Why is 90's and early 00's Bowie so underrated? Iv'e

>>69285491
I can't speak for everyone but here's my thoughts on it.

Black Tie White Noise is a fantastic underrated album. Lots of jazzy brass and electronic drum beats. It's basically all about his wedding and I thought a lot of the songs were great.
Personal favorites: Looking for Lester, Jump They Say, Don't Let Me Down & Down

Buddah of Suburbia is a mixture of hip hop and ambient. About half of the albums are instrumentals. It's not a BAD album but it's definitely forgettable sometimes
Favorite tracks: Buddah of Suburbia, Sex In the Church

Outside is one of his tightest concept albums, it focuses on the narritive of a murder and ALL of the songs relate to it in some way. It's musically very dark and industrial. While there are some GREAT highlights there's A lot of filler to get through too.
Favorite tracks: Strangers When We Meet, A Small Plot of Land, The Motel

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Earthling is a high energy, drum and bass dance album. a LOT of fun tracks and one of my personal favorites. It's a lot less lyrically focused and more focused on the instruments/sounds, but it's still a great listen
Favorites: Little Wonder, Dead Man Walking, I'm Afraid of Americans

'hours...' is more melancholy and sentimental, focusing a lot on drum machines and guitars in a sadder sense. A lot of people see it as a more personal album but at times it can get slightly dull.
Favorite tracks: Thursdays Child, Survive, New Angels of Promise

Heathen is one of his strongest works by far. A lot of people consider it one of his best of his later career. His vocal performance is fantastic throughout and the interesting instrumentation on the tracks will help anyone love it.
Favorite Tracks; Sunday, Heathen, 5:15 The Angels Have Gone

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Reality is more straightforward rock compared to the last album and it would be the last album he made before his 'retirement' for several years. It's a good album despite some forgettable weakspots, and has one of the best closers to a Bowie album I've ever heard
Favorite Tracks: Bring Me The Disco King, Fall Dogs Bomb the Moon, New Killer Star

The Next Day is basically 'renissance Bowie' where Bowie reflected on his past and made a few sadder, slower songs. But there ARE some punchier tracks that keep you interested throughout. It's somewhat milder but not boring in any way.
Favorite Tracks: Where Are We Now?, The Stars (Are Out Tonight), Valentines Day

Blackstar is his gritty, jazzy final album. A lot of more depressing themes and it has a lot of energy. A fantastic album to end a career on with some amazing tracks.
Favorites: Blackstar, Lazarus, Girls Love Me

I hope this helped.

>>69285491
Strangers When We Meet is among my favourite Bowie songs. It's unbelieable good.

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Bowie was going through a bit of an identity crisis, and not many of his fans stuck with him through it; the Glass Spider tour is where a majority was left behind, so he was almost starting fresh by the time he made (and dissolved) Tin Machine, then went in with his next album Black Tie White Noise

Bowie reunited with Eno for the album Outside in 1994, the original album which can be heard in part on youtube was rejected by the label, so it was made more poppy and commercial to become what it is today, an avant-garde concert album which I personally consider Bowie's most underrated classic

Bowie toured with Nine Inch Nails to promote the album, and in 1997 the album Earthling was released which has Bowie's most popular single, I'm Afraid of Americans

By 1999 Bowie decided to put the brakes on that direction and go AOR, writing the songs that became 'hours...' while also providing the soundtrack for the game Omikron

Heathen was an excellent return to form and Reality went even higher on the pop scale with his best tour yet, but it was pretty clear Bowie was only going to be mostly known for his 70's work

>>69285807
it blows my mind that Bowie worked with David Cage. Just found out about this game a few months ago.

BTWN and Buddha are both 50/50 great and mediocre.

>BTWN
You've been around
Jump They Say
Miracle Goodnight
I Feel Free

>Buddha
The Mysteries
Untitled No. 1
Bleed Like A Craze
Ian Fish UK Heir

They should release a "Best of Bowie 1993" out if these songs.

Earthling would have been better without the production. Check out the live acoustic version of Dead Man Walking he did on Conan.

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>>69285894
There was a time where it was free on Steam after Bowie's death last January

The deluxe version of Hours includes the versions of the tracks used in the game, I've always thought Hours was unappreciated because for the album to really click with you you need to listen to it with the right mood

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>TFW you write 3 paragraphs about his 90s/00s work and nobody cares

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>>69285923
There's a great bootleg out there called Seven Months in America, contains an acoustic radio show that Bowie did in 1997 and a few other live cuts

>>69286106
I care :(

>>69286177
Thank you! Glad to know it's appreciated. :)

I hope you liked my guide. I've been listening to Bowie's work for years and I think his later work is really under apprecaited.

I'd post my favorite->least too if there's any interest.

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to be fair David did have a lot of people come to his birthday party

>>69286106
It was good faggot

>>69286506
Thanks, other faggot.

Gonna post my favorite->Least soon.

>>69286492
This looks like it was taken in a high school gym

People are stupid, OP. Outside and Earthling are among my favs and are very damn good.

>>69286492
No one will ever have such an awesome 50th birthday party ever again.

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>>69285608
>>69285677
>>69285750
Good write-up bud

For OP, his later work is definitely nothing to sleep on. Musically, it's all far more varied and experimental than most of his older albums. Outside is especially fascinating, having a physical copy with the booklet to read makes it even better; comes with "diary entries" for the story.

>>69286106
i agree with most of your points. I think Reality is really underrated (partly due to it's bad album cover?) and one of his strongest albums post-Let's Dance

>>69286214
I'd be interested. Let's hear it!

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>>69286584
Thanks man! :)

>>69286611
Thank you. Yeah despite the good album itself the album cover by far has to be his worst....
Ugh

ANd just to get your perspective, when you said 'mostly', which did you disagree with? I love hearing other opinions. :)

>>69286614
Pic related.

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rare 90's
davids incoming

>>69286656
>>69286677
It's worth reading into the recording process for Outside, on how he constructed this narrative and characters with Eno

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06wXwgGpO9c

The Next Day, Blackstar, and Reality are good.

Hours, Earthling, and Black Tie White Noise are just bland overall, nothing offensive.

Heathen is mostly awful, too many weird melodramatic songs that don't fit him, and Outside is dog shit.

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>>69286700
wait, does these pictures are relative to Outside backstory? I thought they were random photoshoot ideas.

>>69286712
..is taht bait?
Next Day is so boring I can't even finish it.
Heathen is on par with Scary Monsters (for several reasons btw)

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>>69286714
David had a deep crime drama attached to the original version of Outside which was supposed to span multiple discs, but Columbia told David to fuck off with a concept album and release something that'll sell units to plebs

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>>69286584
Anyone up for a storytime of the Outside booklet? I got the scans.

>>69286714
Yes; >>69286677 is Nathan Adler the detective, >>69286714 looks like Baby Grace

>>69286649
I feel like I am the only Bowie fan that didn't really like Outside. The narrations and breaks from the songs didn't add to my experience. Maybe that would be different if I followed a long in a booklet.

>>69286734
If the Next Day has a failing it's just that Bowie wasn't in full voice, but the songs themselves are good. Where Are We Now? isn't one of the better songs which I think really turned some people off.

I dunno, I haven't listened to Heathen in a while (I'm doing it now), but I always thought it was telling that the best songs are the covers.

>>69286755
Sure

>>69286702
What
The
Fuck

>>69286827
It'll take a bit I just realized the scans I have are FUCKING HUGE but I'll post them

>>69286845
Wait till you see the rest of the booklet

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>>69286825
The Toy outtakes add a lot to the album, but I love Sunday, Slow Burn, the title track & Afraid

Only song I really can't stand on the album is the Pixies cover

>>69286802
Well I didn't like it either that much but trust me, the highlights are REALLY good highlights.

And if nothing else Strangers When We Meet is one of the best songs Bowie has ever made. Definitely in my top 10.

But then again....Wishful Beginnings was on that album too....

>>69286877
https://youtu.be/VSA37Qe9Xm4
Best track on the album, IMO

>>69286891
I prefer the jungle version, personally.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZ13GYtDKEY

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Get ready for some weird 90s shit.

A NON-LINEAR GOTHIC DRAMA HYPER-CYCLE

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>>69286937
BABY GRACE IS THE VICTIM

Btw I Have Not Been to Oxford Town is one of my favs on the album.

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>>69286937
Okay this is already amazing

>>69286955
Holy fuck....

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>>69286955
"Art Crime Inc." predates Year Zero and the Art resistance in a decade or so I think

>>69286971
SEXY SEMY SMEXY

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>>69287014
Ramona and Algeria appear, more cybertalk diary entries

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>>69287014
I definitely know how i'm going to spend tomorrow now. Thanks for uploading these

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>>69287037

Because coil is reaching their creative peak at this point

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>>69287059
>To be continued...
Aaaand 2.Outside never came out...

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>>69287045
this! i'm going to bed right now because i'm exhausted so I'll read all that when I wake up tomorrow too
thx >>69286937

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>>69287079
From this part on it's just lyrics and visuals, still some interesting images to look at. Wish I had a physical copy of Outside just because of the booklet.

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>>69287104

>>69287079
Allegedly the sequel was to be 2.Contamination, then 3.Afrikaans, but that's just speculation along with whatever else could be in Bowie's vault

I assume most of the people who listened to Outside didn't know it was meant to be a concept album

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>>69287124

>>69287104
It's not hard to find. I have the jewelcase and paperbook version

>>69287138
The designs are 90's af but it works

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>>69287138

>>69286492
he invited his younger self disguised as a regular person from 90's?
>back left corner

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>>69287163

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Just checked my booklet, the packaging for the mini LP version is awful

>>69287137
>Interviewed by Ray Gun at the end of that year, Bowie said 2. Contamination (“hopefully that should be out by spring ’97“) would have “some bearing on the first one, but it’s completely different.
>It goes backwards and forwards between Indonesian pirates of the 17th and 18th centuries and today…it’s really becoming a peculiar piece of work.”
I bet Eno has the stuff from those sequels stashed somewhere.

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>>69287235
Literally a booklet for ants

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>>69287266

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bump

1. Outside is definitely his hardest album to get into.

>>69285491
Tell me Anons what are the essential/favorite Bowie albums? I want to know give me a top 15. Also Live Albums count too for fun.

>>69288483
>Top 15
In cronological order:
Space Oddity
Man Who Sold the World
Hunky Dory
Ziggy Stardust
Aladdin Sane
Diamond Dogs
Young Americans
Station to Station
Low
Lodger
Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)
Black Tie White Noise
Earthling
Heathen
Blackstar

A little taste of everything.

>>69285491
I guarantee that people left during his performances during the NIN tour because NIN fans are the fucking WORST to any band that isn't NIN.

I say this as someone who has been to five NIN concerts and one How to Destroy Angels concert.

NIN fans will goad, taunt, boo, and generally heckle/harass openers. It happens all the time. It's kind of their "thing."

These are the bands I saw open for NIN and HTDA:

>Deerhunter
>Boris
>Street Sweeper Social Club (a short-lived Tom Morello side-project)
>Health
>DIIV
>Oneohtrix Point Never

Every single time, the crowd displayed visible contempt toward the openers. The show with Street Sweeper Social Club also had Jane's Addiction on the ballot - their first run of shows with their original line-up in like more than 15 years playing music only from their first three albums. Majority of the crowd left after NIN and didn't even bother sticking around to see Jane's Addiction. Don't ask me why.

>>69288595
What were they like when NIN played with Soundgarden

>>69288595
I can't imagine a crowd of industrial autists could manage hanging on through tracks like Subterraneans

https://youtu.be/c7_Te7iDojA

This is the strangest fan made Bowie video I've ever seen. Fits the music I guess lol.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rnvp3A0IMFU

>>69288995
I dig the harmonics on this one

>>69285491
Space Oddity or Man Who Sold The World
Heathen or The Next Day?