not very good is it?
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Blackstar remains his best album.
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Not one of his best but Lady Grinning Soul is the best Bond song that never was
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I like the Madonna one.
Not a very good opinion, is this?
Aladdin Sane is great.
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The piano playing is great on this album. “Drive-In Saturday” is one of Bowie’s best-ever songs. Otherwise? Probably my least favourite of his “classic” run of 70s albums, yeah!
What is supremely underrated, a great Bowie album: The Man Who Sold The World, it’s crazy how good it is
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Aladdin’s Sane’s worst crime is that it isn’t as good as either Ziggy Stardust or Hunky Dory. That’s a very high bar.
It took a while to grow on me, to be fair. The strangely quiet vocal mix on Watch That Man means it doesn’t start as strong as it could and the older tune The Prettiest Star is a bit weak, and hinted that Bowie didn’t have enough material for a new album by the spring of '73. Everything else is fantastic, though. Mike Garson is on fire, as @jamesian suggests. I even like the Stones cover.
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Time is an absolute classic.
Great record, just not quite as great as the previous two.
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It’s a 9.5 album. So a complete stinker by the standard of Bowie in the 70s.
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Title track’s first couple of minutes; probably my favourite DB ever.
Got a lot of the Bowie albums when I was going through my Rolling Stone canon phase.
Very underwhelmed by a few of them, including this one. Drive in Saturday is great, nothing much else would have stuck.
I’m one of those bores who thinks Eno brought out the best in Bowie.
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Bowie was shite
Not heard this