Happy birthday, God

63 today. Holy crap. That makes me … much older than I’d like. Rock on, David. Some Friday music.

In the heat of the morning

Lady grinning soul

Always crashing in the same car

Cat people (putting out fire)

Bonus link: Georgio Moroder remix

I’m afraid of Americans

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68 Responses to Happy birthday, God

  1. Frank the Tank says:

    Who the fuck is that dinosaur?

  2. Manuel says:

    63 eh, who’d a thought he would have made it this far? Especially after that Tin Machine thing… [shudder]

    still, fair play to the lad he’s done well. He’s no Morrissey but fair play to the Duke all the same.

  3. Twenty Major says:

    He’s no Morrissey

    No, he’s good!

    Frank, how dare you

  4. Frank the Tank says:

    Elvis would have been 75 today

  5. peadar says:

    Is Bowie gay?

  6. dessiegee says:

    Overrated twat – Mick Ronson was the true talent…..

  7. Frank the Tank says:

    no, he’s ambidextrous

  8. Twenty Major says:

    iman.jpg

    Mrs Bowie, Peadar.

    Ronson was ace, Dessie, but David was the man.

  9. Captain Con says:

    Had a suspicion that Twenty might be a Bowie fan … and the real ones always refer to ‘Low’.

    Nice one. That ‘I’m afraid of Americans’ is a good vid too…

  10. SuperGrover says:

    It’s also R. Kelly’s birthday but does he get so much as a mention?

    Ridiculous.

  11. Twenty Major says:

    I think people forgot R’s birthday because he’s trapped in the closet, Grover.

  12. dessiegee says:

    R’s more likely to be trapped in a 14 year old…

  13. Walls says:

    Hey, I was going to marry him.

    So it’s Bowie’s birthday, huh? First piece of good news I’ve heard in weeks.

  14. Magoo says:

    Happy birthday to Bowie, one of the few things I can listen to any amount of without getting remotely sick of it, unlike Morrissey who wore me out years ago with his sameiness. Plus, when he eats out, no-one at the table is allowed to eat meat and he orders creamy pasta with peas and carrots.
    The real talent there was Johnny Marr, guitar god, maybe the smiths would still be together if Morrissey had stopped trying to nob him.

  15. Fatmammycat says:

    It IS Omar! Zounds!! Between him and Mrs white Clay today I am befuddled.

  16. The Mowl says:

    Got invited to the private World Tour warm-up gig for that ‘Earthling’ album he did several years back, down at the old Factory studios on Barrow Street. Maybe 400 people present.

    A hand-picked audience of cunts and liggers.

    Wasn’t a Bowie fan beforehand, but man, what a band, what a gig. Gail Anne Dorsey on bass, Reeves Gabrel on guitars, Wix on the boards, and that afro-haired dude who played on ‘Love Shack’ with the B52′s on drums.

    Saw him again in Seinäjoki in 2004 when I played with a band at Provinssi Rock.
    The excellent Gerry Leonard (from Dublin) was leading Bowies band.

    Monster gig, especially the cover of ‘No-one Ever Called Picasso An Asshole’..

  17. peadar says:

    Well I’d say he definitely swings both ways. The wife is gorgeous alright

  18. Holemaster says:

    Fuck. That IS Omar. Fuck, motherfucker. Fucking fuck.

  19. Magoo says:

    The only thing I never understood was why he couldn’t come up with something other than dry to rhyme with dry in Kooks

  20. Twenty Major says:

    hah, never noticed that before, Magoo.

    HM – I suppose we’ve all got to make a living.

  21. Maggot says:

    Greatest album after Cream ” Wheels of Fire ” and Rory Gallagher ” Irish Tour 74 ” – ” The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars”

    Greatest Single ever after Warren Zevon “Werewolves of London ” and Rod/Python Lee Jackson “In a Broken Dream” – “The Laughing Gnome”.

  22. Magoo says:

    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO9JBM1ufA8[/youtube]

  23. Magoo says:

    Bah!

  24. Magoo says:

    We bought a lot of things to keep you warm and dry
    And a funny old crib on which I banged my thigh

  25. Holemaster says:

    Twenty, Do you share the same Birthday as Bowie?

  26. Maggot says:

    Good news for a change

    If there is no presidential veto, the first gay marriage ceremonies could take place in April – a month before Pope Benedict XVI is due on an official visit to Portugal.

    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2010/0108/breaking27.htm

  27. Twenty Major says:

    No, HM. Mine’s much later in the year

  28. Maggot says:

    25th December ?

  29. Ten Park Drive says:

    God ? Gwan ye big poof.

  30. STIPES says:

    On that Omar clip, over 2 and a half million dickheads watched it. Including me!

  31. marc says:

    Bowie takes it up the Gary Glitter

  32. Crantyeyes says:

    Bowie is the best. Xxx

  33. Crantyeyes says:

    Outside is my favourite album of all time

  34. Regret to inform Twenty, but Tom Waits is God.

    Bowie is a disciple.

  35. Hairs says:

    God? hmmm.

    Sacreliciously, I’m one of those that doesn’t gel with his 70′s work. 1.outside is his greatest album, even if he doesn’t like it himself. Earthling is also great. The “comeback” album critically acclaimed after the supposed “mistake” that was earthling? Meh. Big Meh.

  36. Medbh says:

    Bowie is the original Hotness.
    The old man still makes me swoon.

  37. Dave'o says:

    Loved Bowie’s early stuff from being a kid. Went to the’Glass Spider’ tour, what a load of shite.

  38. Dave'o says:

    Oh, and I have a case of Guinness Foreign Extra that I am lashing into me tonight. 24 bottles for 7.99, want some?

  39. itchybollix says:

    Bowie had a thing with thing with Iggy.

    Bowie don’t do it for me I’m afraid. He’s in the Reggae corner hanging out with that other cunt Jonathon Ross.

    Iggy Pop – Funhouse

    god is whoever can hold the 6 counties together this year. god doesn’t exist. But if he does he could be a woman. What if Iris had an epiphany?

    If god is a rock star he is either Neil Young, Lou Reed or Kurt Cobain.

  40. itchybollix says:

    Twenty Major Says:
    January 8th, 2010 at 3:57 pm
    Goddam – is this Omar from The Wire?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyvzfgxY0kc

    True dat!

    Shit. Naive fool that I am it never crossed my mind that those scars on Omar weren’t real…

    2.5 million people listen to that fucking shite R Jelly Cock.

    Omar should bust a cap in his faggot nigga ass!

    Ye feel me?

  41. itchybollix says:
  42. itchybollix says:

    yeah, yeah, yeah…cuntl/alt/delete

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-ia2yS9e3A

  43. Maggot says:

    “Let’s Impeach the president” – Class from N Young!

  44. itchybollix says:

    itchybollix Says:
    January 9th, 2010 at 3:15 am
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LMz2H5xJOY

    fook. it stops with another 5 or 10 to go..

    maggot; that song – let’s impeach the pres- sent fox news and lots of septic tanks mental

    he is a dude in the league of the big lebowski.

  45. itchybollix says:

    ah.

    part 2.

    dunno why they don’t have the whole thing on 1

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yxqx0-Sf2U&feature=related

  46. Maggot says:

    Itchy – the whole album is brilliant.

  47. itchybollix says:

    it is

    and this

    i came into some money in feb last year and went to berlin to see him. he told the same story on this one

    old man- Hey boy, how you able to afford this spread

    NY – I guess i just got lucky….

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWovzUEe4l8

  48. Magoo says:

    Neil Young, Tom Waits, Bowie..there can be more than one rock god, they’re all bloody amazing.
    The ones I don’t get at all are Bob Dylan and Van Morrisson,but each to their own I suppose

  49. Size Ten says:

    £50,000, to ride Mrs Robinson, I’d do it for it,even tho she is a Protestant.
    She tried to end it all by chocking on a Queers Cock, and worst of all the queer is still queer.

  50. Maggot says:

    Iris or Katy Ruane or Babs ? No contest!

  51. itchybollix says:

    one more god for the road ye’s fuckin’ heathens

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcn0f5s-aas

  52. itchybollix says:

    might change your mind on Bob magoo

    from highway 61 revisited

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17Spl4bvQuE

    I thought your ref to young gods was for The Young Gods…fleet fox are kosher – pun for bob

  53. itchybollix says:

    jesus. I forget Bob’s most important creation. Bob Dlyan invented The Hoodie

    http://www.uncut.co.uk/music/bob_dylan/special_features/12251

    “He’s kind of old-school, y’know. His attitude is, you don’t spend a lot of time making records. You don’t do millions of takes. You don’t overdub until the cows come home. You just get the song ready, you go in there, you play it, there it is. If someone makes a mistake, fuck it.”

  54. Magoo says:

    Cheers maggot but, nah, great music, just that buhbuhbuh voice does me head in.
    Love t’other one

  55. Drunk Kitteh says:

    Fuck me, you’re motherfucking 63? I always had you as an angsty 17 year old pseudo intellectual cunt who reads Dostoyevsky novels and considers Michael McDowel et al as “legendary”. Is the hyper-liberal use of the word “cunt” in Irish blogs the best that your legacy can offer?

  56. maggot says:

    He’s 197 kitteh, the Irish Gagool.

  57. idlebones says:

    Saw him at Slane in 1987 when i was 15 on the Glass Spider Tour. Two big arse bottles of Lindle village Cider and Bowie hits all night. Tried to swim home to Drogheda afterward, a feat up there with the best of my stupid nights. Oh, how we laughed as they pulled us out of the Boyne…Who backed him up that night? I keep mixing it up with Queen the year before?

  58. Kitteh says:

    So… *still* no new blog posts? It must be a great life, not having a real job.

  59. Conan Drumm says:

    Twenty, he’s one of the new UK post stamps (classic albums). Look it up on the Royal Mail site.

  60. Magnet says:

    Happy birthday you old goat(capricorn)! I hope you “put on your red shoes and danced the blues.”

  61. Yippee says:

    Bowie is the best ever, and I’ve been a fan since I was a kid.
    I’ll never forget the first time I saw him on the telly, I thought he looked like Frankenstein, with the big boots, tight trousers, make-up, and mad head on him!
    May he live forever!

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