Comments on: Year Zero Review http://blog.rowancrane.com/2007/05/30/year-zero-review Rowan Crane's Blog Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:27:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: you http://blog.rowancrane.com/2007/05/30/year-zero-review/comment-page-1#comment-5835 you Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:34:19 +0000 http://blog.rowancrane.com/2007/05/30/year-zero-review/#comment-5835 Thanks Brenda :) I've got a Bowie Singles collection, Ziggy Stardust and of course "I'm afraid of Americans" but don't think I've listened to the whole of Diamond Dogs and wasn't aware of Outside at all. I'll have to pick both of those up and have a listen. Thanks for the recommendations, it is good to know people are dropping by at random and not finding the old writing style too laborious ;) Thanks Brenda :) I’ve got a Bowie Singles collection, Ziggy Stardust and of course “I’m afraid of Americans” but don’t think I’ve listened to the whole of Diamond Dogs and wasn’t aware of Outside at all. I’ll have to pick both of those up and have a listen. Thanks for the recommendations, it is good to know people are dropping by at random and not finding the old writing style too laborious ;)

]]> By: Brenda http://blog.rowancrane.com/2007/05/30/year-zero-review/comment-page-1#comment-5827 Brenda Thu, 27 Mar 2008 06:32:43 +0000 http://blog.rowancrane.com/2007/05/30/year-zero-review/#comment-5827 Rowan you write in a most excellent fashion and have really gotten to the heart of this collection from Trent - very nice synapsis. If you enjoyed this, you might want to go wayyyy back in time and visit David Bowie's Diamond Dogs album - he appropriated the 1984 theme for the entire album and built a collection of songs around this, and even tried to buy the rights to the book from Orwell's widow (she said no). It's more generalized than Trent's offering but Bowie has always been into sophisticated lyrics and heavy symbolism and is witty and nihilistic all at the same time. A complete cynic. Another offering from Bowie much more recently is another album he did, Outside, which is a collection of songs that tells the story of a murderer from the viewpiont of several characters inside the story, and surprise surprise, Reznor was actively involved with Bowie for the production and tour of Outside and they remain good buddies according to the gossip machine. Rowan you write in a most excellent fashion and have really gotten to the heart of this collection from Trent - very nice synapsis.

If you enjoyed this, you might want to go wayyyy back in time and visit David Bowie’s Diamond Dogs album - he appropriated the 1984 theme for the entire album and built a collection of songs around this, and even tried to buy the rights to the book from Orwell’s widow (she said no). It’s more generalized than Trent’s offering but Bowie has always been into sophisticated lyrics and heavy symbolism and is witty and nihilistic all at the same time. A complete cynic. Another offering from Bowie much more recently is another album he did, Outside, which is a collection of songs that tells the story of a murderer from the viewpiont of several characters inside the story, and surprise surprise, Reznor was actively involved with Bowie for the production and tour of Outside and they remain good buddies according to the gossip machine.

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