Battlecries + Champagne: A non-linear David Bowie podcast

In this episode, Aaron, Andrew and John pull down their sun visors and take a hard look at the album artwork for David Bowie's 2002 album Heathen as well as the two music videos (Slow Burn, Everyone Says 'Hi') that were filmed at the time, but released posthumously.

00:00 - Introduction
06:07 - Your Record Sleeves Are Better Than Your Songs (album visuals)
20:58 - VideoTime
27:19 - Final Words on Heathen

Follow along with album visuals:
Heathen album artwork
Slow Burn single
Everyone Says 'Hi' single
I've Been Waiting For You single
Marcus Klinko photoshoot

If you want to contact the show, we’d love to hear from you!
Battlecriesandchampagne@outlook.com
Battlecries + Champagne on YT
 
Bowie audio in the podcast is not owned by Battlecries + Champagne and is, rather, the work of David Bowie. Music is used under the fair dealing provision in Canadian copyright law to the best of our understanding. We encourage listeners interested in hearing the full versions of tracks to purchase them at their local record stores, through online digital music stores or heck, provide the Bowie Estate with some streaming revenue!
 
Research for the show was culled from:
Klinko, Marcus. How We Photographed David Bowie With Wild Wolves. 26 February 2016. GQ Magazine.
Pegg, Nicholas. The Complete David Bowie (Titan Books, 2016).
Soligny, Jérôme. David Bowie: Rainbowman 1983-2016 (Gallimard, 2020).

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As Aaron, Andrew and John complete their review of David Bowie's 2002 album Heathen (covering the album's second half), will they open up their hearts to it and become its slave? Listen and find out! Tracks covered: I Would Be Your Slave, I Took A Trip On A Gemini Spaceship, 5:15 The Angels Have Gone, Everyone Says 'Hi', A Better Future and Heathen (The Rays).

If you want to listen along, here's a YouTube playlist featuring all the songs we're talking about this month: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyjkFh0YAk7tDkYRNZp0cNBpAaklvbKLL

If you want to contact the show, we’d love to hear from you!
Battlecriesandchampagne@outlook.com
Battlecries + Champagne on YT
 
Bowie audio in the podcast is not owned by Battlecries + Champagne and is, rather, the work of David Bowie. Music is used under the fair dealing provision in Canadian copyright law to the best of our understanding. We encourage listeners interested in hearing the full versions of tracks to purchase them at their local record stores, through online digital music stores or heck, provide the Bowie Estate with some streaming revenue!
 
Research for the show was culled from:
Cann, Kevin. David Bowie: Any Day Now: The London Years 1947-1974 (Adelita, 2010).
Pegg, Nicholas. The Complete David Bowie (Titan Books, 2016).
Soligny, Jérôme. David Bowie: Rainbowman 1967-1980 (Monoray, 2023).
Soligny, Jérôme. David Bowie: Rainbowman 1983-2016 (Gallimard, 2020).
Thompson, Dave. Hallo Spaceboy: The Rebirth of David Bowie (ECW Press, 2006).
Trynka, Paul. David Bowie: Starman (Little, Brown and Company, 2011).

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Things really matter to us! Get into the weeds with us (Aaron, Andrew and John) as we perform armchair psychology and music criticism on the first half of David Bowie's 2002 opus Heathen. Tracks covered: Sunday, Cactus, Slip Away, Slow Burn, Afraid and I've Been Waiting For You.

If you want to listen along, here's a YouTube playlist featuring all the songs we'll be discussing this month: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyjkFh0YAk7tDkYRNZp0cNBpAaklvbKLL

If you want to contact the show, we’d love to hear from you!
Battlecriesandchampagne@outlook.com
Battlecries + Champagne on YT
 
Bowie audio in the podcast is not owned by Battlecries + Champagne and is, rather, the work of David Bowie. Music is used under the fair dealing provision in Canadian copyright law to the best of our understanding. We encourage listeners interested in hearing the full versions of tracks to purchase them at their local record stores, through online digital music stores or heck, provide the Bowie Estate with some streaming revenue!
 
Research for the show was culled from:
Larman, Alexander. Lazarus: The Second Coming Of David Bowie (Pegasus Books, 2026).
O'Leary, Chris. Ashes to Ashes (Repeater Books, 2018).
Pegg, Nicholas. The Complete David Bowie (Titan Books, 2016).
Soligny, Jérôme. David Bowie: Rainbowman 1983-2016 (Gallimard, 2020).
Thompson, Dave. Hallo Spaceboy: The Rebirth of David Bowie (ECW Press, 2006).
Trynka, Paul. David Bowie: Starman (Little, Brown and Company, 2011).

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Run outside in the desert heat and listen to some Heathen history🎶

Join Aaron, Andrew and John as they go over the context and recording history of David Bowie's critically acclaimed Heathen album from 2002. Topics include: musicians and personnel on the album, contemporary critical reception and the album's true relationship with the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

00:00 - Introduction
03:39 - Where Are We Now? (album context and history)
20:43 - Telling Lies (Heathen's relationship with 9/11)
26:38 - They Say (critical reception and charts)

If you want to contact the show, we’d love to hear from you!
Battlecriesandchampagne@outlook.com
Battlecries + Champagne on YT
 
Bowie audio in the podcast is not owned by Battlecries + Champagne and is, rather, the work of David Bowie. Music is used under the fair dealing provision in Canadian copyright law to the best of our understanding. We encourage listeners interested in hearing the full versions of tracks to purchase them at their local record stores, through online digital music stores or heck, provide the Bowie Estate with some streaming revenue!
 
Research for the show was culled from:
Cann, Kevin. David Bowie: Any Day Now: The London Years 1947-1974 (Adelita, 2010).
Klinko, Marcus. How We Photographed David Bowie With Wild Wolves. 26 February 2016. GQ Magazine.
Larman, Alexander. Lazarus: The Second Coming Of David Bowie (Pegasus Books, 2026).
O'Leary, Chris. Ashes to Ashes (Repeater Books, 2018).
Pegg, Nicholas. The Complete David Bowie (Titan Books, 2016).
Soligny, Jérôme. David Bowie: Rainbowman 1983-2016 (Gallimard, 2020).
Thompson, Dave. Hallo Spaceboy: The Rebirth of David Bowie (ECW Press, 2006).
Trynka, Paul. David Bowie: Starman (Little, Brown and Company, 2011).
Visconti, Tony. The Autobiography: Bowie, Bolan and the Brooklyn Boy (HarperCollins, 2007)

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In this episode of Battlecries + Champagne, Aaron, Andrew and John investigate David Bowie's rarest bubble of output: his voicework in 1978's Peter And The Wolf (Sergei Prokofiev's symphonic fairytale) and 2007's Atlantis Squarepants (a TV movie in the Spongebob Squarepants universe).
 
Though the trio are just saplings in the world of audio recording themselves, they decide to tackle Bowie's spoken word oeuvre head on.
 
00:00 Introduction
06:39 Where Are We Now? (the history of Peter And The Wolf and Spongebob Squarepants)
26:33 They Say
28:21 Peter And The Wolf review
39:58 Atlantis Squarepants review
46:26 Your Record Sleeves Are Better Than Your Songs (album artwork discussion)
 
If you want to contact the show, we’d love to hear from you!
Battlecriesandchampagne@outlook.com
Battlecries + Champagne on YT
 
Bowie audio in the podcast is not owned by Battlecries + Champagne and is, rather, the work of David Bowie. Music is used under the fair dealing provision in Canadian copyright law to the best of our understanding. We encourage listeners interested in hearing the full versions of tracks to purchase them at their local record stores, through online digital music stores or heck, provide the Bowie Estate with some streaming revenue!
 
Research for the show was culled from:
 
Associated Press. Spongebob creator Stephen Hillenburg dead at 57. Nov. 27 2018.
Banks, Steven. Spongebob Exposed! The Insider’s Guide to Spongebob Squarepants. Nickleodeon Publishing, 2019.
Doggett, Peter. The Man Who Sold The World: David Bowie and the 1970s (Harper, 2012).
Morrison, Simon. The People’s Artist: Prokofiev’s Soviet Years. Oxford University Press, 2009.
O'Leary, Chris. Ashes to Ashes (Repeater Books, 2018).
Pegg, Nicholas. The Complete David Bowie (Titan Books, 2016).
Robinson, Harlow. Sergei Prokofiev: A Biography. Viking Penguin, 1987.
Soligny, Jérôme. David Bowie: Rainbowman 1967-1980 (Monoray, 2023).
Tyler, Adrienne. Spongebob Squarepants: The True Story Behind David Bowie’s Cameo. ScreenRant. Jan. 29 2020.
Wikipedia.
Wolfe, Jennifer. Paul Tibbit Talks About That Time David Bowie did Voice Work for Spongebob Squarepants. Animation World Network. Jan 18 2016.
Young, Charles. David Bowie learns to live again. Wilmington Morning Star. Dec. 23 1977.

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