The Current Music Blog: August 12, 2007 Archive

Bowie

Posted at 3:49 AM on August 12, 2007 by Mac Wilson (14 Comments)

Okay, I have a confession to make. It's not easy for me to admit this, but here goes.....I am woefully unfamiliar with the majority of David Bowie's catalog. It's not that I dislike his music (quite the opposite, actually), I just haven't had the opportunity to familiarize myself with most of his songs. My relationship with David extends to the classic standards we've all heard from radio (i.e. the Changesonebowie stuff). Up until this week, the only Bowie album I owned (that's right, the only one) was Low, and that was largely because Pitchfork inexplicably named it #1 album of the 1970s and I had to see what was so great about an album that's supposedly better than London Calling and Marquee Moon (incidentally, it's inferior to both). In short, I was beginning to feel like a film buff who had only seen one Stanley Kubrick film. So I've set out to seek out as much Bowie as I can get my hands on, and try to bring myself up to date.

The problem I'm running into is this: the man released about 12-15 classic albums, and everyone is going to have a different idea of what the best place to start is. My second Bowie album was "Heroes", although I'm beginning to suspect that the Berlin Trilogy might not have been the best place to start. Where, then? I hate to reduce this to a "what's your favorite Bowie album" thread, so I'll pose the question in a more thoughtful context:

If you had to recommend one David Bowie album to someone who was wondering what all the fuss has been about, which album would it be?

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The Stream 08/13/07

Posted at 8:37 PM on August 12, 2007 by Barb Abney (130 Comments)

Wanna be in Bob Dylan's next video?

Spoon, Deerhunter, Okkervil River, YACHT, Grizzly Bear, the Thermals and others to be on benefit CD for Rock N Roll Camp For Girls/Oregon Music Hall Of Fame.

Skinny Puppy member in horror opera.

Today In Music History:
1951 - Dan Fogelberg was born.
1958 - Feargal Sharkey (Undertones) was born.
1959 - Danny Bonaduce (The Partridge Family) was born.
1965 - Jefferson Airplane made its debut performance in San Francisco.
1979 - Chic's "Good Times'' was Billboard's #1.
1988 - Robert Smith (The Cure) married Mary Poole.
1990 - Curtis Mayfield was paralyzed from the waist down after he was struck by a lighting rig.
1994 - Woodstock '94 began.
1999 - Scott Weiland (Stone Temple Pilots) was sent to jail for violating his probation by using illegal drugs.

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