Cheese Man ,'Chosen'
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Intriguing listing, tommy.
Hunky Dory is probably my favorite though I admit I've been focusing on Bowie As Songwriter for a while now, and that's one of his strongest and most varied collections of songs.
How about The Man Who Sold the Earth? Station to Station?
And the Venture Brothers makes a case for Hours.
How about The Man Who Sold the Earth? Station to Station?
Those would probably be my 11th and 12th.
But it was really hard to put that list in order. Even now I'm not sure of it. Possibly The Man Who Sold the World and Station to Station belong ahead of Space Oddity.
Eta: It's The Man Who Sold the World. I bet you were confusing the title with The Man Who Fell to Earth (which I must rewatch some day).
You'd better go listen to Station to Station tonight to be sure.
Yeah, according to iTunes I haven't listened to all of Station to Station in 6 months.
The camera operators for Kimmel apparently missed the Ignore The Guitar God on Stage Left memo and Toro was amaaaaaaaazing. So happeeeeee!
Tickets achieved for NY, NY, Boston, Philly, NJ, and (hopefully soon!) DC.
Just saw SING!
Holy amazballs.
Well, it seems that while my friend was buying DC tickets (got 'em! woot!) a second Starland show went on sale... and she got them...
So now it looks like five shows in six days (with two other shows before that) and while that might SEEM excessive its really not when you consider that I'm in the process of assembling an elaborate killjoy costume (still need that thigh holster!) and I really should wear it as much as possible, right? And by that third or fourth show it'll actually look like I've been living rough in a post-apocalyptic desert hellscape. By the fifth, I'll smell like Gerard...
I'm going to chicken out on the big thinking it would require for me to make a deep list of how I rank Bowie albums and just put up my personal top 3 (as of now). There were periods in college when Station to Station and Low would have made it up top.
1. The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars 2. Scary Monsters 3. Aladdin Sane
For those who remember those ads where they offered to turn your lyrics into completed songs or for folks who are fans of "The Beat of the Traps" compilations, PBS aired a doc on them called:
Off the Charts: The Poem-Song Industry
It's a Hulu link so I apologize to non-United Statesians.
I found it pretty interesting.
I am praying for a NOLA MCR date after the New Year.