“but now that people are feeling marginally safer out in the world”

I was too young for anything but MTV-era Bowie and I never really dug into his stuff at all. I would say he’s overrated but I have too much respect for how ardent his fans are and too little understanding of his early 70s output or of glamrock in general. I will say that I think his classics that got a lot of time on…

Stage is such a fucking good album. 

Thanks for posting this. It’s one of my favs. Nomi and Arias are sublime and Bowie being Bowie.. *Chef-Kiss*

I’m with you-it’s such a gorgeous song on so many levels. I’ve never understood why it doesn’t get more attention, even among some hardcore Bowie fans.

Ah, good old weirdo Klaus Nomi.

S2S is my favorite too. His best? Who’s to say. Impossible. But I have an emotional attachment to it.

Instead of a David Bowie list let’s do a list of Peter Gabriel’s 20 best albums. Oh wait a second, he doesn’t have enough albums to qualify. Sorry guys. 

Point of order on Adrian Belew—he wouldn’t join King Crimson until 1981. He came onto the national scene in Frank Zappa’s band in 1977, and then joined Bowie for a tour. After that tour, Bowie made Lodger, with Belew on guitar.

I don’t know. Nassau 76 is fantastic. Santa Monica 72 is also amazing. 

I’ve always loved the fact there isn’t a clear, robust consensus over what the best Bowie albums are. Everyone Bowie fan I know, has a different favourite. Even the Stones and Beatles lists will come down to about the same three albums. Bowie made the album he felt like making at the time and over time, appealed to a…

There’s literally a whole generation of 70s musicians who could be accused of statutory rape. Eagles, Led Zeppelin, etc. Not condoning it, but it’s weird to point the finger at just David Bowie.

I’m also a Lodger fan. Personally, I’d have the Berlin trilogy as 1-3 in any order, followed by The Spiders from Mars, Station to Station, and The Man who Sold the World.

Why have David Live there and not even mention Stages, Santa Monica 72 or A Reality Tour , all better live albums? And since everyone else is, top 5:

David Live is a love letter to cocaine.

So Heathen doesn’t make the list (despite acknowledging the critical hosannahs), but there’s room for David Live and Bowie at the Beeb.

I’m in. It’ll be my first cinema experience since Covid hit. As a lifelong Bowie fan, and being fairly knowledgable about his history, this sounds far more esoteric and exciting than a route documentary treatment.

Maybe the monarchy can go with her. I mean as an American I got little skin in this game but her sons are both assholes. Gonna be hard to see the King of England and not recall that he once told his mistress he wanted to be her tampon. 

One of my great aunts fled Ireland because her Republican (Irish Republican, not the disgusting American political party) boyfriend’s head was left on her doorstep by Irish royalists.

It was the way he said it that was funny, and the other person’s reaction. My favorite was the Paul McCartney one.