Tracks:
1. Changes
2. Oh! You Pretty Things
3. Eight Line Poem
4. Life On Mars?
5. Kooks
6. Quicksand
7. Fill Your Heart
8. Andy Warhol
9. Song For Bob Dylan
10. Queen Bitch
11. The Bewlay Brothers
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This and Low are my favourite two Bowie albums. Low just about about edges this out (but there's virtually nothing in it), and is thus the only Bowie album on my chart. This is like an honorary member of my chart though. I love this record.
I've listened so far only the "big three" Bowie albums (this, Ziggy and Low) and I think this is by far the best. They are all great, but Hunky Dory has a sense of humour and emotional sincerity the otherwise great (but also overrated) Ziggy hasn't and it's also extremely consistent all the way through unlike Low (the first side is amazing, Be My Wife especially, but the second one, for all Eno's efforts to be a producer ahead of his time, makes me lose my interest and has not aged well IMHO). So this one has the whole package and is pretty damn accessible; its soft moments never fall into the trap of being saccharine or too melodramatic (Life On Mars?-the greatest song by far in here and one of my all time favorites), its more "rockist" moments are not trying to sound too tough and they actually work amazingly well (Queen Bitch) and when it's folk it still sounds good and genuine (The Bewlay Brothers). I also prefer his lyrics here than the other two works I mentioned. While in general it is not the kind of sound that captures my attention, this one is just too good for me to deny it. I don't know what could be the next Bowie album I would listen to, although I have read exceptionally positive comments about "Heroes" and I have a good feeling for Station To Station as well-I'm curious to see if any of them could appeal to me as his masterpiece (or maybe something else from the rest of his studio discography).
Not a big fan of this one, probably my fourth favourite Bowie after Heroes.
No flow at all, just a lot of fairly decent songs that I think have a very dated sounding production. David Bowie can do much better than this, there's none of raw emotion you find in Ziggy or any of the really rich instrumentation on his Berlin records.
This, Low, and Ziggy Stardust have all been my favorite Bowie at one point or another. Really fucking great album, and possibly my favorite album lyrically of all time. _________________ My top songs of the 2010s
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I've listened so far only the "big three" Bowie albums (this, Ziggy and Low) and I think this is by far the best. They are all great, but Hunky Dory has a sense of humour and emotional sincerity the otherwise great (but also overrated) Ziggy hasn't and it's also extremely consistent all the way through unlike Low (the first side is amazing, Be My Wife especially, but the second one, for all Eno's efforts to be a producer ahead of his time, makes me lose my interest and has not aged well IMHO). So this one has the whole package and is pretty damn accessible; its soft moments never fall into the trap of being saccharine or too melodramatic (Life On Mars?-the greatest song by far in here and one of my all time favorites), its more "rockist" moments are not trying to sound too tough and they actually work amazingly well (Queen Bitch) and when it's folk it still sounds good and genuine (The Bewlay Brothers). I also prefer his lyrics here than the other two works I mentioned. While in general it is not the kind of sound that captures my attention, this one is just too good for me to deny it. I don't know what could be the next Bowie album I would listen to, although I have read exceptionally positive comments about "Heroes" and I have a good feeling for Station To Station as well-I'm curious to see if any of them could appeal to me as his masterpiece (or maybe something else from the rest of his studio discography).
You should listen to everything up until Let's Dance. I'm not saying it's all great, but it's all good. The Man Who Sold The World through to "Heroes" may be the most consistent ten album run of all-time, he just seemed incapable of releasing a record that wasn't at least really quite good.
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You should listen to everything up until Let's Dance. I'm not saying it's all great, but it's all good. The Man Who Sold The World through to "Heroes" may be the most consistent ten album run of all-time, he just seemed incapable of releasing a record that wasn't at least really quite good.
Are you including Let's Dance in that recommendation? Because I actually enjoyed Let's Dance 😜 _________________
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