David Bowie Appreciation Thread
 

Im in LOVE with David Bowie at the moment - I just picked up 'Reality', 'Reality Tour DVD' 'Heathen' & 'Scary Monsters' - And I have to say - WOW :eek:

How freakin great Is David Bowie? His albums are bloody awesome :blob2: 'Lets Dance' is quite commercial, but really good, 'Scary Monsters' is absolutley amazing - 'Ashes to Ashes' has to be one of the greatest songs ever :blob1:

His late 80's to late 90's stuff is absolute garbage, and I mean real crap - But 2002's 'Heathen' is some of the best Bowie stuff I have heard, and 2003's 'Reality' is almost as good. I did hear he was supposed to have a new album out this year - and I can't wait :thumbsup:

Any other Bowie fans lurking :)

I have always had and always will have an absurd crush on David Bowie. I was introduced to his music at a very early age (about 5 or 6)by my older sis, which would've been in the Let's Dance era and it blossomed from there.

Ahhhh, Labyrinth...the pseudo mullet, the Kevin Aucoin style make-up and oh....that majestic codpiece. That, my friend, sealed the deal on the life-long crush. Mmm hmm.

Right now the song of choice is "I'm Afraid of Americans". Blew the f*cking roof off of his last tour and I swear I melted straight into my seat when I saw it live. Yummy.

Glad you're loving some Bowie...isn't that Reality Tour DVD just the most awesome thing you've ever seen/heard? I watch that DVD at least once a week. I would LOVE to have it on c.d., the man is a fabulous genius!

I do like someof his stuff, but for the most part, he's a little too out there for my tastes. A great talent though for sure.

Yay Bowie!!

I like to play "Changes" & I like listening to "Aladdin Sane" the song, which is arguably his greatest song.

Was Alladin Sane done while he was Ziggy Stardust?

Cool sig pic, David.

I like Aladdin Sane too, however, from that album I would have to say that either "Drive in Saturday" or "Watch That Man" are my favorite songs.

I can't pick an overall favorite song though, Bowie's got an impressive and extensive catalogue of material, it's too much to choose from!

I believe Bowie's song "Sunday" to be one of the greatest ever. And what a remarkable way to start an album. Picking "Heathen" up the day it came out and playing it as soon as I got back to my car is one of my fondest musical memories. "Sunday," followed by "Cactus," followed by "Slip Away," followed by "Slow Burn," etc. Bowie was back on ****ing top, man. There still isn't a week that goes by where I don't pop that album into my stereo.

I don't think all of his early to mid-nineties stuff is total crap, though. I do have a soft spot for the "Black Tie White Noise" album, which I am unable to explain. I also quite like the "Outside" and "Earthling" albums, for the most part, though "Hours..." is still pretty unlistenable seven years later.

The Reality DVD is incredible, performance-wise. The schizophrenic editing threatens to break my sanity at certain points, but what a show. "Life On Mars" from that DVD is beyond words.

In summation, Bowie is love.

Isn't 'Heathen' just amazing. I love all those tracks you mentioned - plus 'Ive Been Looking' & my very favourite 'I Will be Your Slave' :cool:

I don't like anything from the 90's of David's. 'Hours...' is some of the worst stuff I have ever heard, and 'Black Tie White Noise' is even worse :sorry: I do however have a soft spot for 'Tonight' - even though commercial, still really enjoyable.

But nothing comes close to the greatness of 'Heathen'

Its nice to see you back here Diss :thumbsup:

Oh yeah? Well I like Let's Dance! :laugh: For died in the wool Bowie fans that's like poison, even HE denounced that album for quite some time. But I got ta have me some China Girl...LOVE, LOVE, LOVE that song till the end of time.

And can I just say that I'm glad to see him smiling again? He's a beautiful, beautiful man, I mean, just LOOK!

Love David Bowie.. 2 of my favorite albums are Diamond Dogs & Aladdin Sane...very big hits in my day.http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y16...over-small.gif

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I loves me some Bowie! I just got the remastered Scary Monsters CD and there's stuff on there I don't recall hearing before. It's greatness...I've seen his most recent tour, and the Serious Moonlight tour.

And Let's Dance rocks cuz Stevie Ray Vaughan is on it! :p

When the "Heroes" album came out, I used to play the track "Moss Garden" & daydream by my window as I looked out over the vast expanse of the Arcadia hanging gardens. Sometimes, too, I would hop on my bike & tear off into the hinterlands (the San Gabriel foothills), pretending that I was Frodo Baggins & that the ringwraiths were after me.

David Bowie wrote "Beauty & the Beast," which influenced Stevie to write her "Beauty & the Beast." Stevie & David had many a demitasse together, dreaming of the drawn-out death rattles of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the sunset of a glorious era, & the essence of protracted, dying concupiscence--visionary & profound--captured by the playwright, poet & novelist Artur Schnitzler in such works as "La Ronde" & "Sterben."

In fact, I believe that you cannot truly understand Stevie's title song "Bella Donna" until you have read "Sterben," a novella of terrifying magnificence written during the waning of the Hapsburgs which shares many of the themes of "Bella Donna."

Love Bowie, even his fluff songs.

But my favorite album is 'Earthling.' No question. Heathen was quite amazing as well. I tend to prefer his latter work.

I would have to say my favorite song of his is China Girl