David Bowie

[mcshane in the 79th]

Following on from the favourite album thread, I have been wanting to start listening to some David Bowie music as I think I have criminally ignored him to date.

Can anyone suggest his best album I can download to start my adventure please......

 

[dougdeep]

Greatest Hits.

 

[Jam The Man]

Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)
Let's Dance

 

[Hiney]

The Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust & the Spiders From Mars

 

[Theatre of Trees]

Aladdin Sane
Ziggy Stardust
Diamond Dogs
Heroes

 

[mcshane in the 79th]

I said ONE!

 

[Hiney]

To be fair, Bowie went through so many ch-ch-ch-changes that you couldn't name just one

 

[mcshane in the 79th]

To be fair, Bowie went through so many ch-ch-ch-changes that you couldn't name just one

I see what you did there

Just looked on Play.com and the 3 cd platinum collection is only £10.99. Sounds like a good place to start, just means I'll have to wait a few days:

Disc 1

The Jean Genie
Space Oddity
Starman
Ziggy Stardust
John, I'm Only Dancing (Sax Version)
Rebel Rebel
Let's Spend The Night Together
Suffragette City
Oh! You Pretty Things
Velvet Goldmine
Drive-In Saturday
Diamond Dogs
Changes
Sorrow
The Prettiest Star
Life On Mars?
Aladdin Sane
The Man Who Sold The World
Rock 'N' Roll Suicide
All The Young Dudes

Disc 2

Sound And Vision
Golden Years (Single Version)
Fame
Young Americans (Single Version)
John, I'm Only Dancing (Again)
Can You Hear Me
Wild Is The Wind
Knock On Wood
TVC 15 (Single Version)
1984
It's Hard To Be A Saint In The City
Look Back In Anger
The Secret Life Of Arabia
DJ
Beauty And The Beast
Breaking Glass
Boys Keep Swinging
Heroes (Single Version)

Disc 3

Let's Dance (Single Version)
Ashes To Ashes (Single Version)
Under Pressure
Fashion (Single Version)
Modern Love (Single Version)
China Girl (Single Version)
Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) (Single Version)
Up The Hill Backwards
Alabama Song (Aufstieg Und Fall Der Stadt Mahagonny)
The Drowned Girl
Cat People (Putting Out Fire) (Single Version)
This Is Not America
Loving The Alien
Absolute Beginners (Single Version)
When The Wind Blows
Blue Jean
Day In Day Out (Single Version)
Time Will Crawl
Underground (Single Version)

 

[Theatre of Trees]

You are better off going through the albums particularly from the early 70s as they work as a whole - I suggest you follow Hiney's suggestion and start with Ziggy Stardust.

Whatever you do avoid anything after Let's Dance and anything which says Tin Machine on the cover.

 

[Beach Hut]

Heroes is a good start, my favourite period of Bowie however in my eyes he has never done anything wrong.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

'Young Americans' - contains the superb song of the same name, and the dark dancy 'Fame'. Highly recommended.

 

[Beach Hut]

'Young Americans' - contains the superb song of the same name, and the dark dancy 'Fame'. Highly recommended.

OK trivia time, who was a backing singer on the original Young Americans version around '75 ?

 

[wahoo]

You are better off going through the albums particularly from the early 70s as they work as a whole - I suggest you follow Hiney's suggestion and start with Ziggy Stardust.

Whatever you do avoid anything after Let's Dance and anything which says Tin Machine on the cover.

yep , start with ziggy stardust
its the dogs bollox

 

[mcshane in the 79th]

The Labyrinth soundtrack is proving quite tempting too

 

[brighton bluenose]

OK trivia time, who was a backing singer on the original Young Americans version around '75 ?

Easy peasy - a young Luther Vandross!

 

[Beach Hut]

Easy peasy - a young Luther Vandross!

Is the right answer !

I like Bowie so much I actually paid a massive sum of money to a tout to see the "Serious Moonlight Tour" at Brixton Academy and it was fantastic.

I have a brilliant live bootleg CD of the greatest hits tour as well.

 

[Marshy]

Hunky Dory and Ziggy Stardust is where you should start

 

[mcshane in the 79th]

Ziggy Stardust on order for a fiver. Thanks everyone!

 

[Marshy]

Get Hunky Dory too you wont regret it

 

[NMH]

What about some more trivia - name a certain (deceased) guitar player, who played on Bowie's 'Let's Dance'?

And another deceased mega-star who played guitar on the 1970 follow-up 45 to 'Space Oddity'?

Mick Ronson (deceased) played with a band in Hull, name them.

The songs 'Hang On To Yourself' and 'Moonage Daydream' were written and sung by Bowie - but what was the pseudonym he originally went under when recording them?

Bowie also played sax - what was his original saxophone made of?

When he introduced his newest album with The Spiders From Mars in Brighton at The Dome - which band was he support act for?