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David Bowie - very underrated!

JOEJOEJOEJOEJOEJOE Posts: 10,711
edited July 2009 in Other Music
He has such a great body of work, and has never really done anything to tarnish his credibilty.

My favorite songs:

TVC15
Look Back in Anger
Scary Monsters
Stay
Andy Warhol
John, I'm Only Dancing


way too many great songs to list!
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  • YieldedYielded Posts: 839
    I've said it before:

    David Bowie is the first artist I really loved. He turned me on to real music.

    Thanks.
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  • release30release30 Posts: 2,051
    Agree...just picked up David Live on Vinyl yesterday....Sounds great....... I advise all Bowie fans to go to your local record store and pick it up..Mines was $12! 8-)
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  • dimitrispearljamdimitrispearljam Posts: 139,721
    David is awesome,,
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  • Kilgore_TroutKilgore_Trout Posts: 7,334
    not to mention his incredible acting in labrynth! :lol:

    seriously though.... bowie is underrated?? by whom? :|
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  • Fender_ManFender_Man Posts: 408
    Grudingly went to a Bowie gig in the '80's. Dumbstruck, live, he is up there with the best!
  • JaneNYJaneNY Posts: 4,438
    Underrated? Who says? He is very talented and many people hold him in high esteem for his body of work, including many artists who list him as an influence. I grew up listening to his music.
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  • JOEJOEJOEJOEJOEJOE Posts: 10,711
    JaneNY wrote:
    Underrated? Who says? He is very talented and many people hold him in high esteem for his body of work, including many artists who list him as an influence. I grew up listening to his music.

    Underrated in the sense that he is not mentioned in the same breath as The Who or the Rolling Stones.

    I saw him a few years ago at the Area 2 Festival...he was second-billed to MOBY!
  • helplessdancerhelplessdancer Posts: 5,281
    JOEJOEJOE wrote:

    Underrated in the sense that he is not mentioned in the same breath as The Who or the Rolling Stones.

    I saw him a few years ago at the Area 2 Festival...he was second-billed to MOBY!

    yikes! second billed to moby? omg!!!!

    bowie has an incredible career. made zillions of dollars. played for millions of people. has albums that still stand the test of time. of course i could go on and on...even the reality tour was a major success!

    check this discography list...
    Studio albums
    * David Bowie (1967)
    * Space Oddity (1969)
    * The Man Who Sold the World (1970)
    * Hunky Dory (1971)
    * The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972)
    * Aladdin Sane (1973)
    * Pin Ups (1973)
    * Diamond Dogs (1974)
    * Young Americans (1975)
    * Station to Station (1976)
    * Low (1977)
    * "Heroes" (1977)
    * Lodger (1979)
    * Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) (1980)
    * Let's Dance (1983)
    * Tonight (1984)
    * Never Let Me Down (1987)
    * Black Tie, White Noise (1993)
    * The Buddha of Suburbia (1993)
    * Outside (1995)
    * Earthling (1997)
    * 'Hours...' (1999)
    * Heathen (2002)
    * Reality (2003)

    i hope to see him live again soon. one of the greats for sure. the only reason why he probably doesn't get mentioned in the same breath as the stones/who is because bowie is not a band.
    in fact, it's even more impressive that he doesn't have a band, and yet he still reaches the levels of success that he does. pure talent.
  • Stephen FlowStephen Flow Posts: 3,327
    Bowie owns... but he sure as hell isn't underrated.
  • moses-imoses-i Posts: 138
    I think he is SLIGHTLY underrated in the sense that he (like Cat Stevens or Lou Reed or maybe Iggy Pop) are not really household names. In general if you ask people if they like/know Bowie chances are that they won't really know his stuff UNTIL you play them some stuff. I'd also like to add that I was just saying this to my gf that not only is he one of the most brilliant artists/songwriters of the past 40 years he also remains current, relevant and just plain cool. I mean we are talking about a contemporary of the Beatles, Stones, The Who etc yet he has aged well and doesn't seem like a joke. He has been consistent and has never really disappeared.

    so yeah i can see how he'd be considered underrated.
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  • soulsingingsoulsinging Posts: 13,202
    I dig Bowie, but someone posted this over in the porch and it just had to be brought here:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATw7HIJCuLY
  • jimed14jimed14 Posts: 9,488
    soulsinging wrote:
    I dig Bowie, but someone posted this over in the porch and it just had to be brought here:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATw7HIJCuLY

    indeed, that was me ... in the "worst video ever" thread.

    I'm a big Bowie fan (thus, why I posted that video, just a disaster).

    My girl would leave me for David Bowie and not think twice about it ... she loves him.

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  • CosmoCosmo Posts: 12,225
    StationToStation is a fucking amazing song.
    And there's all those great albums.
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  • helplessdancerhelplessdancer Posts: 5,281
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slKNd22GGaQ

    i'm afraid of americans with nin
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