Here is my ranking:1. Low2. Heroes3. The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars4. Alladin Sane5. Station To Station6. Heathen7. Reality8. Scary Monsters9. Hunky Dory10.Earthling11.Lodger12.Diamond Dogs13.The Man Who Sold The World14.Hours15.Outside16.Let's Dance17.Space Oddity18.Black Tie White Noise19.Young Americans20.Tonight21.Never Let Me Down22.Pin-Ups23.David Bowie24.Tin Machine25.Tin Machine II
Some people may count "The Buddha Of Suburbia" as an album too, I guess...
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 02:38 (twenty-one years ago)
the rest is rubbish obv
― geeta (geeta), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 02:40 (twenty-one years ago)
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 02:49 (twenty-one years ago)
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 02:50 (twenty-one years ago)
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 02:52 (twenty-one years ago)
― Sean (Sean), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 03:11 (twenty-one years ago)
― phil turnbull (philT), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 05:49 (twenty-one years ago)
― mentalist (mentalist), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 05:58 (twenty-one years ago)
Yes he is, isn't he?
― Andrew Norman, Tuesday, 4 November 2003 06:20 (twenty-one years ago)
bottom of the list:
Black Tie White NoiseTonightNever Let Me DownDavid BowieTin MachineTin Machine II
can't really comment on these:
Heathen [can't remember anything about it]Reality [seems OK, but needs more plays to rank]Earthling [seems that I didn't enjoy this much]Hours [can't remember anything about it]
― Kent Burt (lingereffect), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 06:39 (twenty-one years ago)
― george gosset (gegoss), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 07:46 (twenty-one years ago)
― george gosset (gegoss), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 07:53 (twenty-one years ago)
Haven't got any more.
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 08:07 (twenty-one years ago)
It's just that i've heard/read that you're so prolific that they've been forced to remove some of your threads. I'm sorry, but i just don't understand it. Is this your message board now? Should everybody take all their cues from you ?
As to what you've said above, it doesn't seem to make sense to me. In short, wtf are you on about ?
(hey, maybe you're accidentally using defective or malicious software to access this site -- that would explain things)
― george gosset (gegoss), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 08:09 (twenty-one years ago)
I respect but don't much enjoy the Eno albums, and I dislikedhis 80s albums so much (despite a few good songs here and there)that I haven't bothered to investigate his 90s output.
― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 08:36 (twenty-one years ago)
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 08:53 (twenty-one years ago)
― geeta (geeta), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 09:15 (twenty-one years ago)
anyway, could someone please expand on Transicion II and Staatstheater ?
i don't think playbackplay rewards the repeated listen thing, but maybe that's the point of it. but the general theatrical stance of kagel's keeps me on the edge of my seat. he's a shocker. a boo-ie.
― george gosset (gegoss), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 09:39 (twenty-one years ago)
2 Aladdin Sane 3 Ziggy4 Low5 Heroes6 Lodger7 Hunky Dory8 MWSTW
― Jim Eaton-Terry (Jim E-T), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 10:55 (twenty-one years ago)
I've been looking for this in 2nd hand shops and can't find it (see my comments on the Q mag thread). Soulseek doesn't have it either (or if they do I haven't found it yet).
If anyone has a copy of Staatstheater and could copy it for me that would be great. I'll trade of course.
George- Transicion II is for percussion/electronics and piano. From the one listen I have it reminds me of Kontake (but that's just bcz of the instrumentation). 'Acustica' is the real deal as far as electroacoustic goes.
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 11:48 (twenty-one years ago)
Well apparently it's Bowie's favourite, so he may like you to include it.
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 12:03 (twenty-one years ago)
Fleas the size of rats sucked on rats the size of catsAnd ten thousand peoploids split into small tribesCoveting the highest of the sterile skyscrapersLike packs of dogs assaulting the glass fronts of Love-Me AvenueRipping and rewrapping mink and shiny silver fox, now legwarmersFamily badge of sapphire and cracked emeraldAny day now
The Year of the Diamond Dogs
How old were you at the time, Jim?
― willem (willem), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 12:18 (twenty-one years ago)
1. Diamond Dogs2. Hunky Dory3. Scary Monsters4. "Heroes"5. The Lodger6. Station to Station.....and then whatever else.....
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 13:57 (twenty-one years ago)
4 or so. I only knew bits of it, but enough to freak teech out. It's fair to say that Diamond Dogs defined my entire aesthetic outlook.
― Jim Eaton-Terry (Jim E-T), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)
the sleeve art for 'DD' is tops
― geeta (geeta), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 14:55 (twenty-one years ago)
― H., Tuesday, 4 November 2003 15:02 (twenty-one years ago)
― geeta (geeta), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 15:09 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)
― willem (willem), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 15:34 (twenty-one years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 15:51 (twenty-one years ago)
― H., Tuesday, 4 November 2003 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)
it seems to me like a "where were you when [Low->Monsters vs. Mars->Diamond Dogs]" qn, hippies->goths, harmony->dystopia
― george gosset (gegoss), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 16:22 (twenty-one years ago)
Exotica, a send-up of "world music", seems very widely available, so it's easy to at least hear at the library.Three tribal groups play roughly and tightly in turn, in turn unaware of each other, together and in response to each other (some of them).
Atem includes a piece which sets out to re-create the real audio-dynamics of live organ echo and bounce, resonances in cathedrals, but Kagel went further for a recent recording. He took the organ piece and ring-modulated bits of crowd clapping, shouting and choir singing into the central organ music, into a very fluid whole, which seems a potently jaw-dropping organic advance on what sounded like Catholic cathedrals.Part of the mystery of this CD is that while it's just part 'a' of the series, it's only available from Argentina (Kagel's home county) yet only contains some of the music from his Buenos Aires period.
― george gosset (gegoss), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 21:52 (twenty-one years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 22:19 (twenty-one years ago)
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 02:02 (twenty-one years ago)
― Sean (Sean), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 02:14 (twenty-one years ago)
1. Lodger2. Station to Station3. Low4. The Man Who Sold the World5. Diamond Dogs6. Hunky Dory7. Heroes8. Scary Monsters9. Young Americans10. Aladdin Sane11. Ziggy Stardust12. Pin-Ups13. Space Oddity14. Let's Dance
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 02:24 (twenty-one years ago)
I think I like the mixture of it - the disco, the more germanic-influenced droney bits all over the place, and the classic Ziggyish pop. It sums up all his good stuff in one record.
― Jim Eaton-Terry (Jim E-T), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=kmw%40dcs.ed.ac.uk+bowie&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=kmw.754657939%40dcs.ed.ac.uk&rnum=1
― Keith Watson (kmw), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 20:27 (twenty-one years ago)
1. Singles 1969-932. The Best Of David Bowie 1969/743. Changesonebowie4. The Best Of David Bowie 1974/795. Changestwobowie 6. Hunky Dory7. The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars 8. Lodger9. Scary Monsters10. Aladdin Sane11. Station To Station12. Low13. Heroes 14. The Deram Anthology 15. Diamond Dogs16. The Man Who Sold The World17. Let's Dance18. Space Oddity19. Young Americans20. Pin-Ups21. Heathen 22. Hours23. Tin Machine24. Rare25. Black Tie White Noise26. Early On27. Tonight28. Never Let Me Down
Please note that the order chosen is valid only for as long as it takes me to press that "Submit" button....
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 6 November 2003 10:15 (twenty-one years ago)
I took an informal poll among friends on their favorite Bowie album, and I think every single one received a vote except for Pinups and Space Oddity. What other artist can claim such enthusiastic support for over ten albums?
An interesting addition to the rankings would be, how many times has your favorite Bowie album changed? Mine -- about four times.
1 Hunky Dory2 The Rise Of Ziggy Stardust & the Spiders From Mars3 Low4 Lodger5 Aladdin Sane6 Scary Monsters7 Heroes8 The Man Who Sold The World 9 Station To Station10 Diamond Dogs
― Fastnbulbous (Fastnbulbous), Monday, 12 September 2005 04:54 (nineteen years ago)
― Momus (Momus), Monday, 12 September 2005 05:39 (nineteen years ago)
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 12 September 2005 06:35 (nineteen years ago)
The only truly shite Bowie album is Black Tie White Noise.
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Monday, 12 September 2005 08:21 (nineteen years ago)
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 12 September 2005 08:49 (nineteen years ago)
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 12 September 2005 08:51 (nineteen years ago)