Going it alone

[sus]

circa 1977 (i.e. Heroes)?

roughly a million records

Yeah but where does this get us? A handful of actual contemporaneous albums that you think were "full of life" and that Bowie vampirically "sucked the life out of" and put his name on would at least give folks a take-home listening assignment

 

[boxedjoy]

he's definitely not straight for the record

he just... married a supermodel after flirting with the public displays of homosexuality

 

[sus]

you keep going on about rockism but that's totally rockism

Nah rockism has more modernist/avant pretensions

At the end of the day, philly soul is an orchestra putting out vibes—the nice thing about hip-hop is you get vibes and words. This is probably a big difference in taste between us tho

 

[padraig (u.s.)]

he's definitely not straight for the record

I didn't say he was. neither was, according to that story about them, Mick Jagger.

what is true is that he spent some of the 70s using ambiguous sexuality as a marketing tool then abandoned it once it as no longer useful. it's what Velvet Goldmine (very thinly) fictionalizes.

 

[luka]

don't backpedal now, you already said one of the positions was objectively right—no use feigning detachment!

that was fairly obvious supposed to make people laugh

 

[padraig (u.s.)]

a take-home listening assignment

I'm not your teacher, do your own research

 

[luka]

I was born in 1988 and tbh I've yet to be convinced there are more than a dozen records from before then worth diving into, what would you recommend to me?

this is brilliant! all music pre-'88 is rubbish!

 

[luka]

i might borrow that opinion even though i dont agree with it

 

[sus]

I'm not your teacher, do your own research

well, I guess we're done here

 

[boxedjoy]

this is brilliant! all music pre-'88 is rubbish!

it's not that it's all rubbish, really, I'm just being glib. There's the disco/boogie continuum, the German axis, New Age, probably other stuff I can't think of immediately. I just hate the idea that I should respect the heritage rubbish popstars of years gone by because they were ~important~ even though the tunes were dismal and the acts of their being popstars seem dull and dated by today's standards

 

[padraig (u.s.)]

well, I guess we're done here

I mean, no offense

I just don't care enough about Bowie to go the trouble of making a list to refute him

 

[padraig (u.s.)]

also I think it would just lead to argument about whether or not things are good or more or less good than each other

which, is Rich said, is pointless

 

[padraig (u.s.)]

if you just want a brief primer on a specific thing - disco or whatever - that I could do

 

[Corpsey]

I wouldn't describe myself as a Bowie fan but I did the typical thing of listening to his music after he died and I found plenty to like.

Let's Dance, Moonage Daydream, Ashes to Ashes, Life on Mars, Rebel Rebel, etc...

I'm basically of the opinion that if you create more than a couple of bangers (particularly wedding bangers) in your career you deserve a pat on the back.

 

[Corpsey]

Needless to say though I'd happily can Bowie's complete discography if that was the only way to save Patrice Rushen's top 5 songs from the furnaces.

 

[thirdform]

Needless to say though I'd happily can Bowie's complete discography if that was the only way to save Patrice Rushen's top 5 songs from the furnaces.

*tips head appreciatively* good trackback play there mate. yeah he was going to be offside. 'smart quick ball played to third and here he comes...'

 

[craner]

as soon he died @craner famously did a series of gleeful crowing celebratory posts which some users found in poor taste.

This wasn't my finest moment.

 

[IdleRich]

I wouldn't describe myself as a Bowie fan but I did the typical thing of listening to his music after he died and I found plenty to like.

Let's Dance, Moonage Daydream, Ashes to Ashes, Life on Mars, Rebel Rebel, etc...

I'm basically of the opinion that if you create more than a couple of bangers (particularly wedding bangers) in your career you deserve a pat on the back.

I'm more and more of that opinion.

 

[padraig (u.s.)]

Needless to say though I'd happily can Bowie's complete discography if that was the only way to save Patrice Rushen's top 5 songs from the furnaces

I'd do it just for Haven't You Heard (or Number One or Forget Me Nots or etc) but yeah

tho I concede Let's Dance is a wedding banger. it's very hard to go wrong with early 80s Nile Rodgers.

 

[Leo]

I'm more and more of that opinion.

me too...I'd throw in all of "diamond dogs" and most of "Aladdin sane" as pretty good. and "station to station", for the role it played in my formative music years.