No David Bowie Thread?

[mansize rooster]

Sweet Thing/Candidate/Sweet Thing(Reprise)
One of my fav 8 minute sections in rock history right there.

 

[Shane Hird]

 

[Marlowe]

 

[mansize rooster]

^
what a great album. my fav track is prob stay
the grooves on it are just fantastic.. reminds me of the shaft theme song or something.

Heroes and Scary Monsters have also been on high rotation in the car

 

[Shane Hird]

####ing love Station to Station..great song.

"I must be only one in a million...it's too late to be hateful" 2nd part. Epic song.

I was a massive Bowie fan years ago as a teenager. Still put him on every now and then. But mainly the old stuff...Man who sold the world-Ziggy-Diamong Dogs and Alladin Sane albums

 

[Cruyff14]

Rebel Rebel, We Can Be Heroes, Space Oddity

 

[00Stinger]

Like Ziggy Star dust, but that's about it

 

[Plugger35]

Ashes to Ashes would be my favourite Bowie track, probably an obvious choice but it's such an epic song. It was the last hurrah of his 70s drug phase.



I like most of his other 70s stuff but I would rate Ashes to Ashes ahead of all of them.

He hasn't really done much of note since Ashes to Ashes. Some of his early 80s tracks like Let's Dance, Modern Love and Blue Jean weren't bad but they had that horrible overproduced 80s sound which detracted from them and since then he's produced mainly garbage. He isn't the lone ranger there though, the Rolling Stones, Elton John, Paul McCartney and Billy Joel are all in the same boat.

 

[Cruyff14]

Ashes to Ashes would be my favourite Bowie track, probably an obvious choice but it's such an epic song. It was the last hurrah of his 70s drug phase.



I like most of his other 70s stuff but I would rate Ashes to Ashes ahead of all of them.

He hasn't really done much of note since Ashes to Ashes. Some of his early 80s tracks like Let's Dance, Modern Love and Blue Jean weren't bad but they had that horrible overproduced 80s sound which detracted from them and since then he's produced mainly garbage. He isn't the lone ranger there though, the Rolling Stones, Elton John, Paul McCartney and Billy Joel are all in the same boat.

What garbage did Billy Joel produce? Very solid all round.

 

[Warsaw]

Love Side A of Hunky Dory. All time favs.

 

[Plugger35]

What garbage did Billy Joel produce? Very solid all round.

I was probably a bit harsh saying they've produced garbage, more that they haven't produced any decent hits since the 80s.

 

[Cruyff14]

I was probably a bit harsh saying they've produced garbage, more that they haven't produced any decent hits since the 80s.

Billy Joel released his last record full of new material in 1994, it probably makes sense. And River of Dreams is awesome.

 

[FlyingBurittoBro]

 

[Gorry]

I cant go past these three...

 

[Zuma]

none of them can have a hit single, the music industry and record companies wouldn't give two hoots about the legends of music and their new material.

David Bowie is currently retired from music in case anyone wasn't aware already, one of the real talented musicians who has some great latter day material imho contary to earlier posters.

 

[Marlowe]

I wish that album had more SRV.

 

[Shane Hird]

Diamond Dogs
Rocknroll Suicide
Station to Station
Young Americans
Moonage Daydream
Time
Life on Mars
Jean Genie
Five Years
Ashes to Ashes
All the Madmen
The Width of a Circle

 

[JimDocker]

I watched Labrynth on the weekend. My little boy is ****ing terrified of David Bowie now !

 

[DrVanNostrand]

Big fan. Favorite album would have to be Hunky Dory, closely followed by Aladdin Sane.

Andy Warhol - go back and listen to this one, peeps
Aladdin Sane (1913-1938-197?)
We Are the Dead
1984
Beauty and the Beast
Kooks
The Bewlay Brothers
Cracked Actor
Neukoln

 

[mansize rooster]

none of them can have a hit single, the music industry and record companies wouldn't give two hoots about the legends of music and their new material.

David Bowie is currently retired from music in case anyone wasn't aware already, one of the real talented musicians who has some great latter day material imho contary to earlier posters.

yeah, heathen is a pretty strong album

 

[La Dispute]

This is my favourite Bowie album

The Berlin trio were his best work IMO.

 

[Shane Hird]

Awesome...

 

[Shane Hird]

If someone read these lyrics but never heard the song...you'd be thinking WTF?

As a 13/14 year old I used to be obsessed with trying to work out what a lot of Bowie songs were about. 30 years later I'm still wondering..

"Cracked Actor"​

I've come on a few years from my Hollywood Highs
The best of the last, the cleanest star they ever had

I'm stiff on my legend,
the films that I made
Forget that I'm fifty
cause you just got paid

[CHORUS]
Crack, baby, crack,
show me you're real
Smack, baby, smack, is that all that you feel
Suck, baby, suck,
give me your head
Before you start professing
that you're knocking me dead

You caught yourself a trick down
on Sunset and Vine
But since he pinned you baby
you're a porcupine

You sold me illusions for a sack full of cheques
You've made a bad connection 'cause I just want your sex​

 

[UpForGrabs]

Station to Station is definitely my favourite album. Amazing that he doesn't recall any of the album, whether it's writing or recording it.

'Word on a Wing' is from that album and easily my favourite Bowie song. Just utterly compelled with every listen:



As one of the comments on the video puts it "I could die listening to this song and have no regrets as to how i spent my last few minutes."

 

[DrVanNostrand]

If someone read these lyrics but never heard the song...you'd be thinking WTF?

As a 13/14 year old I used to be obsessed with trying to work out what a lot of Bowie songs were about. 30 years later I'm still wondering..

"Cracked Actor"​

I've come on a few years from my Hollywood Highs​

The best of the last, the cleanest star they ever had​

​

I'm stiff on my legend, ​

the films that I made​

Forget that I'm fifty ​

cause you just got paid​

​

[CHORUS]​

Crack, baby, crack, ​

show me you're real​

Smack, baby, smack, is that all that you feel​

Suck, baby, suck,​

give me your head​

Before you start professing ​

that you're knocking me dead​

​

You caught yourself a trick down ​

on Sunset and Vine​

But since he pinned you baby​

you're a porcupine​

​

You sold me illusions for a sack full of cheques​

You've made a bad connection 'cause I just want your sex​

I listened to Cracked Actor not 10 mins ago and I could have sworn it's "Forget that I'm 50 'cause you just got laid".

Pure brilliance of a song either way. Aladdin Sane is just such a balls-to-the-ball, kickass rock album. Even the cover of Let's Spend the Night Together is rocked up.