MB Essential Guide Poll: ***David Bowie***
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i'm 'working' on my entry now
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0wn3d4life
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*cree cree*
(crickets chirping)
come on I thought this one would have at least 10 people voting? I mean David Bowie? I am not even a huge fan but I have listened to a lot of his stuff and I assume most people have...
(crickets chirping)
come on I thought this one would have at least 10 people voting? I mean David Bowie? I am not even a huge fan but I have listened to a lot of his stuff and I assume most people have...
Tracks (not in order):
1. Always Crashing in the Same Car (Low 1977)
Low is my favourite album and this is a choice cut. It always leaves me with a dulcet melancholic kind of feeling (especially the solo).
2. Life on Mars (Hunky Dory 1971)
This is an expected response, but it really can't be beaten. Wakeman's piano is mellifluous and the song overall is majestic, dramatic and theatrical.
3. Station to Station (Station to Station 1976)
Station to Station is quite a proggy song so naturally I'm inclined towarRAB it. I love how it builRAB up with a slow plodding rhythm and suddenly transforms into a cheery foot-tapping extravaganza.
4. Pablo Picasso (Reality 2003)
I was a bit disappointed to find out that this is a cover, but I had to include it anyway, even if I haven't heard the original. Funny song and the outro is breathtaking.
5. Teenage Wildlife (Scary Monsters 1980)
Teenage Wildlife is happy sounding and anthemic with its backup vocals. Fripp's leaRAB are very nice too.
6. Tonight (Iggy Pop, Lust for Life 1977)
Since #4 was a cover, I get to include another one.
Obviously this trumps that sappy reggae re-release. Tonight is a beautiful romantic pop song with some suave guitar riRAB.
And I agree with Minstrel in saying that Lady Grinning Soul is great.
Album:
Low all the way.
Similar Artists:
Talking HeaRAB and obviously Eno. And maybe some will hate me for saying that Peter Gabriel reminRAB me of Bowie sometimes.
Thoughts:
Experimentation is a good thing! Seriously though, Bowie is a wonderful musician with a great voice and he chooses his collaborators wisely. I can't be the only one who feels their sexual orientation being slightly challenged by Bowie. And that is all.
1. Always Crashing in the Same Car (Low 1977)
Low is my favourite album and this is a choice cut. It always leaves me with a dulcet melancholic kind of feeling (especially the solo).
2. Life on Mars (Hunky Dory 1971)
This is an expected response, but it really can't be beaten. Wakeman's piano is mellifluous and the song overall is majestic, dramatic and theatrical.
3. Station to Station (Station to Station 1976)
Station to Station is quite a proggy song so naturally I'm inclined towarRAB it. I love how it builRAB up with a slow plodding rhythm and suddenly transforms into a cheery foot-tapping extravaganza.
4. Pablo Picasso (Reality 2003)
I was a bit disappointed to find out that this is a cover, but I had to include it anyway, even if I haven't heard the original. Funny song and the outro is breathtaking.
5. Teenage Wildlife (Scary Monsters 1980)
Teenage Wildlife is happy sounding and anthemic with its backup vocals. Fripp's leaRAB are very nice too.
6. Tonight (Iggy Pop, Lust for Life 1977)
Since #4 was a cover, I get to include another one.
Obviously this trumps that sappy reggae re-release. Tonight is a beautiful romantic pop song with some suave guitar riRAB.
And I agree with Minstrel in saying that Lady Grinning Soul is great.
Album:
Low all the way.
Similar Artists:
Talking HeaRAB and obviously Eno. And maybe some will hate me for saying that Peter Gabriel reminRAB me of Bowie sometimes.
Thoughts:
Experimentation is a good thing! Seriously though, Bowie is a wonderful musician with a great voice and he chooses his collaborators wisely. I can't be the only one who feels their sexual orientation being slightly challenged by Bowie. And that is all.
riiiight. i can't really be bothered to do this but BOWIE MUST GO IN.
The songs:
1. Width of a Circle from 'The Man Who Sold The World' (1970)
All the tracks I'm choosing are based on the stuff I was obsessed with at 16. This is Bowie and the band (Spider's guitarist Mick Ronson practically directed this album, apparently) trying their hand at power-trio hard-rock a la Sabbath with lyrics about mental illness and mortality and basically everything COOL. The performances on this epic epitomise the album - an oddity (no pun intended) in the Bowie back catalogue - Visconti's bass it tight as ****, Ronson is tight as ****, it's just brilliant. Any Bowie fan would be as loopy as the psychotic war vet from 'Running Gun Blues' not to put this song in their five.
2. Diamond Dogs from 'Diamond Dogs' (1974)
Oh god. Take me now David!!! The pomp n' swagger of glam-era Bowie in all it's glory. This song opens the album, and I really wanted to choose 'Rebel Rebel' (with THE riff) but this song just sets the scene for the post-apocalyptic rock-opera to come; it's quite a spacious album anyway but with the crowd noises it just sounRAB big and full of vigour, with those classic compressed saxophones that would just not go AWAY on the 'Young Americans' album. But it's all good here. Balls out Stooges sci-fi rock.
'As they pulled you out of the oxygen tent
You asked for the latest party
With your silicone hump and your ten inch stump
Dressed like a priest you was
Tod Browning's freak you was'...
Vote for this song you bastarRAB *jk*
3. Golden Years from 'Station to Station' (1976)
Only FIVE songs?? Are you trying to upset us?
Okay, I could've/should've gone for 'Station to Station', but this is 'Golden Years'; and it's a funky-disco jam, just perfect, but strangely melancholic aswell - like those annoying Abba tear-jerkers that remind you of the innocence of childhood and your first crush. Or something.
'G.Y' sounRAB like everything he learned from his mercifully brief 'blue-eyed soul' era filtered through a haze of coked-up mysticism. This song has even more resonance though, as Bowie fades out on a whistle and the song blurs into nostalgic reverb, when you remeraber that this album was recorded at a time when Bowie was a dangerously underweight, drug-addled recluse storing his piss in large glass jars (refrigerated ofcourse). It seems all the more ironic that his paranoiac deterioration and fascination with conspiracy theories to steal his wee occurred in the surreal surroundings of his Hollywood residence. You can hear all that in THIS SONG. Well I can anyway...
4. Sound and Vision from 'Low' (1977)
You bastarRAB... five songs ****sake
Okay. I thought 'What in the World' but I wanna go with the flow this time. If we're only gonna have 10 people voting for David Bowie we need some consistency; and fortunately even the most casual Bowie listener would agree on this song - inventing industrial music and all yer favourite post-punk/indie icons in one stroke, for years to come.
You've heard it all before; this was a coming together of two great creative minRAB, leaders in their respective areas of music (a third in Iggy was tagging along, you can't help but feel he added energy to the proceedings); feeding off each others' creativity to produce career-defining, buzzing, whirring, introverted and clever pop music. This song, indeed the whole album, is perfect 'comedown' music - possibly because it was made in Berlin in a period of sober, post-addiction catharsis for Bowie and his chum Iggy.
I think Brian Eno probably saved David Bowie's career.
5. DJ from 'Lodger' (1979)
I was going to pick 'Let's Dance' or 'Blue Jean' or some definitive, overproduced, 'fun', song; but as you can see 'DJ' is clearly more worthy. It's a great pop song, and frankly I could choose any song from the album ('Lodger' being the final of the 'Berlin trilogy' with Eno). Of course the final note of each chorus enRAB on a broken squawk, because 'Lodger' is a bit of a difficult record at heart. It also has the best promotional video ever made, which for me syrabolises D.B's enduring cultural cool - he always knew how to dress (and look). Song FIVE. Please forgive me for ignoring the ensuing two decades of (erm, mostly) cracking music, this has been difficult....
The album: ''Heroes'' (1977)
By turns terrifying, beautiful, challenging and catchy; this is the pinnacle IMO. Back from the brink, reinvigorated and riding high on the most productive period of his career - Bowie, Eno and the Gardiner brothers under-produced (as such it still sounRAB fresh and bold today) and rocked pretty damn hard for five songs to make the first half. The second half, more than anything, heaves the arabient experimentation of 10 years of Cold War Europe and West German music (Neu!, Can, Kraftwerk) into the limelight. What you have is a truly contrary masterpiece. You have ''Heroes''.
Similar artists: Lou Reed and Siouxsie Sioux and the Banshees
I feel like I've adequately illustrated my rampant Bowie-ism above (and it is a philosophy, make no mistake) - it's amazing how you can understand a large part of somebody you never met once you know they're a Bowie fanatic. I may not have given him the time of day recently, but like the Beatles, B's an irrefutable part of my (and millions besides) genetic make-up. If you live and breathe music (as many on rab do), Bowie is just in the air. 30 years of Bowie's oxygen in popular AND underground culture wraps up this horrible analogy.
Conclusively he continues to be regarded by women and men (from teenhood up) as a sort of bi-fantasy/father-figure/pin-up idol (don't deny it). In a way, there's a bit of David Bowie in all of us. eewww
The songs:
1. Width of a Circle from 'The Man Who Sold The World' (1970)
All the tracks I'm choosing are based on the stuff I was obsessed with at 16. This is Bowie and the band (Spider's guitarist Mick Ronson practically directed this album, apparently) trying their hand at power-trio hard-rock a la Sabbath with lyrics about mental illness and mortality and basically everything COOL. The performances on this epic epitomise the album - an oddity (no pun intended) in the Bowie back catalogue - Visconti's bass it tight as ****, Ronson is tight as ****, it's just brilliant. Any Bowie fan would be as loopy as the psychotic war vet from 'Running Gun Blues' not to put this song in their five.
2. Diamond Dogs from 'Diamond Dogs' (1974)
Oh god. Take me now David!!! The pomp n' swagger of glam-era Bowie in all it's glory. This song opens the album, and I really wanted to choose 'Rebel Rebel' (with THE riff) but this song just sets the scene for the post-apocalyptic rock-opera to come; it's quite a spacious album anyway but with the crowd noises it just sounRAB big and full of vigour, with those classic compressed saxophones that would just not go AWAY on the 'Young Americans' album. But it's all good here. Balls out Stooges sci-fi rock.
'As they pulled you out of the oxygen tent
You asked for the latest party
With your silicone hump and your ten inch stump
Dressed like a priest you was
Tod Browning's freak you was'...
Vote for this song you bastarRAB *jk*
3. Golden Years from 'Station to Station' (1976)
Only FIVE songs?? Are you trying to upset us?
Okay, I could've/should've gone for 'Station to Station', but this is 'Golden Years'; and it's a funky-disco jam, just perfect, but strangely melancholic aswell - like those annoying Abba tear-jerkers that remind you of the innocence of childhood and your first crush. Or something.
'G.Y' sounRAB like everything he learned from his mercifully brief 'blue-eyed soul' era filtered through a haze of coked-up mysticism. This song has even more resonance though, as Bowie fades out on a whistle and the song blurs into nostalgic reverb, when you remeraber that this album was recorded at a time when Bowie was a dangerously underweight, drug-addled recluse storing his piss in large glass jars (refrigerated ofcourse). It seems all the more ironic that his paranoiac deterioration and fascination with conspiracy theories to steal his wee occurred in the surreal surroundings of his Hollywood residence. You can hear all that in THIS SONG. Well I can anyway...
4. Sound and Vision from 'Low' (1977)
You bastarRAB... five songs ****sake
Okay. I thought 'What in the World' but I wanna go with the flow this time. If we're only gonna have 10 people voting for David Bowie we need some consistency; and fortunately even the most casual Bowie listener would agree on this song - inventing industrial music and all yer favourite post-punk/indie icons in one stroke, for years to come.
You've heard it all before; this was a coming together of two great creative minRAB, leaders in their respective areas of music (a third in Iggy was tagging along, you can't help but feel he added energy to the proceedings); feeding off each others' creativity to produce career-defining, buzzing, whirring, introverted and clever pop music. This song, indeed the whole album, is perfect 'comedown' music - possibly because it was made in Berlin in a period of sober, post-addiction catharsis for Bowie and his chum Iggy.
I think Brian Eno probably saved David Bowie's career.
5. DJ from 'Lodger' (1979)
I was going to pick 'Let's Dance' or 'Blue Jean' or some definitive, overproduced, 'fun', song; but as you can see 'DJ' is clearly more worthy. It's a great pop song, and frankly I could choose any song from the album ('Lodger' being the final of the 'Berlin trilogy' with Eno). Of course the final note of each chorus enRAB on a broken squawk, because 'Lodger' is a bit of a difficult record at heart. It also has the best promotional video ever made, which for me syrabolises D.B's enduring cultural cool - he always knew how to dress (and look). Song FIVE. Please forgive me for ignoring the ensuing two decades of (erm, mostly) cracking music, this has been difficult....
The album: ''Heroes'' (1977)
By turns terrifying, beautiful, challenging and catchy; this is the pinnacle IMO. Back from the brink, reinvigorated and riding high on the most productive period of his career - Bowie, Eno and the Gardiner brothers under-produced (as such it still sounRAB fresh and bold today) and rocked pretty damn hard for five songs to make the first half. The second half, more than anything, heaves the arabient experimentation of 10 years of Cold War Europe and West German music (Neu!, Can, Kraftwerk) into the limelight. What you have is a truly contrary masterpiece. You have ''Heroes''.
Similar artists: Lou Reed and Siouxsie Sioux and the Banshees
I feel like I've adequately illustrated my rampant Bowie-ism above (and it is a philosophy, make no mistake) - it's amazing how you can understand a large part of somebody you never met once you know they're a Bowie fanatic. I may not have given him the time of day recently, but like the Beatles, B's an irrefutable part of my (and millions besides) genetic make-up. If you live and breathe music (as many on rab do), Bowie is just in the air. 30 years of Bowie's oxygen in popular AND underground culture wraps up this horrible analogy.
Conclusively he continues to be regarded by women and men (from teenhood up) as a sort of bi-fantasy/father-figure/pin-up idol (don't deny it). In a way, there's a bit of David Bowie in all of us. eewww
soccermaniac93
New member
Some of his experimental/world music stuff really does remind me of bowie as well. Cmon, his music ain't all that bad :shycouch:
Nintendo-Miranda
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Tracks (no particular order)
Sweet Thing from Diamond Dogs
Sexy, sleazy, brilliant vocal.
Life on Mars? from Hunky Dory
I guess an obvious selection, almost corny in a way, but one of the greatest pop/rock tracks ever written
My Death from Reality DVD
An interpretive masterpiece of the Jacques Brel tune. The version captured on the "Reality" tour DVD is one of his greatest live performances ever.
Stay from Station to Station
A Masterpiece. Great vocal, great energy, and backed by probably the greatest array of musicians he ever recorded with.
Wild is the Wind from Station to Station
Another superb interpretive effort. Possibly his best vocal ever.
Album
Diamond Dogs
An extremely difficult pick. There are at least 5 others that I'd feel just as good about here. I decided on this one primarily for 2 reasons.
The DD tour was the first time I saw DB live and it changed my life. Secondly, this was almost entirely an all-Bowie effort. He did all the writing and production and played almost all the instruments including lead guitar and drums.
Similar artists
Sorry, I don't think anyone compares.
Mr Bowie is my all-time favorite artist. He grabbed me in the early 70's, shook the crap outta me and changed my world forever. Almost 35 years later, he puts on one of the best concerts I've seen anyone do...it's well-documented on the "Reality" DVD. A true genius, extraordinarily prolific, and one of the most influential musical artists of all time. Enough said.
Sweet Thing from Diamond Dogs
Sexy, sleazy, brilliant vocal.
Life on Mars? from Hunky Dory
I guess an obvious selection, almost corny in a way, but one of the greatest pop/rock tracks ever written
My Death from Reality DVD
An interpretive masterpiece of the Jacques Brel tune. The version captured on the "Reality" tour DVD is one of his greatest live performances ever.
Stay from Station to Station
A Masterpiece. Great vocal, great energy, and backed by probably the greatest array of musicians he ever recorded with.
Wild is the Wind from Station to Station
Another superb interpretive effort. Possibly his best vocal ever.
Album
Diamond Dogs
An extremely difficult pick. There are at least 5 others that I'd feel just as good about here. I decided on this one primarily for 2 reasons.
The DD tour was the first time I saw DB live and it changed my life. Secondly, this was almost entirely an all-Bowie effort. He did all the writing and production and played almost all the instruments including lead guitar and drums.
Similar artists
Sorry, I don't think anyone compares.
Mr Bowie is my all-time favorite artist. He grabbed me in the early 70's, shook the crap outta me and changed my world forever. Almost 35 years later, he puts on one of the best concerts I've seen anyone do...it's well-documented on the "Reality" DVD. A true genius, extraordinarily prolific, and one of the most influential musical artists of all time. Enough said.