David Bowie is a bad actor, a pseud, a fair-to-middling singer and at times an excellent song writer. In the last ten years he's produced more or less nothing of note or interest. His politics I'm very dubious about.

Any comments on his atracous Saxaphone skills?

He's got a nice powder blue zoot suit though :lol:

Please not that! :cry2: Anything but that! I promise I'll be good. I'll go out right now and buy Dunky Hory!
Labyrinth AND The Laughing Gnome.:cry:

Alas I am now a broken man. Labyrinth AND The Laughing Gnome! NO, NO, NO!



Alas the Bushell picture remains until every member of the message board has publicly sworn the following oath:

"David Bowie is shite. Everything he has ever turned a hand to (music, painting, acting, sculpture etc) was a waste of time"

Swear your oaths below or the beardy bastard remains.

I love David Bowie. I think he's great. I especially love the Berlin period. You guys are crazy.

This is the same person who thinks Are You Are Missing Otherdave is a great, life changing record. :wacko:

Well are you missing winner is a great album, just not life changing lol. I did get it for my birthday this past year.

RURMW is a good album, not great. Still has moments of brilliance though.

David Bowie is excellent though. The Berlin period, including Iggy's "the idiot" is amazing. LONG LIVE BOWIE.

Bowie is great! Bloody shame about the hot dogs though, those Ziggy types can get their Boas in a fluster sometimes.

"Everyone Says 'Hi'" is a rather sweet song. Heathen and Reality, though not brilliant or groundbreaking, are IMO pretty good.

I can take it.

Yeah we can take it! Gary Bushell is hideous but there are WORSE faces...

And "OUTSIDE" was a fucking masterpiece!
"HOURS" was haunting sparse and beautiful
"HEATHEN" was good ol rock n roll
"REALITY" is a little slick but is pretty good fun

Even Lets Dance has its moments...

The only TRULY irredeemably shit Bowie Album is "Never Let Me Down"

The Bhudda of Suburbia tune is gorgeous

Outside is good but the spoken word parts make me cringe...(go onto BowieAudio for ten tracks of outtakes from this album)

Hours, I've got admit...is a bit cheesey

Heathen is genius

Reality is a bit touch and go but 'Bring me the Disco King' is one of the best Bowie tracks ever....

Never Let Me Down goes beyond the worlds of cheese....

Have you heard the version of "Survive" used on the American Psycho soundtrack. Thats pure class!

This thread is NOT going as I had hoped! :angry:

OK...

David Bowie is Shit.

He is the most evil tyrant who ever lived

Never trust a man whos eyes are 2 different colours...

(does it count if I cross my fingers behind my back whilst Im typing it?)

Strangely enough the fall often get plugged over on the bowiewonderworld message board, I guess Bowie fans just have bigger hearts, fill your heart Bushell photo man, just like Biff Rose told us to :wub:

does anybody know if the song Bowie sings in the Stella Street series is a real bowie song or not:
White suited & booted like a gentleman
White suited and booted, I understand :lol:

Lying in my hammock this morning I was feeling unusually groggy as if recovering from some awful drug induced torpor. As I gazed blearily up at the attractive beige ceiling tiles I pondered two very worrying matters. Firstly the regular sinister disapearances of many of the more astute and discerning members of this message board. Secondly, the increase in apallingly attired, sexually confused bowie fans who gradually seem to be replacing them. I had pondered upon these two individual subjects previously (see various old posts by my good self) but only now did it occur to me that there was a connection!

(Before I am accused of paranoia I will admit that a few of the disapearances do have innocent explanations. Marco, for instance, is currently residing in the Big Brother house and will not have access to the internet until his eventual release from that particular hell hole).

It seemed to me as I lay there in my lime green nightgown that genuine Fall Messageboard users were gradually being replaced by the vile bowie clones. Sickened I lowered myself carefully from the hammock and shuffled wearily bathroomwards. Looking into the mirror I noticed that during the night, as I slept, my hair had been dyed a bright orange.

I screamed.

Stella Street Bowie : much better than the real thing.

"Chaaaaaanges....", etc.

David Bowie you can destroy me. You can kill me. But I will NEVER work for you. I WILL NEVER BETRAY THE FALL!

David who?

i think he is at the height of his powers right now.....tempted to go watch him in ireland

Davey B:

Bowie is obviously MES's gaurdian angel -
Evidence:
Bowie is mentioned more times than any celebrity in Fall songs - Hard life, Twenty Seven points, others I can't remember.
Bowie's tune: Fall Dog Bombs the Moon (The Fall, Dog is Life, Bombast, Before the Moon Falls)
See?

not even for some hot apple crumble? ^_^

just as david bowie has different colured eyes, he also has different coloured testicles. allegedly.

ha ha that made me burst out laughing reading that.

It's only when you have counted all the polystyrene tiles that 'decorate' your bedroom ceiling that you realise that you have reached a certain point in your life....where to go from there, that is the next dilemma to ponder...Wotsit all about, Alfie?

Is he mentioned more times than Richard Madeley??

I switched on my television yesterday afternoon and Richard and Judy were interviewing Ian McShane!!!!!!! :o

Surely all Bowie mentions in Fall songs are derogatory.

Apple Crumble, The Fall and Shagging.

Preferably all three simultaneously!

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bowiefandave. :o