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Easily my favourite Bowie song!
Another old Bowie hit I'm partial to. Bowie doing jean Jeanie in 1972.
^ I have mixed feelings on that, Felid. Yes, he's a (justifiably) legendary artist but he originated 50 years ago and arguably his key material is 40ish years old. Music nerds will generally know who he is but should anyone else? He's not Elvis or The Beatles.
He got more attention around his death but he had been one of those ancient artists that are often in the media but he'd done music little that was much cop since 1980. Blackstar is genuinely great but that ended up being overshadowed by his passing.
Hand.I'd classify him as a "cult megastar", very successful, massively influential on an Elvis or Madonna level, but those who loved him (rather than liked the occasional song or album) took him to their bosom like a favourite brother and never felt that love dim, no matter how many Tin Machine tracks there were.
Some will even tell you Tin Machine were underrated.
Thanks for your input, OW.
Is there a Bowie song that you still enjoy listening to?
Hand.
I adore the first TM album.
Good work from DB after 1980:
Let's Dance
Reality
Earthling
Black Tie White Noise
I'm still discovering worthy material from his mid-late 90s albums and his pre-1973 albums. Gotta credit the output. I've been an avid fan since 1983 and even yet there are great diamonds popping up from out of somewhere to fill my heart - tracks that impact For example, this song I'd not heard until this year: The Motel
Heroes.Best album for person who's never had a Bowie album would be?
Thank you.Heroes.
Bowies 1969 album simply called "David Bowie". It has his 1st big hit Space Oddity. He did cut his 1st album in 67 but I don't believe it went as far.Best album for person who's never had a Bowie album would be?
Ta. I'll try that one next. Enjoyed 'Heroes', ta @MythopoeikaBowies 1969 album simply called "David Bowie". It has his 1st big hit Space Oddity. He did cut his 1st album in 67 but I don't believe it went as far.
Best album for person who's never had a Bowie album would be?
Best album for person who's never had a Bowie album would be?
Tough question.Best album for person who's never had a Bowie album would be?
https://www.salon.com/2019/02/23/ne...masterminded-the-biggest-art-hoax-in-history/On April Fools’ Day, 1998, the crème de la crème of the New York art scene gathered for a party in the studio of Jeff Koons. David Bowie played host, and while a Who’s Who of the art crowd mingled over canapés and cocktails, the mastermind behind what would be (perhaps over-zealously) dubbed “the biggest art hoax in history” prowled the perimeters of the party. It was the key event to launch an elaborate practical joke concocted by Bowie and his friend, the Scottish novelist William Boyd, multi-award-winning author of numerous novels, most famously "Any Human Heart." Bowie and Boyd met while both members of the editorial board for Modern Painters magazine and quickly hit it off. Both were outsiders in the sense that they were art lovers but not involved in the art world directly, as a rock star and a star novelist. After a meeting in 1998, they bounced the idea around of introducing a fictitious artist into the magazine. Rolling with this idea, Boyd developed a fictitious history of a “lost American artist” by the name of Nat Tate.