treeduck Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 I was just listening to the new Bowie single and I really like it, it's good. It's got a really cool vibe and sounds like the Bowie of the late 70s and 1980, to me at any rate. I was just reading that this new single is the most understated and mellow song on the album and they chose it because they wanted to ease Bowie back into the public consciousness after his 10 year hiatus. They didn't want to shock him back into our systems. Apparently this new album rocks too with plenty of high octane stuff! :haz: I'll be getting the deluxe edition which includes three all new bonus tracks! Which makes the total album length just over 60 minutes. Who else is grabbing the new Bowie? :hi: :guitar: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calirush Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 I just listened to the new single thanks to reading this thread. I was really into Bowie as a young teen before getting into metal and stuff. The Bowie/Vaughan combination on the Let's Dance album. is always a treat. To answer your question I am interested in the new album. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeduck Posted January 20, 2013 Author Share Posted January 20, 2013 There's an interesting interview here with the Producer Tony Visconti: David Bowie's 'The Next' Day' Album: A Track-by-Track Preview Longtime producer Tony Visconti says Bowie may do a single concert to celebrate new LP By Andy GreeneJanuary 15, 2013 7:00 AM ET Tony Visconti has been producing David Bowie's albums since Space Oddity in 1969. They've worked together on many of Bowie's greatest triumphs, including Heroes, Young Americans and Scary Monsters. After a long break, they joined forces again in the early 2000s for Heathen and Reality. Two years ago, he started working with Bowie on his long-awaited new album, The Next Day. Rolling Stone spoke to Visconti about the pair's secret sessions, how medieval English history inspired some of the songs and why it's unlikely that Bowie will tour – though a single show remains possible. As the producer noted, his other longtime collaborator, Morrissey, has the opposite plan. . . but he'll get to that. Was there ever a point over the past few years where you thought that Bowie would never record again?I was a little scared after he had his heart condition. He had a little scare himself. I didn't speak to him for a year after that. He was just recovering and just not talking to anybody. But I was one of the first people he emailed afterwards and we were steadily in contact since then. But he never really brought up music until two years ago. So he never said to me he retired, and every time I saw him in person, he looked in really good health. On Daily Beast: David Bowie's Eclectic Style Evolution All these rumors started going around about his health. Every time I had lunch with him, or coffee with him, I'm looking at him and my dear old friend was looking really good. But music didn't interest him until two years ago; that's when he made the call. He said, "How would you like to make some demos?" And I was a little shocked, quite honestly; it was just so casual. It was just the next topic in the discussion. How did the process begin?I was working on another project in London, and he didn't know that. He said, "Well, when are you going to get back?" I said, "In a few days." The next morning after I returned, I was in the studio with him playing bass. We had Sterling Campbell on drums, Gerry Leonard on guitar and David on keyboards. We were in this little studio down in the East Village doing demos for a week. I was pinching myself. I couldn't believe it was really happening. From nothing, right into this demo situation. Did he have fleshed-out songs at this point?Yes, he wrote them at home. He had an eight- or 16-track digital recorder. They were quite fleshed out. He had nice bass line ideas and drum patterns. We quickly took down the names of the chords and we scribbled it out on paper. Gerry Leonard and I read from the chord sheet. The room was about eight-by-eight, which included a drum kit. We were on top of each other, gasping for air after an hour or two. What sparked all this? He had been gone for so many years at this pointHe just said, "I feel like writing again." I don't know long prior to that he began writing. He just came up with about eight songs. How many days did you spend demoing in that East Village studio?We spent five days, and we didn't record anything until the last day. We just kept writing down notes. On the fifth day, it was hard to try to remember what we did on the first day. But we got them down and this guy at the studio had a basic Pro Tools rig, and we got them down. This is November 2010. Then he disappeared for four months and said, "I'm gonna start writing now." So he wrote more songs and then he fleshed those out even more. He came up with lyrics and melodies, which he didn't have at first. But that's typical of every record I started to work with him. Scary Monsters, every album started out with maybe one finished song and 10 ideas, so this is typical. What happened next?In April of 2011 we went into a downtown New York studio. We only worked for two-week periods. We would take as long as two months off after each period, and he would go and write some more stuff. I would listen to it and get some ideas, sketch out some overdub things, and we'd be in constant communication during those periods. So this is about 18 months ago. If you added up all the weeks in the studio, we probably actually spent three-and-a-half months. You've said that the first single, "Where Are We Now," isn't like any other song on the album. Do the other songs look back on his life like that one? Not really; that's the only one. It's really the only one of its kind. Everything else on the album is kind of observations. He's writing in the third person. Some of them belong to his life, but some of them are things like social commentary. He was reading a lot of medieval English history books, and he came up with one medieval English history song. That's the title track, "The Next Day." It's about somebody who was a tyrant, very insignificant; I didn't even know who he was talking about. But if you read the lyrics, it's quite a horrific story. 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. Are the non-rockers more mellow? What's their vibe?They're more funky, mid-tempo songs. Very evocative. "Dirty Boys," the second song on the album, is very sleazy. Sleazy in what sense?It's dark and it's sexy. There's a fantastic sax solo. You know, David plays baritone sax, but he invited his friend Steve Elson to do the baritone on this album. I think Steve was in the Saturday Night Live band. He's a little guy, and he's got a huge baritone sax, and he plays this dirty solo in it that sounds like stripper music from the 1950s. Old bump-and-grind stripper music . . . It wouldn't be out of place on Young Americans. Tell me about "Dancing Out in Space."That's a very uptempo one. It's got a Motown beat to it, but the rest of it is completely psychedelic. It's got very floaty vibe. There's a guy called David Torn who plays guitar, who we use; he comes with huge amounts of equipment that he creates these aural landscapes. He uses them in a rock context with all that ambient sound, and he's bending his tremolo arm and all that. It's just crazy, completely crazy sound on that track. How about "Boss of Me?"That is one of the slower, funky ones. It's really solid. There's a little Young Americans in there. But that's really not proper . . . It's a new kind of direction for him, melodically. Doesn't sound like typical Bowie, that track. But it's a very good track. OK. Tell me about "Heat."Well that's the closer of the album and it's very dramatic. And I'm not quite sure what he's singing about on it, but it's a classic Bowie ballad. He's singing in his handsomest voice, a very deep, very sonorous voice. And I can't give too much away about it because honestly, I don't know exactly what it's about, if it's about being in a real prison or being imprisoned in your mind. Again, it's certainly not about him; he's singing as the voice of somebody. Tell me about "I'd Rather Be High."There's a few songs about world wars, about soldiers. One is "How Does the Grass Grow" and it's about the way that soldiers are trained to kill other soldiers, how they have to do it so heartlessly. "How Does the Grass Grow" is part of a chant that they're taught as they plunge their bayonets into a dummy. "I'd Rather Be High" is about a soldier who's come out of the war and he's just burnt out, and rather than becoming a human being again, I think he laments, "I'd rather be high/I don't want to know/I'm trying to erase these thoughts from my mind." Who exactly is the band on the album?We had two drummers. The main drummer was Zachary Alford, and Sterling Campbell played on several tracks, too. It's unfortunate. Sterling was at the demo sessions in the beginning but then he didn't know when the album was gonna start, and he already committed to a tour with the B-52s. We called Zach in to substitute for him, and Zack played amazing drums on the album. But Sterling is in there as well on songs like "Valentine's Day" and "(You Will) Set the World on Fire," which is another steamer, another big rock song on the album. Bass was predominantly Gail Ann Dorsey, and she played phenomenally well on the album, and she also did some backup vocals with David. The other bass player who played on about four or five tracks was Tony Levin. The guitars are Gerry Leonard who played on Heathen and Reality, and he's David's music director. David Torn on the other ambient guitar. And then we got Earl Slick to play some fantastic guitar solos and heavy guitar on some tracks. I played bass on the album for two songs, and that's about it. David played his own keyboards; he played also some acoustic guitar, some electric guitar as well. How hard was it to keep this a secret?It was very easy to keep it a secret because we're very loyal to him. I've known him 45 years, and everybody knew him for more than 10 years in the band. We just love the guy. He said, "Keep it a secret, and don't tell anybody. Not even your best friend." I said, "Can I tell my girlfriend?" He says, "Yes, you can tell your girlfriend, but she can't tell anybody." So everybody had to explain why they were leaving for work in the morning, you know where they were going and who they were recording with. The real trick was just not telling even your best friend. Bowie fans are just unpredictable – if they hear news like this, the cover would have been blown years ago. Now one person did leak it, but nobody believed him . . . Who?Robert Fripp! He was asked to play on it, he didn't want to do it and then he wrote on his blog that he was asked. And nobody kinda believed him. It was a little flurry for a few days, but everyone said, "How could that be true? We haven't heard it from anyone else?" The big question: Do you think Bowie will tour? He says that he will only play if he feels like it, but no tour. Like, if wanted to do the odd show in New York or, I don't know, London, he would if he felt like it. And he made that very clear to the label that he wasn't going to tour or do any kind of ridiculously long album promotion. It was his idea to just drop it at midnight on his birthday and just let things avalanche. Do you really think it's possible he'd do just one show?It's possible, if he feels like it. I don't know. I spoke to him two days ago and he said, "I'm really adamant I'm not gonna do a tour." And he said, "If I might, I might do one show." But who knows when. The album cover is sort of intriguing . . . I only just got that. I wasn't sure that was the cover. It's real.I thought some fan made a joke cover. I though that too, but it's real.[Laughs] Thoughts on that?I think it's great! It gives him a nice space to sign his autograph in the middle of it. Do you think that you and Morrissey will ever work together again?Hopefully we will. I'm going to see him Friday night in Brooklyn. We email a lot. We talk a lot. He's very reluctant to have a deal with anybody. 'Cause nowadays, the problem is, when a label signs you – right now, he has no label – so if I sign a new label deal, he has to sign a 360 deal. They want a piece of everything. If you write a book, if you write a song, if you're in a movie, they want part of your fee for all these things. So that's the deal that the big labels are offering now and that's because sales are so low and they have to make up their money some way. He's totally against that. He's old-school. Actually I don't blame him. He could pull a Radiohead and post it online for a fee.I know. He's also old school about paying for it himself. Traditionally, the label's gotta pay for him. I understand that, and there's an old saying in show business that you never invest your own money in a show. It kinda follows onto recording to some extent, but that attitude has changed. He could also sign to an indie label that wouldn't make him sign a 360. . . But beyond that, he has enough fans that he'd make a killing charging $10 for an album online?Yeah, he'll make his money back, yeah. He's playing his new songs onstage, they're being recorded on cell phones every night of the week and they're wonderful songs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeduck Posted January 20, 2013 Author Share Posted January 20, 2013 I just listened to the new single thanks to reading this thread. I was really into Bowie as a young teen before getting into metal and stuff. The Bowie/Vaughan combination on the Let's Dance album. is always a treat. To answer your question I am interested in the new album.Cool! :hail: :smoke: :ebert: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Babycat Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 :hi: :haz: :smoke: :hail: :D Great article, Duck, and thanks for the tag! :D :hail: :smoke: :haz: :hi: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adace1 Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 Not really a big fan of his, but that single was pretty cool. I'll definitely check it out when it drops. :cheers: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeOhBe Bob Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 (edited) life began with Bowie. Edited January 20, 2013 by BeOhBe Bob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchetaxe&saw Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 I'll be all over it like a naughty rash. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeduck Posted January 20, 2013 Author Share Posted January 20, 2013 Don't forget to get the deluxe edition, it has 17 tracks instead of just the 14 on the regular edition, and you can get it at a normal price. :hail: :hail: :hail: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rushgoober Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 IDK, I love Bowie, but I heard the first single a couple of weeks back and found it really boring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drbirdsong Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 David Torn and Tony Levin! Sold! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lerxster Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 David Torn and Tony Levin! Sold!And Earl Slick, who along with Levin played on Double Fantasy. Lennon was quoted as saying that when making that album, his ambition was to "do something as good as Heros." http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Gb1Y-KApL._SL500_AA300_.jpg This is The Next Day's album cover, according to Amazon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeduck Posted January 21, 2013 Author Share Posted January 21, 2013 David Torn and Tony Levin! Sold!And Earl Slick, who along with Levin played on Double Fantasy. Lennon was quoted as saying that when making that album, his ambition was to "do something as good as Heros." http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Gb1Y-KApL._SL500_AA300_.jpg This is The Next Day's album cover, according to Amazon. Yeah I don't like it at all. It makes it look like a "Heroes" outtakes album, or a "Heroes" remaster edition. The designer calls it subverting the original album artwork. Here's an interview with the designer about it: There has been much discussion surrounding the cover of the new David Bowie album The Next Day so thought I would answer a few questions that people have asked about it. – Why not a new image for the cover?We wanted to do something different with it – very difficult in an area where everything has been done before – but we dare to think this is something new. Normally using an image from the past means, ‘recycle’ or ‘greatest hits’ but here we are referring to the title The Next Day. The “Heroes” cover obscured by the white square is about the spirit of great pop or rock music which is ‘of the moment’, forgetting or obliterating the past. However, we all know that this is never quite the case, no matter how much we try, we cannot break free from the past. When you are creative, it manifests itself in every way – it seeps out in every new mark you make (particularly in the case of an artist like Bowie). It always looms large and people will judge you always in relation to your history, no matter how much you try to escape it. The obscuring of an image from the past is also about the wider human condition; we move on relentlessly in our lives to the next day, leaving the past because we have no choice but to. – Why “Heroes”?If you are going to subvert an album by David Bowie there are many to choose from but this is one of his most revered, it had to be an image that would really jar if it were subverted in some way and we thought “Heroes” worked best on all counts. Also the new album is very contemplative and the “Heroes” cover matched this mood. The song Where are we now? is a comparison between Berlin when the wall fell and Berlin today. Most people know of Bowie’s heritage in Berlin and we want people to think about the time when the original album was produced and now. – Why the white square obscuring the image?We worked on hundreds of designs using the concept of obscuring this cover but the strongest ones were the simplest – it had to be something that was in direct contrast to the image underneath but that wasn’t too contrived (we know all design is contrived, that is the essence of the word ‘design’). It would have been clearer to many people if we had scribbled all over the cover but that didn’t have the detachment of intent necessary to express the melancholy of the songs on the album. Obscuring Bowie’s image is also reference to his identity, not only in the past when he changed endlessly but that he has been absent from the music scene for the past ten years. Was this an act to hide his identity or that he has simply become more comfortable with it? – Why is there no colour?The title of the album The Next Day evokes numerous reference points, notably Macbeth’s speech ‘Tomorrow, and tomorrow and tomorrow ’ which deals with the relentless onward push that any unnatural position of power requires. It also has the existential element of Waiting for Godot with waiting for The Next Day – these all seem to question the nature of existence so a monochrome palette seemed most appropriate to this feeling. – Why didn’t you do a logo, or new design of his name on the cover?We wanted the cover to be as minimal and undesigned as possible, we felt the most elegant solution was to use the original one from “Heroes” and simply cross out the title of the old album. It has the detachment appropriate for the atmosphere of the new album. – What is the font you used for the main title?It is a new font that we are working on called Doctrine – this is the first major use of it. Doctrine will be released in the coming weeks at VirusFonts. – What is Bowie like to work with?He is quite a private person, so no need to say too much about him other than that he is a pleasure to work with. Very intelligent, funny, serious when he needs to be and generous in his thoughts and actions. – Is there anything else you can add?Yes, having said all this, we know it is only an album cover with a white square on it but often in design it can be a long journey to get at something quite simple which works and that simplicity can work on many levels – often the most simple ideas can be the most radical. We understand that many would have preferred a nice new picture of Bowie but we believed that would be far less interesting and not acknowledge many of the things we have tried to discuss by doing this design. Finally we would like to give David Bowie great credit, he simply did what he always does which is to go with a radical idea and that takes courage and intelligence. That is why we love his music and love working for him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormtron Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 I don't like the cover either. I made a better version: http://i.imgur.com/iN025ya.png Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchetaxe&saw Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 I don't like the cover either. I made a better version: http://i.imgur.com/iN025ya.pngBest cover. Ever. I love Labryinth. Sarah: Okay, let's handle this thing logically. What exactly have you sworn?Didymus: I have sworn with my life's blood, none shall pass this way without *my* permission!Sarah: Well... May we have your permission?Didymus: Well I, uh... I... that is, uh... hm... Yes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lerxster Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 David Torn and Tony Levin! Sold!And Earl Slick, who along with Levin played on Double Fantasy. Lennon was quoted as saying that when making that album, his ambition was to "do something as good as Heros." http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Gb1Y-KApL._SL500_AA300_.jpg This is The Next Day's album cover, according to Amazon. Yeah I don't like it at all. It makes it look like a "Heroes" outtakes album, or a "Heroes" remaster edition. The designer calls it subverting the original album artwork. Here's an interview with the designer about it: There has been much discussion surrounding the cover of the new David Bowie album The Next Day so thought I would answer a few questions that people have asked about it. – Why not a new image for the cover?We wanted to do something different with it – very difficult in an area where everything has been done before – but we dare to think this is something new. Normally using an image from the past means, ‘recycle’ or ‘greatest hits’ but here we are referring to the title The Next Day. The “Heroes” cover obscured by the white square is about the spirit of great pop or rock music which is ‘of the moment’, forgetting or obliterating the past. However, we all know that this is never quite the case, no matter how much we try, we cannot break free from the past. When you are creative, it manifests itself in every way – it seeps out in every new mark you make (particularly in the case of an artist like Bowie). It always looms large and people will judge you always in relation to your history, no matter how much you try to escape it. The obscuring of an image from the past is also about the wider human condition; we move on relentlessly in our lives to the next day, leaving the past because we have no choice but to. – Why “Heroes”?If you are going to subvert an album by David Bowie there are many to choose from but this is one of his most revered, it had to be an image that would really jar if it were subverted in some way and we thought “Heroes” worked best on all counts. Also the new album is very contemplative and the “Heroes” cover matched this mood. The song Where are we now? is a comparison between Berlin when the wall fell and Berlin today. Most people know of Bowie’s heritage in Berlin and we want people to think about the time when the original album was produced and now. – Why the white square obscuring the image?We worked on hundreds of designs using the concept of obscuring this cover but the strongest ones were the simplest – it had to be something that was in direct contrast to the image underneath but that wasn’t too contrived (we know all design is contrived, that is the essence of the word ‘design’). It would have been clearer to many people if we had scribbled all over the cover but that didn’t have the detachment of intent necessary to express the melancholy of the songs on the album. Obscuring Bowie’s image is also reference to his identity, not only in the past when he changed endlessly but that he has been absent from the music scene for the past ten years. Was this an act to hide his identity or that he has simply become more comfortable with it? – Why is there no colour?The title of the album The Next Day evokes numerous reference points, notably Macbeth’s speech ‘Tomorrow, and tomorrow and tomorrow ’ which deals with the relentless onward push that any unnatural position of power requires. It also has the existential element of Waiting for Godot with waiting for The Next Day – these all seem to question the nature of existence so a monochrome palette seemed most appropriate to this feeling. – Why didn’t you do a logo, or new design of his name on the cover?We wanted the cover to be as minimal and undesigned as possible, we felt the most elegant solution was to use the original one from “Heroes” and simply cross out the title of the old album. It has the detachment appropriate for the atmosphere of the new album. – What is the font you used for the main title?It is a new font that we are working on called Doctrine – this is the first major use of it. Doctrine will be released in the coming weeks at VirusFonts. – What is Bowie like to work with?He is quite a private person, so no need to say too much about him other than that he is a pleasure to work with. Very intelligent, funny, serious when he needs to be and generous in his thoughts and actions. – Is there anything else you can add?Yes, having said all this, we know it is only an album cover with a white square on it but often in design it can be a long journey to get at something quite simple which works and that simplicity can work on many levels – often the most simple ideas can be the most radical. We understand that many would have preferred a nice new picture of Bowie but we believed that would be far less interesting and not acknowledge many of the things we have tried to discuss by doing this design. Finally we would like to give David Bowie great credit, he simply did what he always does which is to go with a radical idea and that takes courage and intelligence. That is why we love his music and love working for him. Jonathan Barnbrook can explain this any whay he wants. It just sounds like they spent a great deal of time and David Bowie a great deal of money for the worst album cover ever. It sounds like this could be a scene from The Family Guy: David Bowie: Peter, I want you to design my next album cover.Peter Griffin: Oh! yess, Mr. Bowie. You can count on me. Next scene:http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Gb1Y-KApL._SL500_AA300_.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeduck Posted January 21, 2013 Author Share Posted January 21, 2013 David Torn and Tony Levin! Sold!And Earl Slick, who along with Levin played on Double Fantasy. Lennon was quoted as saying that when making that album, his ambition was to "do something as good as Heros." http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Gb1Y-KApL._SL500_AA300_.jpg This is The Next Day's album cover, according to Amazon. Yeah I don't like it at all. It makes it look like a "Heroes" outtakes album, or a "Heroes" remaster edition. The designer calls it subverting the original album artwork. Here's an interview with the designer about it: There has been much discussion surrounding the cover of the new David Bowie album The Next Day so thought I would answer a few questions that people have asked about it. – Why not a new image for the cover?We wanted to do something different with it – very difficult in an area where everything has been done before – but we dare to think this is something new. Normally using an image from the past means, ‘recycle’ or ‘greatest hits’ but here we are referring to the title The Next Day. The “Heroes” cover obscured by the white square is about the spirit of great pop or rock music which is ‘of the moment’, forgetting or obliterating the past. However, we all know that this is never quite the case, no matter how much we try, we cannot break free from the past. When you are creative, it manifests itself in every way – it seeps out in every new mark you make (particularly in the case of an artist like Bowie). It always looms large and people will judge you always in relation to your history, no matter how much you try to escape it. The obscuring of an image from the past is also about the wider human condition; we move on relentlessly in our lives to the next day, leaving the past because we have no choice but to. – Why “Heroes”?If you are going to subvert an album by David Bowie there are many to choose from but this is one of his most revered, it had to be an image that would really jar if it were subverted in some way and we thought “Heroes” worked best on all counts. Also the new album is very contemplative and the “Heroes” cover matched this mood. The song Where are we now? is a comparison between Berlin when the wall fell and Berlin today. Most people know of Bowie’s heritage in Berlin and we want people to think about the time when the original album was produced and now. – Why the white square obscuring the image?We worked on hundreds of designs using the concept of obscuring this cover but the strongest ones were the simplest – it had to be something that was in direct contrast to the image underneath but that wasn’t too contrived (we know all design is contrived, that is the essence of the word ‘design’). It would have been clearer to many people if we had scribbled all over the cover but that didn’t have the detachment of intent necessary to express the melancholy of the songs on the album. Obscuring Bowie’s image is also reference to his identity, not only in the past when he changed endlessly but that he has been absent from the music scene for the past ten years. Was this an act to hide his identity or that he has simply become more comfortable with it? – Why is there no colour?The title of the album The Next Day evokes numerous reference points, notably Macbeth’s speech ‘Tomorrow, and tomorrow and tomorrow ’ which deals with the relentless onward push that any unnatural position of power requires. It also has the existential element of Waiting for Godot with waiting for The Next Day – these all seem to question the nature of existence so a monochrome palette seemed most appropriate to this feeling. – Why didn’t you do a logo, or new design of his name on the cover?We wanted the cover to be as minimal and undesigned as possible, we felt the most elegant solution was to use the original one from “Heroes” and simply cross out the title of the old album. It has the detachment appropriate for the atmosphere of the new album. – What is the font you used for the main title?It is a new font that we are working on called Doctrine – this is the first major use of it. Doctrine will be released in the coming weeks at VirusFonts. – What is Bowie like to work with?He is quite a private person, so no need to say too much about him other than that he is a pleasure to work with. Very intelligent, funny, serious when he needs to be and generous in his thoughts and actions. – Is there anything else you can add?Yes, having said all this, we know it is only an album cover with a white square on it but often in design it can be a long journey to get at something quite simple which works and that simplicity can work on many levels – often the most simple ideas can be the most radical. We understand that many would have preferred a nice new picture of Bowie but we believed that would be far less interesting and not acknowledge many of the things we have tried to discuss by doing this design. Finally we would like to give David Bowie great credit, he simply did what he always does which is to go with a radical idea and that takes courage and intelligence. That is why we love his music and love working for him. Jonathan Barnbrook can explain this any whay he wants. It just sounds like they spent a great deal of time and David Bowie a great deal of money for the worst album cover ever. It sounds like this could be a scene from The Family Guy: David Bowie: Peter, I want you to design my next album cover.Peter Griffin: Oh! yess, Mr. Bowie. You can count on me. Next scene:http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Gb1Y-KApL._SL500_AA300_.jpg I'm still hoping it's a joke, or maybe it's the slip cover. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeduck Posted January 21, 2013 Author Share Posted January 21, 2013 I don't like the cover either. I made a better version: http://i.imgur.com/iN025ya.png :banana: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeduck Posted January 21, 2013 Author Share Posted January 21, 2013 I don't like the cover either. I made a better version: http://i.imgur.com/iN025ya.pngBest cover. Ever. I love Labryinth. Sarah: Okay, let's handle this thing logically. What exactly have you sworn?Didymus: I have sworn with my life's blood, none shall pass this way without *my* permission!Sarah: Well... May we have your permission?Didymus: Well I, uh... I... that is, uh... hm... Yes? :coffee: :coffee: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bathory Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 I might check it out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeduck Posted March 15, 2013 Author Share Posted March 15, 2013 I just discovered in the dark of my porch that my copy of the new Boowie album is finally here! (deluxe version of course) Hurrah for me and harrah for Davey Boowie! :givebeer: :smoke: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchetaxe&saw Posted March 16, 2013 Share Posted March 16, 2013 It's bloody marvellous. Rumblings of a tour..... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeduck Posted March 16, 2013 Author Share Posted March 16, 2013 It's bloody marvellous. Rumblings of a tour.....Does this mean you're going to dust-off the Thin White Duke outfit or your Ziggy Stardust catsuit? http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs17/f/2007/153/4/3/Ziggy_Stardust_by_kitykat74746.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUSHHEAD666 Posted March 16, 2013 Share Posted March 16, 2013 Hey Bowie Boyz N Gurls! I haven't loved a Bowie album since "Let's Dance" with the late great SRV!! Bowie has put out a bunch of dudes over the last few decades in my humble opinion!I saw Bowie in San Jose on the "Heathen" Tour and half way through I walked out. ALL NEW SHITE! Anyway a new chapter of Bowie music is born. Personally I LOVE THE COVER! It's smarketing. By that I mean it's SMART!People will instantly identify the album cover and go "WTF?" I don't think it's ever been done before and I love the risk! I can see the next new Rush album coming out in two years. The artwork will be "Moving Pictures" with a big WHITE SQUARE over it. The album will be entitled "THE NEXT HIT." Anyway I think the new album is excellent although there are some boring songs on it. It's his best album though since "Let's Dance." Did you guys catch the ending of the song "You Feel So Lonely You Could Die?" It's the drum pattern to "Five Years!" Cheers! I might go see Bowie if he tours again. This time I will stay for the whole show! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeduck Posted March 16, 2013 Author Share Posted March 16, 2013 Hey Bowie Boyz N Gurls! I haven't loved a Bowie album since "Let's Dance" with the late great SRV!! Bowie has put out a bunch of dudes over the last few decades in my humble opinion!I saw Bowie in San Jose on the "Heathen" Tour and half way through I walked out. ALL NEW SHITE! Anyway a new chapter of Bowie music is born. Personally I LOVE THE COVER! It's smarketing. By that I mean it's SMART!People will instantly identify the album cover and go "WTF?" I don't think it's ever been done before and I love the risk! I can see the next new Rush album coming out in two years. The artwork will be "Moving Pictures" with a big WHITE SQUARE over it. The album will be entitled "THE NEXT HIT." Anyway I think the new album is excellent although there are some boring songs on it. It's his best album though since "Let's Dance." Did you guys catch the ending of the song "You Feel So Lonely You Could Die?" It's the drum pattern to "Five Years!" Cheers! I might go see Bowie if he tours again. This time I will stay for the whole show!Hey Earl do you mean Bowie put out a bunch of "All the Young duds"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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