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I like how Bowie himself is on pretty much every album cover he's done.
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Mega64 posted:I like how Bowie himself is on pretty much every album cover he's done. Except one 
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Feb 10, 2016 00:42
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Mega64 posted:I like how Bowie himself is on pretty much every album cover he's done. Is that unusual? Bob Dylan is on pretty much every Bob Dylan cover. Madonna is on pretty much every Madonna cover.
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Feb 10, 2016 00:53
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MinibarMatchman posted:Bowie's dismissal of Numan is pretty unfortunate, and almost ironic given that they both went to a Reznor-level music--Outside was Bowie's foray into that stuff, while Numan eventually turned into an industrial/darkwave artist completely. Funny how in 1984, Bowie was getting into more jangly stuff while Numan had just made Berserker, IMO one of his best records and more along the lines of what a funkier, robotic Let's Dance sound could have been. I agree though, it's interesting that Bowie and Numan both took on weird spacey synth rock in the late 70s, commercialized radio pop/jazz-funk fusion in the 80s, then took interpretations on NIN in the mid 90s, Trent Reznor being mutual fans with both of them. But while Bowie's career veered back toward contemporary rock and avant-garde jazz experimentation afterward, Numan never looked back. His last couple albums were great goth/industrial-rock/darkwave pieces, and Hybrid is a fantastic concept.
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Feb 10, 2016 11:23
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HorseRenoir posted:Except one no, he is on all of them. listen to the lyrics.
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Feb 10, 2016 14:30
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Happy Ash Wednesday y'all https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRBvpViOEPA
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Frankston posted:Just listening to Young Americans, replacing It's Gonna Be Me with Across the Universe was such a bad idea IMO. That song is so freaking good and would have made for a perfect album. I just heard this song for the first time, and poo poo, this is truth.
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Feb 12, 2016 08:51
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Bowie was a cut-rate Billy Joel imo. Billy Joel is effortlessly avant-garde, Bowie was just a tryhard.
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Feb 12, 2016 11:49
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Avshalom posted:Bowie was a cut-rate Billy Joel imo. Billy Joel is effortlessly avant-garde, Bowie was just a tryhard. Actually Billy Joel only has like six good songs.
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Feb 12, 2016 17:28
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Avshalom posted:Bowie was a cut-rate Billy Joel imo. Billy Joel is effortlessly avant-garde, Bowie was just a tryhard. So avant garde that he spent his entire career in the middle of the road.
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Feb 12, 2016 17:34
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Vince MechMahon posted:Actually Billy Joel only has like six good songs. Which ones?
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Feb 12, 2016 17:44
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BigFactory posted:Which ones? Piano Man (even though it's overplayed and cliche at this point), Only the Good Die Young, Vienna Waits for You, You May be Right, and It's Still Rock and Roll to Me are the only songs by him I enjoy on any level. I will listen to arguments being made in favor of stuff like The Entertainer and Scenes From an Italian Restaurant, but they don't do it for me. Regardless, when I think of Billy Joel "avant garde" isn't exactly what springs to mind as description. I think more of like..."that guy who did that horrible Uptown Girl video," which is about as mainstream and artless as you can possibly get.
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Feb 12, 2016 20:32
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Vince MechMahon posted:Piano Man (even though it's overplayed and cliche at this point), Only the Good Die Young, Vienna Waits for You, You May be Right, and It's Still Rock and Roll to Me are the only songs by him I enjoy on any level. I will listen to arguments being made in favor of stuff like The Entertainer and Scenes From an Italian Restaurant, but they don't do it for me. Downeaster Alexa is the only good Billy Joel song I can think of.
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Feb 12, 2016 20:36
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Vince MechMahon posted:Actually Billy Joel only has like six good songs. Cemetry Gator posted:So avant garde that he spent his entire career in the middle of the road. What are jokes?
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Vince MechMahon posted:Piano Man (even though it's overplayed and cliche at this point), Only the Good Die Young, Vienna Waits for You, You May be Right, and It's Still Rock and Roll to Me are the only songs by him I enjoy on any level. I will listen to arguments being made in favor of stuff like The Entertainer and Scenes From an Italian Restaurant, but they don't do it for me. To be fair both Bowie and Billy Joel did an album of songs they liked as kids (or songs in that style anyway), and both albums are pretty cool even if one is never talked about (Pin-Ups) and the other gets an unfair amount of poo poo (An Innocent Man). Other than that Billy Joel is poo poo, yeah.
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Feb 12, 2016 20:41
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Henchman of Santa posted:What are jokes? Usually they're funny or clever, which the post we're talking about here wasn't.
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Feb 12, 2016 20:48
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Vince MechMahon posted:Usually they're funny or clever, which the post we're talking about here wasn't. Actually they're often neither of those things! Nobody would ever call Billy Joel avant garde in earnest.
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Feb 12, 2016 21:26
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Henchman of Santa posted:Actually they're often neither of those things! Nobody would ever call Billy Joel avant garde in earnest. Are you new to this forum? I've seen way crazier and dumber poo poo posted in earnest here. If you've somehow avoided every SMG post, for instance, I'm super jealous of you.
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Feb 12, 2016 22:57
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I feel like CD and TVIV are a bizarro version of the rest of Something Awful where ridiculous things are the norm and normal thoughts are considered not serious.
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Feb 12, 2016 23:16
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Oh my god everyone post the most underrated Bowie album in your opinion and let's drown this poo poo out. I'd nominate Heathen. He put out some great stuff in the 90s, but Heathen is the point when I felt like the "real" Bowie came back. The sound is super-rich and lush, and it captured that alienated feeling I associate with his best work (in spite of the many guest artists and cover songs).
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Feb 12, 2016 23:24
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Why cookie Rocket posted:Oh my god everyone post the most underrated Bowie album in your opinion and let's drown this poo poo out. Earnest billy Joel talk is way more interesting than this.
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Feb 12, 2016 23:33
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Heathen is really good. I like Slow Burn and Sunday a lot.
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Feb 12, 2016 23:39
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BigFactory posted:Earnest billy Joel talk is way more interesting than this. If it's already been done to death in this subforum I apologize, I hardly ever read it. Feel free to the last big Bowie thread and I will go away and read it. Anaranjado posted:Heathen is really good. I like Slow Burn and Sunday a lot. 5:15 and Slip Away are also very very good. I always wonder if the three odd covers (which I really like) were offputting to people, leading to Heathen being marginalized as a non-essential Bowie record.
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Feb 12, 2016 23:45
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HorseRenoir posted:Except one We're all made of star dust bro. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kszLwBaC4Sw
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Feb 12, 2016 23:51
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Why cookie Rocket posted:If it's already been done to death in this subforum I apologize, I hardly ever read it. Feel free to the last big Bowie thread and I will go away It's not that it's been done to death even though it basically has in this thread. I think you're underestimating how good people arguing their favorite billy Joel songs is.
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Anaranjado posted:Heathen is really good. I like Slow Burn and Sunday a lot. Slow Burn is great. The first time I listened to it I thought "this guitar sounds exactly like Pete Townshend would" and it was.
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BigFactory posted:It's not that it's been done to death even though it basically has in this thread. I think you're underestimating how good people arguing their favorite billy Joel songs is. Only the Good Die Young is great because it's all about a dude just completely failing to get this girl to have sex with him.
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Heathen has probably Bowie's best song ever, which is "Everyone Says Hi"
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Feb 13, 2016 01:24
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zh1 posted:Heathen has probably Bowie's song ever, which is "Everyone Says Hi" Man I am dying to know if this post is missing the word "best" or "worst."
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Feb 13, 2016 02:40
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Sweetest song that isn't Drive In Saturday clearly.
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Feb 13, 2016 04:24
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Why cookie Rocket posted:Oh my god everyone post the most underrated Bowie album in your opinion and let's drown this poo poo out. It's Lodger, OP
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Feb 13, 2016 04:53
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zh1 posted:Heathen has probably Bowie's song ever, which is "Everyone Says Hi" Hope the weather's good And it's not too hot for you  triple sulk posted:It's Lodger, OP Earthling, actually.
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I feel like The Man Who Sold The World is underrated quite often, I hear a lot of people say there are only a couple good songs on it (Width of a Circle and the title track), but personally I love the whole thing and All The Madmen is one of my favorite Bowie songs overall
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Why cookie Rocket posted:Man I am dying to know if this post is missing the word "best" or "worst."
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Earwicker posted:I feel like The Man Who Sold The World is underrated quite often, I hear a lot of people say there are only a couple good songs on it (Width of a Circle and the title track), but personally I love the whole thing and All The Madmen is one of my favorite Bowie songs overall This album owns, the rhythm section sounds like the first four Black Sabbath albums.
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Feb 13, 2016 16:48
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Earwicker posted:I feel like The Man Who Sold The World is underrated quite often, I hear a lot of people say there are only a couple good songs on it (Width of a Circle and the title track), but personally I love the whole thing and All The Madmen is one of my favorite Bowie songs overall I think it's half of an amazing album, the front side is really great but the back half is kind of a slog aside from the title track
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Feb 13, 2016 17:00
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Most underrated would be his first self titled debut. Don't get me wrong. It's not great, but it's not as bad as people say. It has a lot of nice twee songs and it was a respectable effort. I just feel like some people dismiss the whole thing out of hand.
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Feb 13, 2016 17:59
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Cemetry Gator posted:Most underrated would be his first self titled debut.
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Feb 13, 2016 18:09
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:When I listened to all his albums in order chronologically a few weeks ago, I didn't even listen to that one. I started with the album after it (Space Oddity). Guess you didn't listen to them all, then. Gotta start over.
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I like Never Let Me Down.
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