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- #1
- Posted: 12/23/2020 21:00
- Post subject: Album of the day (#3658): Young Americans by David Bowie
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Today's album of the day
Young Americans by David Bowie (View album | Buy this album)
Year: 1975.
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Overall rank: 906
Average rating: 77/100 (from 607 votes).
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Tracks:
1. Young Americans
2. Win
3. Fascination
4. Right
5. Somebody Up There Likes Me
6. Across The Universe
7. Can You Hear Me
8. Fame
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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DommeDamian
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neilgee
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- Posted: 12/23/2020 22:58
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I think this was Boy George's favourite Bowie album for what that's worth
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- #4
- Posted: 12/24/2020 00:57
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| neilgee wrote: | | I think this was Boy George's favourite Bowie album for what that's worth |
Makes perfect sense, very easy to draw a through line from Bowie's plastic soul to Culture Club's.
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- #5
- Posted: 12/24/2020 02:37
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honestly kinda terrible. easily the worst of 70s bowie (including that shit covers album nobody remembers)
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- #6
- Posted: 12/24/2020 02:45
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| ItsGabe wrote: | | honestly kinda terrible. easily the worst of 70s bowie (including that shit covers album nobody remembers) |
This is kind of where I'm at too. But deliciously cheesy at times. The only 70s Bowie where I'll never listen front to back but sometimes I'm in the mood for a cut or two
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- Posted: 12/24/2020 02:46
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Not bad, but probably the least of Bowie's 70s. It seems to be more highly regarded than the previous year's Diamond Dogs album, but I vastly prefer the latter. This has some good grooves but doesn't have the atmosphere or emotion of his other albums from this era. It also has the horrendous Beatles cover on it, which I can't believe Lennon allowed (he was in the studio at the time). That being said, Fame and the title track are quite good. Everything else is pretty forgettable.
Luckily, Bowie bounced back in a major way, and the four or five albums that follow form arguably the best stretch of music in his career, from Station to Station all the way to 1980's Scary Monsters.
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- Posted: 12/24/2020 06:53
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Agree that it's the worst pre-Tonight album not counting the stupid covers record but the title track is gold. Fascination is among the better tracks.
Fame is a good song but I've always found it overrated somehow. Can You Hear Me was a weird choice to be included on The Best of David Bowie 1974/1979 compilation...
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- Posted: 12/24/2020 09:21
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Totally disagree with the prevailing opinion in this thread that this is somehow lesser Bowie. I love its slippery faux-oppulence, there's something quite candid and quasi-sleazy about the way Bowie takes in sounds of Black American popular music of the time but reshapes them into something thin and loose, as though Philadelphia International got hooked on heroin. I love that squealing, rubbery sax, and those times he leans on his breathy falsetto, not to mention the Greek chorus backing vocals that set the tone throughout. Yes, the 'Across the Universe' cover is as out of place as it is redundant - very both, unfortunately - but the rest is fantastic.
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- Posted: 12/24/2020 18:25
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| Quote: | | honestly kinda terrible. easily the worst of 70s bowie (including that shit covers album nobody remembers) |
| Quote: | | This is kind of where I'm at too. But deliciously cheesy at times. The only 70s Bowie where I'll never listen front to back but sometimes I'm in the mood for a cut or two |
Agreed. This is the only time in Bowie's career where his genre hopping felt forced and failed miserably. Even the jump to his worst 80s phase felt more natural, it just seemed like he lost his songwriting chops.
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