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.