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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2020 9:48:49 GMT -8
I personally feel he was overrated. Most of my friends love his music. I've tried and I just don't get it. Not saying he isn't talented, but I've never been able to connect with his work. Your thoughts on Bowie?
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Post by steelbike on Jan 30, 2020 17:03:11 GMT -8
The best thing about David Bowie was ‘Ziggy Stardust’ and the best thing about Ziggy Stardust was Mick Ronson— IMO.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2020 11:04:33 GMT -8
He is very eclectic and I find his full lengths not focused, except Ziggy. Something came together for him on that album that he wasn't able to harness on the others. That's the only Bowie LP I can run from top to bottom.
Otherwise he has some great tune spread throughout his career. But only one great album.
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Post by jb1510 on Feb 28, 2020 7:17:14 GMT -8
He is very eclectic and I find his full lengths not focused, except Ziggy. Something came together for him on that album that he wasn't able to harness on the others. That's the only Bowie LP I can run from top to bottom. Otherwise he has some great tune spread throughout his career. But only one great album. I agree , I love Bowie but you do have to search out the good tunes amongst it all . Aside from ZS , Hunky Dory is a very listenable album . |
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Post by steelbike on Feb 29, 2020 9:42:57 GMT -8
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2020 20:12:32 GMT -8
Yeah! Mick Ronson was there to guide David to the correct path.
As much as the world needs people like David Bowie, the world needs more people like Mick Ronson.
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Post by magnumforce73 on Mar 12, 2020 4:06:03 GMT -8
He's like so many other members of that crop of rock 'n rollers: his best days were in the Seventies back when dazzling, subversive visions were the order of the day. @goldrusher: Agree with your thesis, but only as it applies to his work following 1983's Let's Dance; his sweet spot is between 1971's Hunky Dory and Dance--and Stevie Ray Vaughan was a big reason why the latter album turned out so well. Agree with the comments regarding Ronno. Brilliant lead player--he was a key cog in the RCA machine that put out Lou Reed's Transformer in 72. Like Peter Green, he could wring toe-curling licks outta his Gibson Les Paul. Too bad The Commander and Keef didn't invite him to Rotterdam in Jan. 75 for the rehearsals/studio workouts that would later become Black & Blue--he'd have made for an interesting Stone; he was taken from us way too soon. Personal Favorites: 1 - Aladdin Sane, 73. 2 - Station to Station, 76. 3 - Low and Heroes, 77--first two LPs in the vaunted "Berlin Trilogy." 4 - Film: Nicholas Roeg's 1976 masterpiece, The Man Who Fell To Earth. "Thomas Jerome Newton" is nothing more than Bowie during his coke & peppers fueled mid-70s "Thin White Duke" phase. Hon. Mention: Young Americans, 75. The man has a real penchant for blue-eyed soul wrapped in a South Philly wrapping. "All You got to do is WIN!"  mf73 |
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Post by steelbike on Mar 12, 2020 5:49:36 GMT -8
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