Nate Perry

This is seen as one of the best albums of all time, one of Bowie´s best and I personally love it. This is the record which really set the idea of pursuing a career in music back when I first listened to it as a younger kid, plus it reminds me of my high school days and the situations and people I encountered there. With that said, it´s still far from Bowie´s best IMO. The 1976-1980 era, composed by Station to Station (my favorite record of all time), Low, Heroes, Lodger and Scary Monsters is Bowie´s greatest period. Depending on the day, I might even dare to say that Station, Low and Scary Monsters are the best albums ever created. Anyways, back to Ziggy.
The album presents some classic poprock songs, like Starman, Moonage Daydream, Ziggy Stardust and Suffragette City. There are some deep-cut Bowie classics like Five Years, Hang On to Yourself and one of my favorite Bowie songs, Rock n´Roll Suicide. A true masterpiece that song.
Some of the most notable aspects of the album are the narrative and Mick Ronson´s guitar work, which is simply out of this world. He deserved way more recognition than the one he got, truly a one of a kind musician. On the narrative, the story of Ziggy Stardust reflects the early 70s very well, and has become an almost cliché-ish trope when telling a story of stardom and excess.
All in all, it is undeniably a phenomenal piece of rock music, but overrated to a certain degree,
9/10

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This is an absolute classic. Bowie creates a almost perfect album. But it is always missing a certain je ne sais quoi for me to give that 10. 9/10

Current average: 8.8

Cuthbert

Scary Monsters is >>>>>>>>>>>

Teenage Wildlife >>>>>>>>>>>

Frownland

Ja, it's a much more interesting record.

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Nate Perry

Agreed. In some ways, it´s almost like a culmination of Bowie´s career. As much as I love 1.Outside, Heathen, The Next Day and Blackstar/No Plan, he never reached back the heights of everything up to Scary Monsters. The sound of that record is like an amalgamation of his poprock Glam era, the funkiness of the mid-70s and the experimental art rock of the late 70s. It´s like the culmination of Bowie. One can only dream of what a tour for that album would´ve looked like, I always had this fantasy of the show starting with his full Piérrot costume in It´s No Game part 1 and eventually evolving into normal David to close the concert with It´s No Game part 2.

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Maajo

To add to what Chula said, if you get a remastered version of it and you have a good stereo system or headphones, yeah, it makes all the difference in the world as far as hearing all of the arrangements on this album. These guys really put a lot of effort into their music, not just this album, but other Bowie albums and albums by other artists, and that's so easy to overlook when you're just getting into music or you don't have the right equipment. It's the difference between watching a movie on one of those worn out old 100 pound box TVs that's just about seen it's last days and going to a cinema that has state of the art picture and sound.

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Current average: 8.9

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I'm calling it. Album is an MB classic.

Neapolitan

Good I get the final word. 14/10 baby! Read 'em and weep.

David Bowie - Starman


David Bowie - Hang On To Yourself

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