Remember the time when David Bowie sold out?

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Yes.

>>71083455
That's a good album.

>he doesn't like let's dance

>>71083485
God, that cover is ugly.

>>71083494
>>71083493
It's okay, but it's appealing to the general population like you two.

The modern love video is goat, its so 80's it hurts, and reminds me of buckaroo banzai

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hDbpF4Mvkw

He was still good

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>>71083520
Did someone say "Ugly David Bowie album cover"?

>>71083556
I refuse to believe that's real...

>>71083556
This is like a polished version of something I would've drawn on a computer at age 7

>>71083596
FUCK
Its real!?
Who the fuck would do such a thing

>>71083533
W-what do you mean?

>>71083615
And to think this album has a top 5 Bowie song on it...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3PHnLR_LWk

>>71083556
Hay that album was pretty good

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Heroes is David bowie best album

>>71083621
It was intentionally appealing to a lower common denominator, and was for money and the success on the charts. Even he said it fucked with his integrity

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Bowie would have like a streak of really great albums, then he would make complete shit, then realize he made shit, then make another streak of good albums.
Even when he sold out the music was good.
He was really in tune with trends, you see him in the modern love video dressed like some 80's pop star, then in the 90's he is dressed like an extra from the movie hackers

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>>71083682
*second best

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>>71083721
No black star is better

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Wow look at this fucking monstrosity I made.

>>71083718
I fucking love his hair here.

>>71083826
What bowie best deep cut

>>71083455
>caring about artists selling out
the fact that it appealed to a bigger audience doesn't make it not good

>>71083873
Some of my favorites:
Bring Me The Disco King
Looking for Lester
Sunday
Aladdin Sane (the song)
The Sweet THing Medley
It's Gonna Be Me (w/stings)

Will provide links if wanted.

>>71083873
The Supermen

>>71083908
It's because Bowie lost a large amount of artistic integrity by appealing to the masses, it can be successful, but the music is not as good

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What the fuck I put in Blackstar....

>>71083920
Thank fame

>>71083541
the opening three lines to that song sound so much like Brian Molko

>>71084011
No problem.

I'm busy combining Bowie covers in Dreamscope.

Bowie started out as a glam rocker, then did a bunch of coke and thought he was hitler, then made a bunch of super experimental albums, then he sold out in the 80's, then he made some forgettable shit, then in the 90's kurt cobain reminded everyone david bowie was still alive by playing man who sold the world and bowie sucked trent rezonrs life essence and got brian eno to produce some more and made some underrated late in life albums.
Then he decided he got old and just started wearing suits all the time, then he had a massive heart attack and became a recluse, then he made one final great album about him dying from cancer .

>>71083494

The Man Who Sold The World>Aladdin Sane

>>71084553
Naaah, man.

>>71084553
Yup

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>>71084589
I'm literally just on here for Bowie threads.

Aladdin Sane>Let's Dance
Diamond Dogs>The Man Who Sold The World
Heroes>Low

>>71084635
I was on here mostly for Bowie threads when I started here too.

If I said my top 5 I'm pretty sure I'd be beheaded.

>>71084673
Say it.

I main

>Low (What in the world is best)
>Heroes (Sons of the Silent Age is best)
>The Rise and Fall of Ziggy (Lady Stardust is bes)
>The Man Who Sold The World (After All is best)
>Diamond Dogs (Sweet Thing is best)

>>71084700
I'll do your format.

>Diamond Dogs (Sweet Thing Medley)
>Earthling (Dead Man Walking)
>Aladdin Sane (Aladdin Sane)
>Heathen (Sunday)
>Black Tie White Noise (Looking for Lester)

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>>71083455
Yes. Pic related.

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>>71084733

>Aladdin Sane (The Prettiest Star)

>>71084778
>(The Prettiest Star)
That's...like...the worst track, my man.

(Then again who the hell am I to judge?)

>>71084798
ONE DAY THOUGH IT MIGHT AS WELL BE SOME DAY

(I'm biased because it's literally my fucking love song, but I mean more the single version that you can check out in Sound & Vision not the Aladdin Sane version)

>>71084819
>it's literally my fucking love song
Ohhhh...someone's got a girlfriend. Niice.

I'll be sure to check that version out.

>>71083455
Who the fuck dislikes Let's Dance?

>>71083721
>>71083801
A New Career in a New Town and I Can't Give Everything Away are my two favorite Bowie songs.

>>71084865
plebs

>>71084833
Well, I might as well do all of my favorite bowie songs from each standard album that I can choose from going up.

>Davie Jones (OOH LITTLE LIZER)
>David Bowie (Love you till' Tuesday)
>Space Oddity (Cygnet Committee)
>The Man Who Sold The World (After All)
>Hunky Dory (Quicksand)
>Ziggy (Lady Stardust)
>Aladdin Cane (Lady or Star)
>Diamond Cocks (BOYS BOYS ITS A SWEET THANG)
>Station to Station ( AND ONCE THERE WERE MOUNTAINS ON MOUNTAINS)
>Low (What in the World)
>Heroes (BABY I'LLLLL NEVER LET YOU GOO-HOOO!)

Too lazy to look for other ones at the moment.

Tonight is Loving the Alien and Let's Dance is Modern Love.

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>>71084865
This guy.

>>71083556
Reality is underrated. So is Outside.
But yeah, the cover is shit.

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>>71084922
Well shit I'm inspired now. I wanna do that too.

Silly Boy Blue
Wild Eyed Boy from Freecloud
The Man Who Sold the World
OH! You Pretty Things
Rock N Roll Suicide
Aladdin Sane
Sweet THing Medley
It's Gonna Be Me (Strings Version)
Stay
Subterraneans
The Secret Life of Arabia
Look Back in Anger
Teenage Wildlife
Criminal World
Don't Look Down
Time Will Crawl
Looking for Lester
Buddha of Suburbia
Strangers When We Meet
Dead Man Walking
New Angels of Promise
Sunday
Bring Me the Disco King
The Stars (Are Out Tonight)
Lazarus

>>71085085
"Wow, hey this is pretty good *reads [The Secret Life of Arabia]* Hey anyone have a puppy I can go kick?"

>>71085148
>Hey anyone have a puppy I can go kick?"
What's wrong with Arabia?

>>71085185
>You forgot the album that shall not be named, even if Sorrow is the only correct answer.

It's just, I mean, come on man it's either Black Out, Sons of the Silent Age or the six-minute cut of Heroes. You need to choose one of the three.

>>71085212
>the album that shall not be named
SHHH!

But anyway, the B side to Heroes is underrated as hell, my man. V2 Schneider, Moss Garden, and Arabia are some of my favorite songs of his.

>>71085232
Okay well let's just say that you had to pick from the three which one would it be?

I would choose Sense of Doubt as my personal side B choice.

>>71085212
>not moss garden

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alt cover to reality

bless

>>71085263
Of your three?

Heroes > Sons > Blackout

Of my three:

Secrets > Moss > V2

Of both combined

Secrets > Moss > Heroes > V2 > Sons > Blackout

>>71085307
Let me go listen to Arabia again.

Also, if you have the time, rank Hunky Dory and Ziggy, or another of your choosing.

I'm interested in what you'd put down

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>>71085331
Oh You Pretty Things
Life on Mars
Changes
Queen Bitch
Song for Bob Dylan
Kooks
Quicksand
Fill Your Heart
The Bewelay Brothers
Eight Line Poem
Andy Warhol

>>71085402
Would you like me to rate one out of all the songs? Maybe D.D or TMWSTW or Space Oddity (Like a true patrician)

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>>71085331
Rock N Roll Suicide
5 Years
Ziggy Stardust
Moonage Daydream
Sufferagette City
Starman
Soul Love = Lady Stardust
Star
Hang on to Yourself

>Power-gap

Literally anything else

It Ain't Easy

>>71085453
>It Ain't Easy at the bottom

Wow, holy fuck. We finally agree on something. I think this album is fantastic but It Ain't Easy is such an off-putting song.

>>71085427
Sure. Space Oddity. I love that album and think it's underrated.

In fact I'll do it too. :)

>>71085453
Fun story actually, not the girl i'm with now but one before actually fell in love with me after I pulled a quote from "Five Years" during a very emotional conversation. Not worth it to disgust bowie's name in that way, bitch was crazy

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Wild Eyed Boy from Freecloud
Memory of a Free Festival
Space Oddity
Cygnee Comittee
Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed
An Occasional Dream
Janine
God Knows I'm Good
Letter to Hermione

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>>71085474
1. Cygnet Committee
2. Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed (First Half)
3. Letter to Hermione
4. Janine
5. An Occasional Dream
6. Space Oddity
7. Memory of a Free Festival
8. Wild Eye Boy From Freecloud
9. God Knows I'm Good

>Skips ten years behind It Aint Easy and even The Laughing Gnome.

Don't Sit Down (kek)

>>71085555
>7. Memory of a Free Festival
>8. Wild Eye Boy From Freecloud
T R I G G E R E D.

>>71085562
At least I remembered to put Don't Sit Down somewhere on my list unlike someone!

>>71085574
It's murged with Unwashed. It doesn't count!

Either way: Did you just IGNORE the orchestra on Wild Eyed? How do you rank something that beautiful so low?

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Let's Dance [EMI America, 1983]

Anyone who wants Dave's $17 million fling to flop doesn't understand how little good motives have to do with good rock and roll. Rodgers & Bowie are a rich combo in the ways that count as well as the ways that don't, and this stays up throughout, though it's perfunctory professional surface does make one wonder whether Bowie-the-thespian really cares much about pop music these days. "Modern Love" is the only interesting new song, the remakes are pleasantly pointless, and rarely has such a lithe rhythm player been harnessed to such a flat groove. Which don't mean the world won't dance to it. B

>>71085594
I pertain to more PATRICIAN tastes!

How DARE you shun Letter to Hermione, that shit literally is your ear pussy getting fucked.

>That opening guitar on Cygnet is orgasmic.

>>71085626
O R C H E S T R A S
N I G G A

You cannot resist the call of beautiful ORCHESTRAS.

>>71085634
>b-buht muh masterful lyrics halfway through Cygnet.

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>>71085659
Apprantely you're still missing something....

Please see Exhibit A.

>>71085599
>and rarely has such a lithe rhythm player been harnessed to such a flat groove
Welcome to the 80s. Enjoy your stay.

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>>71085677
Fine, you fucking win.

Now it's my turn.

1. After All
2. All The Madmen
3. The Man Who Sold The World.
4. Saviour Machine
5. Running Gun Blues
6. The Width of a Circle
7. The Supermen
8. She Shook Me Cold
9. Black Country Rock

>>71083455
>>71085693
There was a three year gap from Scary Monsters to Let's Dance. Dave took a while to figure out how this new decade was supposed to work and shit.

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>>71085725
Aiight, groovy.

1. Title Track
2. The Width of a Circle
3. All the Madmen
4. Running Gun Blues
5. The Superment
6. Savior Machine
7. Black Country Rock
8. After All
9. She Shook Me Cold

>>71085821
>AFTER ALL 8

AN ABSOLUTE MADMAN

>Seriously though, "I borrowed your time, and I'm sorry I called, but the thought just occurred, we're nobody's children at all, after all."

>>71085839
You're a lyrics guy.
I'm a composition/production guy.

I'm just now realizing that...

black star is a bad album and only acclaimed because he died within days of releasing it

>>71085846
Composition wise, can't you at least look back on it and compromise that All The Madmen takes the cock in that regard?

>>71085866
>takes the cock
Uhhh....Depends....
Is that a compliment or an insult?

neukölm?

>>71085874
compliment duh

sorry was jacking

>>71086028
>was jacking
I did NOT need to know that. I thought you had a girlfriend?

And yes, madman's composition is great.

>>71086037
Just because I have a Girlfriend doesn't mean she isn't asleep.

I like After All for the serene feeling it gives. You know what is a good song? Underground.

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>>71086079
>Counting songs from that mediocre Labyrinth movie.

>>71086124
Okay look fucker Underground barely counts. Plus it got a separate music video and shit. Same with As the World Falls Down.

YOU KNOW WHAT'S A GOOD SONG?

FUCKING LIZA JANE!

I MET A GIRL WHO LOVE ME TOOOOOO

WOOAAHHH LITTLEEE LIZZEERRRR

SSHHEEE AIIINTT MORE THAN FFUUUUIIIIIVVVEEE FFFOUUUTT TWWOOOO

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>>71086145
>Counting songs from before his solo career

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>>71086191
I get a thick one every time I listen to Life on Mars (2016 mix) on full volume at aprox. 12 PM

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>>71086208
>remixes

remember the time we had this same exact thread like a week ago? fuck off

>>71083455
I truly believe every one of Bowie's career choices, even ones we now consider to be terrible, was something he genuinely believed in. As such, I don't think it's possible for him to have "sold out".

>>71083682
Definitely the best cover

>>71085402
>Quicksand that low
>Eight Line Poem not last

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>>71086251
Sorry to stop your meming for a second.

But Quicksand is the best Hunky Dory song and you can't prove otherwise

>>71086272
>The string sections on Changes and Life on Mars
>The fun, catchy piano on Oh! You Pretty Things
>SHE'S SO SWISHY IN HER SATIN AND TAT

Yes I can...

>>71083485
>Never Let Me Down
>album lets everyone down

>>71086315
I need to go to bed, fuck.

Well, i'll leave you with this.

Cold fire, you've got everything but cold fire
You will be my rest and peace, child
I moved up to take a place
Near you
So tired, it's the sky that makes you feel tried
It's a trick to make you see wide
It can all but break your heat
In pieces
Staying back in your memory
Are the movies in the past?
How you moved is all it takes
To sing a song of when I loved
The prettiest star
One day, though it might as well be someday
You and I will rise up all the way
All because of what you are
The prettiest star"

>>71086358
Maybe replace the grating doo-wop behind it that Drive In Saturday blows out of the water and I'd like it better.

Mozel tov, stranger.

>>71083455
>Remember the time when David Bowie sold out?
Yes. That's how he started. And I'm glad he made albums like The Man Who Sold The World, Low, Station to Station, Heroes, Heathen, 1.Outside and Blackstar.

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>>71084105
Upon David Bowie's death he returned all the life essence to Trent Reznor returning back all the rage and anger within, making him to create Not The Actual Events.

>>71084964
Damn... Link? I can almost see some of ABBA's albums in his 5 star rated albums.

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>>71083556
Practically compulsory, at this point.

>>71085305
There's others, but this is the most faithful alternate.

I understand what he was going for. Bowie always took risks, and often they paid off. His album art was more often where it faltered, even if I still love some of the missteps.

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>>71083873
see
>>71083925
especially, but also
>>71083920

Cygnet Committee
Fascination

It's honestly hard for me to give Bowie deep cuts, because while most of his singles are also 10/10, I've also consistently found about 3/4ths of everything else to be way more brilliant.

The Sweet Thing suite is widely regarded as a cult-hit classic. Most of Young Americans is overlooked. Listen to the whole album of Aladdin Sane, it's the bastard child of Ziggy and arguably a better collection of songs.

Start with these selections and just listen sequentially. More of it is a good deep cut than not, and a ton of the joy comes from hearing the connected transition between albums and aesthetics. While he is known for being all over the place, being a chameleon, if you're smart and you understand his style and thought, there's always a lead-in the album before. Every time.

To be really lame, the line from Ashes to Ashes; "I never did anything out of the blue"

>>71084914
great taste friend :)

>>71084964
Source? Anyone?

>>71083873
Scream Like a Baby
A Small Plot of Land

Every time I wanted to see him tickets weren't available.

He sold out every time he came to town.

>>71084922
David Bowie 67: Rubber Band
David Bowie 69: Memory of a Free Festival
The Man Who Sold the World: Title Track
Hunky Dory: Life on Mars?
Ziggy Stardust: Five Years
Aladdin Sane: Lady Grinning Soul
Pin Ups: Sorrow
Diamond Dogs: Sweet Thing
Young Americans: Fascination
Station to Station: Word on a Wing
Low: Breaking Glass
Heroes: Secret Life of Arabia
Lodger: Look Back in Anger
Scary Monsters: It's No Game (Part 1)
Let's Dance: Let's Dance
Tonight: Blue Jean
Never Let Me Down: Time Will Crawl
Black Tie White Noise: Jump They Say
Outside: I'm Deranged
Earthling: I'm Afraid of Americans
Hours: Survive
Heathen: Everyone Says Hi
Reality: New Killer Star
The Next Day: Love is Lost
Blackstar: Girl Loves Me

>>71086374
Rest in peace.

>>71084635

Agree