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Old 01-11-2016, 07:29 AM   #35 (permalink)
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Listened to the whole album again.
Most emotional and heartbreaking musical and lyrical experience I ever had.
∞/5
I think it's just hit me how incredible the whole undertaking is in this context.

Bowie laid bare his battle with cancer and his proximity to death right under our noses without our realisation, and consequently, the album becomes a chilling and triumphant obituary that seals a legacy forever. Watching the videos back for Lazarus and Blackstar now is so strange and dark, but so emotive at the same time.
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The overuse of babe/baby, the lack of any sort of discernible originality, the melodrama and the general sense of an especially heinous sort of hardcore vapid stupidity all make me want to jab my eyes out with a drill-press and then hang myself from the CN Tower with an electrified rope that sends shocks in excess of 10,000 volts through my body as I slowly die. While listening to Dream Theater.
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