David Bowie's Best/Worst...

Unknown Soldier · 06-05-2012, 03:10 PM

I only really like a couple of late period Bowie songs and they are "A Small Plot of Land" and "Hallo Spaceboy" They're great, because they sounds like a cut and paste jobs of earlier classic Bowie material, that is done really well.

~~Cuthbert~~ · 10-31-2017, 02:57 PM

Bumping because I wanted to ask the forum, did he totally avoid the media since 2006? I ask because between WAWN coming out at the end of 2012 up until his death I can't recall a single interview, or even a quote in an article from him or anything like that. Before WAWN I understand because he wasn't musically active.

What were his last public comments? This, ten years before he died

?:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUXp59NaNig

No comments on how The Next Day did, what he wanted to do with that or anything? Was all that done via Tony Visconti?

On topic, his best is Low and his worst is probably NLMD.

Also sorry for the bump I know it's annoying.

**Frownland** · 10-31-2017, 03:01 PM

Best: Blackstar, Black Tie, White Noise,....does The Idiot count?
Worst: Most of them

~~Cuthbert~~ · 10-31-2017, 03:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Frownland

Best: Blackstar, Black Tie, White Noise,....does The Idiot count?

Yes mate, as far as I'm concerned, The Idiot is a Bowie album. Iggy just sang over it.

Quote:

Worst: Most of them

Cheek of the week!

rubber soul · 10-31-2017, 03:08 PM

Best: Hunky Dory, Ziggy Stardust.

Worst: Anything from the eighties (excluding Scary Monsters)

**Frownland** · 10-31-2017, 03:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Man like Monkey

Cheek of the week!

He's the king of filler. Also it shouldn't, but all of the dickriding pushes my meh stance closer to a dislike.

~~Cuthbert~~ · 10-31-2017, 03:18 PM

Most of the albums from the 70s have excellent quality control and very little filler (aside from Pin Ups which is a cover album, Young Americans, Diamond Dogs and maybe Lodger).

**Frownland** · 10-31-2017, 03:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Man like Monkey

Most of the albums from the 70s have excellent quality control and very little filler (aside from Pin Ups which is a cover album, Young Americans, Diamond Dogs and maybe Lodger).

Filler is probably subjective, but every time I've tried Low (and that's many full listens since so many here hold it in high regard) I've just been so disinterested in it that I can't help but call it filler.

~~Cuthbert~~ · 10-31-2017, 03:26 PM

Is that your opinion of Heroes as well?

rubber soul · 10-31-2017, 03:29 PM

The only album from the seventies I really didn't like was Young Americans. Fame was the only track I really liked on the album. I do think Station to Station was mediocre by Bowie standards but I thought the other late seventies material was quite good. Low did have a lot of instrumentals to be sure but I would hardly call them filler and I especially liked Lodger (though I will admit I don't listen to every song like I might with Hunky Dory, Ziggy Stardust, or Alladin Sane).

10-31-2017, 03:01 PM	#13 (permalink)
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10-31-2017, 02:57 PM	#12 (permalink)
~~Cuthbert~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: The Black Country Posts: 8,827	Bumping because I wanted to ask the forum, did he totally avoid the media since 2006? I ask because between WAWN coming out at the end of 2012 up until his death I can't recall a single interview, or even a quote in an article from him or anything like that. Before WAWN I understand because he wasn't musically active. What were his last public comments? This, ten years before he died ?: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUXp59NaNig No comments on how The Next Day did, what he wanted to do with that or anything? Was all that done via Tony Visconti? On topic, his best is Low and his worst is probably NLMD. Also sorry for the bump I know it's annoying.

10-31-2017, 03:18 PM	#17 (permalink)
~~Cuthbert~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: The Black Country Posts: 8,827	Most of the albums from the 70s have excellent quality control and very little filler (aside from Pin Ups which is a cover album, Young Americans, Diamond Dogs and maybe Lodger).

10-31-2017, 03:26 PM	#19 (permalink)
~~Cuthbert~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: The Black Country Posts: 8,827	Is that your opinion of Heroes as well?