Author Topic: The back half of Hunky Dory is kind of a drag (Read 1371 times)

recursivelyenumerable · « **on:** November 16, 2013, 10:53:55 PM »

Real talk

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #1 on:** November 16, 2013, 11:02:45 PM »

Andy Warhol, Song for Bob Dylan, and perhaps the best song on the album (The Bewlay Brothers)? Nah.

nudemacusers · « **Reply #2 on:** November 16, 2013, 11:17:10 PM »

I figured this was an up-and-coming porn star name at first

Polari · « **Reply #3 on:** November 17, 2013, 04:04:18 AM »

Andy Warhol has always been one my favourite Bowie songs, and Queen Bitch is not far behind.

Himu · « **Reply #4 on:** November 17, 2013, 08:47:40 AM »

I prefer The Man Who Sold The World.

Diunx · « **Reply #5 on:** November 17, 2013, 10:48:26 AM »

octopushover · « **Reply #6 on:** November 17, 2013, 11:36:59 AM »

Kind of agree. Luckily he makes up for it five years later with the Berlin trilogy on which every song is perfect.

Himu · « **Reply #7 on:** November 17, 2013, 11:50:37 AM »

Hunky Dory is a pretty weak album. Thankfully he followed it up with Ziggy Stardust.

Himu · « **Reply #8 on:** November 17, 2013, 11:54:00 AM »

Quote from: octopushover on November 17, 2013, 11:36:59 AM

Kind of agree. Luckily he makes up for it five years later with the Berlin trilogy on which every song is perfect.

I don't care for Heroes much. Low and Station to Station are much better.

recursivelyenumerable · « **Reply #9 on:** November 17, 2013, 05:24:34 PM »

Queen Bitch is good, I'll admit.

octopushover · « **Reply #10 on:** November 17, 2013, 05:28:34 PM »

Lady Stardust and Rock and Roll Suicide are the best songs on Ziggy Stardust: fact.

Polari · « **Reply #11 on:** November 17, 2013, 05:47:32 PM »

Quote from: Formerly Known As Himuro on November 17, 2013, 11:54:00 AM

Quote from: octopushover on November 17, 2013, 11:36:59 AM
Kind of agree. Luckily he makes up for it five years later with the Berlin trilogy on which every song is perfect.

I don't care for Heroes much. Low and Station to Station are much better.

Lodger is third rather than Station to Station. Station to Station is his best album though. Second half of Low is kind of a drag. Sounds pretty basic now.

Himu · « **Reply #12 on:** November 17, 2013, 05:55:29 PM »

Subterraneans is great jazz. It is far from basic. Warsawza I agree with. I know Lodger is the third album. Just saying I like Station To Station more than Heroes.

TEEEPO · « **Reply #13 on:** November 17, 2013, 10:36:43 PM »

Quote from: octopushover on November 17, 2013, 05:28:34 PM

Lady Stardust and Rock and Roll Suicide are the best songs on Ziggy Stardust: fact.

Lady Stardust is the best Bowie song: fact.

the demo version is even better

octopushover · « **Reply #14 on:** November 17, 2013, 11:04:43 PM »

Second half of Low is great, especially Warszawa, as are all Bowie/Eno collaborations. Read up on Eno's "Oblique Strategies" because it's a hilarious drug-induced creative process that could only have happened in the 70s.

Also Eno apparently composed the Windows 95 start-up sound.

TEEEPO · « **Reply #15 on:** November 17, 2013, 11:30:41 PM »

the first time i ever listened to Bowie outside of movies and advertisements was when i got baked before a friend picked me up. when i entered the car, the second half of low had just started and it was unlike anything i had ever heard -- it was one of those moments

naff · « **Reply #16 on:** November 17, 2013, 11:45:25 PM »

Subterraneans is jazz? Just coz something has a sax in it doesn't make it jazz. Second half of low is good tho, first half is better but yeah. Love Low

Raban · « **Reply #17 on:** November 17, 2013, 11:49:59 PM »

you can't say no to an album-opener like this

recursivelyenumerable · « **Reply #18 on:** November 17, 2013, 11:59:15 PM »

I don't really think of the oblique strategies as that much of a 70s thing (regardless of when it originated chronologically)

Himu · « **Reply #19 on:** November 17, 2013, 11:59:41 PM »

Quote from: Butt Seriously on November 17, 2013, 11:45:25 PM

Subterraneans is jazz? Just coz something has a sax in it doesn't make it jazz. Second half of low is good tho, first half is better but yeah. Love Low

No. But it has jazz underpinnings. That is clearly a jazz saxophone. That's like saying because something has electric guitars it doesn't have elements of rock. That is pure baloney.

chronovore · « **Reply #20 on:** November 18, 2013, 12:43:26 AM »

I wish I'd bought those Ryko collections when they first came out.

Polari · « **Reply #21 on:** November 18, 2013, 05:34:38 AM »

Basic was probably the wrong word. I guess what I don't like about the second side of Low is how distinct it is to the first side. It seems kind of clumsy in that sense and perhaps would have made more sense as a separate EP.

Diunx · « **Reply #22 on:** November 18, 2013, 10:52:03 AM »

I think the second half of Low was the music he was composing for The Man Who Fell to Earth.

meni stronk · « **Reply #23 on:** November 18, 2013, 11:51:22 AM »

Quote from: TEEEPO on November 17, 2013, 11:30:41 PM

the first time i ever listened to Bowie outside of movies and advertisements was when i got baked before a friend picked me up. when i entered the car, the second half of low had just started and it was unlike anything i had ever heard -- it was one of those moments

the run from Warszawa to Subterraneans is possibly my favorite sequence of tracks in his whole discography

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #24 on:** November 18, 2013, 12:44:18 PM »

First time I heard Bowie was a .wav file on my Encyclopedia Britannica CD. It was 30 seconds of Changes and I was about ten years old. My mom wouldn't let me buy any of his albums because "he is a cross dresser, which means he dresses like a woman."

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Author Topic: The back half of Hunky Dory is kind of a drag (Read 1371 times)