Favorite David Bowie album?

[Holmes]

[Holmes]

My favorite:



Low

Also love:

"Heroes"
Hunky Dory
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)
Station to Station

[RudyC]

the only albums ive heard are:

space oddity
man who sold the world
hunkyt dory
ziggy
aladine sane
station to station

i still dont get the love for ziggy.. it must be in the lyrics because the album is meh to me.

as for the rest of them.. i love them all equally but the first bowie song i heard was space oddity so i chose that one.

[Johnny Vinyl]

Although I like most of Bowie's stuff, the LP that gets more playing time than any other is "Young Amercians".

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John

[LordoftheRings]

#1 for me would be: "Station To Station" (1976).



* And my 2nd #1 choice would be: "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars" (1972).



*** So because I made two choices that I did not want to separate, I voted for "Other".

[GLaDOS]

'Nuff said!

[wilky61]

Ziggy Stardust and it's not even close.

Again, I said this about Exile on Main St. for the Stones. This album for Bowie is not only his greatest but one of the absolute greatest rock albums ever. It blows my mind so hard every time I listen to it again. And he recorded it at the same tender age of 24-25 that Springsteen did Born to Run.

[blu2]

Station to Station is the one.

For Station to Station fans, there is supposed to be a deluxe edition released later this year which includes the complete 1976 Nassau Coliseum show (sampled on the Rykodisc version), plus a 5.1 mix (sorry no Blu Ray that I've heard of)

Ziggy is good but I always find it sounds a little dated as a whole.

Too bad he seems to be in semi-retirement mode currently.

[nefilim]

at the moment The Man Who Sold the World - I own all of his albums ... genius, the man is.

[blu2]

Originally Posted by blu2

Station to Station is the one.

For Station to Station fans, there is supposed to be a deluxe edition released later this year which includes the complete 1976 Nassau Coliseum show (sampled on the Rykodisc version), plus a 5.1 mix (sorry no Blu Ray that I've heard of)

The details on the Station to Station special & deluxe editions are now available:

http://www.davidbowie.com/news/

[Holmes]

Wow... I want it.

[blu2]

Originally Posted by Holmes

Wow... I want it.

Apparently it won't come cheap for the deluxe edition: Listed at £86.99 at amazon.co.uk.

[jjbsn5192]

Scott weiland trys too hard to be BOWIE

i love all of bowies stuff!!

[dallywhitty]

I've only listened to Aladdin Sane, Low and Heroes (and so won't vote in the poll as I wouldn't consider it fair) but I consider Low the best of those three.

[tylerdurden10]

Originally Posted by kotsedriver

'Nuff said!

+1 for me, I'm a huge Bowie fan & I love just about all of his 70's & early 80's albums but this is hands down my favorite

[frank drebin]

aw nobody picked scary monsters

[The Great Owl]

I voted for Low, but Lodger and Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) are tied for a close second.

It's tough to choose. I think that Station to Station, Low, "Heroes", Lodger, and Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) are five perfect albums, and perhaps the greatest multi-album streak from a single artist.

I've been rediscovering all of my David Bowie albums lately, and I had forgotten how much I love everything. I even have a soft spot for Bowie's most maligned albums (Tonight, Never Let Me Down, Hours).

One of my all-time favorite concert experiences was back in 1990, when I saw David Bowie at the Atlanta stop of his Sound + Vision Tour. He was touring in support of the box set, so this was essentially a "greatest hits" tour, and every single song was spot-on.

I think that his most recent work, The Next Day, was an amazing comeback album, and it's probably my favorite release of his since Let's Dance.

[hagios]

[MechaGodzilla]

Honestly, I love almost everything he's done. The weakest overall album is probably the '67 debut, but even that has a certain charm to it. From Space Oddity and on every single album contains some gems.

In the first half of the '70s you have all the obvious great ones like The Man Who Sold the World, Hunky Dory, Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane, Pin Ups, Diamond Dogs and Young Americans. The second half of the decade is even more brilliant, with Station to Station, Low, "Heroes" and Lodger. The '80s were for the most part the "pop years", with Scary Monsters, Let's Dance, Tonight and Never Let Me Down, often considered his weakest period but there's a whole lot of wonderful music here. Personally I'm glad he tried something different (that's pretty much what he's all about). The music he contributed to films in this decade - the title songs for Cat People, Absolute Beginners and Where the Wind Blows, the song This Is Not America which he did with the Pat Metheny Group for The Falcon and the Snowman, as well as the soundtrack to Labyrinth - is among his best work in my opinion.

Then we have the criminally overlooked '90s and '00s, I've noticed many older fans who liked him in the '70s and '80s aren't even aware he continued making music into the '90s and beyond. This is a shame because I think the '90s in particular were his most interesting and perhaps also most experimental period. Black Tie White Noise, The Buddha of Suburbia, Outside, 'Hours...', Heathen and Reality are absolutely superb and, I would argue, possibly the greatest streak of albums in his career. If you're a fan of his earlier work but haven't heard these, do yourself a favor and listen to them. Now.

Then there's of course his comeback album The Next Day. It's very good, and I look forward to whatever he does next.

Picking a favorite is pretty gosh darn hard, but in the end it came down to Outside vs. Earthling, and I picked the former for its larger selection of songs and greater variety. Amazing album, if there was any justice in the world it'd be considered one of his masterpieces up there with his best of the '70s.

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

I've been rediscovering all of my David Bowie albums lately, and I had forgotten how much I love everything. I even have a soft spot for Bowie's most maligned albums (Tonight, Never Let Me Down, Hours).

Oh, I love Tonight and Never Let Me Down. Even at his worst (if you want to call it that) Bowie's pretty damn good. Hours is one of his most maligned? I didn't even know, but that's very undeserved if so, it's an amazing album.

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by MechaGodzilla

The weakest overall album is probably the '67 debut, but even that has a certain charm to it.

I don't reach for David Bowie's self-titled 1967 debut album often, and it's definitely on the lower rung if I had to rank all his albums by order of preference, but I do like it.

The debut album has an interesting Neil Young/Buffalo Springfield vibe to it that stands apart from Bowie's subsequent music, and there are a few solid gems. "Silly Boy Blue" is my favorite track from the album.

The 2010 deluxe edition of the debut album sounds downright incredible, and some of the rarities on the second disc are classics in their own right.

The coolest thing about the debut album is that it makes it apparent that David Bowie had the capability to realize some big dreams and visions, and a few of the songs are genuine premonitions of his later material.