Just realized I don't think I've ever tried to rank Bowie's albums, and because I'm waiting for a bus, this should kill some time (FTR there is a bunch of later stuff I've never heard, and a few of these I've listened to only very rarely)

Aladdin Sane
Hunky Dory
Lodger
Ziggy Stardust
Station to Station
Scary Monsters
Low
Black Star
Young Americans
Man Who Sold the World
Pin-ups
Heroes
Diamond Dogs
Let's Dance
Tonight
Tin Machine
Never Let Me Down
David Bowie

I forgot about Space Oddity.
Would either be before or after Let's Dance.

I only listened to Tin Machine once and hated it twenty five years ago. Which means nothing.
 

I also probably like PInups more than I'm letting on.

Jinnistan wrote:

crumbsroom wrote:

I only listened to Tin Machine once and hated it twenty five years ago. Which means nothing.

I think both are underrated.  I never understood the hate they got from people like Rolling Stone when they came out.  It's interesting to think back on that summer of 1989 which saw a bunch of Boomer renaissance releases - Flowers in the Dirt, Steel Wheels, Oh Mercy, Full Moon Fever, Freedom, New York, Journeyman, etc. - all of which were lauded by Rolling Stone as epic comebacks of sorts, and I think the Tin Machine albums have aged much better.  Maybe only Neil Young's Freedom stands up as well.  (Of course they all still sound very 80s in their own way.)

I've never heard any of those albums until I bought Oh Mercy recently (which I mostly love).

Tin Machine was just very much not the kind of thing I was into during the 90's, when I would have bought it. But what wasn't my thing was everything at that point.

But I know I hated it.

I've never heard a single song from the man behind the Microphones and Mount Eerie records, but reading about him for the last 24 hours, I'm pretty sure I should buy everything he's ever released.

I finally found a used copy of that King Missile record just before I stopped listening to CDs


It may have been the last cd I ever bought.

I don't have it on vinyl

I definitely know White Zombie was the last cassette I ever bought. But we will never speak of this again.

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Why did not a single human being ever tell me what a monster set Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii was.

Or that even as film it is pretty fucking incredible. I could live forever watching that tracking shot following Waters getting up from his small set of gongs to move towards his Beast Gong.