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Every Bowie fan knows Hunky Dory is his best.

slapmybass44 wrote:Every Bowie fan knows Hunky Dory is his best.

I think this thread runs counter to your assertion "every"

dum wrote:Bowie ate a mars bar from out mick jagger's sweaty batty crack.
Who'd want to expose themselves to his hysterical neurosis ?
Not I.

I'd sooner listen to boy george and mick hucknall play 'soggy biscuit' for two hours straight, followed by a dropkick to the balls.

Eww! I hate Mars bars. Current favourite Bowie track = Modern Love, very eighties but lovely progression in it.

dum wrote:Bowie ate a mars bar from out mick jagger's sweaty batty crack.
Who'd want to expose themselves to his hysterical neurosis ?
Not I.

I'd sooner listen to boy george and mick hucknall play 'soggy biscuit' for two hours straight, followed by a dropkick to the balls.

Oh man...I never knew Bowie took a Hot Karl from Jagger. I have a whole new respect for him now! I'll bet it was more chunky though, like a peanut log...maybe a Baby Ruth.

Big eyed beans from Venus.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfNb1w7p ... r_embedded#!

Ground control to Major Tom.

Station to Station
Aladdin Sane

Bowie post 1980 is a bit of a wash for me.

1. Low
2. Heros
3. Scary Monsters
4. Man Who Sold the World

Didn't like anything past Scary Monsters though. One thing though, all these are his take on popular styles at the time. I like his "take", but I would never say the guy was an innovator.

MacGuffin wrote:the so-called "berlin trilogy" is my favourite, in part because of Brian Eno's participation, and also the krautrock influences.

Same here, with Low taking top honors.

mholloway wrote: Lodger

Vastly under-rated, so many great cuts on this one, and not just the obvious choices (DJ, boys keep swinging) there are real gems that are rarely discussed / heard : move on, fantastic voyage, don't look back in anger. shit I might rank this one second, not third....

Absolutely underrated & most excellent. A gently melancholy album with flashes of anger. Fantastic Voyage is a wonderful song.

re: look back in anger.
I love that track, driving drums, and that Carlos Alomar section in the middle. I stole that for a track once, nobody picked it up.

Everyone digs the Berlin trilogy, but I also like his preceding stuff from "going batshit crazy on the road and doing too much coke in the USA", as seen in this documentary
David Bowie Cracked Actor. From 1974.
so, so, classic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dorud9V1 ... =UL&fmt=18

The live version of Candidate/sweet thing on there is just excellent.

yeah, the rhythm section on Look Back In Anger is soooo killer! well, and the guitars, too, but they way they are played they are basically part of the rhythm section, to. everything about that song just rocks in the best of possible ways, I'm surprised it isn't more well known.

I just bought the re-issue of station to station. the 2-disc live album included on it as a bonus (live at Nassau) is totally awesome, and IMO far superior to both "stage" and "live." I read that the regular album was 'remastered from the orignal analog tapes' but I've A/B'd it with the rip of my old Ryko disc edition and I hear absolutely ZERO difference between the two. Weird! I was at least expecting it to be louder, given how 'remasters' go these days, but even the volume level is the same...maybe Ryko already had released a re-master and this 'new' edition was just a re-release of the already re-mastered edition, plus the Nassau show.

Either way, worth it for the Nassau.

-M