Bowie
I love David Bowie. I love him so much. I'm 20 years old so my first encounter with Bowie was in the film Labyrinth. At that moment (about 14 years ago) I fell in love.

Even if you don't like his music you cannot deny that the stuff he wrote is seminal, thus deserving a good degree of respect.

So when discussing music with an 18 year old punk lover it nearly broke my heart to hear him say that Bowie's music is just 'spaceman shit'.
Oh. My. Science.
Bowie may as well have invented punk, you little ignorant shit head! If it weren't for Bowie there might not BE punk as we know it!

Also, I hate spitting. If you're gonna do it, please do it discreetly! Don't do a massive loud hock-up and fire your yellow blacmange at my feet just as I'm walking past you, you filthy filth-monger. YUCK!
(saf, Tue 6 May 2008, 14:57, 3 replies)

2 Peeves in 1
Footballers Spitting - arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh it is grim.

And yay for Bowie - although you have to admit Earthling was less than special ;-)
(Biff..., Tue 6 May 2008, 17:03, closed)

I am listening to Bowie now!
a Woo and a YAY
(biggiantmat, Tue 6 May 2008, 21:01, closed)

"David Bowie may as well have invented punk"
That's given me the biggest laugh I've had in ages! What complete drivel!

The only possible reasons I can think of for you saying that are that various Pistols etc have said they liked Bowie, and the 'silly hair dye' aspect of commercial punk may have subconsciously come from DB's silly dyed hair.

Musically you're MILES off course. The MC5 and the Stooges - as well as the 60s punk rock from which the name actually comes (the real roots of punk) do not sound one single bit like the weedy, girly soft rock of Bowie. He started out as a third-rate Syd Barrett parodist ('The Laughing Gnome?' - God help us), sapped all the 'punk' out of Iggy Pop and then ended up churning out pissy white soul.

Bowie has never been an innovator in music - fashion, I'll grant you - and the idea of him 'inventing punk' is laughable: he was about 10 when it kicked off in the US....
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 7 May 2008, 13:32, closed)