4.01

this was such a mediocre album holy fuck

the song blackstar is fucking insufferable

MBDTF IS way better

>>61766448
How is MBDTF way better?

>>61766472
It's made by a black person.

>>61766386
Worst opinion ever. Keep those to yourself in future man

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>Listens to it twice
>One star

Why can't people like this be banned from rym?

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>>61766489
go fuck yourself you bowie fanboy faggot

bowie is probably one of the most overrated artists of this time

this album was over hyped because of his magical death, fuck you pleb and go back to leddit

>>61766560
/mu/ has generally liked Bowie for a long time m8

but you would know that if you didn't just get off the boat from reddit a few months ago

>>61766557
How else are they supposed to listen to their backlog of 5000 albums that they will barely pay attention to and not even remember?

>>61766557
Well, why would I listen to an album repeatedly if I thought it was horrible? There was a Simple Plan album I had to listen to on a car ride with a friend, only listened to it that one time. Still got a 1/5 from me.

>>61766560
Why is the album bad?

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>yfw the stars to rate the album are black

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woah the stars are black because of the album blackstar by the late artist david bowie i never realized until now
its like one of those unintentional things like how they named it /b/ because you /b/ anonymous and also how the falklands is an anagram of great britain

>>61766308
CONTRARIANS BTFO

>>61766557
>and sure enough, I was right

This phrase is used exclusively by assholes

>>61766560
>>61766386
>>61766560

> person states an opinion
> other person can't cope
> first person goes full on tard, le overrated and reddit buzzwords xDDDDDD :DDDDD

Why can't we have an "informed" discussion like reasonable people? /mu/, pls

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>tfw Bowie saves rock music

I don't know if it's because I'm a Bowie fag, but I was under the impression that people were already hyping and talking about Blackstar even before he died, so these claims that the album only got critically acclaimed now don't make any sense to me. Even here people were all over Blackstar and Lazarus when they got released.
Are all of them contrarian fags?

>>61766986
You're on the wrong board if you are looking for actual discussion. No, you're on the wrong website if you're looking for actual discussion.

The percussions on I Can't Give Everything Away sound like the generic drumbeat midis that come packaged with electric keyboards

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>>61767265
>mfw Bowie never gave a fuck about rock music
>Bowie saved us from ROCK music not progressing enough

>>61766557

there's not really much to "get" with Bowie's music so 1-2 listens is plenty

>>61766557
i don't really have a problem with that, 2 listens should be enough to rate an album

hes wrong tho

>>61766386
This

I didn't enjoy it much, either

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>>61766308
>tfw Bowie will never top "To Meme The Buttercuck" rating

>>61767534
what are you doing here if you don't recognise music from low

>>61767423
It was well received before he died but if he hadn't died I don't think the RYM score would be this high. You could argue like people have that his death is part of the album and it should be rated with it in mind but there's a pretty thin line between that and overrating an album because the artist is dead. Still, the people saying it would get mediocre reviews if he didn't die are idiots because this is demonstrably false.

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>>61766560
>overrated

>>61767423
I was looking forward to blackstar as well,I thought the title track was really good after listening to it a few times ,plus I was just really happy Bowie was back making music,i thought it was strange that he refused to perform live or go on tour but I guess we know why now.

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>>61767585
>>61767265
That is not true.
There were alot of incredible rock albums this decade

Pic related

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>>61767534
So sad though,Bowies final goodbye.

>>61768144
I said he didn't give a fuck about rock. His last album isn't rock.

It's 2016, for the love of Bowie get over it old rock is dead and for good

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>>61768386
The fact it's 2016 does not mean anything. if you think the number of the year makes something better or worse, well, i think you are being silly.

There are incredible new rock albums being made all the time anon. have you heard pic related? it's from 2015 and i think it's absolutely beautiful

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>>61768481
More rock from 2015 that was phenomenal

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>>61768500
and more

>>61768481
Good album, promising band. Also, they have a new album coming out pretty soon.

>>61768500
This was a rather mediocre in my opinion, but I'm very excited where the band progress in the future.

>>61768481
>>61768500
>>61768544
old rock is dead, deal with it. If you can't see the diferences between those albums and Led Zeppelin or even the old Artic Monkeys you're kinda lost.

>>61768481
The new Ought album was pretty solid too.

>>61768500
Just getting around to listening to this for the first time and HOLY SHIT I AM LAUGHING MY ASS OFF.

I haven't had an album disorient me in such an unexpected manner in a long ass time; I have found myself saying out loud "What the actual FUCK am I listening to?" for the first time since... like Ween when I was 15.

I am blown away that something could evoke such a response from me again. Is this even music? Mostly not, probably, but holy fuck if I don't enjoy it.

>>61766560
That was most plebeian thing that i have seen in my entire life

>>61768667
Of course music evolves and changes anon, but saying "x" genre is dead is just silly.

One of the nice things about this era of music is the huge variety of different genres. many genres have new releases and excellent albums being released in them.

>>61768706
What? it's not even THAT inaccessible anon. if you think this is "not music", well, it's your problem, and the problem is that your definition of music is very flawed.

I think it's an incredible album btw, i absolutely love it. if you don't like it it's okay, but claiming "it's not music" is just incredibly silly and objectively wrong.

>>61767423
it was the number 1 album on itunes before he died

>>61768812
I think that was pasta. I THINK.

>>61767525
This, I can't believe people haven't figured this out by now.

>>61766386
it's actually a really good album, especially if your a Bowie fan. It just got over hyped because of circumstances.

>>61768500
*listens to This Heat Once*

>>61769149
This is quite different from This Heat anon.

>>61769198
It's clearly influenced by it 'anon'

>>61766557
jesus christ what a shit review, most of it are circumstances and atittude before listening to it and like one paragraph of actual content which hardly passes as a review and consists of some buzzwords

>>61769279
It wasn't that clear for me. i haven't even thought about it until i was told about it.

I think the work of This Heat and Viet Cong are quite different anon, to be very honest with you.

>>61768481
They have a new one coming out too

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You are now aware that the stars spell 'BOWIE'.

>>61769361
there are some similarities but of course its not a 1:1 rip off.
Either way the album is still pretty good and i reccomend it to anyone who hasnt listened to it.

>>61769422
It seems logical that this is the reason they are in those shapes but, i think the first one doesn't look like B at all

>>61769509
If you're going to limit yourself to five-point stars to spell out a word, what other configuration could be used for 'B'?
Also, what else could it spell? It's clearly got O, 'W', and an 'E', 4th could be seen as an 'I' or an 'A'.

Spells Bowie.

....Or it's a code that we can key into our spaceship so it knows which way to go.

>>61769509
It's a lowercase b. Seriously, think a bit, worst trip.

>>61769642
i love you so

>>61769813
She kno-o-o-ows.

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Do you think 'blackstar' means he awknowledges he will become a 'star in the heavens' but unlike the usual association of a bright, shining star to memorise a loved one, a black star will be invisible on the night sky, even though it's there, it will be unseen and easily forgotten.

>>61769972
Possible interpretations of 'blackstar'.

>Symbol of British rock
>Black hole i.e. Empty Void
>A variety of cancer legion
>Occult symbol of rebirth
>Juxtaposition of fame and undeserving.
>Transparency
>Kanye West

There are probably more but this is all I can think of.

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>>61769422
>>61769642
It spells XNRHZNNWG, the name of Bowie's dog you fucking retards

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>>61767423
it definitely deserves an extra .5 rating at least on the 5 star rating because of the subject material and his death.

This isn't a "oh he died, better critically acclaim it" type of deal, something I feel like a lot of people don't understand. But the album deals with a lot of themes of death and various other feelings one goes through in their final days. If he woudl have released The Next Day as his final record, nobody would really be all that concerned with his death affecting the rating, because although it was a good album, it wasn't conceptual.

However, listening to it as if it was his swan song is fucking spooky as shit. It's a special circumstance.

Context to events shouldn't have a bearing on the actual music.

>>61770505
it's occult shit
it's about me
I will take his place
he made me see IT
it will haunt me now
it is subjective, think

>>61766557
Have fun with your extremely small variety of music knowledge.

>When all the world is warm and tired
>You cry a little in the dark
>Well so do I

>>61770505
4.22 is the highest rating on that site

>>61771096
oh nvm it weights number of reviews

mediocre at best

>>61771096
Ziggy Stardust is at 4.30

>>61766488
doesn't that make it worse?

can't say this album tickled my pickle, but I'm not much a fan of Bowie's later work.

>>61766560
>fucking weebo doesn't know anything about the most relevant topic
>projects his ignorance onto smarter people
More news at 11

Yawn.

>>61769422
i can't see it at all

>>61771466
>weeaboo
>one reaction image
back2reddit

>>61771530

> weabo can't cope
> le reddit meme xD

classic

>>61766560
Kys weebcuck

>>61771607
cope with what?
and yes you do need to go back to reddit, there are no memes here.

>>61771530
>back2reddit
You don't even know what the meme is about you dumb weeaboo

>>61771661
what meme

>popshit
>random lyrics with no meaning but "OMG SO SAD IT'S ABOUT HIS DEATH :((("

from the same shitters that listen to kanye or unironically like rap so there you go

Limp dicked Scott Walker. Quirky saxophones to prove how eclectic and le expurrimental he's being. Mildly uncomfortable atmosphere for normies, therefore high art. Turning your own death into a gimmicky marketing stunt isn't something that should be applauded.

>>61766488
But Blackstar was made by a black STAR

>>61771750
>contrarianism
>about something (s)he obviously hasn't heard and whose opinion therefore holds no merit

from the same shitposters that feign dislike at everything without actually understanding what they like at all

>>61766557
>the songs were just too slow for my liking without any real catchy hooks
>there really wasn't any song with a powerful buildup
>nor any guitar solos that captivated my attention throughout

why review music if you don't actually like music

>>61771750
>pop
anon u didn't listen did you?

>>61771653

> he doesn't get it

David Bowie has never made a good album. It's funny, going to any RYM page of a Bowie album and clicking through page after page of reviews, pretty much zero reviews actually talk about the music. They just talk about the man himself and how great he was, or what the album represents.

>>61772454
I like him solely for his music

I like no other artist this much

>>61766560
Have you even listened to any of his other albums other than Blackstar?

>>61772454
He's an incredible personality, but sadly not as great of a musician.

>>61766557
>he gave it 1 black star