Where are We Now by David Bowie

Until last week the general assumption in music circles was that David Bowie was not going to be making any new music for, perhaps, the rest of his days. We were pleasantly surprised last week when out of the blue we were told that Mr. Bowie had released a new single that would be followed up in March with a new album.

I will admit that a good percentage of my friends do not have the appreciation for Bowie that I do. I think that Bowie is perhaps one of the more underrated artists of the rock era. While it is true that many, if not most, of his albums from his peak period of the seventies feature many songs that most have not heard what most do not get is that if one spends sometime dedicating himself to those albums, learning them so as to respect them, is that Bowie made some incredible music.

A perusal down a Classic Rock playlist or simply a Bowie greatest hits album will certainly show that even with all this obtuseness he still has a list of songs we all know that should qualify him to be placed in the upper echelon.

Bowie's new single is certainly nothing you can tap your foot to. The video is so far too the weird side as to be odd. In short for Bowie, nothing new, he is not going to make this easy for you. The single though with a few listens is a lovely song. " As long as there is sun, as long as there is rain, me, you, this actually if one steps outside of the surface oddness of the video is a pretty conventional song.

I have no idea what the next album will be. That is one of the joys of Bowie, the only thing we do know is that we do not know what he will do next. In today's follow the leader culture and certainly music scene that in itself is valuable beyond measure.

A nice song, hopefully an even better album but most importantly Bowie, David Jones as it were, is back. That in itself makes it a good day.