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albummaster
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- #1
- Posted: 10/04/2019 20:00
- Post subject: Album of the day (#3214): ★ (Blackstar) by David Bowie
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Today's album of the day
★ (Blackstar) by David Bowie (View album | Buy this album)
Year: 2016.
Country: 
Overall rank: 224
Average rating: 86/100 (from 1279 votes).
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Tracks:
1. ★ (Blackstar)
2. 'Tis A Pity She Was A Whore
3. Lazarus
4. Sue (Or In A Season Of Crime)
5. Girl Loves Me
6. Dollar Days
7. I Can't Give Everything Away
About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of album of the day can be viewed here.
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HoldenM
To Pedantically Split Infinitives
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Age: 31
- #2
- Posted: 10/04/2019 20:10
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While I've never been a huge fan of David Bowie, Blackstar is a hell of a record--I have it ranked rather low on my 2016 chart, but chalk it up to a decent year. Either way, he went out on one of the highest of notes. God bless.
Track picks
1. ★ (Blackstar)
3. Lazarus
4. Sue (Or In A Season Of Crime)
7. I Can't Give Everything Away
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- #3
- Posted: 10/04/2019 20:34
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Very good album but I don't think its quite a classic. 224 on the overall is a bit high for me.
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- #4
- Posted: 10/04/2019 20:42
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A fitting and beautiful goodbye from (and to) one of the greatest songwriters of our time. AND it was inspired by Death Grips. RIP Bowie
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CharlieBarley
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Age: 50
Location: Mount Olympus 
- #5
- Posted: 10/04/2019 20:47
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One of my favourite Bowie albums and a touching, yet energetic, swansong.
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craola
crayon master
Location: pdx 
- #6
- Posted: 10/04/2019 22:53
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it's not just a great album. it's the only bowie album i find myself coming back to.
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- Posted: 10/15/2019 18:16
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What a way to go out.
Unlike The Next Day which was also a very good album that proved Bowie wasn't washed up, but ultimately a revisiting of Bowie's earlier musical styles, Blackstar is a different beast. Genre-bending, experimental meditation on mortality by a 69 year old guy who has been making music for 50 years. A feat seldom seen before.
In my top 3 Bowie albums and top 3 albums of the decade.
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- #8
- Posted: 10/29/2019 12:24
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| HoldenM wrote: | While I've never been a huge fan of David Bowie, Blackstar is a hell of a record... he went out on one of the highest of notes. God bless.
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Pretty much my take too. The title track quickly became one of my favourite ever songs, and like you i was never really into Bowie.
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Hayden
Location: Vietnam 
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- Posted: 10/29/2019 14:01
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| Michael1981 wrote: | | 224 on the overall is a bit high for me. |
Maybe because it's still 'new'. I think in 10-years-time you might think differently. It's an insanely tight, powerful, dynamic and varied record. It's truly become my favourite by Bowie. Lazarus is a song of the decade contender for me.
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- #10
- Posted: 10/29/2019 19:19
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| Hayden wrote: | | Maybe because it's still 'new'. I think in 10-years-time you might think differently. It's an insanely tight, powerful, dynamic and varied record. It's truly become my favourite by Bowie. Lazarus is a song of the decade contender for me. |
Yeah, I say that it's not a classic because I see Blackstar as being in the lineage of grown-up, contemplative "rock" albums like Dark Side of the Moon, Automatic for the People and OK Computer. I think it's a very good example of this kind of album but it's not really a game changer for me. I prefer to see Bowie's classics as the albums when he was genuinely exciting at the time and setting trends.
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