bowie vs. mccartney

Yeah, I could listen to such a thing, but then again, Changes is to me about hits, and I like Bowie albums. Shit, I remember when people could get seriously gay-bashed for owning a Bowie album. I witnessed it at school. With McCartney, personally I can't get past the "Grandma likes it" factor. I just have no need to hear that stuff no matter how high quality it is, whereas I follow Bowie to this day.

My grandparents can't stand Paul McCartney, fwiw.

man it must have sucked to grow up in the seventies

Peak value: Bowie by sizable margin
Career value: McCartney by a hair
voting Bowie

http://also.kottke.org/misc/images/bowie-hair.gif

Changesbowie

Funny, I remember being in the shop with my mum and pocket money, pondering between "Life on Mars" with the pic cover, and "Live and let die", I was definitely prompted towards Macca by mother.

I mean, I did like the record, (preferred the b-side), and I did get that single+pic about 10 years ago in a boot sale.

It didn't suck to grow up in the seventies - at least in the U.S., but it was frustrating for people coming out of the sixties and the rock and roll era - the excitement of new 45's to buy and play - to not hear all of the excellent black artists who were around back then. The funk records were getting the shaft. Bowie would come out with something and the radio would play it just enough for you to form a lasting memory. Then he'd be forgotten and come back again with something very different, like an uncle you'd see only a couple of years. For a kid fed up with the whiteness of rock music it was exciting, in a way those other white cats weren't. Plus conservative people hated him....reason to stay up and watch him on TV:

http://youtu.be/NkefglL9c4c

it's like he's turned into his hero/ziggy-prototype gene vincent

Peak value: Bowie by sizable margin
Career value: McCartney by a hair
voting Bowie

just want to say that giving mccartney's career the edge on account of his hair is a terrible mistake

Between those two songs, "Suffragette City." Career value, McCartney by a wide margin if the Beatles count, Bowie if they don't. Peak, McCartney by a bit if the Beatles count, Bowie if they don't.

"Martha My Dear" one of his greatest for me.

figure paul's beatles work has to count in his favor, cuz, well, he was in the beatles. wrote songs for em and everything. given that, he takes this on both peaks & career. bowie's hair is hella cool tho.

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The other point:

McCartney can sing, Bowie can't.

― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)

there's crazy talk ITT but this is special

Among the more pointless Apple and orange hair comparisons ever.

Funny I always thought Bowie over-sang on everything. Loves some vibrato.

Love Bowie, his terrible singing has nothing to do with it.

would any of bowie's major records be improved by better singing?

these days I entertain the idea of Ian Hunter singing the Ziggy tunes.

Dylan often wrote terrible lyrics, sometimes in the same song. Don't see the big deal pointing out Bowie's schtick.

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There is definitely a story being told through these pictures:

http://i.imgur.com/lhoKEHw.png

http://i.imgur.com/BpjqoDS.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/pNkVSya.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/WnXWl6S.jpg

1973, 1985, 1995, 1999?

McCartney is my favourite Beatle and I still hate his guts
Ooh you wrote a bassline
Blackbird is tight, every other song a negative sum
Bowie the best argument in history for magic > chops

Are those the captions for the four pics?

about flippin' time