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PostPosted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 10:13 pm 
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"Space Oddity" and "Ziggy Stardust" are two of my favorite songs. However, I've never really heard anything else that I've liked.

basically, reccomend songs, albums and whatnot.

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"queen bitch" and "rebel, rebel" are my 2 favorite bowie songs.

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hunky dory
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oh yeah, i forgot Rebel, Rebel and Changes

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Have you not heard Suffragette City, or did you simply not like it? It's one of my favorites and I personally think "Wham bam thank you ma'am!" is one of the best lyrical hooks of all time.

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pumachik Wrote:
"queen bitch" and "rebel, rebel" are my 2 favorite bowie songs.

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hunky dory
ziggy stardust
the man who sold the world


what she said, plus I actually really like the first side of "low" even though I know its not something I should admit to.

Bowie is fucking Jail as shit but I admire the hell out of him (except for the parts when he had sex with dudes);

"Five Years"---man, that's a cool song.

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For albums, you can't really go wrong with Ziggy Stardust and Hunky Dory; Aladdin Sane is pretty good as well. After that it can be hit or miss. I like Young Americans but there's not a whole lotta love for it.

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I really like Life On Mars.

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Yail Bloor Wrote:
pumachik Wrote:
"queen bitch" and "rebel, rebel" are my 2 favorite bowie songs.

check out:
hunky dory
ziggy stardust
the man who sold the world


what she said, plus I actually really like the first side of "low" even though I know its not something I should admit to.


yeah i dig a few songs on low... but i know most people aren't too fond of this album.

and surfagette city is my #3 bowie song. can't fuck with that track either.

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uh, all of them?

If I had to start from scratch, definitely "Hunky Dory" and "Ziggy Stardust." Once you've absorbed that, move on to "Aladdin Sane," one of my favorites, particularly the title track, "Watch that Man," "Cracked Actor," and "The Prettiest Star." I'd skip "Young Americans" unless you're interested in white boy soul. "Station to Station" is quite good in terms of experimental (the title track and "TVC 15" are good ones). His German phase (Low, Lodger, Heroes) is interesting, but overall not anything I personally crave. "Scary Monsters" is his last great album from the 70s/early 80s, in my opinion.

Skip the 80s stuff unless you're really wanting to hear a very derivative, boring David Bowie.

I actually enjoyed the electronica/drum 'n' bass sound of "Earthling." Not many other people did. Check out "Dead Man Walking," "I'm Afraid of Americans," and "Little Wonder."

"Heathen" was a return to his seventies sound in my opinion. I have not heard anything after that ("Reality") so I can't comment further.

Overall, I think his pre-1980s stuff is the best stuff out there.

If you're lazy, just get one or both of the "Changes" albums or the Bowie "Sound + Vision" box set.


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shiv Wrote:
I really like Life On Mars.


good call. that song rules. its one of those tunes that I'm not ashamed to admit that I came to appreciate because Phish covered it. ("Albaquerque" by Neil Young and "When The Circus Comes To Town" by Los Lobos are two others)


And Pluma: Pitchfork I think actually has Low as its #1 album of the 1970's: I mean its ok and all but its one of those critics things that I'll never get.

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I don't really care for Life On Mars that much.

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Bowie is a dude that has so many "periods" of his career but I tend to like it when he rocks out the best. Some of that Berlin era shit is unlistenable.

I agree with most everything in this thread.

"Watch that Man" should be put on and turned to 11.

I like "Hang on to Yourself" too.


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shiv Wrote:
I really like Life On Mars.


That's one of my favorites too.

I concur with the general recommendations so far

For albums

Ziggy
Hunky Dory
Alladin Sane
The Man Who Sold the World

are top priorities

No real dogs in the 70's...70's Bowie is about as good as it gets.

I agree with but am surprised by the relatively low ranking assigned to Low. Lodger gets little love, but is a real sleeper. Love that album.

Probably as good a place as anywhere to say that as much as I dug Seu Jorge's covers in The Life Aquatic I have a real hard time listening to his album "The Life Aquatic Sessions", 10-15 seconds into each song I just really want to hear Bowie's version instead.


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dr winston o'boogie Wrote:
Probably as good a place as anywhere to say that as much as I dug Seu Jorge's covers in The Life Aquatic I have a real hard time listening to his album "The Life Aquatic Sessions", 10-15 seconds into each song I just really want to hear Bowie's version instead.


I concur. I was at a brewpub over the summer imbibing and they were playing this soundtrack. I kept waiting for the real deal to come on, but no dice. My husband and I had a chuckle over the couple sitting behind us who were debating on who did the song originally (I don't think Bowie's name was ever mentioned).


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Some of that Berlin era shit is unlistenable.
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not even 'heroes'?


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splates Wrote:
Rick Derris Wrote:
Some of that Berlin era shit is unlistenable.
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not even 'heroes'?



Oh don't get me wrong. I own Low, Heroes, and Lodger but it sometimes can just get into studio wankery IMO.

I pull em out occasionally but not as much as that early 70's stuff.


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"Low" is the only of his that I regularly return to. I like both halves.


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i think 'life on mars' may be my favorite song of all time.

i have been obsessed with david bowie lately. listen to him for at least 3 hours a day at work....

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Some Recs:
-Queen Bitch
-Hang On To Yourself
-Oh! You Pretty Things (second fave song from H.D. after "Life on Mars")
-Bombers (possibly the best song - except "Rain" - ever relegated to a B-side)

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ziggy and hunky dory are my favorites.

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David Live and Stages are incredible. I'm iffy on the album-output, but I love a lot of his songs (I know, weird) and these two live albums are killers, especially listened to together. Get the latest remasters (in Digipaks) and you've got several hours of great listening.

Oh, and put me down as a fan of latter-day Bowie, too - starting with Earthling he's put out great album after great album (yes, I even love the much-maligned Hours.)

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Bowie is my vote for the artist who released the most good albums period. Each of the first category I'd give a solid 10 to, and the rest I'd give at least an 8 or 8.5.

Every one of the following albums is essential:

Hunky Dory (singer/songwriter fare)
Ziggy Stardust (straight-ahead guitar-based rock)
Aladdin Sane (surrealist version of ziggy - more experimental - my favorite album)
Station to Station (rhythmically soul with more progressive themes, conceptually more angular and paranoid)
Low (electronic-influenced - Bowie songs on side 1, Eno songs on side 2)
Heroes (same as Low)
Scary Monsters (a recapitulation of everything stylistically from the seventies)

less essential, but still very good:
Diamond Dogs (concept album about 1984 - one of my faves, but not his best)
Space Oddity (singer songwriter - here he's trying to be the most like Dylan)
Young Americans (philly soul a la Hall & Oates, very polished and sheen)
Man Who Sold the World (heavy metal, t. rex and black sabbath influenced, but very uneven in songwriting)
Lodger (the most bizarre and weakest of the Berlin Trilogy with Eno)

Song recs:

all of the above,

"The Width of the Circle" and "All the Madmen" off of The Man Who Sold the World
"Sweet Thing" off of Diamond Dogs
"An Occasional Dream" off of Space Oddity
"Scary Monsters," "Ashes to Ashes", "It's No Game Part 1" and "Kingdom Come" off of Scary Monsters
"Station to Station" (get the live version from Stage, it slays)
"Warszawa" and "Always Crashing the Same Car" from Low
"Joe the Lion" and the entire second side of Heroes"
"D.J." and "Fantastic Voyage" from Lodger


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also, his cover of Bruce Springsteen's "Growin' Up" is fucking incredible, but it's only a bonus track on the Ryko reissue of Pinups and the rest of the album sucks (it's his 1973 covers album)


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I pretty much like everything from Man Who Sold the World through Lodger (and I love the first half of Low). I am surprised there isn't more respect for the Man Who Sold the World... dark and challenging music. I love the hard edge of it, but After All is one of the best nodding out soundtracks ever.

I could eat him with a fork and spoon.

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Whofa King cares Wrote:
David Live and Stages are incredible. I'm iffy on the album-output, but I love a lot of his songs (I know, weird) and these two live albums are killers, especially listened to together. Get the latest remasters (in Digipaks) and you've got several hours of great listening.

Oh, and put me down as a fan of latter-day Bowie, too - starting with Earthling he's put out great album after great album (yes, I even love the much-maligned Hours.)


I love the Bowie live records too...but I have to admit the versions of some of the songs are not good (Changes, for example). Width of the Circle with Earl Slick just fucking wailing on lead is amazing though, as is his live version of "All the Young Dudes"


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