1. aladdin sane
2. lodger
3. reality
4. scary monsters
5. outside

JonSnow said:

You like it rough, eh?

1. The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust.....
2. Diamond Dogs
3. Station to Station

and please forgive me, but these albums held a very special place in my 13 year-old heart, so they HAVE to be included:

4. Tonight
5. Never Let Me Down
(I warned you.)

S

Redayh said:

hey, "time will crawl" is the jam.

Anxiety said:

and the title track is pretty sweet

GrayKing said:

I played the hell out of that album. I loved it.
I even went to the "Glass Spider Tour."
Nothing like Bowie descending from the heavens wearing golden wings to make you a fan for life.

S

Redayh said:

that was the album that came out the summer that i decided to enrol myself in Bowie University and buy every single album he'd recorded up to that point, so NLMD has a really warm space in my heart, even though it's far far FAR from my favorite bowie album. i grew up with aladdin sane and diamond dogs, and to be honest, it was a tore up ol' vinyl copy of "stage" from my local library that got me "hardcore hooked" on bowie, but it was easy to get excited about his new album in 1987, in the midst of all the bowiemania i was going through that summer - it was a great time for me and music.

Anxiety said:

I have a soft spot for NLMD and the Glass Spider tour as well. It was the first big show I ever attended, and no concert that contained Sons of the Silent Age and Heroes could be all bad.

However, I'll admit that there's definitely more than a hint of the "rose-coloured" syndrome at work here. That oversized spider has to be in the running as the ghastliest stage prop of all time.

flipwilson said:

That same thing happened to me Anxiety. And, I was fortunate enough to run across a flea market in Houston that had every single old school Bowie release. I lived in New Orleans, but we would go to Houston frequently, and I would save up between trips. I was in Heaven. Everybody thought I was a complete nut. I even had mad Bowie posters up. My family was a little mortified, and my grandmother said "Leave it to you to put some crazy looking white man up on the walls," and shook her head in disbelief. My mother just said "well, she always has loved music I guess....." Quite amusing.

And Flipwilson, yes that big glass spider was horrible in retrospect. But you couldn't have told me that then.

Okay, enough of my thread jacking.

S

1 aladdin sane
2 diamond dogs (has the dark edge of purple rain to me)
3 ziggy stardust
4 pinups
5 hunky dory

low's b side just depresses me (i was on a low at the time i heard it though)

get well Bowie...