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fuck it 5d. in honor of bowie's return and labyrinth

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yeah man, i understand. there isn't enough time in the day to balance new music with classics. i feel like so many albums i love could become 5's if i spent enough time with them. pretty much the majority of my 4.5's could really.



awesome dude yes. haven't seen labyrinth in so long fuck. just downloaded the man who fell to earth though, never seen it.

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how much of bowie's discog have you heard?

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just his best rated stuff. so basically nothing past scary monsters. although ive only rated this and ziggy so far.

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Btw i saw you just rated James Chance. Have you heard the No New York comp yet? They're on it and its the album that kind of started the whole No Wave thing. Really good shit.

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i see. i still have like 4 albums left to hear, but so far every album is special in its own way even if it they aren't masterpieces.

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no, i only just heard james chance for the first time a few hours ago and i really love it. haven't heard that, i'll get it

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Yea def. Also get Glenn Branca - The Ascension if you havent already

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it's already in the queue lol. btw do you listen to much post-punk?

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Good man that album is gold. Yea Post-Punk is one of my fav genres now. So many great experimental bands.



Bowie was proto-post-punk thats how groovy he was.

Maaan I find so much Bowie criminally overrated. This album is definitely important, probably his best, but still more a delivery of other peoples ideas to the mainstream than a really innovative record

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Explain. Bowie was ahead of his time in just about every way.



He was playin Post-Punk before punk even really was a thing.

His glam stuff is sort of mediocre. The singles were great, but roxy/eno/t rex did it all better. Also the new york dolls. In
75 he put out young americans, which not too many people are in to, kind of a soul thing. Again good singles. The first
thing that could be considered an experiment was station to station, right before this one, and even he admitted he was
sampling heavily from german bands of the time and a few years before. Side one is cool for taking another-green-
world-type brian eno and putting it in a more punk context, but it's not revolutionary, and the super-ambient stuff on
side two is really cool but just another chapter in a long tradition of electronic atmospherics started by eno and the
germans. However, if you're a punk kid living in london, you don't necessarily get krautrock records from your local
record store since they were so lightly circulated. Thus, you hear this album by one of the great musical superstars of all
time, repackaging ideas you don't know are old, and you're inspired. That's why it was important in my opinion

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Well hey Led Zeppelin just re-packaged old blues songs, but they made em pretty awesome. Everyone is influenced by somebody, so not sure why thats used against Bowie. He was still a very original and experimental guy, especially for as popular as he was.

don't know why that happened. Anyway, I tend to fall in the camp that considers Bowie a notable musical shapeshifter. He's still a great songwriter, but not one of THE greats for me.

Well zeppelin made them new. The repackaging bowie did was more surface-level, adding his modern-art aesthetic, not really sonically.

of course this is all opinion

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"This album is definitely important, probably his best, but still more a delivery of other peoples ideas to the mainstream than a really innovative record" that's a fair criticism. still amazing albums though.



this is heavily in debt to Eno and Another Green World I think. Station to Station is a fairly unique album to my ears though. it's so detached and varied but it works perfectly.

yeah station to station is interesting in that his influences become varied enough that it almost becomes something new, between the still-lingering soul stuff and the neu-style 10-minute continuous drum jams. Still wouldn't ever call it a masterpiece, but I go back to it

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it's also awesome that he had a US #1 off Young Americans (I think) and within two years he released this. this had no major hit single.



it's also remarkable he later managed to have a hit single off a record like this, with Heroes.