The Official David Bowie Thread (indie, pop, albums, American)

boo boo · 08-16-2008, 01:07 PM

So am I the only one who liked Space Oddity?

Not great but good, a hell of an improvement over his first album thats for sure.

Rainard Jalen · 08-16-2008, 01:37 PM

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Originally Posted by boo boo

So am I the only one who liked Space Oddity?

Not great but good, a hell of an improvement over his first album thats for sure.

LOL. Have you HEARD the first album? Good grief. Isn't it just the most awful thing ever?

I agree btw that Space Oddity is not all that bad. It's a massive improvement over the debut, hell, it's more than that - it's basically Bowie's first complete reinvention. And of course, it's got the title track. It's just that 80% of the songs on it flirt with mediocrity.

boo boo · 08-16-2008, 01:44 PM

Yeah. Love You Till Tuesday is one of the worst songs I've ever heard.

Screen13 · 06-14-2010, 05:52 PM

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Originally Posted by boo boo

Yeah. Love You Till Tuesday is one of the worst songs I've ever heard.

That's close to being one of the worst Bowie songs, although only in it's Debut LP version (The single had a little B-Movie flavor to it at least) but I still have to put Rubber Band in for a tie...both versions. Still, I don't shove away the Deram Years all together.

I have been surviving the first album through the Deram Anthology, and to me most of it was a clumsy attempt with a usually ineffective blend of a Music Hall style with some interesting but still under-developed lyrics that had a couple of good songs in my opinion - Silly Boy Blue and She's Got Medals (Despite a Hey Joe style in the music). Please, Mr. Gravedigger was also a very odd way to end an album circa 1967, and certainly one of my favorite Early Bowie tracks. That trio of songs may not be "Classic," they still hinted at the perverse and interesting songs he would later create one he matured.

To me, it's far better than most Twee Music...Bowie's singing is far better for starters.

As for the Post-LP Deram work, I would vote for Karma Man, the classic Let Me Sleep Beside You, and the solid In The Heat of the Morning among the great Bowie songs of all as pointers to his best work. Clearly, he was gaining a truly unique style during that time which alone was a major improvement over the debut album even then.

Piss Me Off · 08-16-2008, 01:15 PM

It's one of the, still quite a few, Bowie albums i haven't heard

jackhammer · 08-16-2008, 01:19 PM

Bowies 'Space Oddity' HAS to be an improvement over his debut. I don't rate 'Diamond Dogs' all that either but then Glam era Bowie is not my fave either. I prefer the Warsaw years but I also like a lot of his 90's output too-'Outside' and 'Earthling' are good albums. Mind you I like the first 'Tin Machine' album and as far as I can tell, I am the only one on these forums who does.

lucifer_sam · 08-16-2008, 01:50 PM

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Originally Posted by jackhammer

Bowies 'Space Oddity' HAS to be an improvement over his debut.

Lol. If Bowie would have sat down with a djembe and jammed on that for forty-five minutes (and mind you I've heard albums like that), it would have been an improvement on his debut.

Molecules · 01-24-2009, 06:32 PM

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Originally Posted by jackhammer

Bowies 'Space Oddity' HAS to be an improvement over his debut. I don't rate 'Diamond Dogs' all that either but then Glam era Bowie is not my fave either. I prefer the Warsaw years but I also like a lot of his 90's output too-'Outside' and 'Earthling' are good albums. Mind you I like the first 'Tin Machine' album and as far as I can tell, I am the only one on these forums who does.

Good man, 90's Bowie...
Outside and Earthling are both top drawer, Earthling may be hideously derivative but no other 60-year-old (however old he was) could have done a drum n' bass album in 1997 and made it credible and song-oriented to boot.

Is anybody else as narked (yes it's a word I made up) that he never completed the cycle of three albums that Outside was supposed to kick off?

I'm also very partial to Hours (it's short, laid back and there's not a bad tune on there). Unfortunately Black Tie White Noise is hideously dated (not in a nostalgic 90's way like the rest for me) and is mostly just a bit silly IMO.

boo boo · 08-16-2008, 01:22 PM

Tin Machine is just appallingly bad IMO.

Urban Hat€monger ? · 08-16-2008, 01:52 PM

Bowie's debut is no worse than about 90% of 80s/90s/2000s twee indie pop.

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