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Thread started 05/31/06 11:36am

bublebath

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Bowie: Where to start?










What album would you get first?
...Dorothy made me laugh (ha ha)...

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Reply #1 posted 05/31/06 11:39am

endorphin74

I'll just hangaround till the Bowie Brigade gets here.

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Reply #2 posted 05/31/06 11:41am

SenseOfDoubt

endorphin74 said:

I'll just hangaround till the Bowie Brigade gets here.

smile


You could start with the (now 3CD) Bowie Greatest Hits: part one ranges from 69-74, then 75-79, and a third one covers the 80s.

My favourite albums are Low and Station To Station...
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Reply #3 posted 05/31/06 12:17pm

Anx

i'd get something really early and something fairly recent...for example, i'd start with "ziggy stardust" and "heathen", then i'd work my way forward from ziggy...that way, the more you get into bowie's music, the more you can appreciate how he went from the glam-era style to where he is now.

of course, there are great bowie albums pre-ziggy, but i wouldn't start out with them just yet.
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Reply #4 posted 05/31/06 1:18pm

sextonseven

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This thread reminded me theat Blender magazine is currently reviewing every Bowie CD ever. Part 1: The 60s & 70s is this month (Fall Out Boy cover). 80s and beyond is next month's issue.
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Reply #5 posted 05/31/06 1:23pm

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You can't go wrong with Ziggy, Station, Heathen, Outside, Low, or Scary Monsters. Reality isn't bad, nor is Earthling, but the former is Bowie trying to revitalize himself by creating a hybrid today's indie (read: strokes) sound and his own, and hte latter is Bowie completely going in a new direction- jungle and drum'n'bass. they're not slouches, but a bit weirder.
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Reply #6 posted 05/31/06 1:25pm

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Any of his 70s output. nod
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Reply #7 posted 05/31/06 1:42pm

kidelrich

SenseOfDoubt said:

endorphin74 said:

I'll just hangaround till the Bowie Brigade gets here.

smile


You could start with the (now 3CD) Bowie Greatest Hits: part one ranges from 69-74, then 75-79, and a third one covers the 80s.

My favourite albums are Low and Station To Station...


Didn't know he had a new compilation. I'll have to investigate this. cool
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Reply #8 posted 05/31/06 1:47pm

NDRU

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Ziggy Stardust & Hunky Dory are my two favorites.
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Reply #9 posted 05/31/06 2:12pm

bublebath

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kidelrich said:

SenseOfDoubt said:



You could start with the (now 3CD) Bowie Greatest Hits: part one ranges from 69-74, then 75-79, and a third one covers the 80s.

My favourite albums are Low and Station To Station...


Didn't know he had a new compilation. I'll have to investigate this. cool

I didnt find that compilation at amazon hmmm
...Dorothy made me laugh (ha ha)...

THE ORG TOP 50
http://www.prince.org/msg/8/192731


PRINCE or MESHELL NDEGEOCELLO
http://www.prince.org/msg...02?jump=51

The Funny Thread About the Album Kiss
http://www.prince.org/msg...0652?&pg=1
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Reply #10 posted 05/31/06 2:17pm

kidelrich

bublebath said:

kidelrich said:



Didn't know he had a new compilation. I'll have to investigate this. cool

I didnt find that compilation at amazon hmmm


I think it's a British compilation, but I could be wrong. Allmusic.com has it listed.
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Reply #11 posted 05/31/06 2:18pm

starbuck

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best you start with a best of to get into his music slowly.
Then prepare yourself for Ziggy Stardust, and slowly follow the path of albums that followed -> Aladin Sane, Diamond Dogs, Young Americans, Station to Station should get you fired up for the Berlin trilogy that is Low, heroes and Lodger

enjoy!!
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Reply #12 posted 05/31/06 3:03pm

thebige

Hunky Dory is the one and only correct answer wink




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Reply #13 posted 05/31/06 3:08pm

Anx

thebige said:

Hunky Dory is the one and only correct answer wink




cool



i love hunky dory...it's one of my top faves...but it took a while to warm up to, and other albums caught my ear much faster. i completely recommend HD, but not as a starter.
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Reply #14 posted 05/31/06 3:12pm

kidelrich

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thebige said:

Hunky Dory is the one and only correct answer wink




cool



i love hunky dory...it's one of my top faves...but it took a while to warm up to, and other albums caught my ear much faster. i completely recommend HD, but not as a starter.


Are we all meeting back here at rougly the same time next month to continue the neverending Bowie discussion?
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Reply #15 posted 05/31/06 8:33pm

thebige

Anx said:

thebige said:

Hunky Dory is the one and only correct answer wink




cool



i love hunky dory...it's one of my top faves...but it took a while to warm up to, and other albums caught my ear much faster. i completely recommend HD, but not as a starter.



See, I'm the other way... It was the first Bowie album I owned and it had me right away. If I had heard Ziggy first or Aladin Sane I wouldn't have gotten into Bowie so much when I did. Hunky Dory made me go "What the fuck? Where did this record come from?" and then I had to get the other albums to see what else was going on. It's just such a grand, deep, excellent record. It provides a cross section of everything he had done and would go on to do, all on one album. It blew me away immediately. But so many of his albums are not quite up to that level, so maybe it's good to stay away from Hunky Dory for a while at first, it'll ruin ya for the rest!

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Reply #16 posted 05/31/06 8:35pm

NorthernLad

Aladdin Sane is a great place to start. It's the best of the glam-era Bowie, in my opinion. In fact, it might be my favorite of his entire career smile
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Reply #17 posted 05/31/06 8:46pm

weepingwall

Listen to any Jobriath album..
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Reply #18 posted 05/31/06 8:57pm

kidelrich

weepingwall said:

Listen to any Jobriath album..


the whu??
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Reply #19 posted 05/31/06 9:08pm

weepingwall

kidelrich said:

weepingwall said:

Listen to any Jobriath album..


the whu??




lol


funny how some people dont get it.
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Reply #20 posted 06/01/06 2:22am

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I'd say Station to Station. But really, you can't go wrong with ANY of his 70s albums (except maybe for Pin Ups) or Heathen. Better yet, get 15 CD players and buy all his 70s albums and the best 90s/2000s and put them on all at once. Considering that it's Bowie it might actually work. hmmm
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Reply #21 posted 06/01/06 2:40am

GangstaFam

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This thread reminded me theat Blender magazine is currently reviewing every Bowie CD ever. Part 1: The 60s & 70s is this month (Fall Out Boy cover). 80s and beyond is next month's issue.

Ooh, I need this.
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Reply #22 posted 06/01/06 2:43am

GangstaFam

Anx said:

i'd get something really early and something fairly recent...for example, i'd start with "ziggy stardust" and "heathen", then i'd work my way forward from ziggy...that way, the more you get into bowie's music, the more you can appreciate how he went from the glam-era style to where he is now.

of course, there are great bowie albums pre-ziggy, but i wouldn't start out with them just yet.

This is what I usually tell people too. Good call.
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Reply #23 posted 06/01/06 5:41am

Anx

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Aladdin Sane is a great place to start. It's the best of the glam-era Bowie, in my opinion. In fact, it might be my favorite of his entire career smile


i think aladdin sane is a 'richer' album than his other glam-era stuff, especially because of mike garson's presence. but i'm a stubborn bastard - i still think it's cool to hear ziggy first, because it puts 'aladdin sane' into perspective on several levels.


of course, my "gateway" bowie album was "stage", so take my advice as you will... wink
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Reply #24 posted 06/01/06 8:02am

kidelrich

Ziggy Stardust is one of my least favorite of his great cds. shrug I'd take Hunky Dory, Aladdin Sane, and Scary Monsters over it in a second.
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Reply #25 posted 06/01/06 9:32am

Novabreaker

kidelrich said:

Ziggy Stardust is one of my least favorite of his great cds. shrug I'd take Hunky Dory, Aladdin Sane, and Scary Monsters over it in a second.


Me too. Ziggy is a curious in-between-stages product to be honest. It hasn't even quite properly transformed into a glam rock record yet. I'm not even sure whether it is a candid rock record at all, it still has one-foot firmly in that folk-cabaret thing. However, the production on Aladdin Sane is far much more like it.
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Reply #26 posted 06/01/06 9:38am

CinisterCee

GangstaFam said:

sextonseven said:

This thread reminded me theat Blender magazine is currently reviewing every Bowie CD ever. Part 1: The 60s & 70s is this month (Fall Out Boy cover). 80s and beyond is next month's issue.

Ooh, I need this.


I'm allergic to Fall Out Boy but I guess I'll check this out.
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Reply #27 posted 06/01/06 9:57am

GangstaFam

Anx said:

i think aladdin sane is a 'richer' album than his other glam-era stuff, especially because of mike garson's presence. but i'm a stubborn bastard - i still think it's cool to hear ziggy first, because it puts 'aladdin sane' into perspective on several levels.


of course, my "gateway" bowie album was "stage", so take my advice as you will... wink

Mine was "Black Tie, White Noise", so I guess the same thing applies.

But we are the resident superfans. wink
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Reply #28 posted 06/01/06 10:07am

sextonseven

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CinisterCee said:

GangstaFam said:


Ooh, I need this.


I'm allergic to Fall Out Boy but I guess I'll check this out.


I like the "every album reviewed" feature. A few months ago (last year?), every Cure album was reviewed which was interesting. The very first issue five years ago, it was every Prince album.
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Reply #29 posted 06/01/06 10:11am

GangstaFam

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I like the "every album reviewed" feature. A few months ago (last year?), every Cure album was reviewed which was interesting. The very first issue five years ago, it was every Prince album.

Ooh, I need those too! Got a transcript anywhere?
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