Is The Man Who Sold The World supposed to be this heavy, crunchy guitar album? Mick Ronson was a monster. RIP.
Is The Man Who Sold The World supposed to be this heavy, crunchy guitar album? Mick Ronson was a monster. RIP.
I'll have to spin that one again. There is certainly some nice guitar work on it. Great album.
Jon
Jon
Ok. I'm starting my Bowie collection with TMWSTW.
my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
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His album "...hours" has quotes too.
The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off
I think his Pin Ups is probably the best covers album I have ever heard!
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I like his 60s stuff and his early 70s stuff, that's it. I've heard lots of the later avantgarde/Berlin/Eno stuff and the even later funky/soulboy/dance stuff and his harder stuff of the last few years and just don't like any of it.
1.Space Oddity - 69
2.David Bowie - 67
3. Ziggy Stardust - 72
4. Hunky Dory - 71
5. Diamond Dogs - 74
If however I had to pick one album from later than the early 70s it would be Scary Monsters
I have all of EJ 's albums and his last 5 albums have been of high quality that people how quit on Elton after 1976 might want to check out. No, they are not back to the 70's, just very good piano based albums.
Bowie and the Stones are kind of the same for me in that I have a greatest hits album or two and never needed more. I have Bowie's The Singles 1969-1993 , with Bing and Bowie, and it is very good but I haven't listened to it in years. I pulled it out with with Bowie's passing and really enjoyed it. I have even gone online and listened to a few of the higher rated albums, he is fantastic. I will be looking at more of his back catalog and its my loss to have waited 30+ years to really 'discover' him.
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Ziggy is a perfect album, a top ten 70s album for me.
There're songs I like from almost all other Bowies releases but Ziggy is flawless
no tunes, no dynamics, no nosebone
1. The Man Who Sold the World
2. Ziggy
3. Low
4. Scary Monsters
5. Tin Machine
6. Man of Words, Man of Music(aka Space Oddity)
7. PinUps
8. Heroes
Limiting myself to the albums I actually own...
Station to Station
"Heroes"
Diamond Dogs
Low
TR&FO Ziggy Stardust &TSFM
David Live
Ziggy Stardust: The Motion Picture
Labyrinth S/T
The Man Who Sold the World
Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)
Stage
Labyrinth S/T
Aladdin Sane
Lodger
Pin Ups
Hunky Dory
Tin Machine
Young Americans
Let's Dance
Tonight
David Bowie (very early songs)
Cobra handling and cocaine use are a bad mix.
So much of this comes down to personal taste. I'd say the glam stuff is... ok. I can see why it's so great and iconic, but hearing the hits on classic-rock radio all my life was generally enough and I don't need to keep the albums in my library. A few fav tracks are just fine. Of course Ziggy and Diamond Dogs are unimpeachable. Ditto Young Americans under the blue-eyed-soul umbrella.
The Berlin recordings are the ones I play more than anything else--everyone involved plays just off-the-wall with abandon and somehow they're able to make experimental weirdness more accessible than you'd ever expect. Fans of Fripp and Belew would definitely be advised to try "Heroes" and Lodger (respectively) for their contributions. I also thought The Next Day was a fine return, almost a summation or consolidation of his different sides.
Re: the quotes in "Heroes," I don't remember where I got the idea, but I always thought it was to give a little irony to the title. As in: we're all human, it's only a romanticized idea that there's something innately special about some people, and the folks that get called heroes for doing distinguished things are really no different from anyone else.
I have been inspired to acquire his back catalog. I was never a big fan but there are many tunes of his I really like. I'm more fond of his funky stuff than the glam, by a pretty wide margin. But I will give it all a fair listen.
I remember having the following albums: Ziggy Stardust, Diamond Dogs, Station to Station, Young Americans, Low and Heroes.... and I haven't listened to them since the 70's. The only album I can really recall songs from is Ziggy, the rest I would only recall the songs that got played on FM radio regularly.
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Like many 'prog' bands, Bowie's best tracks were usually the ones that did not get played on the radio.
The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off
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