what's your favourite bowie album.

[ODH]

Hunk Dory for me, too.

Wierd thing is that Bowie was never much of an influence on me directly, but I know was a massive influence on a lot of the bands and artists that have been influential on me, if that makes sense.

[Geir]

I don't really have a Bowie favourite album

[ODH]

just had a listen to hunky dory and i think it just pips ziggy stardust. quicksand is worth the price of the album alone.

Quicksand, absolutely, just dialled it up on my iPod.  Trouble with Hunky Dory is when I listen to it I can't get it out my head.  Eight Line Poem will be in there for weeks now.

[Blooby]

I like a lot of Bowie's stuff, but he was somebody that I never sought out to listen to. I'll have to remedy that.

There's a feature on him in the latest Classic Rock magazine as an FYI.

Blooby

[Oldrottenhead]

in the uk i dont think i have a single friend that doesn't like bowie, it's probably a british thing, in that folk of a certain age grew up with bowie as the soundtrack to their lives and for the punk generation he was one of the few acts that survived that revolution at the time and still had some street cred well certainly up until about let's dance anyway.

im sure in the uk most folk over 40 have some bowie on their piepod. i wonder if that is the same across the big pond.

[Flash Harry]

My 20 y.o. daughter can't live without some Bowie.

Result!

[Oldrottenhead]

my two girls 9 and 15 (i know stupid nmes for girls) love bowie too.

[Blooby]

Folk of a certain age grew up with bowie as the soundtrack to their lives

I grew up in New York, and that was very true of many people and their musical relationship with Billy Joel and Bruce Springsteen.  Much as I hate some Billy Joel songs, he really captured the spirit of the times in others. If you didn't like The Boss, you were basically exiled/excommunicated.  And I didn't appreciate him till later.

Now I live in the south and think that the early Allman Brothers are great.  Maybe I'm just a victim of circumstance.

Maybe I should just get it over and move to Ireland, so I can truly embrace drinking songs.

Blooby

[henwrench]

I love Bowie but am ashamed to admit I have never heard/owned one of his albums, yet I had pretty much all of his singles as a child/teen. I pretty much wore out my copy of Up The Hill Backwards and can still see the picture sleeve in my minds eye, of a guy with a surgeons mask on. I must've been about 12 or 13.

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[Ferryman]

Low and Heroes. They are an inseparable pair in my view. Those albums together with Lust for Life and The Idiot changed my musical outlook. Would've loved to be in Berlin with Iggy and Bowie. Scary Monsters is pretty close after that for me. Love the early stuff, Ziggy pips Aladdin and Hunky for me but Low and Heroes just ooze musical cool.

Bowie and Roxy Music were my two greatest musical influences, but I grew up when they were changing the musical scene in the UK (ie early 70s).

Cheers,

Nigel