It was an easy call for us, the Mountain Goats John Darnielle tells EW.
Bowie was somebody who, in my peer group growing up, was a big, big deal.
We did theRolling Stones one.
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Theyre these great celebrations of music that help music in the schools in New York City.
Its a fun time.
it’s possible for you to present it in a number of different ways.
you’re free to do a lot of stuff with it.
Last time I was at Carnegie I got to play the Steinway [piano].
All other things were talking about aside, Steinway at Carnegie Hall is just incredible, right?
It had The Laughing Gnome on it.
Its a novelty single from the mid-60s.
I was a kid and I liked that.
I checked outStation to Station its an interesting record for an 11-year-old to try and parse.
Everybody had an opinion about David Bowie.
Everybody I knew was into David Bowie to some extent.
Hes not a person, you dont know him.
It doesnt mean you have to be satisfied with having gotten someplace.
It doesnt mean you have to stop risking the possibility of falling down flat.
For me and my cohort, Lets Dance which was ahuge record we all hated it!
Bowie belongs to us.
He was weirdo music and then became less interested in being that persona.
For many of us it was like, No, no, wait, he belongs to the freaks.
Thats a powerful thing to tell people and to tell performers.
Our argument was Whos better, Lou Reed or David Bowie?
I was the Lou Reed partisan back then.
My friends were Bowie fiends.
We all liked both artists, we would just sit around bickering about which ones greater.
The one he didnt remember making.
Recording an album is a journey, an experience.
People deploy that like a punchline Oh yeah, he was so high he didnt remember it!
And yet, he brings some remarkable art from that place.
Thats his most mystical album, I think.
