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Originally Posted by art chantry
sash -
ALL the stuff? geez, you got some staying power. a lot of that stuff i find unlistenable.
he was usually good for one or two tracks per lp. then you could toss the rest out. once in awhile he would score higher, but man, there's a lot of drek in his career.
for instance 'heroes' may be the greatest 1/2 record in history. i don't think anyone ever listened to the 'other' side more than once.
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well, Pinups is a crap covers album. Diamond Dogs has some crap on it but mostly really good. Heroes... the 2nd side isn't rock'n'roll but it's got that cool, ambient Eno thing happening. matter of taste, I sppose. kind of experimental for the time, esp for a big artist. lots of his songwriting was mostly really interesting and cool.
in the 70s, Bowie was kind of an anomaly in that he was a "star" but also cutting edge. nowadays it seems you can be mainly one OR the other.