Star Power
Member
AURAL SEX!
-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
David Bowie - Low
- Thread starter Star Power
- Start date
- Status
Heroes > Low > Station to Station > Lodger > Scary Monsters > Aladdin Sane > Ziggy > The Man Who Sold the World >> Hunky Dory >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Diamond Dogs
You should check out Brian Eno's other work, particularly his collaborations with David Byrne/Talking Heads and his solo/Roxy work. I recommend Here Come the Warm Jets and Another Green World.
Amazing, amazing stuff. A taste of what music could've been if the 70s didn't end up being about arena/Zepplin garbage rock.
It's Bowies 77 (right?) collaboration with Brian Eno, recorded in Berlin. Half impressionistic experimental pop album, half instrumental landmark. Iggy Pop appears. It was sort of Bowie's attempt to do Krautrock. He originally asked Kraftwerk to collaborate, but Kraftwerk refused (they don't do collaborations at Kling Klang). Bowie then turned to insane musical genius Brian Eno. The album is largely about Bowie's withdrawl from cocaine and heroin addiction.
You should check out Brian Eno's other work, particularly his collaborations with David Byrne/Talking Heads and his solo/Roxy work. I recommend Here Come the Warm Jets and Another Green World.
Amazing, amazing stuff. A taste of what music could've been if the 70s didn't end up being about arena/Zepplin garbage rock.
It's Bowies 77 (right?) collaboration with Brian Eno, recorded in Berlin. Half impressionistic experimental pop album, half instrumental landmark. Iggy Pop appears. It was sort of Bowie's attempt to do Krautrock. He originally asked Kraftwerk to collaborate, but Kraftwerk refused (they don't do collaborations at Kling Klang). Bowie then turned to insane musical genius Brian Eno. The album is largely about Bowie's withdrawl from cocaine and heroin addiction.
heavy liquid
Member
Awesome.
1. Speed of Life
2. Breaking Glass
3. What in the World
4. Sound and Vision
5. Always Crashing in the Same Car
6. Be My Wife
7. New Career in a New Town
8. Warszawa
9. Art Decade
10. Weeping Wall
11. Subterraneans
1. Speed of Life
2. Breaking Glass
3. What in the World
4. Sound and Vision
5. Always Crashing in the Same Car
6. Be My Wife
7. New Career in a New Town
8. Warszawa
9. Art Decade
10. Weeping Wall
11. Subterraneans
Musashi Wins!
FLAWLESS VICTOLY!
+1 for Here Come the Warm Jets pimping! Get!
I flip flop between Sane and Ziggy love. Man Who Sold the World is definitely behind both of them, for me, aside from Width of a Circle and the title track. Sane is just so much more varied. The other albums are pretty much perfect, too -- Bowie had a knack for putting out perfect albums in the 70s (so did Eno), but Sane's variety keeps me coming back to it a bit more. Time and Lady Grinning Soul are the songs that got me playing the piano. Watch that Man is the best song the Stones never wrote. Let's Spend the Night Together IS the best song the Stones wrote (next to Gimme Shelter) but Bowie's version sounds nothing like Jagger. Drive in Saturday gives us a taste of Stardust's sky gazing. Panic in Detroit throws down some gritty, violent blues with a cool slice of Americana. Cracked Actor. . .well, the slow chugging dialogue between a dried up old actor and his trick is definitely interesting and addictive. The title track is an amazing bit of pop/lounge/jazz fusion. And Time. . .JESUS FUCKING CHRIST! BEST SONG EVER!!
EDIT:
Uh, it might be better than Diamond Dogs. Bowie's best output today can't compare to the sheer perfection of his 70s work. Nearly every album, aside from Dogs, is a stunning, perfectly cut gem. It's splitting hairs to even TRY to put them in any order.
I think his reputation has been tainted by affiliation with boring ambient music, but Eno's 70 output (even the ambient stuff) is just stultifying. I wish he would've achieved success outside of collaboration. Fuck, he even made U2 sound good. That's saying something.
EDIT:
Uh, it might be better than Diamond Dogs. Bowie's best output today can't compare to the sheer perfection of his 70s work. Nearly every album, aside from Dogs, is a stunning, perfectly cut gem. It's splitting hairs to even TRY to put them in any order.
I think his reputation has been tainted by affiliation with boring ambient music, but Eno's 70 output (even the ambient stuff) is just stultifying. I wish he would've achieved success outside of collaboration. Fuck, he even made U2 sound good. That's saying something.
Late Stage Marxist
Member
You remind me of the babe.
nitewulf said:
They have 2 songs together on Another Green World. I believe it's Fripp, Eno, and Cale all on the same song. Phil Collins appears on Another Green World, as well, back when he kept his yap shut and stuck to what he was good at. Eno and Cale's albums together are good stuff, though, too.
Ollie Pooch
In a perfect world, we'd all be homersexual
trippingmartian said:
what babe?
where is 'outside' in this list? 'the motel' on that album is golden.. also, i'm dismayed to report that seeing bowie live earlier this year didn't end in a liftload of flailing muppets being raised up onto the stage for a spirited rendition of magic dance ;(
Heroes is my favorite Bowie album. But Low is special in its own way, in that it came before Heroes, but I almost view the two as one anyway.
But IMO, he has put about out one albums worth of material that is worth a damn in the last 20 years. A few decent songs here an there, but to me he just lost it.
Tin Machine anyone?
But IMO, he has put about out one albums worth of material that is worth a damn in the last 20 years. A few decent songs here an there, but to me he just lost it.
Tin Machine anyone?
Star Power
Member
Low was my first Bowie album... I forsee a big Bowie phase for myself in the not so distant future. I'm thinking of getting both Heroes and Ziggy Stardust next... would you recommend another combination? Low seriously left me floored... "Sound And Vision," "Subterraneans," "Warzawa," "Breaking Glass," and "Be My Wife" already rank among my favorite songs ever!!
Oh, and is Brian Eno's stuff similar to songs like "Warzawa" and "Art Decade" ? Or is it more extreme? I
Oh yeah, I have the Talking Heads' Remain in Light... and for the longest while I didn't think much of it, but I was listening to it just last night and it hit me.. awesome stuff. So I'm thinking of getting either Fear of Music or Speaking in Tounges next.
Oh, and is Brian Eno's stuff similar to songs like "Warzawa" and "Art Decade" ? Or is it more extreme? I
Oh yeah, I have the Talking Heads' Remain in Light... and for the longest while I didn't think much of it, but I was listening to it just last night and it hit me.. awesome stuff. So I'm thinking of getting either Fear of Music or Speaking in Tounges next.
You honestly can't go wrong with any of Bowie's 70s output. Some of his early folky stuff is lame, and Diamond Dogs is pretty much the most diappointing album ever, but the rest of it is just about great.
Eno's stuff ranges from stuff similar to the poppy Berlin album songs to the more ambient stuff. Here Come the Warm Jets is one of his poppy experimental albums. Another Green world is a sort of combo poppy/ambient album. John Cale, Robert Fripp, and Phil Collins guest on bits and pieces of it.
I don't think my Bowie MD has left my minidisc player for more than a few hours in a long, long time.
EDIT: Fear of Music and More Songs About Buildings and Food are the other two Eno Heads albums, though Remain in Light is by far the one he had the most input on (writing credits on all but 2 songs). After being booted from the band by the other asshole members, Eno went on to record My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, which is pretty awesome. Between certain songs with Bowie, his Heads output, and his solo work with Byrne, you could see the enormous influence Eno had on the emergence of world music.
Another Green World is like listening to someone elses dream. The few songs with lyrics are free associative, bizarre, but strangely maudlin or nostalgic. The album goes between sparse but surrounding beautiful soundscape and somewhat uncomforting and even frighting bits. I have no idea how he came up with this record. It's amazing, no doubt. And after listening to Eno (and Bowie's Heroes and Scary Monsters) you really come to appreciate the guitar work of Robert Fripp.
Eno's stuff ranges from stuff similar to the poppy Berlin album songs to the more ambient stuff. Here Come the Warm Jets is one of his poppy experimental albums. Another Green world is a sort of combo poppy/ambient album. John Cale, Robert Fripp, and Phil Collins guest on bits and pieces of it.
I don't think my Bowie MD has left my minidisc player for more than a few hours in a long, long time.
EDIT: Fear of Music and More Songs About Buildings and Food are the other two Eno Heads albums, though Remain in Light is by far the one he had the most input on (writing credits on all but 2 songs). After being booted from the band by the other asshole members, Eno went on to record My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, which is pretty awesome. Between certain songs with Bowie, his Heads output, and his solo work with Byrne, you could see the enormous influence Eno had on the emergence of world music.
Another Green World is like listening to someone elses dream. The few songs with lyrics are free associative, bizarre, but strangely maudlin or nostalgic. The album goes between sparse but surrounding beautiful soundscape and somewhat uncomforting and even frighting bits. I have no idea how he came up with this record. It's amazing, no doubt. And after listening to Eno (and Bowie's Heroes and Scary Monsters) you really come to appreciate the guitar work of Robert Fripp.
Just about the time Bowie's stuff went downhill is when Robert Fripp started working with David Sylvian, somebody I started to listen too in his Japan days. His stuff went uphill about that time....... I still love Sylvian's 80's stuff, and I heard Fripp is working with him again on his new solo album.
If you like Eno's stuff and abient, etc., you may like Sylvian's work.
If you like Eno's stuff and abient, etc., you may like Sylvian's work.
- Status