Cripes! You're missing out. Easily the man's finest acting job.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 21 March 2003 08:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
― willem (willem), Friday, 21 March 2003 08:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
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!
― Tad (llamasfur), Friday, 21 March 2003 08:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
Bowie's outfit in that video! brrrr
― willem (willem), Friday, 21 March 2003 09:02 (twenty-one years ago) link
but if we exclude 1980 then 'modern love'
― geeta (geeta), Friday, 21 March 2003 10:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Friday, 21 March 2003 10:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tijn, Friday, 21 March 2003 10:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
― piscesboy, Friday, 21 March 2003 10:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
― willem (willem), Friday, 21 March 2003 10:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
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.
― russ t, Friday, 21 March 2003 11:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
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.
― Tijn, Friday, 21 March 2003 11:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
― willem (willem), Friday, 21 March 2003 11:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
If we exclude 1980, then "This Is Not America" which I believe was released in 1984.
― Jonathan, Friday, 21 March 2003 12:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, 21 March 2003 13:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
― dave q, Friday, 21 March 2003 15:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
So, 'Let's Dance'.
Film, 'Ziggy Stardust: The Motion Picture'!
― James Ball (James Ball), Friday, 21 March 2003 15:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 21 March 2003 16:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mike Taylor (mjt), Saturday, 22 March 2003 03:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Amateurist (amateurist), Saturday, 22 March 2003 04:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Saturday, 22 March 2003 13:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 22 March 2003 13:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 22 March 2003 13:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
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?
― Mike (mratford), Sunday, 23 March 2003 21:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
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 cityFrom Vivian at Pentecost LaneA shrieking and dancing till 4 a.m.Another night of muscles and painI love you despite your convictionsThat 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 visionAnd offered you redemption from sinI'm not saying that I don't believe youBut are you sure that it really was himI've been told that it couldn've been blue cheeseOr the meal that we ate down the roadHallelujah
Quality vaudeville, and a salient warning to believers in the talking fish.
― Momus (Momus), Monday, 24 March 2003 04:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
so that one.
― pisces (piscesx), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 12:55 (seventeen years ago) link
And I'm now finally able to see what the coffee achievers fuzz was all about :-)(still haven't seen the Hunger though...)
― willem -- (willem), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 16:31 (seventeen years ago) link
song: loving the alien. his most thoughtful 80's pop song.
scary monsters belongs with low/heroes/lodger.
― Emily B (Emily B), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 03:27 (seventeen years ago) link
we did a Loving The Alien edit if anyone fancies it:
http://tinyurl.com/2vdw985
― piscesx, Monday, 7 June 2010 01:31 (thirteen years ago) link