Do you have a preferred Bowie era?

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  1. warewolf95

    warewolf95 Forum Resident Thread Starter

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    Thanks for the clarification mate.
     
  2. warewolf95

    warewolf95 Forum Resident Thread Starter

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    For anyone that hasn't seen it, stop what you are doing and go watch Bowie's 1996 Loreley Festival performance.

    One of the coolest shows I've seen and something that made me get into Bowie deeper after seeing it.
     
  3. Instant Dharma

    Instant Dharma Dude/man

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    Marinate. ;)
     
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  4. warewolf95

    warewolf95 Forum Resident Thread Starter

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    Thanks for helping me to discover my auto-correct doesn't work. :D
     
  5. Thievius

    Thievius Blue Oyster Cult-ist

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    All of the stuff from the 70s and Let's Dance from the 80s is good. Hard pressed to answer the poll, Ziggy era.
     
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  6. sekaer

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    Diamond Dogs would be my answer but I don't understand this poll
     
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  7. warewolf95

    warewolf95 Forum Resident Thread Starter

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    How appropriate, I literally just finished listening to the song itself when I saw your post. :)
     
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  8. sekaer

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    I feel like Diamond Dogs' rep has been climbing slowly in recent years, which makes me happy as it's my favorite of his (with Station to Station)
     
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  9. Mother

    Mother Forum Resident

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    I love them all BUT if I have to choose:

    1. Berlin era.

    Runners Up:
    2. Thin White Duke/Station to Station era
    3. Ziggy
     
  10. MikeManaic61

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    Still am having trouble myself, even though I have a couple of his albums. He's reminds of Kate Bush or Peter Gabriel, very artsy and hard to get into.

    These type of artist are a challenge but worth it if you have the patience.
     
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  11. strummer101

    strummer101 The insane on occasion aren't without their charms

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    Stylistically, every Bowie record is an era unto itself. None sound like the the one that came before or after. That being said, the three 'eras' I dislike are Let's Dance, Tonight, and Never Let Me Down. Every reason I listened to him disappeared.

    I picked Duke, trilogy/Scary and BTWN+.

    You left out the most recent records, and all the extra tracks and versions of tracks.
    Important 'eras', right there. Yep.

    IMO.
     
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  12. warewolf95

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    Whoops! you are totally right - how I forgot The Next Day and Blackstar is beyond me. :p
     
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  13. avanti1960

    avanti1960 Forum Resident

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    yes. 1969 to 1980, 2013 to 2016.
     
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  14. LandHorses

    LandHorses I contain multitudes

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    1. Eno trilogy + Scary Monsters. (Scary Monsters is my favorite Bowie album)
    2. Ziggy
    3. Pre-Ziggy
     
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  15. Dax52

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    I'm sad Man Who Sold The World never gets mentioned very much as far as great albums... Just put on Width of a Circle, Running Gun Blues, and Savior Machine and crank up the sound. Pure heavy rock Bowie on She Shook Me Cold..probably the heaviest guitar I ever heard on a Bowie track. It sure wasn't Let's Dance. He was a true rock Chameleon... I really lost him after Let's Dance and picked up on him when he released Earthling through his final album.
     
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  16. Denim Chicken

    Denim Chicken Dayman, fighter of the Nightman

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    Station to Station is my favorite album but all of the 70s are awesome. I chose the Ziggy , Station and Berlin eras
     
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  17. SBegonias17

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    A tough call between the Berlin trilogy and Ziggy Stardust-era. My slight preference is for Berlin. Both are historically significant and influential in their own ways.

    Otherwise I’d go for the time just before (i.e. Man Who Sold The World) or in between. 1969-1980 is definitely his classic period. The rest of his career has its highlights, but hasn’t never really done it for me.
     
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  18. Price.pittsburgh

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    At the risk of scandal mine is the Lets Dance album and videos.
    I know it was never meant to be that commercial but it was and it carriers a lot of sentimental value.
    I was 13 and 14 in 83 and 84 and got Mtv March 83.
    If Mtv liked you or respected you they played the older established artists new material like they were up and coming and the up and coming acts they liked got played like they were established.
    This is why Bowie Lets Dance era,
    Bruce Springsteen Born in the USA era, Prince Purple Rain era, Michael Jackson Thriller era, Def Leppard Pyromania era, George Michael Wham Make It Big era, Huey Lewis and the News Sports era, Duran Duran Rio, Self Titled rerelease, and Seven and The Ragged Tiger era etc always are tops for me.
     
  19. Mother

    Mother Forum Resident

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    Baroque pop/Decca (David Bowie)
    Hippy Bowie (Space Oddity)
    Metal Bowie (The Man Who Sold the World)
    Songsmith Bowie (Hunky Dory)
    Glam Bowie (Ziggy/Aladdin/Pin Ups)
    Halloween Jack/Philly Dogs (Diamond Dogs)
    Plastic Soul (Young Americans)
    Thin White Duke/White Light (Station to Station)
    Berlin/Eno (Low-Lodger)
    New Romantic (Scary Monsters)
    Mid-80s pop era (Let's Dance - Never Let Me Down)
    Tin Machine era (I & II)
    Electronic artistic recovery (BTWN/Buddha/Outside/Earthling)
    Neoclassicist Bowie (Hours/Heathen/Reality)
    Renaissance Bowie (The Next Day/Blackstar)
     
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  20. strummer101

    strummer101 The insane on occasion aren't without their charms

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    Since you didn't mention The Buddha of Suburbia, I will:
    The Buddha of Suburbia.
    There.
     
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  21. bunglejerry

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    A stretch starting from Diamond Dogs through to "Heroes".

    I know Ziggy is great. I've internalised it and memorised every word. Hunky Dory for many years was my favourite Bowie album. But I find I don't return to the glam era much. I guess I just overdid it. And I could never warm up to Aladdin Sane. Not sure why; everyone sees it as a second Ziggy and I just find it weak.

    And at the other end, I don't get all that much enjoyment out of Lodger, even though I know a lot of people do. For me the Berlin era is a two-album masterstroke plus a third one that is kind of Scary Monsters Part 1.
     
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  22. Ziggy Stardust followed by Tin Machine.
     
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  23. cmcintyre

    cmcintyre Forum Resident

    It's so tempting (without wanting to offend anyone) to say:

    "I prefer the Parlophone era", (2015-?)

    but that would only be a humorous emotional release from all that's happening on another thread.

    So I won't.

    "I don't have a preferred era, and enjoy all of it at different times. There's an album, despite the excellent reviews it received at first, I rarely play. Apart from the title track, the songs never grabbed me. It's from 1987........"
     
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  24. warewolf95

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    As much as I enjoy (un)said album, I don't think any of us would be foolish enough to think you'd offend anyone by naming said album. ;)
     
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  25. alexpop

    alexpop Power pop + other bad habits....

    Pre Diamond Dogs
     
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