David Bowie

[Pigmy Pony]

In the seventies there used to be Roxy/Bowie nights at various clubs and venues, such was their popularity. We've had a lot of views on Roxy Music, but what about Bowie? I reckon Hunky Dory was the biggest steaming pile ever to be committed to vinyl. What do you think?

[AJSki2fly]

In the seventies there used to be Roxy/Bowie nights at various clubs and venues, such was their popularity. We've had a lot of views on Roxy Music, but what about Bowie? I reckon Hunky Dory was the biggest steaming pile ever to be committed to vinyl. What do you think?

Now you really are talking rubbish, Hunky Dory is a classic, the beginning of Bowie creating characterisations which lead to Ziggy, Aladdin Sane etc.

[Joe]

In the seventies there used to be Roxy/Bowie nights at various clubs and venues, such was their popularity. We've had a lot of views on Roxy Music, but what about Bowie? I reckon Hunky Dory was the biggest steaming pile ever to be committed to vinyl. What do you think?

I think you've been smoking too much cheap crack.

[WESTLOWER]

In the seventies there used to be Roxy/Bowie nights at various clubs and venues, such was their popularity. We've had a lot of views on Roxy Music, but what about Bowie? I reckon Hunky Dory was the biggest steaming pile ever to be committed to vinyl. What do you think?

Oh dear oh dear...!

[The Black Adder]

In the seventies there used to be Roxy/Bowie nights at various clubs and venues, such was their popularity. We've had a lot of views on Roxy Music, but what about Bowie? I reckon Hunky Dory was the biggest steaming pile ever to be committed to vinyl. What do you think?One of my all time best albums tbh.

Sorry you feel that way... Why do you feel that way? It's a great little album.

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[Pigmy Pony]

:lol: Got you going there! Hunky Dory is my all time favourite of any album, more so than my other favourites (Electric Ladyland, Wish You Were Here and even Ziggy Stardust). Nice to see Mr. Bowie has such a loyal following :)

What's your favourite DB album?

[WESTLOWER]

:lol: Got you going there! Hunky Dory is my all time favourite of any album, more so than my other favourites (Electric Ladyland, Wish You Were Here and even Ziggy Stardust). Nice to see Mr. Bowie has such a loyal following :)

What's your favourite DB album?


What a pointless thread :rolleyes::rolleyes:

[Pigmy Pony]

What a pointless thread :rolleyes::rolleyes:

You're right Adam, it is. But in my defence I was bored with the Brexit thread bunfight and there wasn't much else happening. A better thread might have been "Would Bowie have voted to leave?"

Feel free to post something more interesting, I haven't set the bar very high.

[JimK]

What's your favourite DB album?


Station To Station is my favourite DB album

[Ian7633]

Station To Station is my favourite DB album

Station to station is a great album. best track for me is Stay

[Shovel_Knight]

I really like his eponymous album (aka Space Oddity), Hunky Dory and Heroes.

I also enjoy his late albums such as Heathen and The Next DayStar.

Don't care much for his 80s and 90s output, I like several songs from that period and I have them on 45s :D

[Alex_UK]

Heathen perhaps, but I'm happy with a DB "greatest hits"... :sofa:

[Barry]

I'm not big a Bowie fan. I have his first album, and a couple from his Berlin period where he collaborated with Brian Eno. 'Scary Monsters' is his most recent offering in my collection. Used to have a copy of 'Pin Ups', but rarely played it so gave it away.

(PS I think I have a Bowie collection on CD somewhere.)

[Pete The Cat]

"Hunky Dory" is my favourite Bowie album. The 2015 reissue restored my faith in remastering, the album sounds as if it was recorded just last week.

Pete

[YNWaN]

‘Hunky Dory’ is also my favourite.

[Joe]

I kind of favour 'Diamond Dogs' over 'Hunky Dory', partly because 'Diamond Dogs' is generally underrated, and partly because 'Hunky Dory' has the appalling song 'Kooks' on it.

[Pigmy Pony]

"Hunky Dory" is my favourite Bowie album. The 2015 reissue restored my faith in remastering, the album sounds as if it was recorded just last week.

Pete

I assume that you are talking about a vinyl release? If so I should consider that. My ancient copy is a bit tired now, such that I tend to use my CD copy, which isn't the same. I would like to have his entire catalogue on vinyl, but whether I manage to do this before I peg it, I'm not sure.

I'm still about ten away from completion, most of which I have on CD anyway. That's not including any compilations, live sets or soundtracks as I need to draw the line somewhere. So many albums, so little time and bog all cash. :( One day my daughters will inherit these, and if they flog 'em I'll come back and haunt them.

[JimK]

Station to station is a great album. best track for me is Stay

The title track is the best for me.

[Haselsh1]

Oh LOL, light the blue touch paper and run like hell.

I think that Bowie was a bit like Pink Floyd, a couple of classic albums and lots of utter shit. Like I said, light the paper and stand well back.

;)

[Haselsh1]

Oh yeah, Aladdin Sane for me (every time).

;)

[struth]

not a huge bowie fan, although i liked a few of his. not everyday listening for me tho.

[cuddles]

I only had enough pocket money to buy my first LP in 1973. It was a toss up between Raw Power and Space Oddity. Bowie won. I didn't get Aladdin Sane coz my friend had that. No point in getting duplicate records when you can borrow them ;)

I thought Bowie was pretty essential all the way through to Heroes. I remember being taken aback by Low especially by Side2 - who was expecting that? My favourite is probably Ziggy mainly due to Mick Ronson's guitar - No one else sounds like him.

[AJSki2fly]

Oh LOL, light the blue touch paper and run like hell.

I think that Bowie was a bit like Pink Floyd, a couple of classic albums and lots of utter shit. Like I said, light the paper and stand well back.

;)

Total utter rubbish, on both counts, go and wash your ears out!:D

[Pigmy Pony]

I only had enough pocket money to buy my first LP in 1973. It was a toss up between Raw Power and Space Oddity. Bowie won. I didn't get Aladdin Sane coz my friend had that. No point in getting duplicate records when you can borrow them ;)

I thought Bowie was pretty essential all the way through to Heroes. I remember being taken aback by Low especially by Side2 - who was expecting that? My favourite is probably Ziggy mainly due to Mick Ronson's guitar - No one else sounds like him.

I think Mick Ronson, his arrangements and guitar played an essential part in Bowie's sound - all of my favourites are the ones he was a part of, and that can't be a coincidence.

I saw a documentary film last year called "Beside Bowie - the Mick Ronson Story", which I found quite moving - a great talent and a proper down-to-earth and warm human being. Recommended viewing :)

[struth]

Got an album of micks. Good axeman

[Minstrel SE]

Bowie was a seminal artist. I didnt buzz on every track he released but there is more than enough to show a true genius

Its almost too easy to say you like him. Again I can dip in to the greatest hits or play an album. Ive got the live in 72 and a good few of his albums.

I dint buy into the whole Ziggy thing but I took the album as a great piece of work. Im afraid glam fashion was the pair of cords my mother could afford to buy me. I was young in his early years so you could say I matured to love it and look back at the discography.

He is in another league from Roxy music. A league reserved for the very best

[graham67]

My mum loved Bowie , (she had the usual best of on cassette!)so I was always listening to him, still love it. I was only listening to ziggy lp this evening. It is a nothing special re-issue but with the JBLs at 11, the music just reaches out and grabs you. Rock and Roll Suicide is a stunning finale to a great album (complete with echoes of The Bewley Brothers one of my faves from Hunky Dory). What a run of output to Scary Monsters, Ashes to Ashes is as fresh and avant garde today.
After that, the albums are rather patchy, but I really like Reality, its got some great up tempo rhythms, Pablo Picasso is right up there in his canon.
And he kept the surprises coming, The Next Day is moody and great in places. Though i keep thinking it would have made a truly stunning single lp rather than the double it was released as. I haven't bought Black Star, I think it was all the forgiveable hype that made me hesitate.
A truly unique and authentic talent.

[Pigmy Pony]

I find 'Black Star' to be a difficult listen, very dark, and makes me think about his passing, and by extension my own mortality. I prefer music which distracts me from the inevitable. The polar opposite of 'Hunky Dory' imo, with its optimism, light and hope for the future. This probably doesn't make much sense, it's just how they make me feel.

Guilty pleasure - One of my favourite Bowie songs is 'Absolute Beginners', which similarly lifts my spirits. Shite film though.

[The Black Adder]

I like 'black star' but yes.. It's dark and not a regular play.

I can't bring myself to buy a vinyl copy at the crazy prices. I'd rather buy more vinyl.

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