Now that he has passed, I do hear his music being used often like in movies (see the end of Jo Jo Rabbit which uses "Heroes" in German). I don't remember his music being used when he was vital for ads but I'm not sure who is in charge of his estate now but they have opened the flood gates.

On this date 2 years ago, Jimbo and I attended the Bowie Exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum. Talk about one of the coolest things ever!

Awesome.

Agreed. One can argue about the purity of the art and the commerce (ever since Clapton's After Midnight). And Walmart - yeah its a corporation - so by definition it sucks - and sucks more than others. But this does not bother me - it definitely shocked me and I was wondering why/how/who signed off on it. However it is appropriate, and can be extended to every low wage earner at every grocery store etc that reports to work. It is thankless "wtf you mean there is no Purell!?!?" It is hard. It is dangerous.
Just behind the Health Care Professionals and First Responders,, these individuals (and the truckers!!) need our support, respect and admiration. They show up.
We have had two Walmart workers pass away in one store in the Chicago suburbs. I have a Walmart close to my house, which I have been going to more recently, as it is close, and has had more items than other locations.
So yeah, in retrospect, I find this to be THE BEST appropriation of a classic song in any commercial (and the hell with it, it works as a PSA to remember who is truly holding up the "thin veil" that is "Civilization" (Paraphrased of "“Civilization is a thin veil over our savage selves..." - ― Lilo Abernathy...and many other throughout the years).

Crassness anyone?

Doesn't have much to do with Bowie, but I have a ton of appreciation & respect for both medical professionals & grocery clerks right now; putting their lives in danger to help others.

Great photo of Bowie.

Back when New Years was a lot of fun!

David Jones

I guess this means we'll be getting another round of remasters and box sets...

David Bowie's entire catalog is going to Warner Music...

https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/ ... from-2023/

will that be three of four times the catalog will be re-issued?

but, only the ryko's had the bonus tracks.....

I guess the muse is gone.

If Bowie had lived, I'm sure he would have stuck a new deal at some point.

It's a business -- no one is forced to buy these remasters, box sets, whatever.

correct.

i've had the rykos since they came out and will never give them up.

i only regret that i did not all 8 AU20 gold rykos, i only have the 'ziggy' in gold.

The Rykos have a lot of room for improvement. Expect superdeluxed sets for each album, hopefully without forced vinyl.

I heart Ryko.

In my current marriage stressing digitization project (44.34%-ish completed), I addressed the Bowie section - some 72 titles (125 discs). One of the few artists I maintain most of the versions I pick up. Boy, he turned out to be one of the more difficult to address all the Genre tags! Too damn eclectic for this project.
And I thought the Dead - with converting all the individual tracks into ranges was going to be the PITA (well it is).
I try to include my wife, trying to encourage her to do a youtube channel of "EAC ripping with ADD", but not going anywhere. I must settle for her progressively angry announcement of "BEEP" when an extraction completes.

BUT - was there not a mention of a new box set coming for the 90's? Hope that sees fruition before the new slew of remasters...

There was a recent 5 live album 90's box. Each album was sold separately (as was the empty box!), in limited editions. People who bought them seem to be very unhappy with the marketing & poor fill. Music & sq seems acceptable.

may i ask why you say that?

All the albums have so much (officially) unreleased material from their respective sessions, they all deserve superdeluxed multi-disc sets.

And that's not even addressing the issue of surround mixes, which Warner/Rhino has been inconsistent about but certainly are needed for David Bowie.

And the Ryko's were some of the first ultrabright cd's. Weird that it was only Bowie. Their Richard & Linda Thompson's & Frank Zappas sound acceptable; but I've always found their Bowie's to be shrieky

As a long time hard core Bowie collector; I'd say that at least 90% of the RCA era rarities have been released in some form or the other.

We're still missing (official) a few Arnold Corns tracks,the Midnight Special, The BBC material that wasn't on the set from 10 years ago or so (Mainly the Dana Gillespie session), some Scary Monsters alts & some Stage era shows afaik..

The sound of the Rykos is very brittle. I only keep them for the bonus tracks.

As something of a Bowie novice, last year I started with the "Five Years" box and have gradually worked me way through all four boxes. My biggest complaint is the books in each box--I'm at a point in life where it has become painful to attempt to read print that small.