It's like saying "I don't get Kraftwerk". The only response to that is I bet you don't get a lot of things...
― jsoulja (jsoulja), Friday, 6 January 2006 18:15 (eighteen years ago) link
If I want glam I go T. Tex instead. If I want proto-new wave: I go Kevin Ayers and Robert Wyatt and Eno and Roxy Music. If I want theatrical art-rock I go Peter Hammill and Vandergraaf. If I want a record that is better proto-punk than Bowie I go Nadir's Last Chance. If I want weird psych-folk then, again, I go Tyrannosaurus Rex or even Tim Buckley. If I want orchestral, showtune weirdness then I go Scott Walker. If I want the best street-wise rock I go VU's Loaded. If I ever want guitar madness then I go the Sweet Sister Ray bootleg. Not to mention Alex Harvey, Steve Harley, Alice Cooper, the Cockettes, and Jobriath all fit in here somewhere.
Call us folks who don't suck Bowie's dick clueless but everywhere you turn are artists with greater vision than Bowie whom he cannibalized so he could turn himself into some mythical rock star legend.
As for the the "gay issue" so to speak, the Cockettes are super-esoteric but they challenged anti-gay stereotypes more radically than Bowie ever did.
― QuantumNoise (Justin Farrar), Friday, 6 January 2006 18:31 (eighteen years ago) link
i hate them a LOT.
― don't start a RYE-OTT! (plsmith), Friday, 6 January 2006 18:33 (eighteen years ago) link
I only dislike Super Furry Animals a little.
― TRG (TRG), Friday, 6 January 2006 18:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― don't start a RYE-OTT! (plsmith), Friday, 6 January 2006 18:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― don't start a RYE-OTT! (plsmith), Friday, 6 January 2006 18:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Friday, 6 January 2006 18:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 6 January 2006 18:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 6 January 2006 18:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 6 January 2006 19:00 (eighteen years ago) link
Ok, this is pretty much spot on, and he's admitted as much, but that's part of his brilliance. Musicians are almost always the product of their influences- it's what influences they choose and how they build from them that defines their greatness. Bowie's choice of influences were exceptional, and in the process of chasing them he created his own unique vision.
Yeah but they never cracked mainstream pop and rock radio the way Bowie did. Disco-bashing, gun rack sporting, "Stones Rule!" "Stairway To Heaven is the best song EVER!" guys grew up listening to Bowie tracks and still loved him enough to keep him in that arena, despite all those rumors that he and Mick Jagger were playing leap frog, despite the fact that DB's stage persona had some serious ponce leanings.
― jsoulja (jsoulja), Friday, 6 January 2006 19:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― TRG (TRG), Friday, 6 January 2006 19:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― ZR (teenagequiet), Friday, 6 January 2006 19:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Friday, 6 January 2006 19:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― bb (bbrz), Friday, 6 January 2006 19:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 6 January 2006 19:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sundar (sundar), Friday, 6 January 2006 19:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sundar (sundar), Friday, 6 January 2006 19:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― don't start a RYE-OTT! (plsmith), Friday, 6 January 2006 19:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― jsoulja (jsoulja), Friday, 6 January 2006 20:16 (eighteen years ago) link
Everyone abolutely adores Blurt.
― Michael J McGonigal (mike mcgonigal), Friday, 6 January 2006 20:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 6 January 2006 20:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― TRG (TRG), Friday, 6 January 2006 20:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 6 January 2006 20:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― don't start a RYE-OTT! (plsmith), Friday, 6 January 2006 20:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 6 January 2006 20:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Friday, 6 January 2006 20:43 (eighteen years ago) link
Hate Bob Marley fans? There's nothing easier....
― jsoulja (jsoulja), Friday, 6 January 2006 20:45 (eighteen years ago) link
And yeah, I've never meant anyone who doesn't like Cash.
― TRG (TRG), Friday, 6 January 2006 20:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― TRG (TRG), Friday, 6 January 2006 20:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Michael J McGonigal (mike mcgonigal), Friday, 6 January 2006 20:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― don't start a RYE-OTT! (plsmith), Friday, 6 January 2006 20:51 (eighteen years ago) link
(Jumps in getaway car!)
― TRG (TRG), Friday, 6 January 2006 20:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Friday, 6 January 2006 21:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Friday, 6 January 2006 21:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― don't start a RYE-OTT! (plsmith), Friday, 6 January 2006 21:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― jsoulja (jsoulja), Friday, 6 January 2006 21:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― jsoulja (jsoulja), Friday, 6 January 2006 21:18 (eighteen years ago) link
xpost- phear my word powah
― o. nate (onate), Friday, 6 January 2006 21:19 (eighteen years ago) link
im not saying he's not awesome, but he probably says a lot of things.
― don't start a RYE-OTT! (plsmith), Friday, 6 January 2006 21:21 (eighteen years ago) link
while i certainly dont hate cash, i am SO SICK of hearing about him right now (flashback to 2004's ray charles adulation/backlash), ill veto him.
― don't start a RYE-OTT! (plsmith), Friday, 6 January 2006 21:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Friday, 6 January 2006 21:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― don't start a RYE-OTT! (plsmith), Friday, 6 January 2006 21:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― TRG (TRG), Friday, 6 January 2006 21:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― don't start a RYE-OTT! (plsmith), Friday, 6 January 2006 21:28 (eighteen years ago) link
Stand up to the crowd! Who cares what they think. If you like something, it shouldn't matter whether everyone else does or not. Who is more of a creature of the crowd: the one who sheepishly follows the crowd taste, or the one who always has a knee-jerk reaction against it?
xpost: i'll go along with ccr
― o. nate (onate), Friday, 6 January 2006 21:29 (eighteen years ago) link
xpost
― TRG (TRG), Friday, 6 January 2006 21:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― Billy Pilgrim (Billy Pilgrim), Friday, 6 January 2006 21:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Friday, 6 January 2006 21:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Friday, 6 January 2006 21:33 (eighteen years ago) link