Midnight Media Cafe - Flashing, sparkling, swooping, swinging COOL

[serai]

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So I've been grooving on Bowie's music all day, giving thanks to the Goddess for his existence, and to him for the great gift of art he gave us all. And I realized that my favorite of his albums is not any of the ones you might think, but rather his best-selling one: Let's Dance.

I think it's genius. Who else could have rescued disco from the ash heap of music history and made dancing bright and fun and hot and COOL again? Nobody I can think of. And yet he pulled it off (with help from his friend Niles Roger, of course). I love these tracks. They swing. An old-fashioned term, but the only one that fits. They take you by the hips and make you want to MOVE.

And I fucking love that.

Modern Love

China Girl

Let's Dance


(Note the album cover image, which you see in that last viedo - another example of Bowie's cutting humor, as "let's dance" is a fighting term as well as an invitation to dance.)


So yeah, along with Starman (my favorite Bowie song) and Rebel Rebel, his "disco-era" stuff - Fame, Young Americans, Golden Years - and the Let's Dance album are really my favorites. I much prefer music that makes me want to move rather music that makes me angry or sad. The Berlin period may have been more innovative, but it's just not stuff I want to listen to. THIS is what I listen to - the Bowie that moved, that danced, that laughed. The Bowie that knew life is worth living.

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Comments

[addie71.livejournal.com]

These are some of my favorites, too, but I also have a special fondness for "Space Oddity".

[serai1.livejournal.com]

I do love Space Oddity, but I rarely listen to it. It's so sad. I almost always tear up when I hear it.

[shirebound]

So great to hear these! The rhythms really are so bouncing and alive.

[serai1.livejournal.com]

So utterly addictive. Modern Love especially puts me in a near trance of movement. It's ecstatic.

[mews1945.livejournal.com]

He never just repeated himself, the way so many performers do. He kept growing.

[serai1.livejournal.com]

It's not really work
It's just the power to charm
Still standing in the wind
But I'll never wave bye-bye...

He'll always be The One and Only, thank the gods.