Discuss his most overlooked works
ITT: Underrated Bowie albums and songs
Jaxson Allen
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Jack Nguyen
Ryder Clark
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This song is cute. CUTE!
Jaxon Murphy
Unironically yes. Zeroes is great too
Isaiah Foster
Definitely
Also
Young Americans is GOAT white boy soul
Stage is a great live album
Lodger is underrated
Heathen is massively underappreciated
The Next Day has a few just ok songs but is pretty great too, albeit overshadowed by the extra crispy masterpiece that followed it
Colton Hughes
HOLY FUCK THIS IS MY KIND OF THREAD.
Black Tie White Noise. Fantastic jazz-electro album and my introduction to Bowie. When I first heard Jump They Say I was hooked.
Plus it's kinda cute how he basically made an album about his wedding...it's just...ADORABLE..
As for my favorite/underrated song, Looking for Lester takes the cake. Probably the funnest instrumental Bowie's ever made. Funky and a great time.
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(Other underrated albums: Earthling, Diamond Dogs, Heathen, Space Oddity, etc.)
Jace Lee
I don't understand why Earthling never gets any love
Ethan Howard
Dominic Myers
Good choice
Also The Stars (Are Out Tonight) and Heat
Evan Nelson
Holy fuck you guys have good tastes.
Owen Edwards
90's Bowie just doesn't get enough love.
Leo Murphy
Anyone else think this is underrated?
Wyatt Reyes
Thanks, have another!
Beck covering Sound and Vision
Connor Hughes
forgot my link
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Justin Nguyen
I've listened to this more than any other album
Oliver Ramirez
Scary Monsters tbph
Sebastian Roberts
This is a great album
Caleb Richardson
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Here's some David Bowie and Arcade Fire
Kayden Wright
LET'S TALK ABOUT RANKINGS! :D
Do you guys have a favorite-to-least order? If you do post em, I'm making mine now.
>David Bowie cover....
I have my doubts but I'll give it a listen
Fuck yeah, man. You got good tastes.
Asher Harris
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Jacob Bennett
It has a couple of killer songs, but otherwise it feels kind of rushed. Like he wanted to make profit out of Let's Dance's massive success. I think it could have been a lot better.
Jose Gomez
Listen to the actual link, most of these were unreleased songs or b-sides from the album pop up when you hover your cursor above the embed link.
Carson Smith
Mine
I plan on giving Black Tie White Noise a relisten soon, it might grow on me with time as Never Let Me Down did
Caleb Jones
waaaaaaaaaait a minute...
I remember you.
You're the same guy that was here when I was ranking the tracks for every David Bowie album!
Good times. Good times.
Daniel Anderson
Angel Adams
Some weak tracks and a few highlights. Blue Jean is a banger and Loving the Alien is really underrated.
Colton Parker
Caleb Gonzalez
Alright, well it was hard but here's my rankings, best to worst.
1. Diamond Dogs (10/10)
2. Earthling (10/10)
3. Aladdin Sane (10/10)
4. Heathen (10/10)
5. Black Tie White Noise (10/10)
6. Space Oddity (10/10)
7. Young Americans (10/10)
8. Low (10/10)
9. Station to Station (10/10)
10. Hunky Dory (10/10)
11. Lodger (10/10)
12. Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) [10/10]
13. The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (10/10)
14. The Man Who Sold the World (10/10)
15. Blackstar (10/10)
16. Tonight (9/10)
17. "Heroes" (9/10)
18. Reality (8/10)
19. Let's Dance (8/10)
20. The Next Day (8/10)
21. 'hours...' (7/10)
22. The Buddah of Suburbia (7/10)
23. 1. OUTSIDE (7/10)
24. Self Titled (6/10)
25. Never Let Me Down (2/10)
[I didn't include Pinups because nobody gives a shit about Pinups. You could take it out of his discography and nobody would notice.]
Colton Nelson
Why do you like Diamond Dogs so much? Is there some sort of story behind it?
Lucas Wilson
The Buddha of Suburbia is really underrated. A lot of people seemingly don't realise it's a proper studio album
Ethan Cooper
Not really a story, just a general list of reasons
>His tightest concept album
>Amazing funk-glam style
>His best vocal range (most notably on Sweet Thing)
>MIKE GARSON ON THE KEYS!
>Beautiful composition
>I need to say it again, MIKE GARSON ON THE KEYS!
>Not a single bad track.
Just my reasoning.
Adrian Adams
i wanna say blackstar is the album of the year
Jonathan Walker
It is for me too. And this song is one of my favourites of the year.
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Carson Cook
Same here. It's just so powerful and incredible. To hear him sing about wanting to "push their backs against the grain and fool them all again and again" is so heartbreaking, but satisfying considering he did one last time.
What an incredible artist.
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Caleb Rivera
Oh hell yeah, definitely in his top 10 best.
Joshua Jones
why would you ignore the jungle beats
Dominic Cook
>that many 10/10s
stop
Ryan Price
>Implying that's a bad thing and/or that Bowie doesn't deserve those 10's.
Alexander Taylor
Bowie has at least 8 or so 10/10s stfu
Joseph Garcia
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I first listened to this song around to the time my grandmother died. This song kinda fucked me up whenever I listened to it around that time. Because of that, this song has a special place in my heart.
Christian Clark
Bowie is most well known for absorbing the current musical climate and regurgitating it in top tier form.
But what in your opinion is his most original album?
I'm thinking Station to Station, Outside, and Blackstar
Mason Bailey
Beep beep most underrated Bowie song coming through
Joseph Lee
Heathen.
It's unlike any album you'd hear in 2002. The distorted guitar and instrumentation was so crisp and perfect throughout the whole album. I have yet to hear any album like it.
Luke Hernandez
Don't think I've ever seen anyone talk about this track at all, which is a shame cause it's so sweet and breezy.
It's a bonus track from The Next Day.
Charles Powell
The extra material on The Next Day is so good
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By the way, nice quads
Xavier Jenkins
the alternate version of the supermen is better than the original
Jayden White
I generally agree but
>Tonight
>9/10
Sebastian White
Love Thursday's Child, Hours is underrated in general.
So She is great. Most of the bonus tracks are, The Informer sounds like it could've been on Hours actually. Also I really like Born in a Ufo, which was originally written for Lodger.
Brayden Moore
Whaaaaat? That's a problem?
...Well I liked it.
(Reggae Bowie is good).
Evan Flores
no album with that god only knows cover can ever be graced with a 9
Gabriel Sullivan
What would you rate it?
Noah Flores
a 4, i suppose? i actually like never let me down a little better than it
for the record, though, your placement of diamond dogs and heathen are spot on
Noah White
>I actually like Never Let Me Down a little better.
Damn...You must really hate that album.
But still, thanks for the compliments, would love to see your rankings.
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Bentley Green
made this ages ago, changes i would make on reflection:
>the man who sold the world - 8
>aladdin sane - 8
>scary monsters - 8
>tonight - 4
>never let me down - 4
>outside - 9
and since blackstar wasn't out at that point, i'll give it a 10 here
Evan Rogers
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Adam Baker
Nice list, with one exception
>Black Tie White Noise
>5
Why senpai? Why?
Carter Allen
FASCINATION
Ryan Cox
a lot of it just fell flat for me, sorry budd-e
pallas athena, miracle goodnight, looking for lester, and jump they say are all great tho
Evan Butler
All Good Choices
African Night Flights has been discussed to death on here. It's still a great song though.
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Both the original and 2001 version of Conversation Piece are absolutely beautiful.
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This may be my favorite deep cut from any Bowie album.
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Juan Myers
>looking for lester is great
That made up for it somewhat.
Jack Reyes
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TEEEEEEEEELL THE TRUTH
TEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELL THE TRUTH
Andrew Clark
What about Buddha of Suburbia?
Henry Flores
still haven't actually listened to it desu
i was gonna after blackstar but after he died i didn't want to listen to it because it'd be the last full bowie album i'd never heard
then that'd be it, nothing new to discover
Dylan Jenkins
This one I can get behind. Fair, and I love that someone else shares my enthusiasm for his work, especially the mid-late 70's. Diamond Dogs is fucking underrated.
Oliver Perez
Ah, makes sense.
Also I know they only just came out but do Killing a Little Time and No Plan count? Nobody is talking about them, they should've been on Blackstar.
Wyatt Wright
>Lodger is underrated
I remember listening to Lodger for the first time the night before Bowie died, didn't like it at the time. Didn't even finish the album (stopped in the middle of Repetition). Now this album gives me feels.
Aaron Walker
1. Low and Heroes are tied for me (both 9/10)
3. Hunky Dory (8.5/10)
4. Blackstar (8/10) (If they didn't include Sue, it would've been at least 9 if not more).
5. Station to Station
6. Ziggy Stardust (6/10) - Overrated as fuck (it's good, but nowhere near Bowie's best album).
7. Lodger (4/10) - There are great songs, but there are also awful songs on that album.
Haven't heard the rest, what should I listen to next? (please no contrarian suggestions)
Colton Phillips
Matthew Lewis
>Outside
>7
Nah mate
Robert Allen
>Young Americans
>7
No, it's at the least an 8 probably a 10
Brody Ross
That's my shit right there
Deranged it's great too
Caleb Bell
>Blackstar (8/10) (If they didn't include Sue, it would've been at least 9 if not more)
gtfo Sue is one of the highlight of the album
check Aladdin Sane, Scary Monsters they're 10/10. But you seem to be one of those contrarian who might like Diamon Dogs & Young Americans...
Josiah Parker
How come I'm a contrarian? I never see someone saying Sue is the best song there or something. Do you actually think this song is better than any of the other songs on the album? It is definitely the least good one.
Nolan Parker
David Bowie: Early On (1964-66)
Back in the day when he was still David Jones.
Recommended songs: Eliza Jane I Pity the Fool Take a Tip I Dig Everything.
Caleb Bailey
You
You motherfucker
I see you in every fucking thread because of your posting style .
What should I call you?
Samuel Walker
there is not such thing as overlooked
once you go bowie, you can never come back.
Oliver Ortiz
Random guy here but Sue is like one of my favourite songs of the year.
It just keeps building and gets twisted
Elijah Morgan
Diamond Dogs is my second favourite album. It helps I love his take on 1984.
Jose Nguyen
>liking Heroes over Low
>Diamond Dogs, Hunky Dory and The Man Who Sold the World worse than Ziggy.
Boy! Those sure are some unique opinions!
Charles Morales
It's far better than 'Tis a pity, in my opinion. It tells a much more emotional and empathetic story.
Jose Lee
Black Tie White Noise is his best album
Gavin Foster
Lodger is easily one of the most underrated album ever made.
Justin Mitchell
this
Owen Powell
This. It's a 10/10 for me. It took the longest to click but I can't stop listening to it now. African Night Flight is a masterpiece.
Samuel Clark
>how come I'm a contrarian
>Ziggy 6/10
Ayden Carter
>Diamond Dogs, Hunky Dory and The Man Who Sold the World worse than Ziggy.
>all of them have the same score
Asher White
Scary Monsters isn't underrated. Every album that's come out after Tin Machine has been called "his best since Scary Monsters"
Jose Phillips
London, Bye, Ta Ta is overlooked so much. Probably because it went unreleased for a while.
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Isaac Flores
I love me some Bowie with a vocoder.
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Samuel Perez
>Untitled no. 1
>You've Been Around
>Dead Man Walking (Acoustic)
>Heathen (The Rays)
>Some Are
>Tired of My Life
>Strangers When We Meet
Andrew Morales
This one is incredible
Jaxon Lewis
I highly doubt you're gonna see this since thread is almost dead. But still. Call me whatever you want
>higher than a 7
Nah.
Blake Garcia
I don't want this thread to die.
About to post track ratings.
Jason Perry
Here I go again.
David Torres
>David chose Across The Universe over this?
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Why would he do that?
Brody Adams
Because he was hopped up on coke and didn't realize this was better and the ATU cover was shit.
Chase Powell
Re making these every time I do this is fun.
Not even being sarcastic. I love making these.
Joseph Diaz
Feel like I should have rated Hermione higher. Oh well. Too late now.