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Post by maarts on Jan 31, 2007 3:58:23 GMT -5
I wanted to vote for either Never Let Me Down or Buddha Of Suburbia.
RE: Eno producing Coldplay- no problem with that. If he does the same excellent job he did with James or The Walkabouts, he gots my blessing.
Wouldn't mind seeing Dan Lanois producing a new Bowie too....
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Post by Dr. Drum on Jan 31, 2007 7:21:21 GMT -5
Would have liked to have seen Outside here as an option, too. Best thing he's done since Scary Monsters. (As we've by now established, right?  ) If we're talking top 5 though, it's "Heroes", Low, Station to Station, Ziggy and Scary Monsters. Eno may well make something passable out of even such degraded stock as Coldplay. But where will that leave us? With Chris Martin, i.e. the slightly more insidious 21st century equivalent of Billy "Antichrist" Joel, trading under the Eno imprimatur is where it will leave us. Pure fucking evil, if you ask me. |
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Post by Thorngrub on Jan 31, 2007 10:14:42 GMT -5
It is moderately disturbing to me.
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Post by Galactus on Jan 31, 2007 11:04:39 GMT -5
Coldplay's a better band then people give them credit for...at least they were on the first two albums, the third one was an expertly crafted cure for insomnia. Maybe Eno can pull the band that made Parachutes back out.
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Post by Paul on Jan 31, 2007 11:08:53 GMT -5
I voted for Aladdin Sane.
I don't know Bowie's music all that well, but from what I've heard Aladdin is my favorite. I really like Low and Heroes too, but I hated the instrumentals. If you made both albums into one, it would be Bowie's best IMO. Not all the instrumentals were bad, but some were just pure pompous wankery.
I also really like TMWSTW, probably more so than Hunky and Ziggy. Again, I'm no Bowie expert, so coming from a novice fan, I think Aladdin is tops.
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Post by Paul on Jan 31, 2007 11:09:35 GMT -5
Coldplay's a better band then people give them credit for...at least they were on the first two albums, the third one was an expertly crafted cure for insomnia. Maybe Eno can pull the band that made Parachutes back out. I think all their albums are a cure for insomnia |
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Post by Galactus on Jan 31, 2007 11:16:01 GMT -5
I never said they should be everybody's favorite band, just that they aren't as bad as a lot of people make them out to be.
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Post by Mary on Jan 31, 2007 11:33:47 GMT -5
I also voted for Heroes. Maybe I'm just a follower. But I do feel like in 200 years from now, if some emissary from the late 20th century wanted to explain to those future-dwellers why Bowie was a visionary genius, he'd have to make his presentation using Heroes. And then if he wanted to explain why Bowie was a schmaltzy hack, well..... *cough* that's for a different poll Cheers, M |
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Post by Kensterberg on Jan 31, 2007 11:44:08 GMT -5
And then if he wanted to explain why Bowie was a schmaltzy hack, well..... *cough* that's for a different poll Cheers, MThe Laughing Gnome. That's all you'd need to play. Of course that predates his "proper" catalog (thank god!), but the mere fact of his Deram(?) catalog fully illustrates the worst aspects of his taste that would continue to (sometimes) dog his entire career. |
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Post by Kensterberg on Jan 31, 2007 11:58:01 GMT -5
I never said they should be everybody's favorite band, just that they aren't as bad as a lot of people make them out to be. "Clocks" is absolutely gorgeous: it evokes October era U2 w/o aping it, and deserves all the airplay it recieved. Based on that one track (and the indeniably catchy melody of "Yellow"), I think that Coldplay have a ton of potential, but they haven't realized it over an entire album. Working with Eno or someone similar could be very, very good for them. For that matter, it could be very good for Eno, too. |
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Post by Galactus on Jan 31, 2007 12:18:02 GMT -5
I never said they should be everybody's favorite band, just that they aren't as bad as a lot of people make them out to be. "Clocks" is absolutely gorgeous: it evokes October era U2 w/o aping it, and deserves all the airplay it recieved. Based on that one track (and the indeniably catchy melody of "Yellow"), I think that Coldplay have a ton of potential, but they haven't realized it over an entire album. Working with Eno or someone similar could be very, very good for them. For that matter, it could be very good for Eno, too. I agree, Parachutes is a pretty solid album...a few of the songs get a bit samey but over all a pretty strong album. Rush of Blood has a couple really great songs and some pretty good ones and some downright crap. Even the singles from X&Y are bad, really not much good going on there. |
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Post by Dr. Drum on Jan 31, 2007 12:20:43 GMT -5
You guys are fucking fodder for the Great Deceiver. You realize that, don't you?
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Post by rockysigman on Jan 31, 2007 12:28:51 GMT -5
How are you people going to ruin a perfectly good Bowie thread by talking about Coldplay?
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Post by Galactus on Jan 31, 2007 12:33:38 GMT -5
Bowie's boring.
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Post by Thorngrub on Jan 31, 2007 13:12:40 GMT -5
Man, playing The Laughing Gnome in no way would show Bowie to be a "shmaltzy hack" in my opinion; rather, it would show he had a fantastic sense of humour and lovability about him. I.e, it would showcase him in a positive light, and be yet another reason his multifaceted talent is such an exemplary case in modern music.
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) If we're talking top 5 though, it's "Heroes", Low, Station to Station, Ziggy and Scary Monsters. 
