Episodes
Friday Nov 30, 2018
Glastonbury 2000: Unboxing Our Way to Greatness
Friday Nov 30, 2018
Friday Nov 30, 2018
The Bowie camp releases yet another archival live album in 2018 and it includes a video too! Curious about its contents? Wondering what's within? Inquisitive about its innards? Charlie's got you covered with another sweet, succulent unboxing video. Take a look.
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Unboxing the Alien
Saturday Oct 13, 2018
Saturday Oct 13, 2018
I'm Charlie and I like Bowie.
In fact, I like Bowie so much that my son and I made an unboxing video about the big, fat, 80s-centric Loving the Alien boxset that just came out. You can thank me later.
Read the rest of this entry »Tuesday Oct 02, 2018
Glastonbury 2000: Holy Crap, Bowie Has a Lot of Live Albums
Tuesday Oct 02, 2018
Tuesday Oct 02, 2018
I’m Charlie and I like Bowie.
In an unexpected move, Parlophone has announced that November 30 will see a new previously unreleased Bowie live album: Glastonbury 2000. This is especially surprising as it marks the third new archival live album from the Bowie camp in 2018 alone, the second not even coming out until next week.
This felt like a solid opportunity to take a quick snapshot view of Bowie’s various live releases, the majority of which have come out in the last 15 years… after Bowie had already finished his final tour.
Read the rest of this entry »Monday Jul 23, 2018
Loving the Alien: How Wrong Charlie Was
Monday Jul 23, 2018
Monday Jul 23, 2018
I'm Charlie and I like David Bowie.
A few weeks ago, I made some low energy predictions about what would show up in the next Bowie box set, these type of predictions becoming something of a cottage industry amongst Bowie fans on message boards across this great web. Then, last week, they actually announced it for real. So, what's in it? And why does it matter? And most importantly, how did I do?
Friday Jul 06, 2018
Welcome to the Blackout: What's the Point?
Friday Jul 06, 2018
Friday Jul 06, 2018
I'm Charlie and I like Bowie.
Last week, Welcome to the Blackout (Live London '78), a previously unreleased archival Bowie live album, came out on CD and digital (vinyl was for Record Store Day) to the delight of Bowie experts, collectors, die-hards, completists, and hard-core acolytes. But what about the more casual fan? Is there any reason to buy a 1978 live album when another one already exists? Especially when said live album has been around since, well, 1978?
Monday Jun 18, 2018
Dancing with the Big Boys: One Fan's Idle Speculations
Monday Jun 18, 2018
Monday Jun 18, 2018
I’m Charlie and I like Bowie.
For the last three consecutive years, Parlophone has released a big fat archival Bowie box set in September. The sets have been announced in late June or July. This leads a large number of Bowie fans at this time of year to make ill-informed, hastily constructed speculations as to what the next set will contain. Who am I to do any different?
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