Essential Bowie Albums?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQJbzK5_8ZM

>>70239645
Man who sold the world
Scary monsters
Heroes
Low
Ziggy stardust

Everything released between 69 and 80 besides Pin-Ups is non-negotiable essential. Of those albums Young Americans is probably the most underrated among Bowie fans.

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Ranked-em!

First 15= Essencial.

16-20 = Good but not essencial
21-23 = Decent, listen if curious
24 & 25 = Bad.

>>70239949
>Pin-Ups
Don't bring up it's name. We're trying to forget it's existance.

>>70239957
I can forgive Man Who Sold the World but your placement of Heroes as non-essential reflects poorly on your character.

Top 5 are Diamond Dogs, Ziggy Stardust, Station to Station, Hunky Dory and Low. In no order.

>>70240184
>>70240307
Ok, fine, swap MWSTW with 'Heroes' so it's essencial instead'.

Hunky Dory
Ziggy Stardust
Diamond Dogs
Young Americans
Station to Station
Low
"Heroes"
Lodger
Scary Monsters
Let's Dance
Outside
Heathen
Reality Tour
The Next Day
Black Star

>Elder God tier
Station To Station

>God tier
Ziggy Stardust
Heroes
Low
Young Americans
Hunky Dory

>Fantastic
The Man Who Sold the World
Aladdin Sane
Blackstar
Scary Monsters
Diamond Dogs

>Great
Outside
The Next Day
Space Oddity
Lodger

>Decent
Let's Dance
Reality
Earthling
Heathen
Buddha of Suburbia

>Bad
Never Let Me Down
Black Tie White Noise
Tonight
PinUps
s/t
Tin Machine (I & II)

>>70240629
Forgot Hours. That also goes under Bad

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I just listened to Low for the first time.

Sound and Vision & Be My Wife are my favorites off it. RIP Bowie Breh

>>70240444
This desu
Good list

I really like Lodger. Think people rate it too low just because following the hype wave of Low and Heroes they had unrealistic expectations.

>>70239957
>Black Tie White Noise is ESSENTIAL Bowie

howling

If you could introduce someone to Bowie with only 3 albums, which would you choose?

My picks would be Ziggy, Station to Station and Low

>>70240765
It was for his wedding, a really big part of his life/history, and the music on it was amazing. That's why I put it so high.

Top five essentials:
>Hunky Dory
>Aladdin Sane
>Station to Station
>Outside
>Blackstar

Tried to pick the best of Bowie's major time periods.

>>70240765
BTWN is great, highly underappreciated gem once you dig into the music and lyrics.

>>70240806
Hunky Dory, Heroes and Scary Monsters

Station to Station is his best album and song

>>70240806
those exact three tee bee aich

>>70240272
i'd put aladdin sane ahead of diamond dogs desu. those others are the core-four though.

>>70240806
station to station and low are too close to the same bowie. better to ditch one and have hunky dory imo.

>>70240834
this is good. interesting to put aladdin above ziggy, but i dig it.

>>70240892
>Station to Station is his best album and song
Yep. Some albums come close but as far as songs go, Station to Station is so far ahead of the rest it isn't even funny. Everything before it in his discography feels as if it is building up to it, and everything afterwards lingers in its shadow. It's the pinnacle of his career.

My favourite song by any artist tbpfh

>>70240892
My favorite song, but album as a whole there are much better.

>>70240966
Ziggy's enough like Hunky Dory to directly compare the two, and I'd pick Hunky any day over Ziggy

Comparing Ziggy & Aladdin Sane, AS in my opinion perfected the musical direction Bowie was headed in through 1973, and is an absolutely solid release

I'd have loved including Young Americans, but there just wasn't room in my top five for it

Who's THE Bowie guitarist? Earl, Carlos, Mick etc.?

>>70241380
Fripp

>>70241380
Alomar's stuff on Young Americans and Station to Station is incredible.

>>70241380
Best compositions: Mick
Best Energy/Tone: Fripp
Best Live: Earl
Most consistent: Adrian
Most...Decent? Spooky Ghost
Best Overall Alomar

In memory of death...

Essential Bowie would have to be everything (Pinups lol we don't speak it's name) from Space Oddity 1969 to Let's Dance 83'

>>70239957
I'll let Let's Dance slide, but how is "Heroes" not essential?

>>70240444
hey man thats a pretty good list dude

>>70241706
I should have re worded.
*The first 15, and Heroes, are Essencial.

>>70241380
I like Bowles playing on Diamond Dogs, he's not as technically talented as the others but he's got a good raw sound that's fun.

>>70240444
My nigga!

>Elder God-Tier
Scary Monsters
Low
Hunky Dory
Ziggy Stardust
Black Star
Station to Station
Outside

>God-Tier
Diamond Dogs
Heathen
Lodger
Aladdin Sane
"Heroes"
Young Americans
A Reality Tour *Live*
Man Who Sold The World

>Fantastic
The Next Day
Let's Dance
Buddha of Suburbia
Space Oddity
Ziggy Stardust Motion Picture *Live*
No Plan EP
BBC 2000 *Live*
BBC 68-72 *Live*
Stage *Live*

>Great
Santa Monica 72 *Live*
Reality
Earthling
Next Day Extra EP
David Live *Live*
Deram Anthology 66-68

>Good
Black Tie White Noise
VH1 Story Tellers *Live*
Baal EP

>Decent
Early On
Pin Ups
David Bowie

>Bad Bowie
Tonight
Labyrinth

>Really Bad
Never Let Me Down

>End it All To Be Honest
Club-Bowie

>>70239949
this with station to station, young americans, heroes and hunky dory being the best

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>God Tier
Hunky Dory
Station To Station
"Heroes"

>Fantastic Tier
Ziggy Stardust
Low
Scary Monsters
Blackstar

>Great Tier
Young Americans
Diamond Dogs
The Buddha Of Suburbia (Patrician Tier)
Aladdin Sane

>Sick Jams Tier
Let's Dance
The Man Who Sold The World
Heathen
Lodger

> Not bad
Black Tie White Noise
Tonight
Never Let me down
Earthling
Reality

>What? Tier
Outside
Hours

>I forgot about that one Tier
Reality
Space Oddity
Pinups

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You aren't a true Bowie patrician unless you've heard pic related in its entirety, and heard song related.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyIgj-bSvOo

>>70242513
I mean if anyone hasn't heard Blackstar (along with that song) at this point they're slacking, unless you're specifically talking the demo version, which is very underrated.

>>70242563
>specifically talking the demo version, which is very underrated.

The link specifically contains the demo version, which is very underrated.

>>70242583
Ah ok gotcha
Patrician choices all around then

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6jo-LRnnWE

This hack fuck did a guide to his whole discography for those normie plebs

>>70240686
Two of his best songs ever. Godtier taste my friend.

>>70242513
I absolutely love this murky industrial version of Tis, it was my #2 song of that year.

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>>70239645
I'll never understand the dislike towards 1.Outside. It's by far the most adventurous thing he's made. He even intended on it being a double album.

>>70245522
It was supposed to be a triptych actually, but he never got around doing parts 2 and 3, god knows why.

Most of Bowie's 90s and 00s output is very good, but people put it off because of his 80s albums.

>>70245544
Thinking about it I should give it a relisten. Might actually be my favourite of his. I find myself going back to it a lot.

>>70239957
Also, since I know you're coming back to this thread because you're a meme, look what I found

https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/david-bowie/1_outside---the-nathan-adler-diaries_-a-hyper-cycle---_version-2_/

Omits Wishful Beginnings and includes a Pet Shop Boys remix at the end. You should probably go find this version.

>>70245522
Holy shit you got the shittiest taste ever you fucking tripfag

>>70245522
I don't think people dislike Outside, /mu/ praises it a lot and normies don't know it exists. I wouldn't call it one of his best, but Hallo Spaceboy is one of my favorite songs.

>>70246472
Boy you sure showed me

What makes Pinups such a bad album? I've only listened through it once and don't remember anything that well, but what's the worst thing about it?

>>70246596
It's just a cover album without much about it that gives it its own identity. Nothing horrible, he's just done better, so it gets snubbed under nearly everything else he's done

>>70246596
It's just coked up covers of Bowie's favorite songs. Not really anything special.

>>70246550
Never let me down is ahead of Scary Monsters, Ziggy, TMWSTW, Hunky Dory, Diamond Dogs, Aladdin Sane and LOW

You prefer Tonight to Lodger and Heroes.

Hours and Labyrint are in your top 5.

Are you trying to be a contrarian I hope right?

>>70246650
No, you just like different things than I

Tonight isn't a bad album, it was just rushed. Loving The Alien is an amazing opener, and the album has a good share of fun and energetic songs (Blue Jean and Tumble & Twirl are catchy as hell). It's a pop album with a reggae influence, so what?

Hours is a nice and lush album with great atmospheric moments and fills with an oddly bright gloominess to it. Always felt New Angels Of Promise was one of his best songs.

Bowie's one of my favourite artists, I've always respected his creativity and constant changes. No need to get angry over stuff

>>70240629
Aladdin Sane isn't God Tier? lol

>>70242196
Where's hours?

>>70248121
Good-Tier

I literally forgot about Hours.

>>70242196
>>70245522
>Outside that high
You make me happy Anons

>>70246482
I feel Hallo Spaceboy doesn't fit as well with the rest of Outside's concept;

The Outtakes are interesting in their own right with the omitted content; early demos and all that jazz, with some different (and what I feel to be better) segues

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

>>70246356
I'm surprised as fuck this thread is still alive if I'm being honest.

>omits wishful beginnings
MOZEL TOV!

>A shitty remix closes the album
....we were so close.

>>70246596
WE DO NOT SPEAK OF THE DARK TIMES.

>>70246650
>You prefer tonight and lodger over heroes
So do I. Fight me family.

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>>70240946
>better to ditch one and have hunky dory imo.
> hunky dory isn't close to same bowie as ziggy

Essentials (ranked by my favouritism best-worst)
>Hunky Dory
>Ziggy Stardust
>Station to Station
>Aladdin Sane
>Man Who Sold the World
>Blackstar
>Young Americans
>Space Oddity
>Low
>Heroes

Other ones worth trying
>Diamond Dogs
>Scary monsters
>Pin-ups

Also listenable
>Lodger
>David Bowie
>Reality
>Let's Dance
>Earthling

>>70249665
>ones worth trying
>Pin-Ups

How dare you...

>>70249665
>Scary Monsters on worth trying
>WITH PIN-UPS
YOU TAKE THAT BAAAAAAACK

>>70249665
>Lodger listenable

Come on! It's probably the goofiest thing Bowie has done hence why I love it.

>>70250287
Goofiest has to go to his self-titled album, it had The Laughing Gnome on it.
>>70249758
>>70249876
I like Pin-Ups. In my opinion Scary Monsters > Pin-Ups > Lodger. I know that's not a popular opinion.

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>>70250329
>Pin-Ups > Lodger
>Liking Pinups at all
>Acknowledging it's existence
>Not admitting it ruined David Bowie's amazing album streak.

>>70250329
Sorry, got that wrong, doesn't have Laughing Gnome on it but does have Rubber Band & Uncle Arthur, got mixed up between what was on self-titles and his compilation of early stuff 'Images'.

>>70250371
It did ruin his amazing album streak but I still think the albums okay. I'd give it a 6/10.

>>70250371
The way I look at it is that he WROTE an amazing streak of albums from TMWSTW to Scary Monsters. PinUps isn't even a proper album really

>>70250451
>PinUps isn't even a proper album really
Maybe so, but it's still technically a studio album and therefor, ruining the SO to Scary Monsters streak.

>>70250423
>I'd give it a 6/10.
Lodger is lower than a 6...?
I...I...

...I'm hurt man.

>>70250485
Lodger is about a 6/10 as well, I just enjoy Pin-Ups more.

David Bowie
Space Oddity
Man Who Sold The World
Hunky Dory
Ziggy Stardust
Aladdin Sane
Diamond Dogs
Young Americans
Station to Station
Low
"Heroes"
Lodger
Outside
Heathen
Black Star

Just listened to "Running Gun Blues".... Is Bowie racist sweet Jesus!

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>>70251326
I broke the gooks, I cracked their heads

>>70251434
OH BABY JUST YOU SUTH YO MOUTH
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uciyYTZ2B38

>>70251521
China Girl was meant to be ironic tho

>>70251526
you can't tell the difference

Man Who Sold The World
Hunky Dory
Ziggy Stardust
Aladdin Sane
Young Americans
Station to Station
Low
"Heroes"
Lodger
Scary Monsters
Serious Moonlight EP/Let's Dance
1.Outside
Heathen
The Next Day (Delux Edition please)
Black Star

Man Who Sold The World
Hunky Dory
Ziggy Stardust
Aladdin Sane
Diamond Dogs
Young Americans
Low
Lodger
Scary Monsters
Tonight
Never Let Me Down
Black Tie White Noise
Buddha of Suburbia
Heathen
Black Star

bowie album is called not a

>>70239957
This is a really good ranking. But.

Hunky Dory and Aladdin Sane too high.
Reality and Blackstar too low

>>70239957
Would you fit any live albums in there as well?

Best live album is Stage, prove me wrong

A Reality Tour has some great moments too but suffers from quite a weak set list at times

>>70239957
>self titled
>bad
opinion discarded

>>70253475
I'd argue and say that Serious Moonlight Tour is his best..

>>70253475
I like Santa Monica '72. His covers of My Death and I'm Waiting for the Man are great.

>>70245522
Startling and refreshing.

>>70250506
Lodger is amazing. Adrian Belew's playing on it is great, has a good mix of Krautrock and New Wave, can see his sound evolve from the Berlin Trilogy into Scary Monsters. Don't know how anyone can say a random bunch of covers while he was on too many drugs to even remember is better.