Agreed Charles would probably like that, lots of Heavy Metal on it.

Should work your way through his 70s output imo.

I'm arguably overdue for that. I know his most famous songs from that time, of course (have sung my way through a couple of them countless times in Singstar, even), but not the albums as such.

I suppose I'm due as well. I think I'm entering the right time frame of mind as I'm currently sinking into the Velvet Underground after weeks of pop, thrash, and death metal.

I just thought of something. Has anyone listened to Bowie's early material pre-Space Oddity? Actually, I'd go even before that weird album he recorded in 1967 too. He basically was playing mod music with various backup bands, notably, with the Lower Third and the Manish boys.

A cover of I Pity the Fool...

Just started it and luuuuuuuuuuulz I'm kinda trippin at just how much this reminds me of a proto-early Judas Priest. Rob Halford even sounded like him. Not sure why I should be surprised that Rob Halford of all people might have a Bowie fixation.

Yeah I tend to go all in on certain genres for a while too. I'm actually just starting to dive into a lot of pop this week.

*lobs grenade*

Oh I'm getting to that one soon enough! She's on the list of pop singers I intend to go through. I'm actually expecting to like her better than a lot of the other big pop divas on the list. The ones I think I'll really hate are rather ones like Pink, Aguilera and Jesse J.

That's what I'm talkin' 'bout. Everyone loves Ke$ha. They just don't know it yet.

And yes, Bowie nerds, I'll totally make your thread about Kesha and I don't care!

Sorry, I couldn't resist. :laughing:

Personally I think Diamond Dogs is a criminally underrated album. I mean, it's a bloody concept sci-fi story, ffs, much like Ziggy though more, you know, apocalyptic. How can you not like "We Are the Dead"???

As a metaphor, it might end up being all too accurate.

Oh, yeah, Diamond Dogs is a great album. I like to think of it as the last album of Bowie's Ziggy Stardust era. I'm partial to the title track and the Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family.

And how can you go wrong with an album that has Rebel Rebel on it?

Er... well...

"1984" is a killer track.

I honestly don't think there's a bad track on it, and I love the concept. From the opening monologue "Future Legend" to the closing "Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family", I feel it's pure Bowie gold, and would definitely sit alongside Low, Heroes, Ziggy and maybe The Man Who Sold the World as being my top Bowie albums.

Was jammin' to Aladdin Sane last night and it might end up being one of those albums that makes me think, "Where have you been all my life?" Several of those tracks, like "Watch that Man" and "Cracked Actor", sound tailor made for a pop whore such as I. And some of those lyrics are gloriously crude. Never knew Bowie could be so low class.

"Time, he flexes like a whore
Falls wanking to the floor
His trick is you and me, boy"

Don't know if I'm ever going to be a true Bowie fan, but there's clearly a door open for me.

Great news mate.

Hunky Dory and Let's Dance/Tonight are his most pop sounding records imo. Hunky Dory is obviously the best one. The latter two are more pop dance.

You might like Diamond Dogs too. Trollheart reminded me what a great album that was too. I think you'll love Rebel Rebel if you haven't heard it already.

Let's Dance was probably the first album Bowie did that really turned me off. After that, except for a couple songs, both made for movies, I couldn't dig anything from Bowie until the nineties and it wasn't until Blackstar that I can honestly say I've listened to a Bowie album straight through since Let's Dance.

The Next Day was good imo.

Excluding that, probably agree. Don't really get the love for Outside or BTWN (as Frown posted that). It would be difficult to even pick individual songs I like from the 90s.

Still though he killed the 70s.

"Watch That Man" is a killer track. Probably one of my top ten Bowie tunes.

What's everyone's top ten then?

Blackstar
Life on Mars
Absolute Beginners
Always Crashing in the Same Car
Station to Station
Five Years
Blackout
Ashes to Ashes
Starman
Weeping Wall

Not sure what order, who gives a shit.

Let's see...

Life On Mars
Heroes
Jean Genie
Space Oddity
Boys Keep Swinging
Ashes To Ashes
All the Madmen
Moonage Daydream
Panic in Detroit
Rebel Rebel

I could do a top twenty if you want :p:

In no order

Life on Mars?
Starman
Rebel Rebel
Absolute Beginners
Wild is the Wind
Suffragette City
Drive-in Saturday
The Man Who Sold the World
Diamond Dogs
Ashes to Ashes

probably a lot I left out...

In no order.

Quicksand
Word on a Wing
Watch That Man
Life on Mars?
Dollar Days
1984
Starman
Changes
"Heroes"
Fantastic Voyage
Quicksand

Honourable mention: Station to Station.

How about instrumentals? My fave is Subterraneans.

EDIT: Ah crap, forgot Ashes to Ashes. This is a futile task :D

Weeping Wall, I think Heroes has the stronger instrumentals as a whole though.

Crystal Japan would be up there too.

this needs a bump

Heroes
A New Career in a New Town
Subterraneans
Space Oddity
The Bewlay Brothers
V-2 Schneider
Life on Mars?
Strangers When We Meet
Suffragette City
Station to Station

(not in any particular order btw)

Honourable mentions to "Ashes to Ashes", "The Man Who Sold the World", "Outside", "The Hearts Filthy Lesson" and probably a few others

You must like that song a lot since you included it twice!

I don't think I ever listened to a Bowie album all the way through. I'm gonna fix that this week.

Good choice, गन्धर्व.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Yhd_qhIr2g

This is a top 5 song for him. I've heard it loads but recently I've been loving it. It's immense.

Bowie's best-ever lyric:

"The Factor Max that proved the fact has melted down and is woven on the edging of my pillow"

AFAIK, no-one else has ever caught so precisely the aching, morning-after, remorse of a weird night as the way he does when he sings that line.

Either Heroes or Station to Station is my favorite Bowie, Tonight definitely the worst.