The Official David Bowie Thread (singer, dance, jazz, pop)

sweet_nothing · 05-28-2008, 08:04 PM

Mines:
Hang on to Yourself
Rock 'n' Roll Suicide
Life on Mars?
Black Country Rock
Queen Bitch
Cracked Actor
Time

Seltzer · 05-29-2008, 06:40 AM

5 is pretty tough... most of you probably know that Low is my favourite Bowie album.

Always Crashing in the Same Car
Tonight (with Iggy Pop)
Station to Station
Teenage Wildlife
Life on Mars

Piss Me Off · 05-29-2008, 03:16 PM

A current top 5.

Starman
Let's Dance
Watch That Man
Drive-In Saturday
John, I'm Only Dancing

Dr_Rez · 05-29-2008, 07:33 PM

Ziggy Stardust stills reigns king for me.

And then i guess the next track on that same album Suffragette City.

Bob Dylan's Blues · 06-17-2008, 01:32 PM

"Heroes" is my favorite song right now

Rainard Jalen · 06-17-2008, 01:38 PM

What do people think of Low? I like it and it's clearly a very good album, but I never found the second side half as impressing as people tend to make out - especially considering the other great material of the same sort (e.g. Eno's) which had already been done prior.

Urban Hat€monger ? · 06-17-2008, 01:41 PM

I think it's good if you put it into context.
He wasn't an avant garde musician , he was a pop singer with an ear for a song.
You think , the modern day equivalent of Bowie putting out Low is someone like Robbie Williams coming out with a jazz fusion album AND it being good. Which as you would imagine is highly unlikely.

Rainard Jalen · 06-17-2008, 01:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger

I think it's good if you put it into context.
He wasn't an avant garde musician , he was a pop singer with an ear for a song.
You think , the modern day equivalent of Bowie putting out Low is someone like Robbie Williams coming out with a jazz fusion album AND it being good. Which as you would imagine is highly unlikely.

True, I hadn't really thought of it that way. With that in mind it is very, very ambitious.

Best track off side 2 imo, by a stretch, is Warszawa

Piss Me Off · 06-17-2008, 02:03 PM

I like to think of Low as 2 really gorgeous EP's stuck together.

Seltzer · 06-17-2008, 08:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rainard Jalen

What do people think of Low? I like it and it's clearly a very good album, but I never found the second side half as impressing as people tend to make out - especially considering the other great material of the same sort (e.g. Eno's) which had already been done prior.

Low is one of my favourite albums ever. I quite like the second half... I find it invokes a lot of imagery, which it should given Bowie's intentions with those tracks.

My favs are Always Crashing in the Same Car from the first half and Warszawa from the second.

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Originally Posted by Piss Me Off

I like to think of Low as 2 really gorgeous EP's stuck together.

Same - and A New Career in a New Town sounds like a bit of a transition between the two.

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Rainard Jalen Music Addict Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 2,221	What do people think of Low? I like it and it's clearly a very good album, but I never found the second side half as impressing as people tend to make out - especially considering the other great material of the same sort (e.g. Eno's) which had already been done prior.