is david bowie the most universally respected artist on /mu/? the only other contenders I can think of are kanye 'like the romans' west, neutral 'jesus christ i love you' milk hotel, and death 'jenny death when' grips- but they're all just memes.
>the most underrated bowie release
It's underrated in memory. Young Americans made Bowie a household name.
I belive Bowie came in 4th in the /mu/ March Madness bracket. Who knows, maybe I'm the only one left from back then.
>the most underrated bowie release
>>60600400
>in the berlin trilogy
Stay confused
>>60600400
is this trolling
>>60600311
he might just be, but you'll never get us all to agree on which of his albums are the best, or even good.
>>60600400
>berlin trilogy
lol
He's probably the most respected mainstream pop musician on /mu/
>the most underrated bowie release
I'd say some Jazz or Classical artists are the most respected because most people don't know any better and just recognize the name. More people would be apt to say Coltrane is good or deserves respect than say so for Bowie.
iggy pop and lou reed are both more interesting out of the three berlin amigos
Swans were the most respected artist here until The Seer. I honestly don't remember ever seeing anyone say they were shit before 2012.
>>60600311
>bowie
>not a meme
honestly though I feel like there's just a dozen or so artists /mu/ hasn't made memes; Dave Brubeck Quartet, Elton John, Leonard Bernstein, Esperanza Spalding, Boz Scraggs, Busta Rhymes, Rob Zombie, Sineah O'Connor, Jane's Addiction
>>60600513
new killer star is so GOAT
>>60600547
this tbqh family
>>60600547
Yeah, but in all fairness they both had much spottier discographies
>>60600568
Swans have always been shit, I've always thought that and I've been saying that since before 2012
>>60600628
same here, Swans are one of the most overhyped bands that this board loves
>>60600628
>>60600647
See this kind of posting just didn't happen pre 2012. The second shitty meme kids start liking a band it makes people overlook how good the music actually is.
>>60600311
>kanye
>universally respected on /mu/
niceme.me
>>60600673
>calling the swans 'music' unironically
zug zug
>>60600311
You forgot bjork
Jackson C Frank
Stevie Wonder
>>60600673
again
>swans
>good
pick one
After 50+ years of ever-changing music, if you don't like any Bowie music you might as well just admit you don't like music at all.
Underrated Bowie:
>Never Let Me Down
>Outside
>Reality
>>60600595
I GOT A BETTER WAY
>>60600547
Ignoring the fact that Bowie was the motivator who produced both of their best known material, while he was producing his own best known material. Face it, without Bowie those two would have faded out of existence with the 60s.
>>60600311
Brian Eno
John Coltrane
Stevie Wonder
>>60601038
These.
As much as I like Bowie, he's overrated and a mediocre musician. He's apop artist, nothing more.
Brian Eno is the real thing.
Has he done it again, /mu/?
http://youtu.be/kszLwBaC4Sw
>>60600521
Fuck Coltrane, fast incoherent wanking on a saxaphone
>>60600591
shit list lol
>>60600591
man how are there no elton john memes
>>60601790
Yes.
>>60601790
It's as if god came down from heaven and fucked my earhole.
What about Robert "GOAT" Fripp?
>>60601790
It's just good. I'm still impressed Bowie did something like this after so many shit albums.
Yeah Bowie, talk talk, King krimson and nick cave/Drake seem to be liked. Mb pink Floyd too
>>60600380
>>>>?
>>60602252
Is that actually underrated though? While it's not often discussed I don't believe that anyone actually claims that it's not the amazing album that it is. For me underrated would be an album like Let's Dance which is pure killer.
>>60600311
I really dislike David Bowie.
>>60602097
No Robert Fripp, but King Crimson.
>>60602324
>I really dislike David Bowie.
Why do you come to /mu/ then if you hate music?
I've never seen anyone talk shit about Built To Spill.
just a solid band desu
>>60602333
I don't hate music, I hate pop music.
>>60602346
So you like music, not muzak. Congratulations, you're a patrician.
>>60602346
>le edgy hipster
>>60602371
>I don't know what edgy or hipster means
>>60602394
Nor do you know what pop music is.
Daily reminder
>>60602346
Oh yes, like what?
>>60600979
>>60602333
Why do Bowie fans on /mu/ have to be so obnoxious?
>>60602406
Enlighten me.
>>60602415
Are you asking me what do I listen to?
>>60602407
>scruffy
>>60602346
>Bowie
>pop
Bowie's music is hardly pop. In fact Bowie's genius is in redefining what pop music is.
>>60601790
scott walker did it first
good song tho
Neutral Milk Hotel is great you twat
>>60602519
>Scott Walker invented gregorian chanting
He would laugh in your face for being such a pleb.
>listening to le italian pedophile man
>>60600611
>>60601004
much spottier solo career material yes, but their work with the stooges and the velvets blows all of bowie's work out of the water
and it's not like all of bowie's albums are good, probably 1/3 to 1/2 of his discog is garbage
i will agree that bowie saved them from gracefully fading away though
i hope the sex was good
>>60601004
>while he was producing his own best known material.
This is objectively false. Bowie's own sounds changed when his producers did.
Bowie is great
>>60600343
>/mu/ March Madness
where can I find this?
I'm sure David Bowie has released at least one album that most people would like
>>60602483
Bowie himself wouldn't disagree with the claim.
Bowie fans are so needlessly defensive of their idol.
>>60603626
>/mu/ March Madness
what does that even mean?
>>60603672
I agree. But there are many more artists and music icons that did that but are not liked here because /mu/tants consider them "dadrock-core shit music" for some reason.
>>60602407
That's fucking painful
>>60602407
But then there's this
>>60602407
if you give +2 to everything the votes are kind of agreable
>>60604308
In case you haven't noticed he's kind of retarded
>>60600311
Nick drake probably
>>60600591
Why the everlasting fuck did you just nonchalantly throw Busta Rhymes in there? You can't pick ANY other respect hip-hop artist than fuckin Busta Rhymes? Beastie Boys? A Tribe Called Quest? Eric B & Rakim? MF DOOM? DJ Shadow? J Dilla? Nope, just Busta Rhymes for some god forsaken reason
David Bowie turned marketing into the essence of his art. All great phenomena of popular music, from Elvis Presley to the Beatles, had been, first and foremost, marketing phenomena (just like Coca Cola and Barbie before them); however, Bowie turned that into an art of its own. With Bowie the science of marketing becomes art; art and marketing become one. There were intellectuals who had proclaimed this theory in rebellious terms. Bowie was, in many ways, the heir, no matter how perverted, of Andy Warhol's pop art and of the underground culture of the 1960s. He adopted some of the most blaspheme issues and turned them upside down to make them precisely what they had been designed to fight: a commodity.
Bowie was a protagonist of his times, although a poor musician: to say that Bowie is a musician is like saying that Nero was a harp player (a fact that is technically true, but misleading). Bowie embodies the quintessence of artificial art, raises futulity to paradigm, focuses on the phenomenon rather than the content, makes irrelevant the relevant, and, thus, is the epitome of everything that went wrong with rock music.
Who doesn't love LCD Soundsystem?
>>60602407
6s and 7s are considered great for Scruffy, son.
>>60605738
Ah, this.
I love this.
So new and fresh.
No more the "the fact that".
>>60602483
This. He always played with popculture doing exactly what would become mainstream in several years ahead
>>60602303
Let's Dance is the highest selling Bowie album of all time you melon
>>60605760
I like them, but don't love them. Pretty overrated simply because they are accessible to normies. Good tunes but overrated.
Bob Dylan
>>60602407
I don't give credence to the opinions of autistic non-professional critics
>>60603626
I'm the one that's living lavish
Like I'm playing for the Mavericks
>>60605786
that coke must have been good and plenty
>whish I had a line right now
>>60606035
>tfw for three years his diet consisted of milk, red peppers, and coke
Bowie is a talentless hack. Brian Eno is solely responsible for all his quality work.
Talking Heads are also garbage without Eno.
I respect him in theory, seems like a nice chap and like his voice but I don't think I actually like his music besides the hits. I literally sat through Ziggy Stardust with complete indifference, got my jam on when Starman came on, then went back to feeling nothing. This is probably more a defect with me than anything else tho.
>>60603718
Because most people like albums like Zepplin 4 or Sgt Pepper's and we're fucking tired of hearing about it for the same reason we don't like Reddit, after a while those kinds of discussions just turn into echo chambers.
Also because anyone who sincerely believes that either album is 'the best thing to happen' probably has very limited music interest/taste. While there's a big overlap in taste here, you'll find that very few people agree on which album is their all time favourite because many artists have done more directed/refined pieces of work both before and since 1970, so there's music, literally, to cater to every taste.
>>60606269
>those kinds of discussions just turn into echo chambers.
/mu/ is literally the exact same thing for black people talking over stolen 5 second music loops and white people singing out of tune over 80s throwback muzak
>>60605878
It's underrated by critics and Bowie fans (as opposed to radio pop fans) you ass.
>>60606071
>Talking Heads are also garbage without Eno.
then why is 77 their best album you dip?
>>60606071
>Eno is responsible for his work outside of 1977 and 1978.
ok kid
It would be fitting that Bowie is the most unanimously liked artist on /mu/ considering he's primarily about substance-less posturing and the music itself is secondary.
>>60607750
He said "his quality work."
>>60600311
>New album is being recorded at the Magic Shop
Christ loud shit here we go again
>>60607867
and I subverted his comment with the implication that all of Bowie's work other than Eno's collaboration is best! A real trickster you see!
>>60600311
HE IS THE GOAT DESU
>>60608768
I recognized this and decided to sabotage your subversion with a bit of the ol' post-irony.
>>60600547
lou reed is a faggot who cant sing
I've never seen a single person on here who hates Unwound
>>60600311
Kanye "I married the most famous slut/whore in the world after making Golddigger" West is respected here? Wow.
>>60602303
Modern Love is so god damn good. I figured Let's Dance would be kind of shit before I heard it, but damn is Modern Love ever fantastic
>>60601101
>pop is inherently bad
>beatles suck
>i enjoy cocks more than OP
>>60608985
Damn! Bully game of meme my friend!
>the most underrated Bowie release
>>60601101
Bowie made pop art, and intelligent art accessible. He's a genius for doing that.
>the most underrated Bowie release
>>60610908
What do you mean? "Heroes" is widely considered his best work.
>>60610908
That's literally his most acclaimed.
>>60610942
>>60610985
>falling for bait this obvious
>>60610942
or low
>>60610992
okay, you got me
>>60611010
Low is better than "Heroes" but not by much at all. Both are fantastic.
Hunky Dory is the best, guys.
>>60611079
this kook knows
>>60611079
Most respected
>Frank zappa
>Bill Evans
