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New video for second single "The Stars (Are Out Tonight)" Now I'm really excited.

What was that talk of David Bowie retiring from the concert stage and from music because he was supposed to have had a heart attack or something back in 2004? He joined David Gilmour onstage in 2006 at the Royal Albert Hall for a rousing version of Arnold Layne, and he seemed just fine.

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New video for second single "The Stars (Are Out Tonight)" Now I'm really excited.

Much better than the first single IMO.

Haha Oh Bowie! Excellent video. I'm sorry, but he's gotta come back after seeing this video. Clearly he's into it by doing a normal video like this.

Great! Whew, more Alien rock from the master. And to use Tilda is brilliant. Often she is said to look like a young Bowie. Very funny and ironic she was used in this video.

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New video for second single "The Stars (Are Out Tonight)" Now I'm really excited.

Great video.

The song sounds like a continuation of something off Reality which I'm happy with.

Really? I felt is sounded more like something from Heathen.

Heathen and Reality are not a million miles apart.

Heathen edges it.

IMO Heathen is a later day classic on the same caliber of Low/Heros. Reality, while I like it, seemed mostly like a vehicle to tour. some the the stuff doesn't have the depth. But Bring Me the Disco King is sublime. As is The Lonliest Guy. On Bowie forum bowiewonderworld.com. it is pretty universally loathed. I think that is too harsh. I like it. But for me Heathen is a true masterpiece.

Heathen is a masterpiece.

I think Reality is close as well.

The Lonliest Guy is great.

She'll Drive the Big Car... one of Bowie's best.

Fall Dog Bombs the Moon... brilliant.

It's all great.

To me the problem with Reality, while I like it a lot and think it's a great Bowie album, is the too generic sound. It sounds like anyone else album and all tracks seem to sound the same too. Hopefully the new album sound production is more original.

Love it! Can't wait for the album!

That one's a lot better !

Love the song, love the video. Really funny.
Bowie seems to be giving us what we want; as far as storyboard goes. No matter what really happened, that is how we think it played out.

Great song.......one of the few ones how can keep up the quality

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New video for second single "The Stars (Are Out Tonight)" Now I'm really excited.

Much better than the first single IMO.

After the first single I was just happy to see him back. Now I'm really looking forward to the new album. Since he isn't doing any press all of his band members and Tony Visconti said "Where Are We Now" was somewhat atypical of the rest of the songs on the new album and they were surprised he picked it as the first single.

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Heathen is a masterpiece.

I think Reality is close as well.

The Lonliest Guy is great.

She'll Drive the Big Car... one of Bowie's best.

Fall Dog Bombs the Moon... brilliant.

It's all great.

I really like all the songs you mentioned. Great! I also really like New Killer Star, that one really reminds me of Low. And Looking for Water is a fantastic rocker!

Brilliant!

Like the video. It's awesome. The song sounds a bit too much like something from the last two albums. It's not bad at all, but my expectations dipped a bit hearing this one.

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Like the video. It's awesome. The song sounds a bit too much like something from the last two albums. It's not bad at all, but my expectations dipped a bit hearing this one.

I do sort of agree. I mean, I guess thats what he sounds like now, but from the descriptions it sounded like it might be different than his last two. Not bad if it isn't, but if it all sounds like this I don't know why they don't just say "it sounds like a continuation of Heathen and Reality."

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"it sounds like a continuation of Heathen and Reality."

Like Lodger was a continauation of Low and Heroes.

Maybe.

Whatever.

I'm happy, hope you're happy too.

Glowing praise for Bowie's new album.

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Bowie Is Back to Best on New Album, Critics Say

By REUTERS

Published: February 26, 2013 at 4:01 PM ET

LONDON (Reuters) - David Bowie's first album of new music in a decade sees the influential musician back to his best, critics said in reviews rushed out on Tuesday, two weeks before its release.

"The Next Day", which hits stores in Britain on March 11 and a day later in the United States, could even be the "greatest comeback in rock'n'roll history", according to The Independent's Andy Gill.

As well as a series of glowing reviews, this week also saw the launch of the second single from the 14-track album called "The Stars (Are out Tonight)", accompanied by a surreal video starring the Starman himself and Tilda Swinton as his wife.

In it the middle-aged couple's daily routine is upset by the arrival of a group of mysterious, androgynous celebrities next door who enter their dreams and reawaken old desires and fears.

"They burn you with their radiant smiles/Trap you with their beautiful eyes" read the lyrics on Bowie's official website.

As befits an "event" album with so much hype surrounding it, several newspapers gave The Next Day a track-by-track analysis.

"David Bowie's The Next Day may be the greatest comeback album ever," said Gill in his five-star assessment.

"It's certainly rare to hear a comeback effort that not only reflects an artist's own best work, but stands alongside it in terms of quality," he added.

Neil McCormick of the Telegraph also gave the record top marks, calling it "an ... emotionally charged, musically jagged, electric bolt through his own mythos and the mixed-up, celebrity-obsessed, war-torn world of the 21st century."

BOWIE MANIA

Even in an age when veteran musical comebacks are a daily occurrence, the fascination with Bowie appears to be huge.

Music magazine NME is dedicating a six-page cover feature to the singer, while the Victoria and Albert Museum in London is staging a major exhibition looking at his music, art and groundbreaking fashion.

More than 26,000 tickets have already been sold to the show, which opens on March 23.

Alexis Petridis, writing in the Guardian, argued that, while containing references to Bowie's past work, it largely avoided becoming a sonic memoir of a stellar musical career.

And he said that the secrecy surrounding the making of the album, and genuine media surprise when it was announced on Bowie's 66th birthday last month, risked overshadowing the quality of the music itself.

"That doesn't seem a fair fate for an album that's thought-provoking, strange and filled with great songs," he said. "Listening to it makes you hope it's not a one-off, that his return continues apace."

Songs singled out by critics included "Valentine's Day", couched, according to Gill, "in one of the album's most engaging pop arrangements", and "Dancing Out In Space", described by Will Hodgkinson of The Times as a "nightclub smash".

"You Feel So Lonely You Could Die", the penultimate track, provides the climax which McCormick calls "fantastic, a lush companion piece to Ziggy's Rock'n'roll Suicide that drips vitriol in place of compassion."

Now that the album is complete, the question on many fans' lips is whether Bowie will return to the stage to perform live.

The singer himself has dodged the limelight altogether since the comeback, but guitarist Gerry Leonard told Rolling Stone magazine that he thought it was "50-50" that Bowie would tour.

The glam-rock star, born David Jones in south London in 1947, shot to fame with "Space Oddity" in 1969, and later with his alter ego Ziggy Stardust, before establishing himself as a chart-topping force in the early 1980s.

His long absence from the music scene led to speculation he had retired, with British newspapers reporting as recently as October that he had disappeared from the limelight for good.

Bowie's last album of new material was "Reality", released a decade ago, and he underwent emergency heart surgery while on tour in 2004. His last stage performance was as a guest at a charity concert in New York in 2006.

(Reporting by Mike Collett-White, editing by Paul Casciato)

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Like the video. It's awesome. The song sounds a bit too much like something from the last two albums. It's not bad at all, but my expectations dipped a bit hearing this one.

I hate to say it but I agree, though I'd say it reminds me a lot more of Reality than Heathen. Heathen was a brilliant record imo, Reality was a collection of songs to support a tour, some of which were very good. I don't even think this is very good, just OK. Well, the sound is excellent, Visconti has done a great job but the song itself is average. There seems to be a lot of love for this song both here and on youtube; I wish I could feel it but I don't.

I was a tad afraid this is one of the rockers Tony mentioned. There are only 5 according to him, and when I thought rock, I thought really rock. This seems more... I don't know how to describe it. Harder than pop, but not really "rock". Hoping the other 4 he mentioned are more rocking, although The Stars is growing on me. Just not as a "rock" track.

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You've said there are five rockers on the album.
Yeah. "The Next Day" rocks out. Same with "The Stars (Are Out Tonight)" – that rocks out, too.

Very glad to hear all the positive comments here re: Mr. B's most welcomed return! And yes, the new 'The Stars Are Out Tonight song (and video) is awesome.



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"Bowie" (Sandeman & Mennomail Mix) A Tribute to David Bowie in sound and vision.
Two David Bowie fans from Amsterdam made this cool video/mix;

That was nice to watch............

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"Bowie" (Sandeman & Mennomail Mix) A Tribute to David Bowie in sound and vision.
Two David Bowie fans from Amsterdam made this cool video/mix;

Wow, I thought that video was awesome! Thank you so much for posting. If you weren't already excited for Bowie's return, this will do it for ya. And if it doesn't, something's wrong! LOL

Great single and video, just like I was hoping. 2 weeks untill the album now



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