That’s an amazing song
Pretty good choice. I don’t think I have one but I’ll try to keep a list of favs from each album a list or something.

yea its pretty hard to narrow it down, so many timeless classics and diamonds in his discog, but this one just does it for me, its a pretty simple song but a beautiful one at that so yeah...

It's got nothing to do with you, if one can grasp it
It's got nothing to do with you, if one can grasp it

Where is @Ithaka man dropped some interesting reads itt and dipped

hopefully he'll be back at some point
he left because he wasn't feeling the vibes anymore

I’m about to start another album in a few, but I have had this song stuck in my head since I heard it, something about it just stuck with me lol.

def. top 3 on scary monsters

video for the song also a f***ing classic:

I hadn’t seen some of his vids, spent a bit watching them on YouTube earlier lol.
Did a double feature this morning. Started out with Lodger, and that album is a wild ride. You said the other day it’s fun, and that’s a great way to describe it.

Then I listened to Aladdin Sane. Just another incredible record. I have zero idea how I’m gonna list these albums, I’ve really enjoyed everything pretty equally.

love this song and video from lodger:

the album kinda always gets lowkey forgotten in the berlin trilogy altho it is part of it lol
i get it tho took me quite a while to warm up to it.
i love it now so its all good another bowie grower

man was lowkey spitting bars on this s***

It definitely has a unique blend of songs, but I really enjoyed it more than I did the last time I heard it.

I had forgotten all about that song and I was halfway through it thinking “Bowie is absolutely spitting on here”

yea the album needs repeated listens to really grasp it fully, its def a bit more all over the place than the 2 previous albums, but it builds a nice contrast to low/heroes imo

love red sails and look back in anger

also boys keep swinging always has me like

I am too hooked on Scary Monsters rn.
Every song is hitting for me.

no misses for me on there,
top 5 bowie

also love the cover art and all the promotional artworks and photoshoots for that era:

I hadn’t seen any of that
Pretty cool. You’re right though, there are zero skips on this album. I don’t think any album can pass STS for me, but this one is gonna rank high.

STS his magnum opus for sure, that era was too iconic and controversial as well.
creative wise this was peak bowie and the funniest part is he doesn't even remember recording that masterpiece of an album

I heard a quote about that, something like he only knew the album was recorded in LA because he was told it was or something like that. I can’t even imagine how chaotic and wild it must’ve been around him.

def the peak of his cocaine addiction
he was basically freebasing every day at that point

According to biographer David Buckley, the Los Angeles-based Bowie, fuelled by an "astronomic" cocaine habit and subsisting on a diet of peppers and milk, spent much of 1975–76 "in a state of psychic terror".Stories—mostly from one interview, pieces of which found their way into Playboy and Rolling Stone—circulated of the singer living in a house full of ancient Egyptian artefacts, burning black candles, seeing bodies fall past his window, having his semen stolen by witches, receiving secret messages from the Rolling Stones, and living in morbid fear of fellow Aleister Crowley aficionado Jimmy Page. Bowie would later say of Los Angeles, "The f***ing place should be wiped off the face of the earth"

Bowie himself remembered almost nothing of the album's production, not even the studio, later admitting, "I know it was in LA because I've read it was".The singer was not alone in his use of cocaine during the sessions, Carlos Alomar commenting, "if there's a line of coke which is going to keep you awake till 8 a.m. so that you can do your guitar part, you do the line of coke ... the coke use is driven by the inspiration." Like Bowie, Earl Slick had somewhat vague memories of the recording: "That album's a little fuzzy—for the obvious reasons! We were in the studio and it was nuts—a lot of hours, a lot of late nights."

crazy s*** lmao

Yes! I’d forgotten about him being afraid of Jimmy Page hahah. Man, he truly lived an insanely interesting life.

always changing and never no dull moment.

I forgot to keep you updated on my exciting life @deepsleep lol.
I spun Let’s Dance and Young Americans yesterday or the day before that, I can’t remember. Had no idea Stevie Ray Vaughn played on Let’s Dance until afterwards, kinda blew my mind. Album was a lot of fun. I really like the soul influence on Young Americans as well, I’d only heard a few songs from that one before so it was my first time hearing it in full.

yea lets dance was one if not his best selling album
it was a huge factor of why he went in the more "easy to digest" type of lane for the rest of his 80s run so ig that album and its success was a blessing and a curse kinda thing.

as for young americans i love that album, some people write it off, because him trying his luck with soul didn't work for everybody ig.

honestly i think it worked, nice transition album for him imo

whats next on the bowie agenda?

I really enjoyed the soul tbh, it was a nice change of pace from the other albums, I like experimentation though. As for what’s next, I’m not entirely sure. I’m trying to listen to some non-Bowie stuff so I don’t burn myself out. I’ll probably give Hunky Dory and The Next Day a spin later or tmr though.

the next day modern masterpiece

its crazy how one person can leave such a legacy

just on a basic level

They have a lot of people surrounding them to help though

yea also he always took from others and made it his own or elevated it.
everthing comes from somewhere first.