What's the best David Bowie album and why is it Station to Station?
>>60367920
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, 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. Each element of his art is the emblem of a true artistic movement however, the ensemble of those emblems constitutes no more than a puzzle, no matter how intriguing, of symbols, a roll of incoherent images projected against the wall at twice the speed, a dictionary of terms rather than a poem, and, in the best of hypotheses, a documentary of the cultural fads of his era. Reading the chronicles of his times, it is clear that what caused sensation was the show, not the music. The show that Bowie set up was undoubtedly in sync with the avantgarde, as it fused theater, mime, cinema, visual art, literature and music. However, Bowie merely recycled what had been going on for years in the British underground, in particular what had been popularized by the psychedelic bands of 1967. And he turned it into a commodity: whichever way you look at his oeuvre, this is the real merit of it.
>>60367947
Nice pasta m8
>>60367947
Wow great argument fagtron you sure convinced me with those hot opinions.
>>60367920
>implying any full bowie album is good
>>60367976
>>60367978
still pasta but yall know it's true :^)
>>60367920
that's not Scary Monsters
>>60368027
No, it's not
Diamond Dogs has always been my favorite
>>60368308
my BROTHER
>>60367920
>Not ziggy stardust
It's Low
>>60367920
everyone already knows it's Station to Station.
In concert he basically just plays Station to Station. It's his set.
Faggots will try to tell you his Berlin albums are better-- but only a few singles are. STS is the most consistently good.
>>60368398
Ziggy is the best album.
>no bad songs
>one of the greatest overarching stories in an album
you just cant deny it.
>>60369540
Ziggy is his best art rock record
>>60368739
Station to Station is his best dance record.
Dance Bowie > Rock Bowie.
Station to Station wins.
I love the Berlin Trilogy, but the second half of Low is just not anywhere near as interesting as the first, Heroes is just kinda muddled, and Lodger, my favorite of the three, is still very muddled.
>>60369602
>dancing to station to station
Have you actually heard it? It's practically krautrock. Not dance music.
Just for one day.
>>60369645
okay. nothing beats that. but it's just a single
not an album
>>60367920
your world just turned inside out
>>60369637
>not dancing to krautrock
>>60369665
i think hunky dory might be my favorite #sorrynotsorry #kthxbai
>>60369691
I'D RATHER BE HIGH
>>60367920
Best album
Prove me wrong
When you rank Bowie's albums, there are 10 or so that are his best, puting just one album at nr 1 is blasphemy
>>60371408
fuck off
>>60371690
But he's right, although I would limit that number to around 3-5 instead of 10.
>>60368308
>>60368379
Shit I always thought it was just me
Cyberpunk before cyber or punk, and a rock opera to boot. Right up my alley.
look at this picture and you tell me
>>60368308
>>60368379
>>60371751
THIS AINT ROCK N ROLL, THIS IS GENOCIDE
>It's too late
>To be late again
What did he mean by this?
>>60372864
Fuckin fuck yeah
>>60372921
The situation is too severe to be late again, you can't fuck around anymore. It's gone down. The European cannon is here.
>>60367920
It's my mums favourite. I'm not sure about mine, sort of stuck between Low and this.
>>60369637
One of the best evenings of my life was just me and my friend in a kitchen at a party, both of us off our fucking faces drunk, and he was sketching me dancing to Station to Station all the way through
ANDY WALKING
ANDY TIRED
ANDY TAKE A LITTLE SNOOZE
>>60367920
hes a strategyst
>>60373348
that would be brian eno
>>60373323
What a bloody boring thing to do.
david bowie is shit
>>60373414
>>60373323
>tfw Andy Warhol didn't like the song because he thought Bowie was making fun of him
Andy you silly man Bowie was basically your musical equivalent.
>>60373370
brian god
