These were David Bowie’s 25 favorite vinyl records

David Bowie’s 25 Favorite Vinyl Records:
The Last Poets — The Last Poets
Shipbuilding — Robert Wyatt
The Fabulous Little Richard — Little Richard
Music for 18 Musicians — Steve Reich
The Velvet Underground & Nico — The Velvet Underground
Tupelo Blues — John Lee Hooker
Blues, Rags and Hollers — Koerner, Ray and Glover
The Apollo Theatre Presents: In Person! The James Brown Show — James Brown
Forces of Victory — Linton Kwesi Johnson
The Red Flower of Tachai Blossoms Everywhere: Music Played on National Instruments — Various Artists
Banana Moon — Daevid Allen
Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris — Cast Album
The Electrosoniks: Electronic Music — Tom Dissevelt
The 5000 Spirits of the Layers of the Onion — The Incredible String Band
Ten Songs by Tucker Zimmerman — Tucker Zimmerman
Four Last Songs (Strauss) — Gundula Janowitz
The Ascension — Glenn Branca
The Madcap Laughs — Syd Barrett
Black Angels — George Crumb
Funky Kingston — Toots & The Maytals
Delusion of the Fury — Harry Partch
Oh Yeah — Charles Mingus
Le Sacre du Printemps — Igor Stravinsky
The Fugs — The Fugs
The Glory (????) of the Human Voice — Florence Foster Jenkins

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Happy to say I have and love some of these, but there are several I am going to check out! Thank you!

 

No idea he liked reggae. Man of taste...

 

I'm surprised there's no Roxy Music, Beatles, Stones, etc.

 

Great taste, but that's no surprise. George Crumb is an exquisite choice.

 

He surely owned more than 25 (favorite) records...

 

No doubt but I'm really surprised it wasn't in his top 25

 

Guess he liked many artists and it's hard to decide the best out of a record collection.

 

And I have only 4 of those. I see some purchases in my future

 

I love LKJ. I have seen him a few times; I real poet. I really like most of the list. Truly eclectic!!

 

Bottom one on that list - Florence Foster Jenkins - was discussed, shown and played during this wonderful Rove interview. Enjoy and duck.

 

A much bigger surprise is no Scott Walker. He wasn't a massive Beatles fan.

 

I would agree with Scott Walker especially considering the influence he had on Bowie. I had thought that ha going out with and collaborating with Lennon (and covering Across The Universe and Lennon's Working class Hero) might have made him reevaluate their music especially the 66-70 period.

 

THE biggest surprise. List Invalid.

 

Very interesting list, thanks for sharing. John Lee Hooker comes as a surprise to me.

 

In Heathen's Afraid he sang: I believe in Beatles, I believe my little soul has grown.

 

Living a couple of miles from both Dave's birthplace and his childhood home, the word 'vinyls' is nearly as painful to the ear as 'Legos'.

 

Is this recording available on CD?

 

No Pretty Things, after two covers on Pin Ups.
But then, those two covers were singles, so I'm good.

 

Well even if those were among his favorites, they'd make for a pretty boring list, no?

I know if I were asked to supply a list of my favorite albums for a magazine, that I'd skip a few of the usual suspects to make room for some lesser known gems in order to open a few ears as well as make the article more interesting/less predictable.

Were those really his absolute favorite 25 records of all time? Maybe, but my guess is they were really just the 25 records he liked the most that he felt were unfairly ignored/should be better known by more people than they currently are.

The Beatles and Stones et al, are definitely in no need of any help in that department.

 

From the original article:
"There is really no way to do a list of my favorite albums with any rationality...there are just too many to sort through. So, I’ll keep pulling stuff out blindly, and if it’s too obvious (Sgt. Pepper, Nirvana) I’ll put it back again till I find something more interesting. A lot of the rock stuff I have is the same as everyone else’s."

 

Little Richard!

 

It's good that he still had his Velvet Underground test press LP he had for him brought back from New York.

 

No Scott Walker?? and Iggy

 

What I have:

The Last Poets — The Last Poets
Music for 18 Musicians — Steve Reich
The Velvet Underground & Nico — The Velvet Underground
The Ascension — Glenn Branca
Black Angels — George Crumb
Oh Yeah — Charles Mingus
The Electrosoniks: Electronic Music — Tom Dissevelt