What is his best album and why is it Low

Scary Monsters

>>61948265
This, everything I love about David in one album.
Ummm I love 1.Outside. It's essentially Blade Runner remade by David Bowie in an audio format.

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black tie white noise is the true best bowie album. most things on that album were bowie's ideas and were implemented by bowie himself under nile rodgers' production.
the arrangements are lush and sophisticated, the music is a deconstruction of black dance, funk and soul music, with the overall philosophy of the album being somewhat of a peaceful and warm, calling to unity. the music is highly emotional for its genre (dance, pop, funk, soul). take pallas athena for example, it was one of his biggest achievements, but never quite managed to make charts, while its remixes were hit in european dance clubs. needles to mention the emotional peaks of the album, the title track and don't let me down & down. the title track is a masterpiece, sounding like a neverending sophisti-pop anthem... the culmination of bowie's work.

Aladdin Sane is my favorite.

>tfw when i first saw the album of art of Low i thought it was a girl

I can't pick between Station to Station and Heroes

>>61948172
I like Young Americans, Ziggy, and Hunky Dory the most.

>>61948172

because you heard that it's trent reznor's favorite bowie album so you felt like you should say it too

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DANCE MAGIC DANCE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuG93NMO4I0

His wonk eye serves as a reminder that he is brain damaged and that explains his shitty music.

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It's obviously "Heroes" and I'll tell you why.
1. Bowie's vocal performances on this album are some of the most passionately idiosyncratic of his entire career. The way he effortlessly fluctuates between straightforward singing, strained almost-shouting, quasi-spoken word and full-on screaming is really hypnotic. That's not to mention his wonderfully abstract, evocative lyrics that were mostly improvised on the spot.
2. Robert Fripp's guitar playing (also improvised) is absolutely superb. He takes his distinctive angular, methodical, often dissonant playing style and imbues it with a degree of fervour not usually found in his work. The end result excellently complements Bowie's trademark neurosis.
3. The whole album has this almost obsessive attention to detail in the production and arrangements that I can only assume is mostly Eno's doing. Tiny elements like the layered vocals in Joe the Lion, the shifting drum patterns in Sons of the Silent Age and the industrial-sounding percussive breaks in Blackout really bring the songs to life and help to elevate them that one step beyond into god-tier status.
4. The song structures of some of the tracks on here are completely bizarre. They aren't your typical verse/chorus/verse pop song formats, but they aren't miles away in the realm of progressive rock either. They usually start with a verse or two and then go straight into a bridge, then come out the other end into a repeating chorus or outro. He never really repeats himself either: he sings the same thing but with the lyrics slightly altered; the chords are the same but in a different order. It gives the songs this sense of constant progression that's really great and Kraut-esque.

9/10 album, easily the best of 1977

>>61948836
>he never heard of Low before shitty numetal musicians copied it

>>61948172
Sorry senpai, it's Heroes.

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Hunky Dory is my favorite

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>>61949496

Your reply just made me download it and listen to it a second time. Thanks.

I had dismissed it years ago for whatever reason.

>>61949792
>I had dismissed it years ago for whatever reason.
I did that too, then sometime a couple years ago I randomly decided to revisit it and Blackout really clicked with me, followed by the rest of the album. I listened to almost nothing but "Heroes" and Low for about 3 months after that. I think that was the start of my Bowie phase.

Space Oddity: 5/10
Man Who Sold the World: 5/10
Hunky Dory: 7/10
Ziggy Stardust: 9/10
Aladdin Sane: 8/10
Young Americans: 7/10
Station to Station: 8/10
Heroes: 7/10
Low: 6/10
Scary Monsters: 6/10

yeah im a pleb; deal with it

>>61949496
>9/10 album, easily the best of 1977
>not lust for life

>>61950092
You certainly are to rate TMWSTW a 5. Did you even listen to it?

>>61950137
>choosing budget bowie over premium bowie
why

How is Lodger? Never gave it a good listen.

>>61950188
relative to the title track, the rest is somewhat forgettable with a few exceptions

i'll admit its my least-listened-to Bowie album, so maybe i'm missing something

>>61950211
>why
IGGY>ZIGGY

>>61950234
You're not. Pre-Ziggy Bowie is trash (yes that includes Hunky Dory)

>>61950274
nah.

Hunky Dory suffers from filler-track syndrome, but if it were just
>Changes
>Life on Mars
>Kooks
>Andy Warhol
>Queen Bitch
it'd be a 9/10

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>>61950274
>Pre-Ziggy Bowie is trash

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>>61950274

>Space Oddity is trash

Rise and fall of ziggy stardust is his best

>>61950231
First half of the album has some my most favorite tracks by him and sort of follows a concept (world music-ish), after that it kind of loses it (DJ is still a great song though). The last four songs aren't really anything special, but overall, the album as a whole is a 7/10. Think of it as Eno instrumentations with Bowie on vocals.

>>61950231
Bowie at his most playful since Hunky Dory

>>61950349
>Kooks
>Andy Warhol
>Queen Bitch

Literally the worst tracks on the album. Kill yourself.

>>61950934
>listens to one Bowie album
>must be his best

>>61951259
>Boys Keep Swinging
>Red Money
>not great

>>61948172
SHAWTY GOT LOW LOW LOW LOW LOW LOW

>>61949636
>That pic
>>>/v/

>>61948725
The pop tracks are excellent, the instrumentals are kind of hit or miss. I like looking for lester. I think '90's nostalgia will ultimately help this album kindly.

Heroes is his best imo, also my favorite album of all time.

My personal second is Station To Station, but I think his objective second best is Hunky Dory.

>>61952806

>>61949496
100% agree with this, i just started listening to bowie about 8 years ago with ziggy stardust and station to station, but just heard this album in it's entirety after his passing. it's quickly become one of my favorite albums for all the reasons you mentioned. it just feels incredibly personal and encapsulates all of his best qualities.

>>61948172
I consider Station to Station to be his best album. I don't think the berlin trilogy would had happened without it. Of course the same can be said about Station to Station without Young Americans.

>>61949496
this description turned me on, gonna go give Heroes another listen

>>61950349
Are you calling Quicksand filler? It's one of his best songs.

Literally nobody said diamond dogs?

It's David's Favorite album at least.

I'M A BLACKSTAR

Not even close op.

Low is better
Hunkey Dorey is better
Station to Station is better
Scary monsters is better
Blackstar is better

Hunky Dory, Low and Let's Dance

>>61950092
>Low: 6/10
>Scary Monsters: 6/10

kill you're are urself

>>61950231

Lodger is what happens when you listen too much to Eno instead of taking from him what's good and ignoring the rest (as in Low and Heroes).

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>>61950274
>Space Oddity
>Life on Mars?
>Bewlay Brothers
>TMWSTW
>Oh you pretty things
>Quicksand
>Memory of a Free Festival
>trash

I can't deal with you faggots deconstructing fucking rock music like it's classical composition.

>>61953528
>Low is better than Low

>>61948891
holy shit David's looking pretty old. how many years do you think he has left to live?

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I'm going to go full pleb and say Ziggy Stardust

Five Years, Suffragette City, Moonage Daydream, Starman, just too good

my personal favorite though is The Next Day. when "Where Are We Now?" dropped out of nowhere I was so surprised and elated. Dirty Boys, The Stars, Valentine's Day, You Will Set The World On Fire, Love is Lost, I just love so many of the tracks and it hit at the perfect time of my life

>>61948172
Worst bowie song?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOadV_CPT_k

>>61954303
Then why are you on /mu/? What else were you expecting to find here?

>>61949496
This. Fucking this. Heroes is Bowie at his greatest, 10/10 masterpiece

>>61953483
Source? I really wanna read this.

>>61948836
>Implying anyone here gives a shit about the opinion of I WANNA FUCK YOU LIKE AN ANIIMAALLL

Blackstar is obviously Bowie's best. No doubt about that, closely follow by Heroes and Hunky Dory.

>>61948794
Only sane person here

>>61950349
>oh you pretty things
>quicksand

are filler?

lol stfu nigger

>>61949636
i don't get it

I'm particularly fond of Station to Station.