I never hear anyone talk about Bowie's actual music, Is he worth getting into and if so where do I start and what do I avoid?
You really just need the Cliff's Notes. There's a lot of slack in his discography.
>>131633881>I never hear anyone talk about Bowie's actual music?????>Is he worth getting intoYeah>and if so where do I startThe Man Who Sold The World and go in order from there>what do I avoid?Whatever you don't enjoy
I had a big bowie phase in my youth.70s bowie is all you need.80s bowie is when he sells out and falls off.90s and 00s bowie is underrated, although you can tell he was old guy trying to keep up with the kidsand black star was one final masterpiece before he died
>>131633963This. I loved Hunky Dory as a kid
My favourites, for whatever it's worth:Christiane F ostZiggyScary MonstersHunky DoryChangesOneStill need to hear Black Star
i dont know a single song of his
>>131633881https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7vvclrK2HQ
>>131633881he stops being good after Scary Monsters
>>131634258>>131633963>you can tell he was old guy trying to keep up with the kidswrong. this shit sounded fresh and contemporary in mid 90's mainstream culture, it's been 30 years and it still sounds that wayhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VKw3XS6QwY
>>131633881I genuinely don't get it. It's just some homo making mid tier glam, changing outfits every couple of years and then somehow becoming gayer with every passing phase. The music is unremarkable. His lyrics aren't actually about anything. Vocals are subjective but there's nothing really great about them. I will never get the hype.
>>131634693Are you kidding? This is profoundly dated to the 90s. It's just missing some dark woman singing random runs.
>>131633881His "bad" 80s stuff is still good, don't listen to the numales
>>131633881>Is he worth getting intoI did a discography run recently. Its quite staggering the difference in quality between his hits and the deep cuts. Like FPBP said just listen to the hit songs first. If you really think he's the coolest guy ever and he's literally (You), then check out the rest.
>>131635250The deep cuts don't start getting bad until the 80's. 70's albums with the exception of Pin-ups and maybe Young Americans are consistently solid.
>>131635335everyone agrees peak bowie was the berlin trilogy, low, heros, and lodger, he got all the experimental shit out of the way with that. then he decided to sell out to top 40 in the 80shttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Trilogy
This is unironically the best Bowie album.
>>131635501pure reddit
>Bowie never made anything good in the eight-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8u_F301bWa8
>>131636007Scary Monsters also came out in the 80s, but Let's Dance (1983) and beyond is when the fall off started
>>131634163You should start a nigga first time reactin to obvious basic music channel to exploit boomers
>>131636007https://youtu.be/ubc3o2KZA4w1985 banger
>>131636164>Scary Monsters also came out in the 80sit was recorded in 79, it's really his last 70s album and Let's Dance is his first 80s one when he sold out and lost it.
Check this shit out, rock and roll at its finest:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pXoQ6iYO1w&list=RD6pXoQ6iYO1w&start_radio=1
>>131634204this is a fine demonstration of how talentless David Bowie is and how his music isn't good
Tonight [EMI America, 1984]What makes Bowie a worthy entertainer is his pretensions, his masks, the way he simulates meaning. He has no special gift for convincing emotions or good tunes--when he works at being "merely" functional he's merely dull, or worse. With Nile Rodgers gone, the dance potential of the second album of his professional phase is negligible, and he's favoring the tired usages that have been the downfall of an entire generation of English twits. In this setting, not even Leiber-Stoller's long-neglected "I Keep Forgetting" makes much of an impression. C
>>131634693>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VKw3XS6QwYthis is outrageously shitty"music" for the mentally ill and disturbed
>>131634851textbook lookism halo effect
>>131636575I like the music. The vocals are......uninspired.
>>131633963>80s bowie is when he sells out and falls off.OH BABY JUST YOU SHUT YOUR MOUSE....Pleb take he brought SRV to the World
>>131636582He's not a bad looking guy but I don't know if his looks are enough to make everyone just agree he was a genius
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>>131633881Weak musician, great actor. Watch The Man Who Fell to Earth.
>>131636525No, sessions started in Feb 1980, but yes it's basically his last 70s album. He had issues with RCA which is why he wasn't too concerned with commercial performance, then signing with EMI after that which he made Let's Dance out of spite which was this huge mega hit
>>131636566Bowie said that he had the songs during this period but not the sound to go along with them.
>>131637313I don't believe him, he had the opportunity to use them in the tin machine era under his creative control but by that time he seemed creatively spent
>>131633881>I never hear anyone talk about Bowie's actual music>>131634693>this shit sounded fresh and contemporary in mid 90's mainstream culturebait used to be believable
>>131637313>Bowie said that he had the songs during this period but not the sound to go along with themImagine saying this when Michael Jackson and Prince were at their peaks. It's just skill issue.
>>131636902that's where making a deal with the devil comes into playsee Bob Dylan, his shitty talentless music, outsized reputation, and confession of such
>>131633881mid-late 70s period is best 90s is underrated 80s is more pop rock/arena rock, meh
>>131637313>>131636566Let's Dance was decent. Tonight had 2 good tracks - Blue Jean and Loving the Alien and some really bad ones like the drunken gay revelry calypso in Borneo (Tumble and Twirl?), God Only Knows cover, and the reggae tracks + Tina Turner duet. Neighborhood Threat couldve been good but is too cluttered in the mix, Dancing with the Big Boys and I Keep Forgettin are ok
>>131633881>I never hear anyone talk about Bowie's actual musicBecause it's not very good.
