VB Gonna Be A DJ: Vic's Bowie Mix
🕑 Added 2022-10-03 15:00:06 +0000 UTCI saw the David Bowie Moonage Daydream doc in iMax last week. Enjoyed much of what's in it, had some MAJOR issues with it but, ultimately, I'm happy it got me back into listening to David Bowie.
I hadn't been on a Bowie binge since college twenty years ago. Been hearing his albums in a different light now as an old man (40). He's just such a cool and complicated artist. Imagine going out in the world and miming for people who paid to see your rock show!
Anyway, I love Bowie and I hope you do, too. Here's a mix of my current faves.
Vic IV
Comments
Miranda Thiessen
Just getting to this Vic-thanks for making this for us, had a real fun (canadian) thanksgiving Monday morning!!
Brittany
Thank you VB!!! It’s GOOD.
Brendan Livingston
Great Mix Vix!
Ross Phillips
fuggin great mix, VB
Joshua Lickteig
Also saw this at Cinema21! Enjoyed for the most part, and feel that the way footage was used across time, to relate different ages or ideas, was sometimes effective. Some sequences are quite bombastic and perhaps the sound could be mixed differently toward an improvement. Nice to see a bit of clandestine footage I'd not encountered, particularly some of the travels and theatre and art work.
Jim D.
Thank you Vic
Tim Claridge
So good. Need a track list
Vic Berger IV
I agree. If it comes up on the show, I'll bring out my notes to talk about it. It felt like a commercial without a narrative. The dude who had SEVEN YEARS to make it said his main influences are Led Zeppelin laser light shows and Disneyland...
Kevin S.
You mean B’owl.
Kevin S.
Saw this documentary with some friends in the theatre (Shout out to Cinema21 !). I found it transformative. It hit me at a level beyond emotion and I was genuinely shocked at how much it reinvigorated my artistic urges. I was never a Bowie fanatic but this auditory/visual collage of a document woke up a dormant creative spark that I am very thankful to have been gifted. Plus the post-credit moment was a joy that felt personal and individual.
Kim Sanch
Will check this out! I saw MD in the theatre too and it was a great way to see the visuals and music. I loved seeing footage I’ve never seen before. I added the “Ricochet” documentary on my YouTube playlist.
Luis Trujillo
May we get the track list please?
Marit Haringa
I actually kinda hated it. Made Bowie seem like a hugely pretentious prick. But I'm not a big bowie guy so maybe he actually is a hugely pretentious prick and I just didn't know it before. The animations (especially the 'space' ones) were also clunky as hell. I couldn't hold it in when the CGI skeleton started spiraling into space! The film feels like a feature length version of one of those millions-of-views youtube clips of 'bowie on art' or whatever, with some concert footage and awkward animations sprinkled in.
colindpratt
have to say i love VB's mix jingle, an awesome bit of songwriting itself ☮️💟
Toby Poole
Great choices, Vic! I’m a huge Bowie fan. I love it all. The great, good, weird, and bad. This is a very solid mix I will return to!
Magic
I read the headline too fast and thought it said "Vic's Brownie mix" slightly let down this isn't a brownie recipe
Brandon Dawley
Oh, I get it. MAJOR issues. Funny, Vic.
BITKORN
Bowie hole anyone?
Cooper Mulholland
Thank you vic! Also; did we ever get a final episode of the Joel Hole?
Kyle
same
Michael Reynolds
So good
Trisha S
Would love to hear your issues
Eugene
Nice
Douggpound
I want to know about when he went out into the world and mimed.
Sam
Need to know your issues because I’ve gotten bad vibes from the trailer and have been putting off seeing it.
Cameron Kaercher
40?! You don’t look a day over 38 Vic
Raider Villalobos
Care to share your issues with it?
Rhoades
Thanks VB!