Okay Anons, so far I have the fallowing:
Hunky Dory
Ziggy Stardust
Aladdin Sane
Diamond Dogs
Young Americans
Station to Station
Low
Heros
Scary Monsters
1.Outside
What other albums are essential for a David Bowie collection? I was thinking of getting Heathen next. The Next Day was good but I played it too much...
Blackstar
Earthling
Let's Dance
Lodger
The Man Who Sold the World
All worth your time
>>60744204
This meme
Better to have a top 5 than basically list his discography
Personally,
>Hunky Dory
>Ziggy Stardust
>Young Americans
>Station to Station
>Scary Monsters
I'd have loved to have included Man Who Sold the World, some modern output and Diamond Dogs, but those five are absolutely essential.
>>60744405
replace young americans with heroes
>>60744405
This, with David there is no wrong answer. Unless you say Tonight or Never Let me Down then you aren't just wrong you are stupid.
>>60744498
I'm too attached to Young Americans to replace it with Heroes; the title track and Fascination are among my favorite tracks of his, and even the B-sides and unreleased session tracks are top-tier
Anyone want to talk about how godawful some of his album covers are? What was he thinking?
1. Ziggy Stardust
2. Hunky Dory
3. Diamond Dogs
>>60744623
Diamond Dogs is good.
If you want to list Bowie essentials, you really have to cut corners. All of his discography from Hunky Dory to Let's Dance can be considered "essential".
Here's the best I got:
>Hunky Dory
>The Rise and Fall Of Ziggy Stardust
>Station to Station
>Heroes
>Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)
Listen to those five and you'll have a working knowledge of David Bowie.
The Next Day was really good by the way. By the looks of it, 2010s Bowie is going to be just as good as pre-Tonight era Bowie.
>>60744623
But he also has some of the most iconic covers of all time so it's cool
>>60744709
Replace Scary Monsters with Aladdin Sane and Station to Station with Low. All are good though.
>>60744738
but then his list would suck
>>60744738
Definitely don't do this. Station to Station and Scary Monsters are top top tier. Honestly I'd replace Heroes with Low
>>60744623
Ziggy and Diamond Dogs have great covers. There's nothing wrong with Hunky Dory's.
no love for Lodger? Okay...
>>60745058
I've always found it to be one of Bowie's weakest releases, like weaker than his self-titled
If we're counting live albums, Stage is definitely top-tier
>>60744764
That was my list of top albums, but Diamond Dogs is totally an awful cover.
>>60745187
>not liking bowie dog dick
The fuck is wrong with you, son?
Since we're talking awful covers, worst has to be BTWN
I love the album, but they could have used SOMETHING that fits the album better than just Bowie's face across the whole thing.
>>60745227
Blackstar album cover was confirmed, and it's a personal favourite
>>60744198
Sorry but this isn't at the top of the list
>>60745308
ayy, I can dig the minimalism though
posting a #rare Bowie track
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efZChbxtqbM
>>60745377
post your rare bowies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rajof9Qigos
>>60745434
https://youtu.be/XIeG23kfD00
Honestly Hunky Dory and Low should be the essential Bowie albums
beyond that the entire run from Hunky Dory to Let's Dance, 1. Outside and Blackstar are pretty essential
>>60745551
Hunky Dory is so legit dude. Just fantastic songwriting.
>>60745581
I hear Bowie was way into occultism. Like that line in Breaking Glass "Don't look at the carpet/ I've drawn something awful on it" refers to him drawing the Tree of Life everywhere. I believe he also used to purposely forgo sleep so that he could have a clean hallucination. Regardless, Hunky Dory is an overt example of his fascination with the occult.
>>60745672
This is all true. Station to Station is full of occult references too.
Does anyone here like space oddity? Its one of my favourite albums of his. It has some meh songs but the majority is decent. Never see it get mentioned.
>>60745377
All of the Young Americans B-Sides are great
>Who Can I Be Now?
>It's Gonna Be Me
Essential Bowie?
1970-1983 , +Black Tie White Noise, Earthling, Heathen, The Next Day.
I like what >>60745551 says. Hunky Dory and Low could both be considered the "quintesential" Bowie album for different reasons. Both good places to start for a newcomer.
>>60745227
Yes, truly bad. The Miracle Goodnight single cover should have been the album cover.
>>60745714
I like it, it's just difficult to rate it up there with his other great albums..
Another of my favorites is hours, but it's difficult to place that high on a list of top Bowie albums
>>60745711
Never was crazy about Station to Station. It was probably the cocaine.
>>60745227
Your right. Phil Collins owns that album cover formula
>>60744198
Let's Dance
Reality
>>60745672
>>60745711
They feel like sister albums to me. Both are transfixed with the occult, and both feel like letters home in a way. More personal than the albums with characters that lay in between them.
>>60745786
I felt this with blackstar, but from the look of the video I think that's what he was going for there.
>>60745786
The discarded version of Outside is pretty dark
https://youtu.be/qrLtuHhC9o4
What is David Bowie's most spiritual album?
What is his most personal album?
Finally what is his most dark and bleak album?
>>60745907
>spiritual
Heathen
>personal
Reality
>dark
Outside
>>60745907
>Spiritual
Low
>Personal
Scary Monsters
>Dark
Outside
Fun fact: David Bowie hates Station to Station but LOVES Lodger. Really.
>>60746176
I think Station to Station is the coolest album ever made by a white person. For real
>>60746176
I thought he forgot recording Station to Station from all the cocaine. Or maybe he just said that to undo the whole fascist debacle.
>>60746176
Probably because he has no recollection of recording S2S
>>60745944
Objectively true.
>>60746176
wwwwhhhaaaaaa we're going to need a source.
>>60746176
>Divorce
>Cocaine was essentially 80% of his blood.
>Can't remember recording it.
>Was into the occult and paranoid of literal semen demons.
>Only 6 tracks
>Was okay with nazis
>Was okay with LA being nuked
Bowie had a hard life senpai. Do you blame him for not loving this album?
>>60745058
I love Lodger. Probably in my top ten
>>60746328
iselect seems to hint at this i'd say
underrated
>>60746641
I wholeheartedly agree.
Was he better on cocaine or off?
>>60745907
Station to Station has his most spiritual track: Word On A Wing.
I honestly love it all. I spent my birthday doing drugs and listening to his discography. BEST DAY OF MY LIFE. FUCK YOU
>>60747250
Go to bed Thin White Duke
I often spend extended periods listening to nothing but Bowie discography and instead of thinking of albums, I think of groups of albums:
>five years
Self-titled through to Diamond Dogs
>Ziggy
Ziggy - Diamond dogs
>Early
Self-titled - Hunky Dory
>FunkSoul
Diamond-Dogs - Station to Station
>Kraut years
Station - Lodger
>Best years
Station - Scary Monsters
>Berlin
Low - Lodger
>80s
Scary Monsters - Never Let Me Down
>Pop
Let's Dance - Black Tie
>90s
Black Tie - Hours
>New
Heathen - The Next Day
>90s trip
Buddha - Earthling
Try some of these playlists, you will enjoy. :)
>>60747373
I'll point out that in context, the often maligned Tonight sounds pretty good when sandwiched between the superior Let's Dance and Never Let Me Down. It's not a great album on it's own but I used to like it on side-B of my Let's Dance c90 and it was widely known as "Let's Dance some more."
>>60747373
Early should also have Deram.
>>60745907
>Spiritual
Heathen
>Personal
Lodger
>Dark
Heros
>>60747683
Heathen or Heros? There can be only one!
>>60747844
Heros you mook.
Outside is Bowie's greatest album. Fight me!
>>60745672
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--wR2m8bNio
>>60745714
not amazing as a whole
but Space oddity, unwashed and somewhat slightly dazed and cygnet comittee
make the album amazing
I'd say Ziggy Stardust, Station to Station and Heroes are the essential 3, but really every album from The Man Who Sold the World to Let's Dance (not including Pin Ups) + 1. Outside are really great.
>you will never even write one song as good as David Bowie
>let alone put out a classic record every year for ten years
>let alone put out solid records for 45+ years
Why even live? To listen to Bowie records of course. :'3
Just listen chronologically and if you don't like something I guess you don't have to listen to it
>>60752982
>you will never fuck Bowie's wife while he watches
>>60746993
He wrote all his best on, but we won't get to know if he had those songs in him without coke
>>60753278
His best song Ashes to Ashes was supposedly crafted straight. It is far more finely crafted and subtle than any of the coke-era music, which is a bit bombastic in comparison.
>>60753002
>>60752982
They probably had their threesome(s)
>>60753321
I heard him say once he was on til the mid eighties or longer
>>60753331
I read that actually happened. Bowie watched Jagger fuck his wife Angie.
>>60753426
wow
>>60744623
Have you seen the back cover?
>>60748524
Agree though I've only heard a few lol Momentous album
the first three albums on hunky dory are good but the rest are shit. every song on ziggy star dust is good except for suffrage city.
ziggy star dust > hunky dory
