His earliest TWO works account for tripe by my account. The s/t was abhorrent, and Space Oddity got him out there, but everything afterwards (you must know that TMWSTW was only his third album) was brilliant. In fact, I think those four albums (TMWSTW, Hunky Dory, Ziggy, and Aladdin Sane) surpass most of his later work (though admittedly the Berlin era was very good too).
I have twenty out of his twenty-five studio works (though Tin Machines could hardly be called solo albums), and I've been impressed by most of them. I actually enjoyed Young Americans and Station to Station. Dunno why everyone else didn't like it...
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