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Post by upinkzeppelin2 on Jan 29, 2007 19:30:43 GMT -5
To my surprise, nobody had done this poll yet. I personally don't know which one to pick, but I'm leaning toward Hunky Dory. Sorry about no Bowie albums after '83, but I figured the winner would certainly be in the 70s. I guess I could have made this a contest between his 70s albums alone. I almost did.
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Post by Mary on Jan 30, 2007 1:00:57 GMT -5
this poll is giving me a hernia. I can't decide between Ziggy, Station to Station, Heroes, and Scary Monsters. That's ridiculous!!! It would be one thing if two albums were contenders, but FOUR?? I'm going to think really hard about Bowie tonight before I fall asleep and hopefully the answer will come to me in a dream.
I can safely say that it WON'T be Hunky Dory or Lodger, though!!!
Cheers,
M
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Post by bowiglou on Jan 30, 2007 12:53:44 GMT -5
easy decision for me..I have never wavered in my unconditional love and reverence and adoration for Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)....an absolute classic
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Post by phil on Jan 30, 2007 13:03:18 GMT -5
Today it has to be "Scary Monsters ..."
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Post by Dr. Drum on Jan 30, 2007 13:31:43 GMT -5
I voted for "Heroes" as a kind of 'first among equals' of Bowie's two greatest LPs (the other being Low, of course).  |
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Post by Galactus on Jan 30, 2007 13:48:11 GMT -5
So, you guys have heard Eno's producing the new Coldplay, right?
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Post by Thorngrub on Jan 30, 2007 13:53:14 GMT -5
Haven't heard of that.
Amazing.
Man Who Sold The World gets my vote.
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Post by Dr. Drum on Jan 30, 2007 14:20:42 GMT -5
So, you guys have heard Eno's producing the new Coldplay, right? Yeah. I did this when I first heard: Noooooooooooooooooo! Curious his fixation with that general band type. My theory is with U2 tapped out and/or no longer conducive to his ministrations and James split up, he's basically found himself down at wannabe level. |
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Post by Kensterberg on Jan 30, 2007 14:35:35 GMT -5
this poll is giving me a hernia. I can't decide between Ziggy, Station to Station, Heroes, and Scary Monsters. That's ridiculous!!! It would be one thing if two albums were contenders, but FOUR?? I'm going to think really hard about Bowie tonight before I fall asleep and hopefully the answer will come to me in a dream. I can safely say that it WON'T be Hunky Dory or Lodger, though!!! Cheers, MMary has nailed the four prime contenders for this honor. While Aladin Sane is an exceptional record (and Watch That Man is perhaps the best glam rocker anyone ever cut), it falls just short of this quartet. I would, of course, put Lodger in very nearly the same level, if not equal to those four, but I can understand M's aversion to it. If this were "worst Bowie album of the seventies," it would be a very easy call -- Diamond Dogs takes that title by a considerable margin. But after much consideration, I've got to agree with Drum: "Heroes" is (by a slim margin) Bowie's finest achievement, and it gets my vote. |
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Post by bowiglou on Jan 30, 2007 14:44:53 GMT -5
I just have appended one of the non-nominees on the YSI board called buddha of suburbia...some opine the best work of the 90s.....it should be included in the above list
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Post by Thorngrub on Jan 30, 2007 14:53:22 GMT -5
Well you know I'd normally be eyeballin' Heroes, Low, Scary Monsters, and Space Oddity, with some serious consideration given to The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars, Station To Station, Hunky Dory, and Diamond Dogs . . . . but in the end I decided to pull a coup de grace w/The Man Who Sold The World, the most overlooked & underappreciated of all bowie's albums, imo.
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Post by kool on Jan 30, 2007 15:27:26 GMT -5
I voted for the Man Who Sold The World. It's a shame Outside was not included as an option. It's a better album than two thirds of the records on that list.
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Post by Thorngrub on Jan 30, 2007 15:28:36 GMT -5
Yes ! Way2go Kool, TMWSTW is now neck'n'neck w/Hunky Dory, Heroes, & Scary Monsters ! *eggsellent*
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Post by Thorngrub on Jan 30, 2007 15:29:21 GMT -5
It's a shame Outside was not included as an option. It's a better album than two thirds of the records on that list. Oh, & I heartily endorse this sentiment! Right on |
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Post by kool on Jan 30, 2007 15:41:09 GMT -5
I don't think The Man Who Sold The World has the best Bowie songs on it, but it is the only Bowie album I can think of that I can listen to straight through without hitting the skip button once. There's not a single dud on that album.
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