OK - what is it about Bowie, Roxy Music, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop and Marc Bolan that just works????

[Taverner]

I'm listening to Young Americans again right now - damn that was a good album. David Bowie FUNK. Sure, the Brits hate this album - because they wish THEY could have made this album!

But Stationtostation, Diamond Dogs - pretty much everything he did up to and including Scary Monsters was brilliant.

Then Lou Reed - everything post VU. Amazing, simply fucking amazing.

Need I even go into Roxy Music and Bryan Ferry?

Damn....

[MsTryska]

1. the bisexuality?nt

nt

[Taverner]

2. Yes that was a major theme

Although Nietzsche was also part of that as well....

Both Ferry and Bowie went on serious Will To Power quests during that time

Lou Reed had his Ubermensch moments

Even Brian Eno was somewhat WTP in his style

Of course - one might argue this was Rock's Wagner period.

[Swede]

3. David Bowie is a Brit.

So's Ferry.

[Taverner]

4. Yes, but "Young Americans" is a Bowie album

One I am listening to right now

[Swede]

5. It is great music all right.

[elshiva]

6. THEY ARE AWESOME!

buffy

[Taverner]

7. Yes - that "scene" if you will

Just produced so much great music...

Eno was a part of so much of it, although not all of it.

[elshiva]

8. Eno is the One!

;)


buffy

[JeffR]

14. Eno is God.

Plain and simple.

[mitchum]

9. Taking drugs and reading William S Burroughs

[JCMach1]

16. Even worse, not taking drugs... then, reading Burroughs...

[madrchsod]

10. iggy pop still works

he`s an old man who has a body as cut as an athlete and has stage presence the majority of rockers will never have..
he is one of the most under rated and under appreciated rockers of the last 50 years.....

[begin_within]

11. Bowie's early albums are classic.

I like all his early albums. I have all of these on the original vinyl LPs:

Hunky Dory
Aladdin Sane
Diamond Dogs
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
Lodger
Changesonebowie

My 2 favorite Bowie tracks are "Space Oddity" from 1969 and its sequel, "Ashes to Ashes" from "Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)." Those 2 songs sort of bookend his career for me. His 1980s and later stuff doesn't even come close to his 1960s and 1970s stuff, if you ask me.

My favorite Bowie tracks:

The Laughing Gnome
Space Oddity
Changes
Oh! You Pretty Things/Eight Line Poem
Life On Mars
Kooks
Quicksand
Moonage Daydream
Starman
Hang On To Yourself
Ziggy Stardust
Suffragette City
Watch That Man
Aladdin Sane
Drive-In Saturday
Cracked Actor
Time
Lady Grinning Soul
Sorrow
Diamond Dogs
Rebel Rebel
We Are The Dead
1984
Big Brother/Chant Of The Ever Circling Skeletal Family
Fame
Golden Years
TVC 15
Ashes to Ashes
Without You
Under Pressure

Huge discography of Bowie is at:
http://www.illustrated-db-discography.nl/Album.htm

[Tuesday Afternoon]

12. thanks for that link.

Bowie Rocks!

[Orrex]

13. This thread inspired me to listen to Young Americans again tonight for the first time in a while

God damn, what an album.

And I defy anyone to name a finer cycle of 70's rock music than Sweet Thing/Candidate/Sweet Thing (reprise). Flawless.

[JCMach1]

15. Love the first two Roxy Music Albums- edgy stuff even for early 1970's

Bowie a god... Ziggy Stardust, Hunky Dory, and Low are my 3 favorite albums there.

Bolan is funky and freaky and just works...

Reed solo and VU are also some of my favorites... especially Heroin, and Pale Blue Eyes.

[Seeking Serenity]

17. I was out eating with my boys the other night, and the piped-in music was playing

a covered version (a female singer) of Roxy's song "More Than This" from the "Avalon" album. I started shreiking to my children, "No one asked my permission to cover that song!" It was not good.

But I have a special affinity for that album. My college boyfriend and I used to get intimate to that album.