not a huge bowie fan, although i liked a few of his. not everyday listening for me tho.
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not a huge bowie fan, although i liked a few of his. not everyday listening for me tho.
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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.
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Total utter rubbish, on both counts, go and wash your ears out!Originally Posted by 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.
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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 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 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
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Got an album of micks. Good axeman
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Oh my god! There's nothing wrong with the bidet is there?
“Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".
“You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”
"You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”
“There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”
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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
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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.
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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.
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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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