Must Buy David Bowie?
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What albums are ESSENTIAL for a David Bowie collection? I feel like you can get a good retrospective for an artist in about 10 or 9 albums at most. After that it's all filler.
>Hunky Dory
>The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
>Aladdin Sane
>Station to Station
>Low
>"Heroes"
>Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)
Buy The Idiot and Lust for Life while you're at it
Okay OP let's do this, all you need for a GOAT bowie collection without going over 10 purchases.
Hunky Dory
Ziggy Stardust
Aladdin Sane
Diamond Dogs
Young Americans
Low
Lodger
Scary Monsters
1.Outside
Reality Tour
>Hunky Dory
>The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
>Aladdin Sane
>Station to Station
>Low
>"Heroes"
>Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)
Buy The Idiot and Lust for Life while you're at it
>>60680329
How can black men even compete?
>Hunky Dory
>The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
>Aladdin Sane
>Station to Station
>Low
>"Heroes"
>Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)
Buy The Idiot and Lust for Life while you're at it
>>60680329
Young Americans >Station To Station
I'm so fucked up
>>60680329
Friars Aylesbury 71
Va Va Va Voom
Santa Monica 72
Live at the Rainbow 72
Wha Happen Radio City Music Hall 73
His Master's Voice
Portrait in Flesh LA 74
Nassau 76
>>60680398
You forgot Transformer
Ziggy and Low is all you need
>>60680329
>Captain and To Kneel
>>60680385
>>60680398
>>60681722
I'd still throw Lodger into the mix.
Not seeing too much after Scary Monsters; no love for post 70's?
>>60682560
/mu/ would have been a shit show of it was around for Let's Dance when it came out.
1. Oustide is the only great album after Scary Monsters. The albums after 1. Outside are alright but same-y.
>>60680329
read scaruffi's article on bowie
>>60680376
>>60680398
You forgot Young Americans and Diamond Dogs
>>60680383
You skipped Heroes but included Lodger? Are you fucking kidding me?
>>60682612
>>60682612
>1. Oustide is the only great album after Scary Monsters.
>Heathen
blackstar
>>60682790
Reality > Heathen you pitchfuck.
> The Man Who Sold the World
> Hunky Dory
> The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
> Aladdin Sane
> Station to Station
> Low
> "Heroes"
> Lodger
> Scary Monsters
> Outside
>Hunky Dory
>The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
>Aladdin Sane
>Diamond Dogs
>>60682560
Scary Monsters is a great album, but I'm also a big fan of Let's Dance.
>>60680376
these. ignore the others saying there are albums missing.
>>60680329
Don't listen to anybody who lists less than 10 albums
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i only need Let's dance and i'm happy
Space Oddity
Hunky Dory
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
Diamond Dogs
Young Americans
Station to Station
Low
"Heroes"
Lodger
Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)
But really, everything from Space Oddity to Scary Monsters is must have.
>>60686896
>no space oddity
>no the man who sold the world
>no lodger
>happy
>>60686896
I hope you have Lodger, The Man Who Sold the World, and Space Oddity hiding in there somewhere.
Albums and why they might not be essential
Space Oddity- unless you dislike psychedelic folk, but even then it's one of the best made.
The Man Who Sold the World, Hunky Dory- Bowie's most solid transition albums. Varried and amazing. Many name Hunky Dory as better, so if you only want one, choose that.
Ziggy- widely accepted as a masterpiece. Belongs in any essential list.
Aladdin Sane- a stranger Bowie glam album. If you liked Ziggy, you need to hear it, but even if you disliked Ziggy you'll probably like this better.
Diamond Dogs- I believe that you should only get this if you absolutely can't live without more of Bowie's glam period. It wasn't reviewed as well either. Then again, many people love it. I personally don't.
Young Americans- this album is too cheesy for me. You might like it if you like soul. Listen to the title track. If you don't get this, get the extended version of Station to Station for the track Fame.
Station to Station- another widely accepted masterpiece.
Low, Heroes- the first and second of the Berlin trilogy, Bowie's collaboration with Eno. Also definitively essential.
Lodger- my personal favourite of the Berlin trilogy. All these albums are different, but it's understandable if you only want two from this period.
Scary Monsters- Bowie's last album before slipping into the pop haze of the 80s. Essential to hear what a good 80s Bowie would have sounded like.
Let's Dance- the album that made Bowie feel like he needed to make pop albums until years later. It's essential if you like dance music. Some love it, but I can't forgive this album.
Possibly essential later greats- Ouside, Earthling, Heathen.
