I’m a bigger fan of Station To Station than the Berlin trilogy, which is still fantastic, I have to admit Eno’s contributions to Low in the second half kind of sour me…its cool to experiment, but how much of that is Bowie vs Eno?
I’m a bigger fan of Station To Station than the Berlin trilogy, which is still fantastic, I have to admit Eno’s contributions to Low in the second half kind of sour me…its cool to experiment, but how much of that is Bowie vs Eno?
Station To Station is wild no doubt. I think he caught a lot if folk off guard with that beast.
On a side note did you hear the Melvins cover if the tune Station To Station with JG Thirwell on vocals??? It’s glorious.
Melvins feat JG Thirwell - Station To Station (David Bowie)
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pabmB-2SFsA
I want to add that Bowie’s Outside is a great album, better than his 80s material by a long shot.
I also have his first album with tracks like “Rubber Band” and “The Laughing Gnome” which is very different from anything he ever did, and strangely awesome at the same time.
I want to add that Bowie’s Outside is a great album, better than his 80s material by a long shot.
I also have his first album with tracks like “Rubber Band” and “The Laughing Gnome” which is very different from anything he ever did, and strangely awesome at the same time.
Yeah,we recently discussed ‘Outside’ in another thread…definitely the best of his 90s output…
[reply]I’m a bigger fan of Station To Station than the Berlin trilogy, which is still fantastic, I have to admit Eno’s contributions to Low in the second half kind of sour me…its cool to experiment, but how much of that is Bowie vs Eno?
Station To Station is wild no doubt. I think he caught a lot if folk off guard with that beast.
On a side note did you hear the Melvins cover if the tune Station To Station with JG Thirwell on vocals??? It’s glorious.[/reply]
Love Station to Station also of course…gotta check out this cover…
TVC 15 oh oh oh TVC 15!!!
Melvins feat JG Thirwell - Station To Station (David Bowie)
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pabmB-2SFsA
In that case put your headphones on and pop volume up to 10!
I’m one of a handful who really liked Tin Machine though…never understood why that band got so much hate…
I’ve grown to appreciate Tin Machine more over the years, but I’m still not a big fan. The first album in particular sounds like a really mediocre bar band doing white-guy blues rock. I think the second album is better, but it does have one of the Sales brothers singing Stateside and Sorry, which are the two worst songs in Bowie’s discography (even worse than The Laughing Gnome or his embarrassment with Mick Jagger). Between the two albums, there’s definitely enough material for a worthwhile collection, but I never find myself itching to hear, say, Crack City.
I was hoping it would be a dvd documentary of a cameraman following Iggy and Bowie around Berlin while they do heaps of drugs and drink loads and crawl around the streets in the middle of the night on their hands and knees, giggling like schoolgirls and drunkenly attempting to break into German Beer Halls at 3am while bemused prostitutes and various hipster street people look on in disbelief. Oh and at some point Bowie manages to record one of the greatest albums ever put to tape.
Sounds like the year I spent in Berlin in 1990 as an architecture student (except for the recording the greatest album bit). I literally turned up to only a handful of lectures during the nine months I was enrolled - before they threw my ass out - as I pretty much went out drinking/drugging every single night. I lost count of the number of times I woke up in a strange bedroom or - and I kid you not - a strange kitchen floor, with literally no knowledge of how I came to be there.
Great year. However my kidneys and spleen hate me now.
And back to Bowie. His career was ever the slippery dipper with numerous highs and an equal number of Lows (ha!!). It goes without saying that Low, Heroes and Station To Station are masterpieces and would make my top20 of all time with ease (and I list over 1000 cds and about 700 or so lps in my collection).
However, one clunker that always gets way too much attention and far too much praise is Scary Monsters - which, apart from the magnificent title track, is head scratchingly terrible. A great deal of it is unlistenable.
Outside and Black Tie White Noise though are both hideously under-rated gems.
Iggy is ok, but I don’t think he made a good album after 1980.
Oh and as much as I like Bowie, he cannot compete with the genius that is Brian Eno.
Completely disagree about Scary Monsters…for me,that record is flawless…
[reply]I’m one of a handful who really liked Tin Machine though…never understood why that band got so much hate…
I’ve grown to appreciate Tin Machine more over the years, but I’m still not a big fan. The first album in particular sounds like a really mediocre bar band doing white-guy blues rock. I think the second album is better, but it does have one of the Sales brothers singing Stateside and Sorry, which are the two worst songs in Bowie’s discography (even worse than The Laughing Gnome or his embarrassment with Mick Jagger). Between the two albums, there’s definitely enough material for a worthwhile collection, but I never find myself itching to hear, say, Crack City.[/reply]
Dude,NOTHING is worse than the song with Jagger…except the video…
Oh and as much as I like Bowie, he cannot compete with the genius that is Brian Eno.
Totally. Nothing Bowie did came near Here Comes The Warm Jets or Before And After Science. Then you have the masterpiece My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts.
In saying that Bowie is a different beast to Eno.
I picked up a few CDs, nothing new, Apop had 50% off regular stock CDs so I took a chance on some stuff I hadn’t heard yet.
Cages - Our Ears Fell Off, and Then Took Flight
Human Host - The Halloween Tree
William S. Burroughs - Nothing Here Now But The Recordings
The Vanilla Beans - Something Special
Doormouse - Stanley Yershinowski presents Xylophone Jism as the Ridiculator
Oh yeah, almost forgot to answer the OP.
My record store day haul:
Baroness - Yellow & Green (on vinyl…very pricey but very nice)
Nine Inch Nails - Hesitation Marks (on vinyl)
The Cure - Mixed Up (despite all the negative press this got, I really love this album. Played my last copy to death, the jacket is all worn up and shit and the disc is scratched to high heaven, hence the new buy).
Red Fang - Red Fang (on vinyl, listened but wasn’t overly impressed. Maybe it will grow on me).
Goblin - Suspiria O.S.T (on cd. nice!! bonus tracks are killer)
John Carpenter - Halloween II (vinyl)
The Beatles - Live At The BBC Vol. II (on triple vinyl. $85!! wow)
Carcass - Surgical Steel (on cd. I got the metal box ltd version with all the surgical equipment. wikked!!)
That’s it. $330!! Great Record Store Day!
Amlux- which issue of Halloween II is that? The first two soundtracks are something I’d always love to have on vinyl.
Also, Mixed Up is awesome. Screw the haters!
didn’t get to participate in record store day this year…I was at Coachella. they did have a record store at the festival though…I didn’t go in. I’m in save money mode so I have to make some sacrifices! (actually selling off my vinyl collection too)
Bowie’s early stuff (especially “Low”) is incredible.
Then the 80’s came . . . . and then . . . now . . .
you didnt like his last three albums? i thought those were pretty much universally loved.
hell, even some of his goofy 80s stuff is still phenomenal pop music, just less adventurous. i particularly dig Tin Machine as well…
though… i am a bit of a Bowie fan-boy one could argue…
Godflesh - In All Languages cd
Godflesh - In All Languages dvd
The Secret - Solve Et Coagula cd
Lee Hazlewood - The LHI years: Singles, Nudes & Backsides cd
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland lp with the nude cover reissue
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - The Boatman’s Call lp
Husker Du - Zen Arcade lp
Skinny Puppy - Too Dark Park cd
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral lp reissue
Windhand - Soma cd
I generally have a pretty big RSD.
Lee Hazlewood - The LHI years: Singles, Nudes & Backsides cd
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I just got this on vinyl & digital. Awesome stuff. Lee was the man. My intro to him was Light In The Attic’s reissue of Trouble Is A Lonesome Town…that is brilliant!!! The man had such a great voice and his songs were just such great stories. He had great humour too not to mention he was a Jedi Master in the studio.
I have a ton of Light In The Attic vinyl reissues (Monks, all the Marcos Valle’s, Jim Ford, Bobby Charles, Brothers & Sisters and the Hazlewood ones) and they’re all beautifully done…HOWEVER…I really do wish they’d add MP3 digital to their vinyl! I had to buy all these releases on cd so I could hear them on the go to. Yes I sold the CDs immediately once I popped them on iTunes so essentially got digital for free but STILL…it’s a hassle!
Speaking of LITA I was super impatient waiting for vinyl release so I just picked the digital up of the upcoming Lewis album called L’Amour…it’s pretty blissful and the story behind it is pretty funny…