Thinking I'll take a few days and then do an in memoriam post --- talk a bit about the music in-depth a bit. Sometimes I think the theatrics overshadowed his genuinely brilliant musical sensibilities, which is a shame --- and I love the theatrics, but for some they serve as a distraction (I think).

Shit, we could probably do a dedicated album-by-album string of posts and really dive deep...

Anyhow, I will say that the album I perhaps return to the most is Station to Station --- not always even sure why. That run of albums leading up to the Berlin trilogy has this energy that always threatens to run off the rails it's so damn frenetic, but it never does... like you are peering into some otherworld of music-making.

-thebigfunk

~ i could still snort you under the table ~