I prefer Hunky Dory to either. Can't really fuck with any of the 70s stuff though.
― chap, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 13:21 (fifteen years ago) link
you like lets dance better?
(first three tracks are great fwiw)
― uk grime faggot (titchyschneiderMk2), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 13:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Er...no.
― chap, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 13:24 (fifteen years ago) link
i misread cant fuck with them as in 'i cant get into them' rather than 'they're too good'.
― uk grime faggot (titchyschneiderMk2), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 13:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Well, no disregard to you here, but wouldn't DBowie hate being described thus?
He has become older and settled down. If he still wanted to be "cutting edge" he would never have made "Heathen" nor "Reality".
― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 13:44 (fifteen years ago) link
I had a dream a few nights ago that Bowie wrote a book called "Women are from Venus, Spiders are from Mars."
― Darin, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 23:16 (fifteen years ago) link
I'll rep for Heathen, which I think is fantastic. I never got into Reality half as much, but the tour was fucking great.
― ilxor, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 04:54 (fifteen years ago) link
I loved Heathen.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 05:01 (fifteen years ago) link
these results are soooo mental...if i had lurked on this page i wdve definitely voted starman...
― seppuku toothbrush (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 12:48 (fifteen years ago) link
bimble is otm though on the Five Years/1977 connection...1977: the year of the Sex Pistols, Eraserhead and Two Sevens Clash...
I'm totally on Mayan Deathwatch Guard Duty now....
― my brain hurts a lot (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 13:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Phew, Ziggy not coming back after all. http://www.nme.com/news/david-bowie/42307
"it's time for the annual Coachella denial" : http://www.davidbowie.com/news/index.php?id=20090127
― StanM, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 17:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Check those '73-'76 photos by Geoff MacCormack that are linked below the above news item on bowie's site. Fantastic pics.
― willem, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 19:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Those are great. What was he doing in the Soviet Union in 1973?
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 20:00 (fifteen years ago) link
challopsette city:
"it ain't easy" = as good or better than everything on ziggy stardust, except maybe "suffragette city", "soul love" and "moonage daydream"
― now is the time to winterize your manscape (will), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 20:17 (fifteen years ago) link
the production on this album is quite irritating. that said, "Starman."
― Jesus Christ, Esq. (res), Thursday, 29 January 2009 16:57 (fifteen years ago) link
really i think it sounds great.
i would have voted suffragette city cuz that song is super exciting.
― crackers is biters (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 29 January 2009 16:59 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah, the production was great. maybe the best thing about it?
― Keep The Dawgs Away (Ioannis), Thursday, 29 January 2009 17:08 (fifteen years ago) link
it's visconti right? that dude is pretty much golden as far as i know
― crackers is biters (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 29 January 2009 17:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Ken Scott and Bowie wasn't it?
― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Tom D.), Thursday, 29 January 2009 17:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Bing Sings and Walt Disnae
― Mark G, Thursday, 29 January 2009 17:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Do ye Ken Scott and Bowie? Hoots!
― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Tom D.), Thursday, 29 January 2009 17:17 (fifteen years ago) link
like someone said above, I feel like it sounds too thin. maybe brittle is a good word for it. somehow i find it tiring on the ears, but not because of the songwriting.
― Jesus Christ, Attorney at Law (res), Thursday, 29 January 2009 17:20 (fifteen years ago) link
an a wee doch an doris afair ye gang
― Mark G, Thursday, 29 January 2009 17:20 (fifteen years ago) link
How did "It Ain't Easy" not get one single vote.
It's not the best song on the record, but damn, The White Stripes have based their whole career from that one song.
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 30 January 2009 17:56 (fifteen years ago) link
it is weird as hell that no-one voted for 'it ain't easy,' but i really like the results in this poll. the top three are really obviously the top three songs on the album, but only by a hair's breadth, you know? i would have put 'five years' at #2 but that's only because i fucking LOVE that song.
yeah man. this album. i know like, low/lodger/hunky dory are probably the best bowie albums, but this is absolutely my fave. what i don't get is where the hell has it been all my life. ultra-hip sf concept-rock SPEAKS to me, man.
― marc iv, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 02:03 (fourteen years ago) link
it ain't easy is a real zero, marc...think of the songs he left off!
― iago g., Tuesday, 13 July 2010 02:30 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm not terribly surprised that it got no votes, but i am always surprised that people don't like it - or tend to be rather indifferent. i personally think Bowie does something really special with it.
here's the original(?); starts about a minute inhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFWsZHaQ2Sc
Mitch Ryderhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlWEAqZS1Sc
Three Dog Nighthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LEuVgmS71c
Raconteurshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ElJXtn3CGk&feature=related
― easiest lay on the White House lawn → (will), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 02:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Double P otm
― easiest lay on the White House lawn → (will), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 02:37 (fourteen years ago) link
Hang on to Yourself 2
:-(
― PappaWheelie V, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 02:45 (fourteen years ago) link
"Arnold Corns" version of Hang On is better than the lp version.
― Trip Maker, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 03:08 (fourteen years ago) link
^^Ditto. "Hang on to Yourself" is incredible; it's the song I always play for my middle-school students on DB's birthday.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 03:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Perhaps the most appropriate thread -- sadly, Spiders bassist Trevor Bolder has lost his battle with cancer:
http://www.classicrockmagazine.com/news/trevor-bolder-dead-at-62/
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 21:14 (eleven years ago) link
R.I.P...he had sideburns...
― The Pastiche Liberation Front (sonnyboy), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 21:24 (eleven years ago) link
R.I.P.
.... these poll results are nonsense btw. Lady Stardust was robbed.
― Michigan seems like a dream to me now (Treeship), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 21:25 (eleven years ago) link
Was wondering which was the most appropriate thread. RIP
― Oulipo Traces (on a Cigarette) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 21:28 (eleven years ago) link
Aw. Fuck cancer. RIP, awesome sidey-spidey-man.
― you may not like it now but you will (Zora), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 22:10 (eleven years ago) link
RIP Trev. Only one Spider left now :(
― Bees Against Racism (Tom D.), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 12:54 (eleven years ago) link
looking at results and reading thread with star man in mind, why people didnt vote for it, etc is a p meat summation of ilm and why it is awful
― zero content albums (darraghmac), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 08:04 (ten years ago) link
neat ffs neat
― zero content albums (darraghmac), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 08:05 (ten years ago) link
david appreciates your support
― outback bumfuc (electricsound), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 08:16 (ten years ago) link
-_-
― zero content albums (darraghmac), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 08:27 (ten years ago) link
Did I miss the part where people talked about not voting for "Starman?" Like one guy says he didn't because other people would. Personally think it's kind of a corny song, melodically speaking.
― sink floyd (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 10:19 (ten years ago) link
Rock n roll suicide should have been the clear winner here.
― Treeship, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 10:28 (ten years ago) link
the Lady was kinda robbed.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 12:53 (ten years ago) link
yeah that would have been my second choice. best opening verse for sure.
― Treeship, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 13:08 (ten years ago) link
when i was first getting into music like 30 years ago, it seemed like this was the canonical david bowie album, the one that showed up on all the lists etc. now it feels like there isn't really a canonical best bowie album, like everyone has their personal favorites. am i wrong? or is this still generally considered the big bowie album/the one you tell people to start with/etc?
― na (NA), Friday, 14 October 2022 14:14 (one year ago) link
it's a fun album but if personally i'm in a bowie mood it's rarely the one i put on
― na (NA), Friday, 14 October 2022 14:15 (one year ago) link
That's about right. Ziggy was more readily available in the late '80s, I guess?
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 14 October 2022 14:19 (one year ago) link
I recognize it as an objectively spectacular, great album - but subjectively, there are loads of Bowie albums which speak to me way more & I'm much more prone to want to listen to.
― Valentijn, Friday, 14 October 2022 14:27 (one year ago) link
OTM. Aladdin Sane = best glam-era Bowie for me, but Ziggy makes/made sense as the consensus classic. Would have voted "Soul Love" here...
― J. Sam, Friday, 14 October 2022 14:38 (one year ago) link