Bowie's 80's work - OPO

Cripes! You're missing out. Easily the man's finest acting job.

favorite eighties bowie song -- "absolute beginners." and i have a soft spot for the bowie/mick jagger "dancing in the streets" video -- campier than rob halford, sylvester, the village people, and turbonegro put together!

Bowie's outfit in that video! brrrr

but if we exclude 1980 then 'modern love'

Some of Let's Dance, too.

As unpopular as this will be, too, I loved the Baal song he did, and also the spoken intro from the Glass Spider album - he has the most amazing speaking voice.Shit album, though, apart from Time Will Crawl.

Film..... The Hunger was a great, if dated, classic.

Oh yeah, that's why the search missed it.

>Shit album, though, apart from Time Will Crawl

With most of Bowie's '80s albums I feel they work very well as a whole, but the individual tracks hardly stand out. Never Let Me Down: great atmosphere/mood and it sort of rocks, but indeed, apart from Time Will Crawl and the spoken intro no song would stand on its own. Tonight: nice and easy album, but play a single track (apart from Loving The Alien) and you'll find yourself reaching for any of his 70s albums to convince yourself he IS amazing.
However, Scary Monsters is a singles album and hasn't got much beside those.

By the way, is there anyone else who thinks Tin Machine II is a very good album? The first was far too much of the same, and lots of chaotic noise, but the second... Amlapura, Shopping For Girls... great stuff.

If we exclude 1980, then "This Is Not America" which I believe was released in 1984.

So, 'Let's Dance'.

Film, 'Ziggy Stardust: The Motion Picture'!

the skeletal remake of "Space Oddity"

I used to think that I was a bit of a Bowie fan but I've never heard of this. Any good?

I agree with the lone voice mentioning the Baal EP as a highlight. A very important record for me personally.

And I agree that Tin Machine was somewhat better than people at the time were prepared to admit. Take 'Bus Stop':

There's a cry that is heard in the city
From Vivian at Pentecost Lane
A shrieking and dancing till 4 a.m.
Another night of muscles and pain
I love you despite your convictions
That God never laughs at my jokes

I'm a young man at odds with the Bible
But I don't pretend faith never works
When we're down on our knees
Praying at the bus stop

Now Jesus he came in a vision
And offered you redemption from sin
I'm not saying that I don't believe you
But are you sure that it really was him
I've been told that it couldn've been blue cheese
Or the meal that we ate down the road
Hallelujah

Quality vaudeville, and a salient warning to believers in the talking fish.

so that one.

And I'm now finally able to see what the coffee achievers fuzz was all about :-)
(still haven't seen the Hunger though...)

song: loving the alien. his most thoughtful 80's pop song.

scary monsters belongs with low/heroes/lodger.

we did a Loving The Alien edit if anyone fancies it:

http://tinyurl.com/2vdw985