David Bowie

A friend of mine used to work in the record section of a british department store called Army and Navy. They had individual booths, for classical music with seats and tannoy speakers so she let me use one of them to listen to Man Who Sold The World on the day it was released.

Spent forty happy minutes with a cup of tea and several cigarettes, listening to Bowies best ever album (first pressing in Dress Sleeve which I stupidly sold when I bought the RCA CD version.)

Then Hunky Dory with Life on Mars, which should have been on Ziggy. Saw Bowie and Spiders at Isleworth Polytechnic. There were a lot of young men with back combed big hair, make up and shoulder bags!

They played a version of Amsterdam with Bowie and Ronson sharing a guitar as they said that it was too difficult for either of them to play individually.

Pin Ups is interesting and Diamond Dogs is, pretty good but for me MWSTW, HD and Ziggy were the best.

I saw Antonio Forcione and Martin Taylor share a guitar at a different gig. Only difference was one sat on the, others shoulders and they both , played different songs on the same guitar.

Bowie was/is a very strong musician/singer. Always innovative, usually ahead of the crowd, and what he's done, well, depending on where one is coming from, he means many things to many folks.
I have to admit that Let's Dance, very 80's it may be, is a highly influential album at the time. Great playing, production, and very suave composition. I was surprised that his bassist at this time was earlier in Nektar, Carmine Rojas, no slouch on the instrument. Bowie always selected top musicians to surround him.
I simply adore his double-live album 'Stage', and his early 'Man Who Sold The World' album.
Wonderful artist, this David Jones fella...........
p.s. - my edits are always because of my careless iPod typos..........(I typed 'Blowie'........ )

Edited by Tom Ozric - April 20 2015 at 05:31

David Bowie plays just about every instrument on Diamond Dogs - including the famous guitar riff on Rebel Rebel.

I've never heard Scary Monsters, but I've had the 7" single of Ashes To Ashes for ever, and I love that song. I ought to track down a copy.

dr wu23 wrote: sublime220 wrote: Never understood the hype about Scary Monsters. However, Hunky Dory might be the greatest album of all time.     I thought that was Trout Mask Replica...?

AGH! TOO MANY GOOD ALBUMS! STAHP!

Kati wrote: David Bowie is the sexiest man alive, I simply love him too much  xxxxx

We're back on this? Agreed!

Every album from 1969-1974 are great Bowie albums. I have a special taste for him, and I believe people listen too much his "pop" singles and completly forget the good stuff.

Bowie from Hunky to Lodger....classic.  The great lost Bowie album, IMHO, is Tin Machine I........and the cover of If There Is Something on Tin Machine II.  Crunchy!

One of my favourite Bowie albums has got to be Lodger. The last of the Berlin trilogy this one has slowly but comfortably turned into my most played album of his. Red Sails, Red Money, DJ, Don't Look Back In Anger, Yassassin, Fantastic Voyage etc etc.
It often gets overlooked in favour of Heroes, Low and the subsequent Scary Monsters. Low is imo the only one that can compete with Lodger, and that's saying something.

Another fave of mine is Man Who Sold The World. Great to see so many mentions of it.

Earthling is great, but then again I was introduced to it through Bowie's 50th birthday bash in
Madison Square garden, where he played most of the songs from the album together with Lou Reed, Robert Smith (The Cure), Frank Black, Sonic Youth with more.
I was sold right off the bat, and I still think it's one of his best in recent times.

"The Man Who Sold The World" sounds a lot to me like "Benefit" and other albums from 1970. I really like this one too.