Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids

[datasuspect]

in fact, it's cold as hell.

[GCP]

1. And there's no-one there to raise them

If you did.

[mitchum]

2. But it is a great place to sing about...

take it away Dave
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v--IqqusnNQ

[GCP]

4. Do you think he could become a huge rock icon

In the U.S. nowadays?

[mitchum]

6. No, because "rock" doesn't carry the same significance as it did then...

while the early 70s Bowie certainly heralded a return to "show biz", he and his audience were also still under the influence of "Dylan significance" Bowie combined the entertainer and the artiste. And he was so good at it. His body of work (and the work he did for others) just between 1970 and 1980 is astonishing.

Today, the world really does just have time for entertainers. I imagine Bowie would tell you the same.

[GCP]

7. Well, I was thinking of the right-ward tilt of the country

The fact that he *gasp* wore make-up and was bisexual would turn a big percentage of the country against him IMHO.

[mitchum]

11. Bowie himself embraced that rightward tilt in the 80s...

he is on record as saying that whole Dave the yellow-haired hetero big money entertainer shtick was an acknowledgment of the Reagan zeitgeist. Apparently, booze really does skew one's perspective.

[datasuspect]

14. bowie at one time or another embraced everything from crowley to cheap 80s synth trash pop

i remember seeing the glass spider tour

[datasuspect]

13. that is one of his most beautiful songs

i used to have the first RCA release of Hunky Dory and every subsquent rerelease without lyric sheets.

i had every david bowie album on vinyl at one time.

[mitchum]

16. I spent my teen years listening to Hunky Dory in my sleep

I had all of the stuff on vinyl, but I also had an 8track of Hunky Dory which I would put on every night. And it played continously all night. Every night. That may be why it's my favorite Bowie record (and that should be a tough call)

[BlueJazz]

3. ...and all this science, I don't understand..

[Forkboy]

5. Mars gets a bad rap.

I want to move there, toot sweet!

[Bucky]

9. Actually it's more a ballad

I can't even imagine a rap version of that song.

[Forkboy]

15. Where's an online rimshot when we need it?

:)

[RagAss]

8. I Wanna Go to the Sun

[underpants]

10. This make me very, very angry

[underpants]

12. " .. and the New York Times said God is dead and the war's begun"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5AwKFZb8bc