ITT: Albums that are dark more because of the back story, rather

>>73009459
what's the story?

>>73009634
How Bowie was at the peak of his unfathomable cocaine addiction to the point of extreme paranoia and constant hallucinations. He didn't even remember making the album or being in The Man Who Fell to Earth.

The music becomes dark and eerie after knowing that, especially on Word on A Wing where he calls out for god. Or Station To Station

>>73009634
morning glory
(lol)

File: The-Bedlam-In-Goliath-CD2-cover[1].jpg (320KB, 1500x1500px) Image search: [Google]

320KB, 1500x1500px

>>73009459

>>73009634
>>73009747

He was heavily involved with cocaine and the occult at the time. Thematically the album is a battle between his dark impulses and his hope to change. The brilliance of the album is how the two opposites are mixed to varying affects musically and lyrically. For instance, Golden Years has the trappings of an up beat pop song, but lyrically a man is being coerced into signing a thousand year contract with the order of the golden dawn.

To wax for a moment, I think the album brilliantly demonstrates the cycle of addiction in its tracking. The album starts with the realization that he needs to start over, while in the final track he finds himself resigned to his habits. If you start the album over immediately it's terrifying.

>>73009634
He was on a coke binge in LA and allegedly doesn't remember recording it.

>>73010275
didn't*
;_;

File: bowie-roof.jpg (113KB, 960x960px) Image search: [Google]

113KB, 960x960px

>>73010801
oh

>>73009747
I'm not a big Bowie fan and I don't know much about the guy, but I'm going to say he is most likely heavily exaggerating. I doubt you could just forget making and recording an album.

>>73009747
>>73010259
Plus he was living with Glenn Hughes from Deep Purple at the time of its recording, with his coke using even managing to scare Hughes, himself an ardent drug addict.

Apparently he'd spend quite literally 3-4 days at a time without sleeping just watching the same movie over and over again.

>>73010842
sounds like you've never done drugs, anon

>56 Nights

>>73010859
Well, not cocaine anyway. I'll admit I'm ignorant on the side effects of cocaine but the idea of COMPLETELY forgetting recording an entire album is a bit hard to wrap my mind around, to say the least.

>>73010892
Drug addicts often have big gaping holes in their memory.

>>73010842
He was abusing it, when you are at the point of not eating and sleeping properly for days and having hallucinations and not thinking straight whilst consuming tons of literature and art (He supposedly read a crap ton of weird paranormal books and weird artworks which definetly did not help the paranoia) it makes sense to not remember it

>>73010592
haha you fucking moron

>>73011108
elaborate pls

>>73010858
>Apparently he'd spend quite literally 3-4 days at a time without sleeping just watching the same movie over and over again.
kek, this is hilarious, which movie was it?

>>73009783
explain

>>73011160
"Weird arthouse movies from Eastern Europe" according to Hughes.

>>73011281
sounds like it could be tarkovsky. maybe the mirror or solaris
where do you get all this info? a book?

>>73009756
haha nice

>>73011334
Hughes' autobiography dedicated a few pages to the period when Bowie was staying at his house, but most Bowie bios covering the mid-70s talk about the time when they lived together. They became friends around 1974, with Bowie wanting Hughes to sing on Young Americans (Bowie had been an admirer of Hughes' early band Trapeze), but Ritchie Blackmore vetoe'd it at the last minute, not wanting anyone in his band "associating themselves with that freak". A few years later, Bowie was gonna produce Hughes' first solo album, but it fell through at the last minute thanks to scheduling conflicts.

>>73011205
Band was haunted while making the album because they fucked around with a weegee board.

>>73011456
>Hughes' autobiography dedicated a few pages to the period
i will download the book only because of those pages, i'm always curious about bowie's crazy period. kek wasn't he a nazi at that time too?

do you know glenn hughes' new band california breed? their debut album was cool.

>>73011524
Yeah, shame they broke up after only one album. I think Black Country Communion are getting back together, though.

>>73010892
Well, it's not the side effects of the cocaine