💿 How Good Is It Really 💿 Low

[JohnM]

8.22 for Pet Sounds puts the Beach Boys mid-table with MBV and Massive Attack

Leaderboard

Position	Album	Rating
1	Spirit Of Eden	9.06
2	Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven	8.80
3	Hounds Of Love	8.79
4	Illmatic	8.70
5	It Takes A Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back	8.51
6	Endtroducing….	8.51
7	Marquee Moon	8.47
8	The Sophtware Slump	8.45
9	Spiderland	8.44
10	Untrue	8.43
11	Kid A	8.41
12	Illinois	8.34
13	Loveless	8.24
14	Pet Sounds	8.22
15	Mezzanine	7.98
16	100 Broken Windows	7.97
17	Tago Mago	7.92
18	Turn On The Bright Lights	7.91
19	The Blue Album	7.71
20	Siamese Dream	7.64
21	The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill	7.54
22	Is This It	7.40
23	1989	6.80
24	Definitely Maybe	5.90

Time for some Bowie. You’ve chosen Low but how good is it really?

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[JohnM]

Best track:

• Speed Of Life
• Breaking Glass
• What In The World
• Sound And Vision
• Always Crashing In The Same Car
• Be My Wife
• A New Career In A New Town
• Warszawa
• Art Decade
• Weeping Wall
• Subterraneans

[JohnM]

I found out last week that LD Beghtol died in December so it’s a special edition HGIIR next week. For those who know who he is I’m sure you can guess which album it’s going to be, for those who don’t a quick internet search will probably reveal the answer

[Bamnan]

Really boring with only one good track

[roastthemonaspit]

That’s gonna be one damn long song poll

[roastthemonaspit]

Its a 10 for Low, obviously. Perfect record.

[anon19035908]

Was gonna do them next week. Will hold off!

[tatesmithee]

10/10

Incredible that another 10/10 record (“Heroes”) came out that same year.

[JohnM]

I’ve already thought of a way around that

[BobRickerton]

My favourite album of all time, I genuinely wouldn’t change a note. 10, obviously.

[roastthemonaspit]

If we’re voting on which disc I would still find this difficult.

[sizeofanocean]

Took me a while to appreciate it, but it’s a 10/10 isn’t it. Not a single wasted note. Always Crashing is stupidly good - I love how dejected he sounds.

[zanimos]

Think if I’d borrowed a bunch of Bowie albums from the library when I was 14/15 instead of loads of 60s stuff I would have been into him. I think his stuff is better than most of what I listened to whilst still being essentially the same template.

As it was though I didn’t and only listened later at which point I just found it all a bit pedestrian. The Berlin trilogy were always most disappointing because I could never square the description of radical musical innovation with what I heard.

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[lastdino]

For such an esteemed album it’s funny how silly it is

[Tuna]

Really nice when this thread or the artists equivalent throw up something you’re really in the mood for imo

[JaguarPirate]

never heard

[LarCorbett2010]

An easy 10. I love it to pieces. Blackstar is my favourite Bowie album because it’s when he really clicked for me as an artist past the main singles. But this is every bit as treasured.

[EVI]

10/10

Could pick any of half a dozen tracks as my favourite but today I’ll go with ‘Always Crashing…’ love Ricky Gardiner’s meandering solo at the end.

[Tuna]

it is good, you should try

[JaguarPirate]

i may just!

i basically always vote for albums i don’t know/barely know in these polls, good motivation to direct my listening