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Let the children use it

Lovecraft In Brooklyn — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:47:34 -0800

The long-lost David Bowie album Toy has leaked online.

By: Lovecraft In Brooklyn

Lovecraft In Brooklyn — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:47:40 -0800

(I'm not directly linking to the leak because of legality, and I don't want to link to something that will soon be taken down).

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:50:12 -0800

By: Blazecock Pileon

Blazecock Pileon — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:52:17 -0800

Toys Toys Toys keep leaking Toys always get online They'll never clone ya You're always first on the web When you're a toy

By: stinkycheese

stinkycheese — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:59:13 -0800

Could someone link it? Pretty please?

By: hafehd

hafehd — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 18:02:23 -0800

Any one of my friends would tell you I'm obsessed with Bowie - but only his work up until 1980. BUT, if this has "In the Heat of the Morning" I'm all fucking over it. The version on BBC sessions is so great.

By: cavalier

cavalier — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 18:02:48 -0800

http://www.google.com/search?q=BOWIE+TOY+TORRENT

By: Aquaman

Aquaman — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 18:05:21 -0800

The last two studio albums with Tony Visconti have been GREAT, for those of you who have strayed over the years. Toy has earlier versions of a lot of material from these new albums.

By: Lovecraft In Brooklyn

Lovecraft In Brooklyn — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 18:06:41 -0800

i still need to play that adventure game he starred in. Omikron: Nomad Soul

By: kimdog

kimdog — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 18:08:54 -0800

Bowie has declined comment about the leak. I wouldn't be surprised to find that he leaked it himself. I'm looking forward to having a listen. I liked the Heathen album which featured two re-worked tracks from Toy- Slip Away (Uncle Floyd) and Afraid. Still, I would love for Mr. B to release some brand new material and play some more shows.

By: Joey Michaels

Joey Michaels — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 18:10:59 -0800

The last two studio albums with Tony Visconti have been GREAT, for those of you who have strayed over the years. Seconding this. Both Heathen and Reality are first rate albums and deserve a listen if you haven't given them one. And who could blame you for not giving them a listen after Tonight?

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 18:14:56 -0800

i still need to play that adventure game he starred in. Omikron: Nomad Soul My very first FIRST like paid art job was winning a fan-art contest to do a poster for that. I did it just cause I was a huge teenage Bowie-nerd and he made a whole new song for it. and he's not in it, right? It was like a pre WOW MMOPG right?

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 18:17:04 -0800

Nope it was an adventure game and he has two appearances in it.

By: jtron

jtron — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 18:18:33 -0800

I have 3 different RAR files on their way to me. All say they are "Toy" by David Bowie, and all three have different filesizes. Due to encoding rates or malware? Let's find out!

By: Sticherbeast

Sticherbeast — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 18:18:50 -0800

1.Outside was another terrific post-1980 Bowie album.

By: Felex

Felex — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 18:23:10 -0800

I feel this could be amazing or awful, only 10 min more and we will find out.

By: Decani

Decani — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 18:27:54 -0800

I need to hear this, because Heathen was a fucking magnificent album and a total return to form.

By: VikingSword

VikingSword — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 18:43:43 -0800

Well that almost 90 second intro to Uncle Floyd (first track) is certainly pretty crazy - shades of laughing gnome crazy.

By: jtron

jtron — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 18:45:31 -0800

Laughing Gnome crazy? Well in that case I'll listen to it now! I love that song

By: jtron

jtron — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 18:49:17 -0800

By the way, the best of the albums I found online was 256 kbit and 110 MB with 14 tracks. The other two I found were 58.6 MB (12 tracks) and 42.6 MB (15 tracks). Straight to the trash.

By: Joey Michaels

Joey Michaels — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 18:53:09 -0800

1.Outside was another terrific post-1980 Bowie album. And, you know, there were some great songs on Earthling and Hours, too. Case in point.

By: VikingSword

VikingSword — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 19:03:17 -0800

And, you know, there were some great songs on Earthling and Hours, too. Not to mention most of Black Tie White Noise. This whole "Bowie was only good up to X" is malarkey. The only album of his that I don't listen to is Never Let Me Down. Even Tonight has some good stuff.

By: hippybear

hippybear — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 19:29:47 -0800

The only album of his that I don't listen to is Never Let Me Down. You know, I love Bowie, but damn if that album isn't frustrating. And why oh why is Glass Spider the only tour of his I've ever seen???!?! *weeps in the darkness, gnashing of teeth*

By: buzzman

buzzman — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 19:53:49 -0800

You can't spell grar without rar.

By: hippybear

hippybear — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 19:56:05 -0800

My dropbox is absorbing this as a zip right now. If you want and don't want to bother finding it other ways, memail me.

By: geoff.

geoff. — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 20:10:14 -0800

Why isn't this showing up on private trackers? (I consider Low to be the best album of the 70s and if you think about it really hard I think you'd be hard pressed to disagree).

By: cmyk

cmyk — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 20:16:56 -0800

Squee! Plotz! Other happy sound effects! Now will someone tell me to which damn elder god I have to sacrifice my firstborn in order to get Bowie touring again?

By: Joey Michaels

Joey Michaels — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 20:18:21 -0800

The only album of his that I don't listen to is Never Let Me Down. All right, I offer you "Time Will Crawl" and "Never Let Me Down" as evidence that that album wasn't a total wash-out either, though the production is dated and dreadful, the songs are really rather good. And, as for Tonight, the production harmed it, but damn "Loving The Alien" is gorgeous when stripped down (and wasn't half bad when it was originally released despite some of the excesses).

By: Joey Michaels

Joey Michaels — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 20:26:30 -0800

For what its worth, I'm on record as defending Bowie's 80's output, though I still haven't forgiven him for his cover of "Dancing In The Streets")

By: One Second Before Awakening

One Second Before Awakening — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 20:36:41 -0800

This is really, really cool, but if I had to choose one unreleased Bowie album to leak it'd definitely be 2. Contamination. Lately I've gotten really really into 1. Outside and it's become one of my favorite Bowie albums. I heard Contamination was fully recorded but hadn't been edited or mastered. I would love to at least hear the raw sessions for that one!

By: VikingSword

VikingSword — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 20:39:50 -0800

Yes, Joey, after all, I did link to Loving the Alien above :). But while I hear you on Never Let Me Down, it's just not very good - production is only part of it (an argument Bowie himself makes, blaming it all on production). As a massive Bowie fanatic, I'm stretching to the breaking point and beyond, but even I cannot defend NLMD - it's a nadir and it pains me to say so. I mean, short of going to insane lengths, I cannot find anything that's better than utter mediocrity (insane lengths: I like the way he sings these couple of lines "Gone, gone the water's all gone. Mummy come back 'cause the water's all gone." - there, the only passable thing from the entire wretched album).

By: egypturnash

egypturnash — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 21:26:46 -0800

Googling "bowie toy rapidshare" works a lot better for me, these days I find any attempt to google 'foo bar torrent' turns up a fuckton of sites that claim to have five different links to "plausible filename for exactly what you searched for.torrent" behind a registration wall. I like Never Let Me Down but then again I can't listen to most of his pre-eighties work; really the stuff I like is what he started doing after being influenced by the industrial acts who were inspired by him.

By: Devils Rancher

Devils Rancher — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 21:28:49 -0800

The word I use to describe Bowie is Chameleon. I mean, Looking for Satellites is the same guy who wrote Aladdin Sane? Is the same guy as Joe the Lion? Is the same guy as (I'll cop to loving it) Under the God? Amlapura? What an amazing career. I excited about this.

By: Devils Rancher

Devils Rancher — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 21:30:50 -0800

I'm so excited that I can't type!

By: Sys Rq

Sys Rq — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 22:14:48 -0800

Some of the tracks emerged on his 2002 comeback album Heathen or as b-sides. "Comeback album"? Two and a half years after his previous album?

By: LarryC

LarryC — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 22:40:40 -0800

Hey a Bowie fanboy thread! Sign me up, the man is a genius, though I am a fan who fell away somewhere in the last decade. I did just buy Heathen on the recommendations here and am loving it so far. What do I buy next?

By: hippybear

hippybear — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 22:46:52 -0800

What do I buy next? All of it that you don't already have? I enjoy Reality quite a bit... and 1. Outside is pretty great. I'm still sad that he never followed through on the concept behind that.

By: Sys Rq

Sys Rq — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 22:59:18 -0800

What do I buy next? Basquiat!

By: PeterMcDermott

PeterMcDermott — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 23:35:15 -0800

Hole in the Ground: is this a cover of Bernard Cribbins classic or what?

By: arcticseal

arcticseal — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 23:41:48 -0800

I'm with Joey. The man is a God, he's allowed to have clay feet (Dancing in the Streets), the the rest of his output has me in the clouds.

By: PeterMcDermott

PeterMcDermott — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 23:48:24 -0800

Ah, apparently not. I'd hoped he might have been reprising his novelty-song-singing, Anthony Newley-imitating roots.

By: artof.mulata

artof.mulata — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 01:46:32 -0800

The final track, The London Boys, is a Marc Almond cover. I LOVE MARC ALMOND. It's really nice to hear Mister Bowie giving Marc a moment.

By: cincinnatus c

cincinnatus c — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 03:14:23 -0800

Eh, you do realise that the Marc Almond song is a cover of an old David Bowie song, which he remade for Toy?

By: Sys Rq

Sys Rq — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 03:21:59 -0800

He also does a great cover of that Nirvana song!

By: Sys Rq

Sys Rq — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 03:24:07 -0800

And he knows some Bauhaus, too!

By: sgt.serenity

sgt.serenity — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 04:56:49 -0800

A SLOW, BLOATED "IN THE HEAT OF THE MORNING" WITH NO HAMMOND ORGAN ????????????? We need an intervention here to surgically remove bowie from his terrible, bloody awful collaborators.

By: Halloween Jack

Halloween Jack — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 08:13:30 -0800

At first, when I read the track list, I was kind of skeptical--I used to have recordings of the earlier songs that he remade, but mostly only out of curiosity--but I have to admit that there have been Bowie songs that I didn't like in the original version, but appreciated in remakes or live performances. For example, I never liked The Man Who Sold The World, even though I loved the albums before and after it, but after I got the Bowie at the Beeb three-disc, I really loved the acoustic version of "The Supermen" and the live version of "The Man Who Sold The World" (it was from the third disc, which has songs taken from a 2000 performance, and I think that it's influenced by Nirvana's cover on Unplugged). Similarly, I liked "Let's Dance" from the 2000 show in a way that I never liked the original; the first part of the song is done in this sort of slow, dreamy, lounge-y style, and then Bowie breaks into the faster, stomping style of the original, and it just works better that way. (Bowie pulls a similar trick on "What In the World" in Stage, where the first half is done in a bouncy reggae style and then it speeds up for the rest; even though I quite like the original, I prefer the live version.) My current candidate for a Bowie song remake would be "Red Sails", from another album that I never cared for, Lodger (again, kind of peculiar because "Heroes" and Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) are about my first and second favorite Bowie albums). It's not that I can't listen to the original, but there's just this huge, epic song in there that needs to be let out.

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 08:19:17 -0800

Favorite Bowie song no one else likes: Five Years

By: hippybear

hippybear — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 08:22:07 -0800

Favorite Bowie song no one else likes: Five Years Oh, you're not the only one who likes it. I'm particularly fond of this cover (by one of my favorite bands).

By: Jilder

Jilder — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 08:28:17 -0800

I LIKED EARTHLING. THERE. I SAID IT.

By: Devils Rancher

Devils Rancher — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 08:28:37 -0800

from another album that I never cared for, Lodger... Lodger simply isn't mixed too well, and that gets in the way of my enjoyment, but it's got some great songs on it. Though Repetition makes me want to claw my ears off (that's probably the point, but still...)

By: Devils Rancher

Devils Rancher — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 08:31:33 -0800

I LIKED EARTHLING. THERE. I SAID IT. *raises hand* Again, production-wise, there's some problems. It's awfully "keep up with the Jonses and their new-fangled DAW stylings" but there's some gems in there. Looking for Satellites, Seven Years in Tibet, I'm Afraid of Americans -- all great stuff.

By: perilous

perilous — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 08:52:51 -0800

Thank you!

By: jtron

jtron — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 09:05:45 -0800

I like "Five Years" bunches, like most tall short people, and had no idea it was disliked. Like, at all.

By: kryptondog

kryptondog — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 09:38:56 -0800

*gasp* Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Holy shit I'm jumping up and down!!!!! Thank you so much for the heads-up about this. This album leaking has literally been a dream of mine since I first heard Heathen. This seriously just made my day. Good god I can barely think straight. Downloading now. I don't even think I'm going to eat lunch today, I'm just going to sit in my car during my break, drink some coffee, smoke a cigarette or two, and absorb. I've heard a handful of songs on the album; several (apparent) Toy outtakes also surfaced as various Heathen-era b-sides. If you can find them, Solid Jackson and When The Boys Come Marching Home are both incredible. I've heard the reworking of Conversation Piece and Shadow Man; both are excellent. My understanding is that Slip Away (née Uncle Floyd) and Afraid are slightly different versions on Toy. Can't wait to hear them. Another somewhat rare collaboration from around this time: Safe I'm really glad to see so many mefites defending Bowie's latter-day material. I love pretty much everything in his catalog. Certainly, I'd usually rather listen to Scary Monsters than Tin Machine II, but there's plenty of substantial gems (e.g. Baby Universal) to keep you interested. Oddly enough, I usually find myself listening to Bowie's 90's/00's albums these days. Earthling and Outside are both excellent albums in my opinion, and I never understood why they were so maligned. Songs like Thru These Architects' Eyes and Seven Years In Tibet are classic Bowie to me, or at least as close to classic Bowie that you could hope to get at their time of release. And I've always found Hours to be a very strong record as well. The Dreamers, What's Really Happening, Thursday's Child... so good. But Heathen, though... I consider Heathen to be among my favorite Bowie albums (alongside Scary Monsters and Station to Station). A perfect summation of Bowie's strengths, in my opinion. I really love it. And that's why I'm freaking out so badly at the moment over getting a chance to hear the album that served as Heathen's genesis. Sorry for any rambling and/or grammatical errors. Too much non-work time has already been spent on this. Ah, well. Download just finished. I'm seriously on cloud nine right now. Bowie's my absolute hero and my all-time favorite musician. This is incredible.

By: Maaik

Maaik — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 09:42:35 -0800

Same here on "Five Years." Kicks off that album perfectly. I remember catching the premier of "Heart's Filthy Lesson" on 120 Minutes back in the day and bolting out to get Outside. I still really like that album. And yeah, Heathen was really good. Never listened to the one after that, but I guess I should. I downloaded...something calling itself Toy last night. haven't managed to listened to it yet.

By: Halloween Jack

Halloween Jack — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 10:56:27 -0800

In terms of latter-day Bowie, I'd have to say that Black Tie White Noise is still my favorite, which is kind of peculiar because I really didn't like the previous Bowie-Rodgers collaboration, Let's Dance, overall (although, as previously noted, I liked the reworked version of the title cut from Bowie at the Beeb; I also prefer the original Giorgio Moroder-produced version of "Cat People (Putting Out Fire)" (and was really happy when Quentin Tarantino used that version in Inglourious Basterds), and I guess I liked "China Girl" OK, but it always seemed like Bowie was consciously imitating Iggy Pop's version). I also like "I'm Afraid of Americans", again a song that I first heard on Bowie at the Beeb. And speaking of latter-day Bowie, how weird is it that Paul Verhoeven used Bowie songs in two subsequent films? An alternate version of "I'm Afraid of Americans" was in Showgirls and an altered cover of "I Have Not Been To Oxford Town" is in Starship Troopers.

By: defenestration

defenestration — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 12:39:14 -0800

Yeah, "Five Years" rules. Had no clue it wasn't liked.

By: rebel_rebel

rebel_rebel — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 13:25:51 -0800

This is awesome! (Well, in theory... I'm still in the process of downloading it...) Count me in w/ those who are hoping for Bowie to do some new material or tour again. As a superfan who was born a couple decades too late, I'm starting to worry I'll never get the chance to see him live.

By: Joey Michaels

Joey Michaels — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 13:54:16 -0800

"Five Years" is the shit, man. love it.

By: anazgnos

anazgnos — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 14:04:38 -0800

The claim that the opening track on his one of Bowie's most popular and generally-well-regarded albums is some kind of underdog track is odd. I'll go waaaay out on a limb and admit that I like some popular, critically beloved music as well.

By: anazgnos

anazgnos — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 14:05:42 -0800

~~his~~

By: shelleycat

shelleycat — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 20:23:19 -0800

Let Me Sleep Beside You is one of the best creepy-old-man-songs ever. This version did not disappoint me.

By: anazgnos

anazgnos — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 06:58:31 -0800

By the way, the best of the albums I found online was 256 kbit and 110 MB with 14 tracks. The other two I found were 58.6 MB (12 tracks) and 42.6 MB (15 tracks). Straight to the trash. The 256/k rip seems to be transcoded from a lower-bitrate source. There's probably no difference in quality between the different file sizes as they all seem to come from the same low-quality source.

By: suedehead

suedehead — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 10:47:42 -0800

ahem. Uncle Floyd Afraid Baby Loves That Way I Dig Everything Conversation Piece Let Me Sleep Beside You Toy (Your Turn To Drive) Hole In The Ground Shadow Man In The Heat Of The Morning You've Got A Habit Of Leaving Silly Boy Blue Liza Jane The London Boys

By: anazgnos

anazgnos — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 11:00:00 -0800

The Uncle Floyd Show