danny la rouge
Ninja swords for all disabled people
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I used to play Bowie albums to death at one time, although not for ages.
But this last while, I’ve been re-listening to those Bowie albums I still have (the first 6 options in the poll), a couple for the first time literally in decades. I’d almost forgotten how good he was.
I’m still at a loss to know what went wrong. How do you go from being the guy who made Low into the guy who recorded with the Pat Metheny Group, and released Absolute Beginners? Did he and Eno catch some wasting disease in Berlin?
In 1977 alone, he released Low and “Heroes”, produced, co-wrote the songs for, and played various instruments on Iggy’s The Idiot and Lust For Life, and toured as part of Iggy’s band.
In 1987, he released Never Let Me Down, an album even he has apologized for.
I last saw him live on the Serious Moonlight tour, at Murrayfield stadium. He was rubbish. Distant, freeze-dried, and though he did all the hits, it was like a cover artist doing them. And his remake of China Girl summed it all up. He’d lost it.
And so he drifted out of my field of vision; I’d still play Low and Station to Station during that decade, but with every project he made himself more and more ridiculous. Finally I stopped playing him.
But time passes, and I reckon he can be forgiven the embarrassing stuff because when he was good, he was very good indeed.
So, what’s your favourite?
I used to play Bowie albums to death at one time, although not for ages.
But this last while, I’ve been re-listening to those Bowie albums I still have (the first 6 options in the poll), a couple for the first time literally in decades. I’d almost forgotten how good he was.
I’m still at a loss to know what went wrong. How do you go from being the guy who made Low into the guy who recorded with the Pat Metheny Group, and released Absolute Beginners? Did he and Eno catch some wasting disease in Berlin?
In 1977 alone, he released Low and “Heroes”, produced, co-wrote the songs for, and played various instruments on Iggy’s The Idiot and Lust For Life, and toured as part of Iggy’s band.
In 1987, he released Never Let Me Down, an album even he has apologized for.
I last saw him live on the Serious Moonlight tour, at Murrayfield stadium. He was rubbish. Distant, freeze-dried, and though he did all the hits, it was like a cover artist doing them. And his remake of China Girl summed it all up. He’d lost it.
And so he drifted out of my field of vision; I’d still play Low and Station to Station during that decade, but with every project he made himself more and more ridiculous. Finally I stopped playing him.
But time passes, and I reckon he can be forgiven the embarrassing stuff because when he was good, he was very good indeed.
So, what’s your favourite?
