whatcha say

Such a difficult list to make!

1. Heroes
2. Wild is the Wind (I know it's a cover but still)
3. Rock 'n' Roll Suicide
4. Station to Station
5. Warszawa
6. Hallo Spaceboy
7. Strangers When We Meet
8. Sound and Vision
9. Space Oddity
10. Five Years

Honorable mentions that almost made it include Ashes to Ashes, Look Back in Anger, I'm Deranged and basically everything on Station to Station and Low.

What are yours?

What's your favorite track on it?

Basically: Bowie was so influential that at a certain point, he found himself seeking inspiration from artists who were initially inspired by him. So I wanted to compile some examples.

• David was influential on Talking Heads, then he later became a fan of Talking Heads (shortly after their first album? In any case, it was early). His song "DJ" drew influence from them and he even did an impression of David Byrne on the song.
• David was an influence on the members of Pixies (Joey Santiago and Frank Black especially). David's admiration of the Pixies is well known: He saw them as one of America's greatest bands and one of the greatest bands of the 80s. You can see their influence on Tin Machine, his covers of them, and Bowie's general songwriting structure with quiet-loud contrast.
• Around the Outside era, he was drawing influence from Trent Reznor (though he mentions that he was familiar with The Young Gods first). Reznor cites Bowie as one of his biggest heroes, with Low being a major influence on The Downward Spiral.
• (In the other direction): Scott Walker is considered one of David's biggest influences, one of the ways was introducing Bowie to Jacques Brel iirc. Then, Walker was influenced to go in a more experimental direction after David's Berlin Trilogy.

Recently I’ve been playing it on loop and I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s probably one of Bowie’s creepiest songs if not the creepiest. Still, my favourite from 1. Outside would be ‘No Control’

Despite some atrocious get-ups he always pulled it off. He wasn't conventionally handsome (arguably), he was skinny(not necessarily a bad thing) and had awful teeth for a good while.

But he had the eyes He had GREAT hair And he had a wonderful public persona(s)

What do you think is the meaning of this song?

I think David is just talking to himself, expressing how he doesn't knows himself (He said I was his friend, Which came as some surprise) and how he thinks he had died long ago and he as sold the world.

Its one of my favorite songs, so beautiful and so complex at the same time.

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Interactive version made by Jolsaza!

As known from the TV show only connect and its knock off online - Connections.
Four groups of four related terms are hidden in the square. Guess which and for additional fun also why.
Feel free to guess single groups of four, I'll tell whether they are correct or one off.

Two groups are really easy. Two are rather on the obscure side, but will get easier when the others are gone.

I've been thinking about this phrase from David: on the one hand, it would feel like an honor that David would consider you the future of music.

On the other hand, there are times when I feel the phrase is a little bit overused. Of course, I get that the future is dynamic and changing so no single artist is going to remain the future forever. And sometimes, it's more reflective of David's enthusiasm for the artist than specifically predicting the future. But I thought it'd be fun to list them.

• There was an interview where David recalled watching the Rolling Stones and he referred to them as "the future of music".
• We know his admiration of the Velvet Underground. There's a story about how he heard an early pressing of the debut album from the Warhol factory. His friend didn't like it, but David saw it as the future of music. He and his band covered "I'm Waiting For the Man" shortly afterward.
• Not David himself, but there's an anecdote of Brian Eno bringing the Donna Summer and Giorgio Moroder single "I Feel Love" to listen to while they were recording one of the Berlin Trilogy albums and essentially proclaiming it the sound of the future.
• He referred to The Human League with this title.
• David referred to Lorde as the future of music, which is why she was tapped to sing for a tribute.

I repeatedly see this album ranked highly in every Bowie album ranking, but besides a few great songs I always downright disliked most of the songs on it. Kooks, Andy Warhol, Fill Your Heart, Song For Bob Dylan, and Oh! You Pretty Things are all just annoying to me, and I feel like many people just see it as great because it happens to have Changes and Life On Mars on it. I'm wondering if anyone else has the same opinion of the album?

Lately I’ve been listening a lot to Heroes and Lodger. It was only today that I realized I really like Diamond Dogs.

However I just listened to Aladdin Sane and I think I can call it one of my favorite albums from now on!

"I can forsee nothing but artistic frustration for Bowie in the next few years." Luckily, David reinvented himself in time!