3. "You're gonna get ALOT of different answers. " In response to Reply # 0
Bowie spanned so many different sounds that people gravitated towards what they liked. I'm not a huge fan of the late 70's Berlin stuff although some many call it his best stuff.
My 5:
1. Station to Station 2. Hunky Dory 3. Ziggy Stardust 4. Young Americans 5. Low
15. "Bowie heads tend to front on it because it's his biggest record" In response to Reply # 14
exists apart from the decade he had ruled and took him into a more 'mainstream' realm in the 80's (a position Bowie wasn't even quite sure what to do with after it happened) but as a record it's pretty unassailable to me.
It's a David Bowie album backed by Chic with a young Stevie Ray Vaughn taking the lead guitar parts that somehow successfully fuses blues-rock & disco thru Bowie's own filter & Nile Rodgers' production sensibilities.
5 of the 8 songs were singles (three of which are probably amongst his 10 or so biggest) and the other three were a cut that could have hit (Shake It) if he/the label had milked the album rather than rushed the 'Tonight' album out after the tour ended, then a Metro cover (Criminal World) and an anachronistic 70's-Bowie nod (Ricochet).
I don't see what's not to like about this album besides just the diehard Bowie types needing to shit on it to prove their allegiance to his earlier work & disavow the stuff that came after Let's Dance (which admittedly was weaker but shit, you can't stay in that artistic zeitgeist zone forever, like Stevie Wonder post-In Square Circle or Prince post-SOTT...he had an incredible run).
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