In order what are your top three Bowie albums?
downtownrobbrown
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I did a search and saw there have been some Bowie threads before but none where we rank his albums.
What are you top three albums Bowie albums?
What are you top three albums Bowie albums?
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Man Who Sold the World
Ziggy Stardust
Honky Dory
Station to Station
if i need some bowie, rise and fall is my go to LP
Hunky Dory / Diamond Dogs
Low / Young Americans
I cheated.
Low- co-production with Brian Eno. Enough said.
The Man Who Sold The World- I love "Running Gun Blues" to death.
I would go for:
Low
Station to Station (or maybe Heroes)
Young Americans
Space Oddity
Low
This made me chuckle for some reason.
1. Honky
2. Ziggy
3. Low
Ziggy
Hunky Dory
Low
Heroes
Tie: Let's Dance / Tonight (I know, but I like how he balanced that cheesy Top 40 sound with his usual weirdness)
Aladdin Sane
Hunky Dory
Young Americans
Low
Station To Station
To be honest, I could perm any three from 1970 through to 1980 (with the exception of Pin-Ups), and I'd probably be happy with that. At a stretch, I might include Let's Dance, although my view of that is that it's got some great songs but isn't a great Bowie album. Conversely, an album like Young Americans is strong enough even to bear that over-cooked (over-coked?) cover of Across The Universe.
embedding wouldnt work, i tried like 8 times. wtf.
so because they are glam rock/pub rock, they are overrated?
glam rock doesn't mean "shite"
on topic:
Hunky D
Rise and Fall
Man Who Sold the World
ALSO:
the only mention of "Pin Ups" is a Doc McCoy diss? I was tempted to put it in my top 3 but feel his original work has to ultimately win out - but I listen to Pin Ups as much as any of those top 3 I listed, I love that album.
Don't get me wrong - I like it, and I certainly didn't intend for it to seem as if I was dissing it. But it's literally the only album in that entire ten-year hot streak, from The Man Who Sold The World through to Scary Monsters, that isn't essential essential, if you know what I mean. A great selection of songs, some really good arrangements and an overall sense that the record was a lot of fun to make, but artistically it's Bowie taking a breather. That said, you can probably point to Pin-Ups as the record that instigated the trend for rock & roll performers doing cover albums, so even when he was putting his feet up, Bowie still managed to innovate in a way.
Yeah, I can't really deny the impact of or the general high regard with which that scene is held but, to my ears at least, it's not all that. I also find the name "glam rock" a complete misnomer since it produced some of the most stodgy, dour music or that decade.
Also, it seems unfair to lump Queen next to Slade, Sweet, Mudd etc. since they had much broader musical scope (and better tunes) than the others. And for me, Hunky Dory is the only early 70's album of Bowie's that I can really listen to.
Later on I discovered his earlier "classic" albums and was really disappointed as they sounded so differently. :oof:
Heroes
Low