Which David Bowie album got you into him?

Inspired by the Rolling Stones thread of a similar nature what was the Bowie album that was the gateway?

My first Bowie album was Low of all things after reading an article on Q about the making of it.
It was soon followed by Hunky Dory (because I knew and liked Changes and Life On Mars?)
Then it was Station To Station and then I was off to the races,constantly getting as much Bowie albums in the HMV 2 for £10 sale until I owned all the albums from The Man Who Sold the World to Let's Dance as well as adding Outside,Earthling,Tin Machine,Heathen,Reality and Black Tie White Noise over time too.

So what's the album and story that got you into the Thin White Duke?

 

Ziggy Stardust, mate! The best offer that glam rock could ever make.

 

Low did it for me too. When I discovered Joy Division and became obsessed with them, I read that they picked their original name, Warsaw, as a tribute to a track from Low. So I grabbed a used copy of Low from a cheap bin and dug in. Got Station to Station soon after that, and then I was off. That era of Bowie is still my favorite

 

Diamond Dogs, freshman year of high school, 1974.

 

The Rise and fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars.

Moonage Daydream, to be quite precise.

A real sonic masterpiece.

 

I heard some of Bowie's songs as a kid, but I didn't buy a Bowie LP until the late 1980s. First up was ChangesOneBowie cause I loved Space Oddity so much, followed by Ziggy.

 

Let’s Dance in 1983.

Lord knows how I’d managed to avoid his albums before that, but I had. I liked the Let’s Dance and China Girl singles so thought I’d take a chance on the LP. It only had 8 songs so there wasn’t much to dislike. After this I picked up Tonight and Never Let Me Down. It was a good decade later when I decided to finally check out his 70s stuff. That was a nice period in my life.

Incidentally, a lad at work who was a big Bowie fan told me not to bother with Let’s Dance as it was ‘crap’. He told me to try Hunky Dory instead. While I agree the latter is the better album, I’m happy I started where I did.

 

Oddly enough.

The story goes back to 1985 when I attended my first record fair aged 15. I set my budget at £5 and after drooling over a copy of the Philips album on the display wall at £50, I went for this one as I liked the cover and it was exactly £5. My next Bowie album was Ziggy live. The rest is history.

 

Sorry, never got into David Bowie-Bowie. I do like some of the earlier songs like Space Oddity and Rebel Rebel.

 

Changesonebowie

It seemed everyone had a copy of it back in 1976/77. It was a mainstay at parties and a really great introduction to his music for many late 70s teenagers.

 

Ha nice catch! I've changed it now

 

A song: "The man who sold the world"

 

Ziggy Stardust for me.
A friend put the album on at his house one night and advised us that this guy was going to be huge.
He wasn't wrong. I bought the 8 track and played it non stop while travelling with friends from Toronto to Calgary.
Still love it and play it start to finish when it goes on.

 

Definitely Space Oddity but mostly for the single. The album didn't do as much for me. Seeing "The Jean Genie" video circa 1974 melted my mind. But Hunky Dory was next (for me) and it is the album that got me - especially 'Queen Bitch"

 

Low

All those really cool sonic textures. It's one of those albums that floored me and got me deeper into more experimental rock music in general.

 

But the first album I bought was "Station to station" (it was the only one they had in the shop) . I loved every second of it

 

Same here, same year, same grade...followed quickly by those which had already been released, Hunky, Ziggy, Man, and Aladdin.

 

bought a used copy of "hunky dory" on vinyl in '94 when I was 20. that did it.

 

nobody around me had Bowie albums in the 70s

apart from top 40 play he wasn't a thing

i would guess Changesonebowie broke the ice for him, the kind of effect that Bob Marley's Legend had for those who just wanted the hits

 

My mom had ChangesOneBowie and Diamond Dogs so it was those...I discovered the rest on my own.

 

:: My brother had 2LP set 'Live At The Tower Philadelphia' and he recorded a sony tape for my walkman, but later I wanted to listen studio versions, 'ChangesBowie' Ryko 1990 was a great start.

 

Heroes

 

Zig was the first one, when it came out. Then Man Who when that got the RCA release. Strangely, I did not purchase another album until Heroes appeared, just a few singles.

 

For me it was "Heathen". It was the first Bowie album I listened to - there was a preview copy in the listening station at a record store I used to go to all the time. I liked it so much, I asked the person working that day let me take it out for a few hours so I could listen on my discman while walking around the city.

"Hours..." came out when I was in college, and one of my friends played the CD while we were hanging out once, but it didn't make much of an impression.

In some sense, "Labyrinth" got me into David Bowie as a kid, but I didn't really experience him as a recording artist until I was in my 20s, even though I knew all those songs by heart and watched the movie 100 times.

 

I'm not quite sure. My sisters are a bit older than me and they bought the records. I think it was probably Ziggy Stardust (about the time it came out), though I think at the time I liked Hunky Dory more even though I think they bought it a tiny bit later. And then Aladdin Sane blew my mind not long after. I'd been weaned on The Doors and Alice Cooper so it seemed a natural progression.