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Old 08-16-2008, 01:19 PM   #231 (permalink)
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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.
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Old 08-16-2008, 01:22 PM   #232 (permalink)
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Tin Machine is just appallingly bad IMO.
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Old 08-16-2008, 01:37 PM   #233 (permalink)
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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.
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Old 08-16-2008, 01:44 PM   #234 (permalink)
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Yeah. Love You Till Tuesday is one of the worst songs I've ever heard.
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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.
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Bowie's debut is no worse than about 90% of 80s/90s/2000s twee indie pop.
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Bowie's debut is no worse than about 90% of 80s/90s/2000s twee indie pop.
90%? Probably. There's SOME genuinely good stuff imo out of that 10%, though.
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I used to own a Sarah Records compilation.

I stand by my 90% estimate
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Bowie's debut is no worse than about 90% of 80s/90s/2000s twee indie pop.
Well that is very much true.

But I personally think twee pop is one of the biggest tragedies in music history.

Basically a bunch of brits who got sick of us Americans and our "fun music" so they tried to show us by making the dullest music possible.
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Basically a bunch of brits who got sick of us Americans and our "fun music" so they tried to show us by making the dullest music possible.
No we leave that sort of thing to The Eagles and REO Speedwagon
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