David Bowie
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Bowie thread
Discuss songs, albums, Bowie in general.
What is his best song? Album?
There's not much that hasn't been said before.
Best albums depends on your taste. Low and less so Heroes are more experimental. Station to Station is more melodic. Then there is other good stuff like Ziggy, Scary Monsters and so on. Haven't listened to his last record yet.
Low or blow
>DO YOU WONDER SOMETIIIIIMES
>>64125117
BOUT SOUND AND VISION
What are your thoughts on Heroes?
>>64125042
Best albums:
>Ziggy stardust
>low
>station to station
>Heroes
Hunky Dory is probably my favorite. The Bewlay Brothers is the best track on it.
>>64125042
his reading of peter and the wolf is superb
favourite songs
>its no game (part 2)
>life on mars?
>lady stardust
>rock n roll suicide
>dollar days
>subterraneans
>blackout
>ashes to ashes
>joe the lion
>up the hill backwards
>>64125141
Low>station>heroes>ziggy
>>64125139
Definitely his best since Scary Monsters.
>>64125139
Not as good since it's like a reprise of Low
If I heard it first I would probably like it more
Still fucking amazing, those two along with Station to Station and Scary Monsters are his best in my opinion
>>64125139
I'll be frank—it's all IMO, but I liked Low more. The first two songs on Heroes excellent, although less progressive, and Heroes is obviously god-tier. But then it all takes a huge step back to Bowie's early career, with that fucking piano again, and even the guitars and progressive elements don't save it. It's also pretty filler-ish stuff. Then comes V2-Schneider and 2 tracks of movie music which is good but still not on the level of Low. The last track is good but again, suffers from Bowie's outdated heritage.
My personal top 5
Station to Station
Ziggy
Low
Blackstar
Scary Monsters
>>64125232
>life on mars?
>ashes to ashes
>joe the lion
Top-notch picks
Anyone here like The Next Day?
Best song without a doubt:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyC0rXYSqd0
>>64125388
What happens in the next day after being a hero for just one day?
>>64125395
>implying this isn't the best early Bowie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKMSgZo9c8s
>>64125476
They probably split up. I think people over-estimate the optimism of that song.
rock n roll suicide is a masterpiece
>>64125388
IMO it's good but kind of unambitious- most of it feels like a retread of some earlier Bowie phase, only not as good. I prefer Blackstar.
>>64125315
hi Frank
I'll be George
>>64125298
>>64125042
Never really listened to bowie, where do i start
>>64125606
Work your way through his entire 70s catalog up until Let's Dance. You're bound to like at least one album from that era.
then..
then stop.
>>64125606
Skip his first album, listen to everything chronologically and end with Scary Monsters Super Freaks.
>>64125626
>then stop
nah his 90s stuff and heathen are great same with blackstar
>>64125042
ITT you realise Bowie and Trump have the same haircut
>>64125606
Ziggy or Hunky Dory
Or just start from the very beginning to fully see how his music evolves over time
>>64125626
>not liking Outside
>>64125117
it's DON'T YOU WONDER
>>64125679
oh yeah should of mentioned that.
he gets good again in the mid-90s
>>64125693
Bowie had at least 6 different haircuts. Bowl cut, pre-glam hair, glam mullet, Station to Station slicked back/pompadour, '90s long hair and then some other too.
Am i the only one who loves Reality?
>>64125966
I hate that cover so much
>>64125966
this is like the worst fucking album cover i've ever seen
literally, what the fuck was he thinking?
>>64125981
Yeah, the cover is shit, looks a little childish, but the album is very good.
>>64125966
very good
Bring Me The Disco King is GOAT
Diamond Dogs is his best, hands down.
>>64126053
nah but it is very fucking underrated on /mu/
Ashes to Ashes might be my favorite Bowie song ever, although i don't like Scary Monsters that much.
>>64126053
I genuinely believe DD is his best glam rock album. Fuck these MUH ALADDIN SANE PIANO memers on here.
>>64125697
>Outside
This album is so underrated. Listening to it now all of the Jazz/industrial fusion stuff makes it feel like an earlier version of Blackstar.
>>64126053
THIS AINT ROCK N ROLL
THIS IS GENOCIIIIDE
>>64126068
Same. That pre-chorus melody is fantastic.
I genuinely think this is Bowie's worst album, jesus christ, even worse than that late 80's and 90's shit he made, and Pin Ups was at the height of his talent, how could he make this?
>>64126107
>Pin Ups
>height of his talent
'77 is calling, he says you're WRONG
>>64126118
I mean, the whole 70's decade was the height of his talent.
Every Bowie fan should hear this.
>>64126070
Never understood Aladdin Sane to be honest. That piano was outdated even in in the '70s
station to station best album
thin white duke best persona
best hair too
runner up to all of em is blackstar
>>64126157
I apologize, then, and I agree.
>>64126053
Wouldn't go that far, but Sweet Thing-Candidate-Sweet Thing Reprise is definitely one of the very best things he ever did.
YO GURL, WE CALL' EM THE DIAMOND DOGS
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>>64126818
Underrated.
>>64125388
I like it, it's like if Bowie made a greatest hits album out of entirely new songs
>>64125966
I get New Killer Star stuck in my head all the time, and the rest of the album is good too. Shame about the cover.
>>64126107
I honestly don't get the hate for Pin Ups, it's not my favorite by any means but there are some decent covers on it, and it's got a comfy feeling to it.
>>64126207
I go back and forth between S2S, Blackstar, and Scary Monsters all the time. Agree 100% about the Thin White Duke though
>>64126818
>Running Gun Blues
>>64127706
>I slash them cold, I kill them dead
>I broke the gooks, I cracked their heads
what did he mean by this?
>>64127424
I agree.
"Heroes" is my favorite song of all time, I don't care if that makes me a pleb.
Also, his most underrated song is Jump (They Say), try to prove me wrong
I love Bowie. Still working through his whole catalogue. Favorite is (pleb choice I know) Ziggy Stardust sill.
Does anyone have that pic with alternate "Heroes" covers?
>>64127860
in wallpaper form
>>64127865
Thanks senpai, appreciate the quick response.
>>64125998
It was made by the same guy who did the heathen cover. How could he make such a good cover then such a shit one? It's crazy.
Young Americans confirmed for most underrated. The album is all great stuff except for the Beatles cover.
>>64126107
It's a fuckin cover album, shouldn't even be lumped in with the rest of his discography
>>64127881
i saw it just as I refreshed the thread
no worries
>>64127860
maybe
HERE I AM
NOT QUITE DYING
>>64127900
It looks like it was made by a kid.
Like a fucking boyband cover or something.
>>64125966
What always bothered me about the album cover is that both of his eyes are blue. Bowie's eyes are pretty iconic, how could they get this wrong
>>64128083
It really blows my mind how it happened. Heathen is some of my favorite Bowie album art, what were they thinking. It looks like some kind of strange early 2000s internet explorer themed anime version of Bowie.
Stfu ziggy bullshit everyone knows low's easily his best
My favorite songs
Ashes to Ashes
Sound and Vision
Station to Station
Sons of the Silent Age
Kingdom Come
My favorite albums
Station to Station
Scary Monsters
Low
Lodger
Aladdin Sane
Although I haven't listened to most of Tonight through Reality
I'm personally into his Berlin Era stuff but I heavily enjoy just about every album he made in the late 60s to early 80s. Outside had some great tracks here and there. I would say Heathen was his best album since Scary Monsters at the time. His 10s output was really great especially Blackstar.
>>64125709
word
Who here likes the ambient pieces of Heroes? I hated them when I was younger but I chalked it up to not liking ambient. Listened to Low years later and love the second half.
>>64128710
Me. Have you checked out any of Brian Eno's discography?
>>64127776
he hates koreans
>>64128710
V 2 Schneider, Sense of Doubt and Nekoln are very good but for some reason I hate Moss Garden, it just sounds like he didn't even try.
Just tried listening to Low and it was pretty disappointing
Aside from the first song this album every song on this album is at least good, some even great, it deserves more love.
>>64129149
In the same way, this album doesn't get the love it deserves. It's pretty spotty but definitely is more Hunky Dory/TMWStW than David Bowie(1967)
>>64128244
I think it was supposed to represent the themes of the album. It still looks shit though.
super sjw Friends said they where glad he died and he is burning in hell when he died. lol
>>64129894
why
>>64129894
Tell me his is bait.
>>64130122
they said he was a nazi sympathizer pedophile or some shit
