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screaden posted:It also really showcases that it was the production of Never Let Me Down and Tonight that made them lovely (I still have a bizarre soft spot for those albums though). The version of Loving the Alien on that album is great
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Outside has some awesome tracks on it. I really like We Prick You. I love every album though. I love everything up through Let's Dance, and then from Outside on. Anything between those periods seems to have really dated production, and I don't care for them as much. Even Let's Dance has really 80s production, but it's still a fun one.
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We don't know what kind he had yet. I am surprised he made it so long. I thought he looked frail in Blackstar, but I thought it was just him aging. 
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There will never be another artist like him. I'm pretty bummed. Dollar Days is going to be a tear jerker now.
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Jan 11, 2016 17:23
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Where the gently caress did Monday go?
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SciFiDownBeat posted:Okay this is just creepy. Did he... know? Did he skip a few pages ahead in the Book of the Dead?
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFDj3shXvco That's the best song on Rock Band, bar none.
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Halloween Jack posted:"Moonage Daydream" fascinates me in particular because the version that appears on Ziggy is a fix-up of a song he did while he was messing about with Arnold Corns. Writers do a disservice to artists like Bowie, and their listeners, when they act as if their influence came out of some ineffable void. He was interested in all kinds of stuff and a lot of his work is the result of a melange of influences that he tinkered with and adapted to different purposes.
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Jan 11, 2016 21:27
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I see your point now. Many of his "characters" were actually just Bowie doing what he found exciting at the time.
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I feel like Earthling doesn't get the credit it deserves. The jungle/drum and bass loops are all actual drumming and not him picking out sampled drum loops. There are many strong songs on it. It's not my favorite album by him, but I don't think it's judged fairly as many thought he was jumping onto a trend at the time.
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Jan 12, 2016 17:07
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The production is godawful. That time period has the worst production of any era imho.
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Jan 12, 2016 21:40
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Anybody see him on SNL in 97ish playing Scary Monsters? I am sure it's on youtube, but I just remember being floored by how tight the band was.
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It's hard to find time to listen to so much good Bowie. I have listened to everything he's done, but I do tend to go back to the same albums over and over while neglecting a few of his newer albums. Hours and beyond get less play than the earlier stuff. I have to say that it is tough to decide what you'd consider a better library of work: his early stuff through Let's Dance or Tonight through Blackstar. Blackstar has some really powerful songs on it, and it ranks pretty highly. It's circumstances certainly add to the impact of it.
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Jan 13, 2016 05:40
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I love Earthling. There is an acoustic performance of Dead Man Walking that drives home the point that Bowie wrote great songs regardless of style.
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Halloween Jack posted:Considering which albums were his best and worst, I think The Man Who Sold the World is not very good and squeaks by on the strength of the title track. Thoughts?
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:Got all caught up to the present and made a list of the 13 albums of his I enjoyed the most (just in alphabetical order):
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The Reality tour had an impressive band.
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Jan 19, 2016 21:49
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Hunky Dory, Ziggy Stardust, Low, Scary Monsters, Outside... It's really hard to pick only 5. I love 90% of his albums.
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I like Lodger better than Heroes. My dad liked Bowie in his youth, but I left Low in his car once and he complained that it was "weird". Leon Einstein fucked around with this message at 16:58 on Jan 21, 2016 |
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Jan 21, 2016 16:55
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I love Sons of the Silent Age. The chorus is great. Heroes doesn't grab me the same way Low does though.
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Absolute Beginners is a gem of a track that I'm not sure if all Bowie fans have heard.
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Feb 14, 2016 16:06
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Happy Hippo posted:Earthling is the most 90s album he ever made. There are some good songs on that record but they're buried under mountains of very dated drum n bass arrangements. I give the drum n bass a pass because it was all real live drumming made into their own loops; no canned drum loops. Plus, I think there are some solid tracks. It's my favorite 90s album by him other than Outside.
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He's got very few weak parts of his library. 85-90 is about the worst it gets in my opinion. His 90s output is pretty great, and 70 to 80 is perfection. Blackstar is as good as anything. Leon Einstein fucked around with this message at 01:33 on Apr 5, 2017 |
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I can't get over the stereotypical 80s production on those records. There are some good moments, but not many. I do love Let's Dance though.
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I like it.
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Apr 8, 2017 14:58
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To be fair, Bowie wasn't ever stingy with material the way Prince was.
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I heard he had one more done, but I didn't hear it was an Outside sequel. I love the songs on Outside, but I don't care about the story really.
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