Heroes is one of my favorite songs of all time.

Anybody out there on this forum who - besides Prince - also likes David Bowie?

To me, the 70s Bowie was what Prince was for the 80s: innovative, influential, one step ahead of all other artists. Bot are still great, talented, gifted musicians, even though Bowie "retired" after his heart problems in 2004.

Bowie is an all time fave of mine. I have every single album Bowie has released.

looooove Bowie.

Aladdin Sane is my favorite album of all time.

blackguitaristz said:

Bowie, Prince, and Hendrix are my all time favorite artists.

I have many of Bowie's CDs, and I got to see him on his last tour in 2004. I was too young to go see him in the 70s, and he didn't play near where I live in the 80s and 90s, except the time I got to see him with Nine Inch Nails...seeing both NIN and Bowie's band onstage together playing "Scary Monsters" was worth the ticket price alone!)

Has David completely retired, or did he just stop touring?

Anybody out there on this forum who - besides Prince - also likes David Bowie?

To me, the 70s Bowie was what Prince was for the 80s: pretentious, contrived, soporific. Bot are still washed up, talented, gifted musicians, even though Bowie "retired" after his heart problems in 2004.

Up to 1974 - Brilliant. Fantastic.

1975> 30+ years of perfecting a Bing Crosby impersonation. Not to my taste.

...Puberty clearly came late to David.

DerekH said:

No one knows for sure if Bowie retired or just stopped touring. That's the thing about Bowie: it would not surprise me if he would decide to announce a new album or tour today (as an example), but neither would it surprise me if he wouldn't release anything new for years to come...

The US/Canadian leg of the 1995 Outside tour. You lucky Americans/Canadians. From what I've heard on bootlegs, those were great concerts. Obscure, packed with lots of lesser known Bowie songs, new arrangements for a couple of older songs.

What concert did you attend?

This tour combined with the Outside CD meant the Great Comeback for Bowie after his 80s mainstream period. I am not saying he did nothing good in the 80s, but many Bowie fans I spoke somehow lost interest in him during the 80s but got back into Bowie after the release of Outside and the Outside tour. Not a coicidence I guess.
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The concert I went to was in Columbus, Ohio in the US.

I liked the Outside CD (and Earthling, too!). I thought Let's Dance was a good album that got very popular, and some Bowie fans didn't like it because it had turned into a "pop" album.

When I saw Bowie in '04, he did play "Modern Love", but all he said to introduce it was "this song is from the 80s" (or something like that).

I always thought he did Tin Machine to get his old fans back and to lose the 80s pop fans.

Up to 1974 - Brilliant. Fantastic.

1975> 30+ years of perfecting a Bing Crosby impersonation. Not to my taste.

...Puberty clearly came late to David.

Station to Station's probably my personal fave - title track is one his greatest IMO.

DerekH said:

Columbus was a pretty good concert, from what I've heard on bootleg. Plus a live version of "Nite Flights" - love that track though it's not a Bowie original.

Eartling's a good album as well, also the Earthling tour. Let's Dance is not my favourite Bowie-era, to be honest. It has some very good moments and I can really appreciate the Serious Moonlight Tour.

Seems Bowie himself was not very proud of his 80s output during the Reality Tour in 2003-04. He did a "new" version of Let's Dance as well as Loving the Alien. Those sounded very good.

Maybe Tin Machine was indeed his way to get rid of the "mainstream" audience.

TyphoonTip said:

Would have loved to hear Tin Machine in Bing Crosby style.

Serious now, maybe you appreciate some of the later albums like Heathen? To me that album reminds me of Hunky Dory somehow.