David Bowie’s Let’s Dance. My first album by him. Great place to start.

Totally agree.

Drive In Saturday remains my favorite Bowie single.

 

Side 1 is one of the best ‘sides’ of his career. If not the best.

 

Add "John I'm Only Dancing" to side two and it would be almost as strong.

 

That's what makes Bowie special. He's as unpredictable as it gets.

 

I'd say Fashion moved to the right direction to be part of the Let's Dance album, just imagine Vaughan playing Fripp's part and it would fit in pretty well.

 

Let's Dance

Studio album by
David Bowie
Released 14 April 1983
Recorded December 1982
Studio Power Station (New York City)

Spinning this 1983 MASTERDISK NM lp this morning.

 

Let's Dance was one of my three starter Bowie records; this, Young Americans and Ziggy.

Three monster singles, an okay remake of a soundtrack contribution and filler; just what you want to start a new career on a new label.

 

It paid off for him, didn’t it?

Though it’s fair to say his next 2 albums undid some of the good work Let’s Dance started…

 

Let’s Dance was my first Bowie album also.

Haven’t heard a bad pressing but my personal favorite is this Japanese release

David Bowie – Let's Dance
Label: EMI America – EYS-81580
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Toshiba EMI Pressing
Country: Japan
Released: 1983

 

I've always loved 'Drive-In Saturday'. I was a little kid when it was single and I loved it then, when my uncle - a Bowie fan ten years my senior - really didn't. He used to play me all his Bowie and T. Rex records and I loved every minute of it. We went to visit my recently married aunt at the time 'Saturday' was out and she didn't like it either, so it looked like I was on my own. She had a cat called 'Friday', but I kept thinking he was called 'Saturday' because there was a TV cream ad with a cat as a singing milkman called 'Saturday' who sang like Louis Armstrong, #Saturday the cat's full of cream... # I thought they'd named him after that. Saturday was my favourite day of the week. Ah, 'Drive-In Saturday'... the audio madeleine cookie...

 

They're pretty awful, aren't they?

 

'Criminal World' was pretty good.

 

Yes, that was my favourite non-single track on the album.

 

I’ve always felt Drive-In Saturday is kind of a forgotten Bowie single. Even though it peaked at #3!

Then again, Bowie had 4 top 5 singles in 1973. And another peaked at #6. It was his best ever year here.

 

'The Laughing Gnome'! What was it Marc Bolan said, "Ha-ha! It just shows you it doesn't pay to be too cool." Or something like that. I always loved the way Marc Bolan was a self-proclaimed superstar. I had similar ideas; I used to come home from school and put those silver and gold adhesive stars on my face... Northernlight - superstar! Then later on, when I got into Kiss, I used to come from school and paint my face... No, I'm just making the Kiss part of it up.

 

Despite having heard practically all of ChangesOneBowie on the radio (KSHE-95 classic rock radio) all thru high school (1983-87) — along with a handful of his (then) contemporaneous 80’s hits (again, just via the radio)…

…the first FULL LENGTH Bowie album I ever owned was actually Tin Machine I (on CD) at the end of my sophomore year in college, and then I made a cassette dub of TMII next too (iirc) — and then I got a promo copy of Black Tie White Noise on CD (when I worked on-air at a local FM top-40 station while I was still in college).

And I never owned any pre-“Tin Machine” Bowie albums until about 15 years ago — other than compilation albums.

 

In that case you know what kind of let down feeling some older Bowie fans experienced with the arrival of Let's Dance and most with the two following 80's albums.

 

Playing the Let’s Dance SACD today. It sounds fantastic.

 

I bet

EG.

 

Way cool. God, I love that album so much.

 

Very good album

 

I've re-evaluated my take

 

Great album. Perfect place to start.