Any Bowie fans out there?

[andyfraser]

I like Tin Machine! I pretty much like anything Bowie now but it was Tin Machine that got me interested.

 

[FrankCrank]

....saw him in concert back in '83 at Milton Keynes bowl - 'serious moonlight' tour. He was all zoot-suited as I remember, and what you might call mainstream at that point....

 

[slowmotion]

[QUOTE 3968228, member: 259"]No, loved it. I even bought the German version of the single and Iwent and studied in the DDR for a year a few years later. Where they were all into Cat Stevens and Yes.[/QUOTE]
I can see that Cat Stevens and Yes might have driven you there, but I thought that there was something a bit too blooming gloomy about Germany at the time. Lou Reed's Berlin was pretty dark... "They're taking her baby away because they said she wasn't a good mother......".

 

[Over The Hill]

140 million albums of a bit of success. Tough crowd!

Yes he did sell lots of albums - but that was still 30 years ago. Fair enough he has a place in history but really what has he done in the last 30 years?

 

[captain nemo1701]

I went to Glastonbury 2000 just to see him live. Wow!...best gig ever

 

[User169]

Yes he did sell lots of albums - but that was still 30 years ago. Fair enough he has a place in history but really what has he done in the last 30 years?

And what has that John Sebastian Bach done in the last 300 years? He's a right load of carp!

Bowie"s influence is all over just about all pop/rock music of the last 40 years. It would be pretty difficult to come up with anything vaguely interesting in that time period that doesn't owe at least something to Bowie.

 

[SteCenturion]

bit of a fan actually

Me too.

Immensely talented & with the exception of the 80's disco period his output of quality material was prolific.

Sadly/happily, Mr Bowie has cost me a small fortune in picture discs recently.

 

[User169]

Ta dah - new album in January....

http://www.spin.com/2015/10/david-b...mes/?utm_source=share-email&utm_medium=button

 

[PaulB]

Tin Machine was Bowie's biggest mistake.

I watched his Glass Spider spectacle on the Sky Arts channel on Saturday night. It was terrific in parts.

 

[AndyRM]

Yes he did sell lots of albums - but that was still 30 years ago. Fair enough he has a place in history but really what has he done in the last 30 years?

You appear to have confused Bowie with Liverpool FC.

 

[Over The Hill]

And what has that John Sebastian Bach done in the last 300 years? He's a right load of carp!

Bowie"s influence is all over just about all pop/rock music of the last 40 years. It would be pretty difficult to come up with anything vaguely interesting in that time period that doesn't owe at least something to Bowie.

As with the Beatles, Beachboys, and many others I don't want to take anything away from what they have done. But what they did was 30 years ago and they really have done nothing of note since. It seems a point of embarrassment for the artist when then trot out a new album that sells 25,000 copies to their die-hard fans who only buy it from habit and some odd loyalty and then chuck the CD on the shelf with last 6 albums that they also never listen to (as they are all rubbish).
The creative genius that prompted millions of fans and sales has long dried up.
Fair enough remembering them for what they have done. But remember the genius bit not the sad old star that will not leave it alone.

 

[Over The Hill]

You judge worthy works of note only by the number of album sales? Oh dear.

Ignoring the fact The Next Day was one of the most critically acclaimed albums of that year, it was also the highest US Charting LP since 1991, with sales at around @ 500,000...

How much more wrong would you like to be?

And Paul McCartney's biggest hit was Mull of Kintyre - trite rubbish outselling his Beatles era work.
Similarly Phil Collins post Genesis.
As for the critics - Kings new clothes.

 

[User169]

The Grammys. The Brits. The Mercury Music Awards.
vs
Some bloke off the internet from Basingstoke

Tricky one that.

Hang on a ding dang doo!

 

[Colin_P]

I was bought up listening to him in 70's. Brilliant

This is in my top 10 of everything...

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g6--QoPsDM

 

[Over The Hill]

The Grammys. The Brits. The Mercury Music Awards.
vs
Some bloke off the internet from Basingstoke

Tricky one that.

List the ten best Bowie tracks to put on a greatest hits album. Not one track less than 20 years old. Most people could not even name a Bowie track less than 20 years old.