Aladdin Sane - Bowie's Finest 40 Minutes

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The loudest, rockingest, poppest, Iggyest, spookiest, beautifulest, loudest, funkiest, bestest thing he ever ever ever did, yes?

I AM RIGHT, PEOPLE.

― My Life in the Ghosts of Bush (Modal Fugue), Sunday, 10 December 2006 12:42 (seventeen years ago) link

"Cracked Actor" into "Time" = the end of the world in drag

― My Life in the Ghosts of Bush (Modal Fugue), Sunday, 10 December 2006 12:51 (seventeen years ago) link

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/pic200/drp000/p006/p00628xa5go.jpg

It's all about this dude.

― My Life in the Ghosts of Bush (Modal Fugue), Sunday, 10 December 2006 12:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh and "Let's Spend the Night Together" being the only Stones cover that surpasses the original. And sounding like it was made in 2013. Still.

― My Life in the Ghosts of Bush (Modal Fugue), Sunday, 10 December 2006 12:56 (seventeen years ago) link

"Lady Grinning Soul" = omgwtf piano ring ring ring last orders high and dry on the empty street with yr hangover ringing in yr ears and the greatest fuck of your life behind you everything finished everything

― My Life in the Ghosts of Bush (Modal Fugue), Sunday, 10 December 2006 13:04 (seventeen years ago) link

and for those reasons also the greatest James Bond theme ever ritten.

― My Life in the Ghosts of Bush (Modal Fugue), Sunday, 10 December 2006 13:05 (seventeen years ago) link

I love this record but it's about the 4th best Bowie album

― Jaufre Rudel (Jaufre Rudel), Sunday, 10 December 2006 13:59 (seventeen years ago) link

You're entitled to your wrong opinion.

― Fat Lady Wrestler (Modal Fugue), Sunday, 10 December 2006 14:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Naaaaaah.

― Nice Esteban Buttez (King Esteban), Sunday, 10 December 2006 14:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, the facepaint sucked.

― Nice Esteban Buttez (King Esteban), Sunday, 10 December 2006 15:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Your disdain pretty much strengthens my argument, dude.

― Fat Lady Wrestler (Modal Fugue), Sunday, 10 December 2006 15:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes, my total lack of credibility does help your argument! But I assure you that the facepaint will cancel that out!

― Nice Esteban Buttez (King Esteban), Sunday, 10 December 2006 15:15 (seventeen years ago) link

The guitar intro to "Cracked Actor" is a real marvel.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 10 December 2006 15:47 (seventeen years ago) link

i think this record is probably the pre-low album I listen to the most. it's pretty compact in that I don't think any of th songs on it are filler. certainly the highpoint of the spiders band.

― akm (akmonday), Sunday, 10 December 2006 16:14 (seventeen years ago) link

both Diamond Dogs & Young Americans are better

― Jaufre Rudel (Jaufre Rudel), Sunday, 10 December 2006 16:40 (seventeen years ago) link

s'my fave bowie, no question

― 50,000,000 blelvis fans can't be wrong (teenagequiet), Sunday, 10 December 2006 16:59 (seventeen years ago) link

My fave Bowie as well. One of the fist LPs I bought (now 30+ years old). And a shout-out to Mick Garson, whose piano in the title cut chills me every time I hear it.

― nickn (nickn), Monday, 11 December 2006 02:13 (seventeen years ago) link

I used to have this on vinyl. I don't anymore. So can I call the record delivery service and have it delivered on a bike to my home right now?

― Bimbler (Sourkraut), Monday, 11 December 2006 02:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Its pleasing melodicsism of the album is mared by sloppy arrangements, particularly the out-of-tune sax of funs on "Drive Me Saturdays" and the title track would have been good and drive had it not been for someone letting the monkey into the studio to bang piano random throughout. If Rick Wakemen had been producer he never will allow it. Also "Lady Grinning Souls" is a poor ripoff of Hothouse Flowers.

― Comstock Carabinieri (nostudium), Monday, 11 December 2006 16:41 (seventeen years ago) link

you are a nutter

― akm (akmonday), Monday, 11 December 2006 16:45 (seventeen years ago) link

No you are the a nutter, for you fail to distinguish Gene the Genie from the Blockbusters that it copies to minimum avail.

Thankfully Bowie recovered from this career fall to return with a far more stronger set of songs on Pin Me Up. See Emily's Plays is one of the finest songs he ever wrote.

― Comstock Carabinieri (nostudium), Monday, 11 December 2006 16:48 (seventeen years ago) link

drive-in saturday one of the best bowies.

― hank s1ockli (hanks1ockli), Monday, 11 December 2006 16:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Driving Saturdays is one of Bowies worse, worsted only by Hey DJ and Spatial Abnormalities.

― Comstock Carabinieri (nostudium), Monday, 11 December 2006 16:53 (seventeen years ago) link

"Panic In Detroit" is Bowie's greatest concoction ever

― Monty Von Bygone (Monty Von Bygone), Monday, 11 December 2006 19:34 (seventeen years ago) link

The congas on "Panic in Detroit" alone.

― Fat Lady Wrestler (Modal Fugue), Monday, 11 December 2006 19:43 (seventeen years ago) link

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