The two best pre-Berlin Bowie albums

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Which are the two best for you?

David Bowie
0
No votes
Space Oddity
0
No votes
The Man Who Sold the World
0
No votes
Hunky Dory
7
17%
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
14
33%
Aladdin Sane
5
12%
Pin Ups
1
2%
Diamond Dogs
9
21%
Young Americans
1
2%
Station to Station
5
12%
 
Total votes: 42

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eumaas wrote:Aladdin Sane just does it for me so much better than Ziggy proper.
I like to intentionally mis-sing "he talks like a jerk but he can eat you with a fuckin' spoon"
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eumaas wrote:Aladdin Sane just does it for me so much better than Ziggy proper.
Who am I to argue? It's not like they're aren't all fantastic.
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Wolter wrote:
eumaas wrote:Aladdin Sane just does it for me so much better than Ziggy proper.
Who am I to argue? It's not like they're aren't all fantastic.
If I had to come up with a reason that I like Ziggy better than AS, Ziggy has such a flow start to finish. I couldn't possibly listen to single Ziggy song with having the opening strains of the next song automatically play in my head when it ends. I'd put most AS songs on the same greatness level as the Ziggy songs, except the tracks AS & Lady Grinning Soul, though not bad songs, are occasional "skippers"
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tepista wrote: If I had to come up with a reason that I like Ziggy better than AS, Ziggy has such a flow start to finish. I couldn't possibly listen to single Ziggy song with having the opening strains of the next song automatically play in my head when it ends.
I think you nailed it there.
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Ziggy is one of the best works ever put to vinyl. If David had kept repeating that formula for years I would be his number one fan.
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board

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I'm not saying Ziggy's bad--it's a great record. But I feel like AS is a bit more rockin.
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Heston wrote:Ziggy is one of the best works ever put to vinyl. If David had kept repeating that formula for years I would be his number one fan.
I bet he could have if he wanted to.
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tepista wrote:
Heston wrote:Ziggy is one of the best works ever put to vinyl. If David had kept repeating that formula for years I would be his number one fan.
I bet he could have if he wanted to.
Well, he is God.

Remember, Bowie doesn't make mistakes. His ways are mysterious and done for reasons we mortals cannot understand. Any artistic failures were done deliberately...probably to save us from ourselves.
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Wolter wrote:
tepista wrote:
Heston wrote:Ziggy is one of the best works ever put to vinyl. If David had kept repeating that formula for years I would be his number one fan.
I bet he could have if he wanted to.
Well, he is God.

Remember, Bowie doesn't make mistakes. His ways are mysterious and done for reasons we mortals cannot understand. Any artistic failures were done deliberately...probably to save us from ourselves.
His hair is also really lovely these days, is it real?
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board

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Heston wrote:
Wolter wrote:
tepista wrote:
Heston wrote:Ziggy is one of the best works ever put to vinyl. If David had kept repeating that formula for years I would be his number one fan.
I bet he could have if he wanted to.
Well, he is God.

Remember, Bowie doesn't make mistakes. His ways are mysterious and done for reasons we mortals cannot understand. Any artistic failures were done deliberately...probably to save us from ourselves.
His hair is also really lovely these days, is it real?
It's made from the pubes of angels.
I feel that there is a fascistic element, for example, in the Rolling Stones . . .
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Heston wrote:
Wolter wrote:
tepista wrote:
Heston wrote:Ziggy is one of the best works ever put to vinyl. If David had kept repeating that formula for years I would be his number one fan.
I bet he could have if he wanted to.
Well, he is God.

Remember, Bowie doesn't make mistakes. His ways are mysterious and done for reasons we mortals cannot understand. Any artistic failures were done deliberately...probably to save us from ourselves.
His hair is also really lovely these days, is it real?
If he says it is, then it is.
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eumaas wrote:
Heston wrote:
Wolter wrote:
tepista wrote:
Heston wrote:Ziggy is one of the best works ever put to vinyl. If David had kept repeating that formula for years I would be his number one fan.
I bet he could have if he wanted to.
Well, he is God.

Remember, Bowie doesn't make mistakes. His ways are mysterious and done for reasons we mortals cannot understand. Any artistic failures were done deliberately...probably to save us from ourselves.
His hair is also really lovely these days, is it real?
It's made from the pubes of angels.
That literally made me laugh for about 8 seconds.
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board

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Heston wrote:
eumaas wrote:
Heston wrote:
Wolter wrote:
tepista wrote: I bet he could have if he wanted to.
Well, he is God.

Remember, Bowie doesn't make mistakes. His ways are mysterious and done for reasons we mortals cannot understand. Any artistic failures were done deliberately...probably to save us from ourselves.
His hair is also really lovely these days, is it real?
It's made from the pubes of angels.
That literally made me laugh for about 8 seconds.
I aim to please.

Sadly I'm not sure I'd be able to tell your laughter from a sentence in Geordie. :shifty:
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eumaas wrote:
Heston wrote:
eumaas wrote:
Heston wrote:
Wolter wrote: Well, he is God.

Remember, Bowie doesn't make mistakes. His ways are mysterious and done for reasons we mortals cannot understand. Any artistic failures were done deliberately...probably to save us from ourselves.
His hair is also really lovely these days, is it real?
It's made from the pubes of angels.
That literally made me laugh for about 8 seconds.
I aim to please.

Sadly I'm not sure I'd be able to tell your laughter from a sentence in Geordie. :shifty:
Howay man, giz a break ya geet big dafty.
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board

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Heston wrote:
eumaas wrote:
Heston wrote:
Wolter wrote:
tepista wrote: I bet he could have if he wanted to.
Well, he is God.

Remember, Bowie doesn't make mistakes. His ways are mysterious and done for reasons we mortals cannot understand. Any artistic failures were done deliberately...probably to save us from ourselves.
His hair is also really lovely these days, is it real?
It's made from the pubes of angels.
That literally made me laugh for about 8 seconds.
Me too.
”INDER LOCK THE THE KISS THREAD IVE REALISED IM A PRZE IDOOT” - Thomas Jefferson

"But the gorilla thinks otherwise!"

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