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― Geir Hongro, Friday, 20 April 2007 19:17 (seventeen years ago) link
I might actually think that Black Star is my favourite of his albums now.
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Sunday, 31 May 2020 15:46 (three years ago) link
who the fuck voted for hours?
― akm, Sunday, 31 May 2020 17:06 (three years ago) link
Came here expecting to see disparaging mention of "Hours". But who else is wondering if this maligned album is suddenly going to see some kind of critical reevaluation?
― Melomane, Sunday, 31 May 2020 18:17 (three years ago) link
Needs a new poll to capture his final two albums
― doug watson, Sunday, 31 May 2020 18:28 (three years ago) link
Also, akm OTM. Even with an emotional connection to hours IRL, I still think it's one of his worst.
― doug watson, Sunday, 31 May 2020 18:31 (three years ago) link
I know it has its fans but after a listen last night I reckon Diamond Dogs needs a lot more love. It kind of gets overshadowed by Ziggy and Aladdin Sane from that period, but is easily better than both IMO. I mean I know it's a tough catalogue (in the sense of being full of crucial gems) but DD is a fucking fantastic album and feels very 2020 in many ways.
― umsworth (emsworth), Sunday, 31 May 2020 20:17 (three years ago) link
i vote: the best of david bowie
― plax (ico), Sunday, 31 May 2020 23:19 (three years ago) link
There's a lot to dislike about Diamond Dogs! Many songs are marred by annoying sax arrangements, I personally have no taste for "Sweet Thing/Candidate" (I do love the demo version of "Candidate" on the Ryko reissue, though), "Rebel Rebel" is not a bad single but it cribs too close to the Stones for me to ever have loved anything but the lyrics of the chorus, "Rock N Roll With Me" is bad, "We Are The Dead" is mostly awkward monologue, I like "1984" but it IS bad disco, and we're back on the annoying saxes again on "Big Brother". Prob my least favourite from that string of albums
― flamboyant goon tie included, Sunday, 31 May 2020 23:27 (three years ago) link
For some reason I’ve never been able to make it through the first track of Diamond Dogs, let alone the whole album. Just felt like the house lights came on or something. aladdin sane is my favorite.
― brimstead, Sunday, 31 May 2020 23:28 (three years ago) link
xp Hmmm well, a toss-up between DD and "Heroes" for my least-favourite "classic" album, I've never understood why it attained classic status (esp with the presence of Bowie's worst 70s original song, "..Arabia")
I love Aladdin Sane-- title track and "Drive-In Saturday" alone
― flamboyant goon tie included, Sunday, 31 May 2020 23:29 (three years ago) link
If any Bowie album needs a reappraisal-- assuming we're all on the same page that "1. Outside" is classic-- it's "The Man Who Sold The World", that album is so crazy good
― flamboyant goon tie included, Sunday, 31 May 2020 23:31 (three years ago) link
(esp with the presence of Bowie's worst 70s original song, "..Arabia")
Now you've gone too far.
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Sunday, 31 May 2020 23:36 (three years ago) link
Anyway, how weird that "Hunky Dory" won this, I think Geir rigged the poll.
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Sunday, 31 May 2020 23:41 (three years ago) link
Ha well clearly the time for the DD reappraisal is Not Yet - although I must say I do like the sax (and like even more Bowie's brutal guitar playing).
Totally agree that TMWSTW is another one that is overlooked/underrated - possibly partly because it didn't have a "marquee" song/single until the Nirvana cover? But when I was a teen I was completely besotted with that one, great songs, great band, amazing SOUND. It has that kind of entropic New Worlds SF darkness that I also associate with Hawkwind and VDGG.
― umsworth (emsworth), Sunday, 31 May 2020 23:43 (three years ago) link
1. Outside is a near masterpiece imo
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 31 May 2020 23:43 (three years ago) link
Outside is so unreal, my favourite Bowie album (though Hunky Dory, Station To Station and Black Star are right up there). My only strike against it (aside from "Hallo Spaceboy" which doesn't do much for me, and yet I prefer it to any of the dud covers on the 70s albums) is a kind-of cheeseball quality in the synthesis of plot and lyric, which I find charming in the same way I find 80s Michael Mann movies charming, but not necessarily engrossing. The lyrics on "Oxford Town" and "Heart's Filthy Lesson" are, to me, sound like they've been typed up in the same font as the cover of Billy Idol's Cyberpunk.
The real winner on TMWSTW is the opening track, "A Width Of A Circle", Bowie never told a better long-form narrative imo, it's all the failures on Space Oddity corrected.
And I don't think it's weird at all that Hunky Dory won... it's wall-to-wall hits. I remember in the 90s, "Quicksand" won 2nd in a Bowie fansite poll for his best song, after "Ashes To Ashes". Even the lesser tracks ("Andy Warhol", "Song For Bob Dylan") are really solid! "Kooks" is prob my favourite "hey guys, we had a kid!" song in existence. Again, it's only the cover song that I would scuttle, aside from a few tracks on "Pin-Ups" I think Bowie's a bad interpreter across the board.
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 1 June 2020 03:34 (three years ago) link
And ya that unfortunately includes "Wild Is The Wind", never liked it :(
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 1 June 2020 03:35 (three years ago) link
idk "fill your heart" is really charming imo, and in any case it's not the "interpretation" that's to blame; have you ever tried to sit through biff rose's original ? it's not exactly pleasant.
i would've voted for "hunky dory" in 2007, as a high school kid, and still would today. it's always been my favorite. "wall-to-wall hits" otm
― budo jeru, Monday, 1 June 2020 04:32 (three years ago) link
Hunky Dory is perhaps his most consistent album, and the one where he truly found his voice imo, but maybe a bit of a boring choice?
― chap, Monday, 1 June 2020 09:34 (three years ago) link