Looking back on it now, Bowie was pretty fucking tacky looking in the 90s. But what did people think of it back then? Did they think it was just typical 90s fashion, or did they realize how bad he looked even back then?
>>61801825
The 90s where when Bowie was getting old.
That is why both of those things.
SOME
>>61801857
BODY
>>61801853
>The 90s where when Bowie was getting old.
>That is why both of those things.
they don't think it be how it is but it do
>>61801825
>implying that doesn't look cool af
>>61801825
Nah, he was still pretty bad ass. The hair/goatee/earring was pretty standard for the time. He pulled it off because he didn't look his age, what with his teenage hairline and all.
Hey kids, it's Bitchin' Bowie!! Get ready to have your mind blown by some RAD and EXTREME tunes!!!
>hating on this
Nice try, fag
>>61801825
Thank god for 2000s Bowie.
>>61801912
>>61801928
It's a pretty cool look t b h
He looked fine during the production of Outside
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpSQUTRq3Bg
>>61801825
>what did people think of it back then?
As i recall, no one thought much of his look one way or the other, or his music either. He was an elder statesman at that point so no one was going to talk shit, but no one other than long times fans gushed about it.
>2016
>still thinking bowie had different colored eyes
shiggity diggity doo
Wasn't a lot of that just what was popular in the 90's. It was fucking tacky in general. David Bowie just fell into that trap.
>>61801934
What a wonderful looking man
>>61801825
why did you post a picture of gary busey?
>forgetting Soccer Mom Haircut+Casual Sweater Bowie
>>61801928
this image must be why people are calling him a pedophile
Bowie's best look was in his final years. Prove me wrong
>>61802354
>>61801934
Eh, there was still that weird time around 2003-ish where he looked like somebody's lesbian aunt.
>>61802691
Bad clothing choices, but he still looks good from the neck up
quasi-Warhol Bowie is underrated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdL3NR9Yno0
Zoolander Bowie is a miracle of the universe.
>>61801920
he's pointing at us...
>>61802074
what are you fucking gay?
of course you are, you faggot.
>>61802691
my lesbian sister in law looks almost exactly like bowie in this photo
Dont get me wrong, i dont find david bowie ugly or anything, but why do wimen find him sexy when hes slim with no muscels.
Is it just cause hes famous or is it his sensual voice and attitude, or do they really find him sexy just by his looks?
The reason i wanna know this is because im slim myself, with no muscles, so i would like to know if theres any hope for me.
>>61803205
Are you also a famous musician?
>>61802912
Fun fact David Bowie had his own internet service provider
>>61803205
It's because he was an interesting person and not a forever loser like you, you basic beta bitch
>>61803205
I don't really have any hots for him or really care about his body, but I enjoy looking at his face. The Man Who Fell to Earth was eye candy from beginning to end.
Is your face this good, anon?
>>61803205
see
>>61803200
this is a music board
>>61802492
He looks like a spooky, hungry skeleton
circa 93 man...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7777sdhMwFg
>>61801934
Looks sorta like Sean Bean there
>>61802691
>>61801920
>>61803205
You can tell just by his attitude and demeanor he has a big dick.
>>61801825
why was bowie so impressionable
>>61801928
bowie was /fa/ as fuck
those shades
He was off putting because he was getting old. It was weird he was prancing round in that union jack trench coat like he was the prodigy guy. But that's what he'd been doing his whole career. Looking at what's hip and copying it.
His music of the 90s alone was really good though.
>>61805744
>bowie was /fa/ as fuck
congratulations on the most banally obvious sentiment of the century
your special trophy is being mailed to you as I type this
>>61801825
Bowie was alright by comparison, this is what the rest of the 90's looked like.
the way he dressed made sense at the time, it was the 90's.
He was hanging out with trent reznor as well.
Bowie was trying to hang out int the late 90's electronic scenes like industrial and d&b
>>61801825
he looks fine hypebeast
>>61806733
He looks like he could be dressed in Margiela of that period. You're right, he looks pretty fashionable for the time.
>>61805135
If you look at any random Bowie concert, you can immediately tell what era its from by the fashion and to a lesser extent musical approach.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNqo0kIR-TU
Seriously, everything about this performance exudes that time period. The only thing that is unchanged is the song Ashes to Ashes (albeit played in a really 2000's way).
It really worked in the 70's and 80's, because the general aesthetic of those time periods were really distinctive and fashionable. Bowie seemed to never return to that classic/timeless look
It was acceptable in the nineties
>>61806733
He was always fashionable. I think he really fit best with the timeless look of 1980s fashion. A good haircut, leather jacket, and 80s jeans will always look good.
Bowie had a tendency to overdo his fashion in the 2000's
>>61801825
This Bowie looks rad
>>61806835
you can do that with his music as well, his very early music is him trying to ape the whole 60's folk thing, he even had a song about dylan on hunky dory.
Then the whole glame rock thing happens and he becomez ziggy stardust.
Then during the thin white duke era his music gets real funky and dark and occultic and very 70's.
Then in the 80's he sells out and becomes the biggest pop star in the world with lets dance and modern love and his music is 80's as fuck, people should learn from this, if you are going to sell out make some good tunes.
then he took some time off and came back in the 90's dressing like some extra from the movie hackers and making industrial and D&B music inspired by nin and prodigy.
Then he had a bunch of heart attacks and probably decided he was too old for this shit and just sort of became himself but he still wore nice stuff.
Then he released black star and died
>>61805926
>>His music of the 90s alone was really good though.
"Black tie white noise" ('93) and "hours" ('99) were kinda bad.
>>61806160
those guys are still the only (non classical) concert i've ever been to
i remember they actually UNIRONICALLY covered Kanye West's Stronger
>>61807117
>if you are going to sell out make some good tunes.
Let's Dance wasn't even expected to be a commercial success in Bowie's eyes. The albums he made afterwards were crap because he kept trying to regain the huge mainstream audience he got with Let's Dance.
>>61807200
I wish i was joking about this but i swear on my life it is true
>>61801825
considering how Bono made the leap from 80's post-punk warrior to 90's pond scum i'm gonna say that old rockers pretty much just looked like this.
I guess Paul and George were the only ones who didn't go apeshit ugly during the mid 90's.
I think he just went crazy.
He really seems to lack confidence in interviews too, interviewers always seem to undermine his lack of relevance.
>>61801928
I unironically think he looked cool here
>>61801928
>jacking Uncle Al's style
>>61803205
being slim isn't unnatractive if you're not unnatractive, stop listening to bodybuilders pump your head full of nonesense
>>61803287
tfw you have a jew nose and a wide face
i'll never be beautiful like bowie
there's no hope
Like it or not Bowie didn't give a fuck. Well, he did give a fuck about his style but not about weather people liked it or not.
>>61801920
lol
>>61801913
>50 year old man had better hairline than you do at 19
it was the 90s, it was appropriate.
>>61803205
muscles are fucking hideous. perfect combination is not too skinny, not too fat, and not too muscly IMHO
>>61807189
Hours is weird because the album sounds bland but live the songs sound just fine.
>>61808826
>perfect combination is not too skinny, not too fat, and not too muscly
yeah. that's the best look. plus face > body anyways
>>61801825
He lost his way in the 90's but manage to get it back under control by the 00's. Other's just lost it completely.
>>61802691
He looked like Suze Orman...
THE VILLA OF ORMAN... It makes sense now!
>>61806733
Trent Reznor is so fucking wack...Bowie didn't always have good judgement.
>>61801825
90s was a pretty tacky decade in hindsight, with some retarded neo-futuristic clothing ideas. Just see Matrix. But Earrings and goatee were standard 90s fare.
>>61801934
Yeah his Heathen tour look was probably the classiest look he had since the Serious Moonlight look. While I greatly lament the end of his touring days, he stopped while he still looked like a god.
>>61801991
>tfw he finally found his muse again and the record industry shat on him one more time
Man we were all robbed. ;__;
>>61803205
Come on man, I'm no homo but you have to admit that guy is good looking on another level.
None of this is relevant to me since David Bowie lost me after Young Americans. (Hey, a person has a right to their own opinions and musical tastes, so don't go on telling me about how Low, or Heroes, or the new album is the best shit he's ever done! Call me a pleb all you want. I honestly don't care!)
>>61810827
You are a pleb.
>>61810138
His teeth are afwull here
>>61812064
remember the video for 'Heroes'...
>>61812064
it is british thing
would you "fuck" david bowie?
>>61803287
>The Man Who Fell to Earth
Cocaine Bowie was the best Bowie
>>61801825
nobody liked Bowie in the 90s
>>61802912
He's so beautiful it's not even fun
You promised me the ending would be clear
You'd let me know when the time was now
Don't let me know when you're opening the door
Stab me in the dark, let me disappear
>>61810827
But Station to Station is literally Young Americans but GOAT.
How can you not like IT'S TOO LATE
>>61812108
Outside was a good album senpai.
But yeah, appearance wise 2002 was truly a comeback year.
>>61812094
do british people not get braces?
>>61803239
I remember this. I really wanted Bowie to provide me internet access but I don't think bowie.net provided in my area.
>rips his wig off and smears his lipstick twice
>does this instead for the third one
I never got this Was he trying to imitate the Queen?
>>61812505
It's not common unless your teeth are majorly fucked up. There's so requirement to go to the dentist or anything so most people don't bother, even if they get it for free.
>>61812595
I thought the first one was Brian Eno, but dunno who the third one was.
>>61802691
is that Beck?
>>61805038
fuck
Warhol Bowie coming thru
>>61813604
>>>/reddit/
>>61801825
90s bowie was hot af desu lads
>>61813862
those mom jeans...
>>61813604
What the fuck are Demland comics doing on my /mu/? Ogarnij się.
>>61814605
> "/reddit/"
>>>/reddit/
>>61813604
This comic looks like it was literally made to get to the front page of reddit.
>>61801825
JUST
FUCK
>>61801928
Where was he living at that time?
>>61801928
>Blast Tubulation Dude Bowie
![tumblr_nctbuuQQZI1qldrydo1_1280[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/eZ3hZUK.jpg "tumblr_nctbuuQQZI1qldrydo1_1280[1].jpg")
>>61813862
did bowie admire warhol, or make fun of him?
i never could tell, because the lyrics to "andy warhol" make it seem like he sees andy as a joke, but his portrayal of warhol in that film says the opposite.
>>61803205
he was confident enough to be fucking genuine, thats why
>>61812466
TO BE GRATEFUL
>>61813604
Bill Murray has never ever made me laugh and I have no idea why he's "le hilarious old guy lol pls don't die XD" everywhere on the fucking Internet.
>>61815267
Well he was good friends with Lou Reed and Warhol kinda kickstarted his career. Dunno tho
I'd like to imagine this is how Bowie always looked when he was in front of a computer
Spikey hair was definitely I'm style in the 90s
>>61815533
Because people liked Groundhog Day and Ghostbusters when they were 12 and they haven't emotionally matured
>>61810827
I can emphasise in all honesty. When an artist changes direction so radically and easily, you could easily question their credibility for future albums. I love Young Americans but the fact I know Station to Station and the Berlin albums come after instead of more full on white soul albums is a relief
70s>00s>60s>80s>90s
10s is hard to place because of how little we saw him but if I included music videos I'd put it after 70s
>>61815267
Warhol wasn't very flattered for that song, I'll give you that
>>61810827
underage b&
>>61816038
>90's below 80s and 60s
Was Bowie *ever* a trend setter with any of his albums? Or was he just good at adapting to whatever was around? As someone who wasn't alive during his peak years, it's hard to tell in hindsight
>>61816153
He's the main architect of the glam rock style, along with Marc Bolan.
>>61816153
You could argue that he wound up being the first "serious" solo pop musician, or the artist type of sort. I can't think of anyone before him in the seventies with as much of a profile as he had who went in such an experimental, vastly different direction, minus the Beatles who were a band instead. It's not so much a trend as it is an archetype.
>>61814858
it actually was made by a former cult-status Polish webcomic artist, Jakub "Dem" Dębski, who has been drawing comics since at least 2004 and currently is a shitty sellout
The 90s were just tacky.
Was 90s the absolute worst decade for fashion?
>>61816470
Did you forget that Bob Dylan exists or are you ignoring him on purpose?
best bowie
>>61801825
I think 90's were better than both 80's and 60's
fight me fagts
>>61816038
what the hell did he do during the zeroes nigga
Essential Bowie albums? Ive only listened to the 70s era, and they're all incredible, but there's so much more jesus christ i cant pack all this on my 8gb iPod.
>>61817289
>8 gb ipod
station to station is my favorite 70's buoy
>>61801825
Bowie looked pretty based desu
The 90's comeback will be soon and I can't wait to rock my spikey hair and soul patch again.
>>61817289
get a bigger ipod. Not for Bowie, but for music in general.
Listen to *all* his 70s albums, except Pin Ups. Scary Monsters was released in 1980, and it's the only 80s album of his you should bother with. All of his 90s albums deserve at least a listen or two, but if you're only looking for his best material, just go with Outside and Earthling. His 2000s material is okay, but you can skip it. Both 2010s albums are great, especially Blackstar.
I'm not gay, but I'd let the Thin White Duke stick it in my ass and I'd make him breakfast in the morning.
>>61817381
Let's Dance is also a very good record though
70's>10's>90's>80's>60's
fight me
>>61817433
but that's pretty much universally agreed upon by most bowie fans
>>61817495
>most bowie fans
being realistic most bowie fans haven't even heard any of his 90s or 00s work.
>>61817495
Exatcly, but /mu/ Bowie fans will try to argue that 80's and 90's were better than 70's because of reasons
>>61817414
4 songs are good to okay but the rest are a miss
>>61809364
kek
>>61808788
He had his hairline up until he died. So 69-year-old man.
>>61812108
Bruh, Earthling is easily one of my favorites. Listen to Little Wonder, I'm Afraid of Americans, Dead Man Walking and Law (Earthlings on Fire). Amazing tracks and among his best.
>>61802691
looks like 2000s jamie lee curtis
>>61801825
idk man, he was pretty damn /fa/ before and after the 90's
>>61807206
This. It was seen as a gamble to match a disco producer up with an unknown blues guitarist.
>>61816065
please use proper english or i cant properly shit post in response.
>>61801825
you think its tacky, because it was the 90's and now its 2016. Stuff in 2016 will seem tacky in 2026, and so on...its the definition of tacky. Understand?
>>61808788
I'm 26 and bald. Feels weird. Especially since I had long hair for a decade.
>>61801825
he actually looked really cool. Especially this pic with the spiky red hair and all. So i dont know what your talking about.
You're all mocking 90's Bowie but that's like mocking people for having big hair in the 80's. As a kid I thought Bowie looked bad ass as fuck in the Afraid of Americans video. He looked better than alot of people his age in the 90's without being cringe. I wanted to look like him so badly. I also wanted a beeper too.
Nowadays it's silly, but it's context people.
>>61817554
hey
reasons are critical to the distinction
>>61817414
Let's dance is essential core.
>>61817289
Listen to 1970-1983, then check out the 90's any way you choose.
2002's Heathen is required as well.
>>61818133
Are you me, anon?
well, at least my face is ok
>>61818210
Space Oddity is better than The Man Who Sold The World, anon (the albums).
>>61815533
>>61815676
If you've never laughed at Stripes, Scrooged, Ghostbusters or Groundhog Day then you have no soul.
>>61817177
heathen nigga
>>61812108
>nobody liked Bowie in the 90s
But they did, he headlined one of the musics festivals I went to in '96
>not liking Little Wonder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9gc7AWzMoY
>>61816065
knowing warhol i doubt he cared. probably just enjoyed the popularity of being sung about by a pop star
>>61801825
>>61801928
Bowie must have been a little wary of the '90s and its prizing of "authenticity," probably though "well fuck, who can I become now?"
>>61818505
he could have become a rapper
>>61815533
hes the john travolta of comedy
>ie re-styled comeback
>>61818489
so you know him do you?
>>61818688
not anymore cuz he's dead
>>61815267
Apparently when Bowie first met Warhol, Warhol was ambivalent towards him. Later he downright hated him for 'Andy Warhol'.
>>61818449
His voice feels so out of place hahahaha
>>61817289
If you've already gone through everything he made from The Man Who Sold the World to Lodger then check out:
Space Oddity
Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)
Let's Dance
Outside
Earthling
Heathen
The Next Day
Black Star
>>61818489
>Bowie explained that he had not met Warhol when he wrote this song and he got an interesting reaction when he played it for him. Said Bowie: "I took the song to The Factory when I first came to America and played it to him, and he hated it. Loathed it. He went [imitates Warhol's blasé manner] 'Oh, uh-huh, okay...' then just walked away (laughs). I was left there. Somebody came over and said, 'Gee, Andy hated it.' I said, 'Sorry, it was meant to be a compliment.' 'Yeah, but you said things about him looking weird. Don't you know that Andy has such a thing about how he looks? He's got a skin disease and he really thinks that people kind of see that.' I was like, 'Oh, no.'
>>61818980
>you said things about him looking weird
what are the lyrics again?
>>61801825
Looks better than he did in the 70s. You're gonna tell me that a goatee and earring are worse than making yourself look like a transvestite alien covered in facepaint and glitter?
>>61819006
"andy warhol looks a scream"
>>61819051
Yes.
>>61819051
plen
>>61818980
>>61819071
>impying the words are audible at all
andy probably walked away to avoid popping a stiffy in front of his crush
>>61819076
Nothing is more pleb than 70s glam imagery.
>>61818904
source?
its a perfectly unoffensive song
>>61819051
Thin
White
Duke
>>61819097
what? it's very audible.
>>61819137
to an american, nah. "looks a scream" doesn't even make sense in american english, I'd have never guessed that
>>61819114
relax, relax. we already know you're a plen. no need to prove yourself
>>61819286
Of course it does, what the fuck are you dribbling on about you madman?
JUST
http://www.worlds.com/about.html
>>61803205
attitude. Only basic fucks like muscles
>>61819326
why are you having such a hard time comprehending that phrases in british english don't make sense in american english? are you challenged?
>>61819286
if somebody came up to you and said "you look a scream" you could probably figure out that it isn't a compliment.
>>61819389
I'm a gay new yorker and we say "that's a scream!" all the time, what the fuck are you on.
>>61819443
it means you looks outrageously cool, christ are yanks this mentally challenged?
>>61819329
I forgot about this
>>61819491
wtf go away andy warhol. he meant it as a compliment, why can't you understand that
who cares what andy whorehole thought of it?
fucker was the biggest plen of the 20th century
>>61818449
>not liking Little Wonder
Blasphemy.
"Stinky weather fat, shaky hands... Dopey morning doc, grumpy gnomes."
Long-haired middle aged Bowie is best Bowie
>>61819632
>ITS "WAR-HAWL"
>ENTER NAME:
>WARHO
>>61819699
That uncomfortable silence and then both David and the producer laughing it off after "ready?" just makes the song even better.
>>61801825
He kind of looks like Jane's (from Daria) brother Trent but with died hair.
young qt bowie is best bowie
>>61807221
Go to more concerts, anon
>>61812064
I love his teeth. They're part of the charm.
>>61819115
Five Years doc.
>>61820199
>>61820199
>david bowie will never make that face at my small phimosis dick
stop posting pictures of scooter, please respect bowie, rip
Rare pic of 90s Bowie killing 90s Bowie.
>>61819652
kek, nice work anon
>>61817147
is this thin white duke period?
>>61801920
top kek
>>61819652
saved
>>61820904
Yes
>>61817381
>His 2000s material is okay, but you can skip it.
No.
Heathen and Reality are underrated as hell.
>>61803205
The same way guys can both like curvy and skinny girls, girls can do the same with buff / slim guys.
>>61802916
THIS DESU
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>>61822438
Heathen doesn't do much for me, but I love "Slow Burn". Soulful vocals and awesome intro. Reality is great, though.
>>61801928
>>61803205
>was famous
>attractive enough face that his body didn't matter too much
>interesting and arty person
>confidence and charisma
>>61806951
holy shit you're right. He actually looks good af here
>>61801928
It must be said that the shades tie this look together, it would look like shit without them.
outside is his best work
/thread
>>61820199
this made my heart flutter what does it mean
THE 90'S ARE BACK MAN ha
>>61820199
shit idk if i'm straight anymore...
>>61806951
>>61823203
Actually he looks like Stuart Little's dad here
>>61823841
kek
>>61801920
ALL AROUND THE WORLD STATUES CRUMBLE FOR ME
He somehow reminds me of Drew Pickles
>>61802912
He's been listening to his Terence Mckennas here
Which one was his best look?
>>61820883
90's bowie looks like that picture of the dying orangutang in there
>>61824239
The Ziggy Stardust outfit where I'm not sure if it's a full body outfit or him in leggings
>>61824239
Bowie was hung as fuck
>>61819051
Totally. Androgynous sex aliens were not a common sight in the early 70s.That's an image that people don't forget. Spiky hair and a goatee was on everybody in the 90s.
>>61819652
>>61820899
>>61821551
can someone explain why is it that funny pls
>>61824475
it's a meme u dip
>>61824475
the picture implies that david bowie is posting about how sexy he is while pretending to be someone else
>>61802691
>>61801934
>>61824498
the pic is funny but how does it relate to the post?
>>61820199
You know, I never really understood when I've heard my friends talk about "the one guy they'd go gay for" riiiiight up until I saw that .gif.
>>61819115
Read the lyrics? It's a total pisstake of Warhol.
