daily reminder Bowie's peak was literally in the 80s (albums/songs) ending with Never Let Me Down in 1987
>Scary Monsters (only Ashes to Ashes) >Let's Dance (most of album) >Tonight (most of album) >Labyrinth Soundtrack (as world falls / underground) >Never Let Me Down (most of album)
only individual song exceptions: (all from 70s and half of which are from Young Americans*)
Suffragette City - 1972 Cracked Actor - 1973 Diamond Dogs - 1974 Young Americans - 1975* Somebody Up There Likes Me - 1975* Fascination - 1975* Stay - 1976
...aaaand who the fuck are you? Why is your opinion worth anymore than any other useless twat on the internet? Or are you just regurgitating what you read some Pitchfork critic spout? It's all opinion. I may feel Ziggy was his best work. There are idiots out there who think his Tin Machine stuff was his best work. There's no right or wrong answer.
James Allen
>the absolute state of Sup Forums in 2018
Benjamin Cook
is that a rebuttal?
Hunter Roberts
I'll make my question more clear. Why out of every song in Bowie's catalog do you choose primarily his 80s stuff?
Justin Clark
Bowie said he owned the 1970s and Prince owned the 1980s. This is a fact and you're not allowed to dispute it
Cooper Clark
i thought i was clear, those are the best songs
i eliminated album by album songs i liked
this list has lasted tons of listenthrus so there's not really any "fringe" songs barey hanging on
that was done over a year ago so its pretty concrete considering all his work is now final
Tyler Wood
still waiting on the rebuttal
to proclaim such a strong reaction must mean there's glaringly overlooked gems
Justin Watson
Alright. I suppose I'll post my top 25 as well. That will get some interesting conversation.
>Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud >Memory of a Free Festival >OH! You Pretty Things >Life On Mars >Five Years >Rock N' Roll Suicide >Aladdin Sane >Lady Grinning Soul >Sweet Thing Medley >Fascination >Somebody Up There Likes Me >It's Gonna Be Me >Word on A Wing >Stay >Subterraneans >Secret Life of Arabia >Look Back In Anger >Teenage Wildlife (oddly one of the 80s songs you didn't include...) >Looking For Lester >Strangers When We Meet >The Motel >Dead Man Walking >Survive >Sunday >Heathen (The Rays) >Bring Me The Disco King
Ryder Mitchell
>still waiting on the rebuttal What 'rebuttal'? I was asking why you liked something. You've given me vague answers.
Jonathan Powell
>why
they're his best songs, i dont understand the issue
all the other songs are crap
David Roberts
>all the other songs are crap That's literally the issue though I feel like you're being a contrarian just for replies.
Ethan Wilson
just listened to Teenage Wildlife again, nope that "shitty vocals" thing he does isnt what im looking for which eliminates most of his later work and some others
Luke Green
>that "shitty vocals" thing he does ...What? You mean the Vibrato? Or just his voice?
Leo Thomas
every song i listed has objectively great music and vocals/harmonies and most have some type of solo (Sax or guitar)
Ayden Nguyen
>objectively Bullshit. Now I'm certain you're baiting. I have yet to see anyone use that word genuinely on here.
Kevin Evans
also its quite hilarious to hear you use "contrarian" as if most of the songs i have listed arent already most of his hits
Benjamin Anderson
You're telling me it's not contrarian to say his two most panned albums are 'his peak' and his other stuff is 'objectively bad'?
Isaac Robinson
the songs i posted from each of those albums are the gems idgaf about "album themes"
every song from his first to last album when he died comes down to a majority of 80s and about 5 from the 70s
meanwhile he kept releasing shit every fucking year for 20 more years
Jace Bell
That's not what I asked.
Chase Reyes
I honestly think Tonight and Labyrinth are two of his BEST albums of all time. I don't know why everybody else underrates them (Tonight especially)
John Brown
also once again its hilarious to hear you once again bring up this "public opinion" who overrated his later shit cause he was on his death bed as being anywhere near culturally impactful as the stuff in my list
i dont care what some contrarian (see what i did there) reviewers thought in those individual years.
Julian Torres
>who overrated his later shit cause he was on his death bed His albums received acclaim years before he was dying. How were you not aware of this?
You are LITERALLY being A contrarian >Majority likes his 70s work >"objectively awful" >Majority hates his 80s work >"Objectively his peak"
Angel Bell
>calls someone contrarian >uses majority to form his opinions
if it makes you feel any better, the 3 Young American's are objectively my favorites
Joshua Ramirez
Those two things don’t contradict eachother so I’m not sure why you sarcastically greentexted.
Juan Sanders
you're trying to throw around ad hominens and strawman fallacies while using an argument to the people fallacy to support it
Ethan Gomez
But this is literally by definition. Whether or not it’s intentional that’s what contrarian is. Going agains the popular opinion. I have to bring up popular opinion to show that.
Jaxon Robinson
Lets Dance is literally his biggest album ever
the other songs i posted are mostly singles/hits
and the songs from teh 70s are all hits
whats the issue?
just because Never Let You Down is included doesnt mean its near the top most of the songs make up the bottom 3-4 spots but when they come on they are still more listenable than everything else he did
including the song the other guy posted from the 80s that he's surprised i didnt like. and i said the reason why
Julian Mitchell
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Austin Perry
The contrarian part was mainly “all the other stuff is crap”.
Kayden Perry
>tfw you love Fascination >tfw you put it in his top 5 and think it's stupidly underrated >tfw you wish he'd ever done it live >tfw this is the only time you see someone else mention it as his best
I don't know how to feel. Especially since the rest of your choices point to either a legendary shitpost or legitimate, actual strange taste, it's far too specific.
Hunter Bailey
it is, literally nothing redeeming about it
in a vacuum, not in 1987 "oh wow this is complete trash"
all his shity vebrato and lame ass melodies and tempos in all the other songs are crap.
if im going to listen to bowie, its going to be that playlist
and like i said, 9 outta 10 times is gonna be somebody up there likes me or young american's first played
Austin Gonzalez
needs moar tin machine
Julian Russell
had no idea about this band, listening now
Thomas Ward
im not feeling the doors style vocals in the first song on the album, teh song itself is catchy af
Sebastian Butler
yeah i can already tell his vocal patterns and the music is not what im looking for, thru 3 songs
Daniel Phillips
jesus christ yeah this sucks ass
its like a mix of punk rock an other stuff
but his vocal patterns suck, no melodies, more hard rock/punk rock songs
the very first song had potential until the boring doors style vocals
Hunter Flores
working class heroes another potentally good song ruined by the vocals
Josiah Lee
at the last song baby can dance, starts off really good
might be the only keeper
Ian Martinez
im getting some loving the alien vibes off it, i think this one is gonna make it, i threw it in the list
Juan Howard
unfortunately their supposed 2nd album on wikipedia isnt on spotify so i cant listen to that