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Points: 6253 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 17 2015 at 22:46
Originally posted by Horizons Horizons wrote:

I just started getting into this guy. He seems so interesting so i'm not sure why it's taken me so long. 

I bought Hunky Dory as my first album about 1 week ago and love some of the songs off of it. 
He's such a cultural chameleon..

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Favorite album?
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Points: 30845 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 17 2015 at 22:45
Originally posted by Horizons Horizons wrote:

I just started getting into this guy. He seems so interesting so i'm not sure why it's taken me so long. 

I bought Hunky Dory as my first album about 1 week ago and love some of the songs off of it. 
He's such a cultural chameleon..

What are PA's thoughts on David Bowie?

Favorite album?


We like him so you won't, dude.
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Points: 6253 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 17 2015 at 22:38
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My favourite Bowie albums rank pretty much equally so it's difficult to choose.

What doesn't surprise me is that these albums are (tenuously) linked by a common theme, then that particular theme actually began on his début album and has cropped up on several of his albums.

Favourite album: The Man Who Sold The World. 
Favourite track: Width Of A Circle

My kid sister was a big fan in the early 70s and she bought all his albums before I did. This was the first album of her's that I listened to that really stood-out because of its down right heaviness. It's also quite an odd album in my opinion as all the tracks seem longer than they actually are. 

2nd: Diamond Dogs.
Favourite track: Sweet Thing/Candidate.

This album was Bowie's return to the hard rock of MWSTW and picked up on some of the dystopian ideas of that album to form a loose Orwellian concept.

3rd: Station To Station.
Favourite track: Station To Station.

The album that preceded this (Young Americans) I really cannot abide apart from its one saving grace and that's Carlos Aloma's guitar riff on Fame. But the diluting of the blue-eyed soul of that album with rock and the first introduction of Krautrock as a direct influence created something of a curiosity album that confounds and confuses as it jumps around different musical styles and vocal styles but rather oddly works.

4th: David Bowie (i.e., his 2nd album - aka "Space Oddity")
Favourite track: Cygnet Committee

This would have been top if it contained more songs Prog songs like Cygnet Committee and Wild Eyed Boy From Free Cloud, but it doesn't so it isn't.

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Points: 6253 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 17 2015 at 22:35
I adore LOVE all Bowie's albums prior 80's, he is just too brilliant really! xxx
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Points: 8626 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 17 2015 at 20:44
I'm another really, really big fan of The Man Who Sold The World, also gotta love:

Hunky Dory
Ziggy Stardust
Young Americans
Station To Station
Low
"Heroes"
Scary Monsters and Super Creeps
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Outside is very interesting, being Bowie's take on industrial. Specifically, industrial as derived from The Young Gods, who play post-industrial leaning industrial rock with big inspiration from '80's era Swans.
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Station to Station, Heroes, Low and Ziggy Stardust.
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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 17 2015 at 20:08
My favourite Bowie albums rank pretty much equally so it's difficult to choose.

What doesn't surprise me is that these albums are (tenuously) linked by a common theme, then that particular theme actually began on his début album and has cropped up on several of his albums.

Favourite album: The Man Who Sold The World. 
Favourite track: Width Of A Circle

My kid sister was a big fan in the early 70s and she bought all his albums before I did. This was the first album of her's that I listened to that really stood-out because of its down right heaviness. It's also quite an odd album in my opinion as all the tracks seem longer than they actually are. 

2nd: Diamond Dogs.
Favourite track: Sweet Thing/Candidate.

This album was Bowie's return to the hard rock of MWSTW and picked up on some of the dystopian ideas of that album to form a loose Orwellian concept.

3rd: Station To Station.
Favourite track: Station To Station.

The album that preceded this (Young Americans) I really cannot abide apart from its one saving grace and that's Carlos Aloma's guitar riff on Fame. But the diluting of the blue-eyed soul of that album with rock and the first introduction of Krautrock as a direct influence created something of a curiosity album that confounds and confuses as it jumps around different musical styles and vocal styles but rather oddly works.

4th: David Bowie (i.e., his 2nd album - aka "Space Oddity")
Favourite track: Cygnet Committee

This would have been top if it contained more songs Prog songs like Cygnet Committee and Wild Eyed Boy From Free Cloud, but it doesn't so it isn't.



Edited by Dean - April 17 2015 at 20:27
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Points: 12702 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 17 2015 at 19:18
Ziggy Stardust (simply one of the best rock albums ever released. Ever.)
Diamond Dogs (a sentimental favorite, and the 1st Bowie album I owned)
Aladdin Sane
Hunky Dory
 
Love these. The rest are hit and miss.


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Points: 16952 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 17 2015 at 18:38
I just started getting into this guy. He seems so interesting so i'm not sure why it's taken me so long. 

I bought Hunky Dory as my first album about 1 week ago and love some of the songs off of it. 
He's such a cultural chameleon..

What are PA's thoughts on David Bowie?

Favorite album?


Edited by Horizons - April 17 2015 at 18:40
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