So now that the dust has settled what is the verdict on this?

>>69972171
i dont like it because its just not my cup of tea. i could pick out some bs buzzwords to explain why, but i don't want to. its just not an album i enjoyed listening to.

Bowie died of cancer in january 2016.

4/10

>>69972216
Explain please
>>69972219
Fuck Scaruffi pretentious douchebag

>>69972329
i dont want to. just accept that i dont like it

>>69972512
Just curious.
Dick

>>69972171
It's really only railed on by try-hard contrarians. It might not suit everyone's taste, but no one can deny it was ambitious and competently written.

Favorite Bowie album's a toss-up between Ziggy and Low.

>>69972512
If you can't explain it, it's not true

>>69972171
it's funny how trash this board is. Just because this album now has success, everyone shit on it while initially everybody liked it.
still my AOTY and I don't fucking care about what you memers think about that.

>>69972216
>its just not an album i enjoyed listening to

exactly this

fitting for bowie who spanned so many genres and styles. hard if not impossible to enjoy all of his music

>>69972171
I agree on it being AOTY. Just was a DN proper way to finish a career IMO.

As usual with Bowie, Blackstar (RCA, 2016), produced again by Tony Visconti,, is mostly image and very little about the music. The ten-minute Blackstar, that was supposed to be the centerpiece, is little more than a funereal litany a` la Doors with jazz horns that goes on five minutes too many. Bowie crooning melodramatic in Lazarus (from his Broadway musical about an alien who falls in love) or romantic in Dollar Days is either delirious and pathetic, certainly not entertaining. His tedious voice interferes with the driving jazz jam of 'Tis a Pity She Was a Whore and with the frenzied and tense Sue (a 2014 single). Even when the voice is not a distraction, the rest is hardly intriguing: I Can't Give Everything Away boasts an awful distorted guitar against syncopated beats and layers of electronic drones: not exactly genius. This is trivial "music" that any amateur could make, except that most amateurs would be ashamed to release it.

Bowie died of cancer in january 2016.

>>69973727
>separating image form the music, if they are meant to be tied
It's like English isn't his first language

>>69973727
Yeah right, remind me what is the weight of a contrarian faggot like Scaruffi and what he accomplished in life excpet being memed to god of this board?

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Pic related is AOTY.

Though Bowie comes right after it.

>>69974214
Holy shit that was really good too.
Overlooked.

>>69974214
100% agree. I love that album.

>>69974390
>>69974278
My niggas.