DEEP DISCOG DIVE: David Bowie

Let me know your favorite Bowie album/song/performance/related thing in the comments!

CHAPTERS (w/ Timestamps)
Start 0:00
Prologue 01:57
David Bowie (1967) 02:55
Space Oddity (1969) 04:03
The Man Who Sold the World (1970) 05:15
Hunky Dory (1971) 06:40
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders from Mars (1972) 08:11
Aladdin Sane (1973) 10:37
Pin Ups (1973) 12:23
Diamond Dogs (1974) 13:19
Young Americans (1975) 14:35
Station to Station (1976) 16:35
Low (1977) 18:33
"Heroes" (1977) 21:04
Lodger (1979) 23:14
Scary Monsters & Super Creeps (1980) 24:17
Let's Dance (1983) 25:49
Tonight (1985) 28:09
Never Let Me Down (1987) 29:32
Tin Machine I & II (1989/1991) 31:40
Black Tie White Noise (1993) 32:33
The Buddha of Suburbia (1993) 33:33
1. Outside (1995) 34:20
Earthling (1997) 35:52
Hours (1999) 36:45
Heathen (2002) 37:44
Reality (2003) 39:03
Hiatus 39:55
The Next Day (2013) 41:20
Blackstar (2016) 42:36
Conclusion 44:54

[ketttolove]

Rock n Roll Suicide is such an underrated Bowie song. It's a great ending to the Ziggy Stardust album but also holds out a message of hope. Personally, it has helped me through so much.

[chrissennfelder]

What makes "Blackstar" extraordinary is that Bowie turned dying into art. He knew he was on the verge of death and he did the one thing he knew he could rely on: He wrote songs. About life and death, his own and in general. It's a fitting end to a unique career.

[OutliersLife]

when bowie died i was 16 and only knew the hits. his death caused me to dive into his catalogue and it was one of the best decisions I made for me as a young musician.

[goromajima]

Fun fact about the guy who punched his eye, his name was George Underwood- and they where best friends at the time, and continued to be afterwards! George underwood (being a painter) helped Bowie work on numerous of his album covers

[ianbyrne]

I remember the day he passed.

I’d just finished Blackstar the day before, it was just a normal afternoon when I heard what happened, and I legit cried.

It was about half a year before I ever listened to Blackstar again, and my god it just hit so much differently. It seemed to me that Bowie was well aware that his time was near, and he wanted to leave what was the equivalent of his own eulogy for the rest of us. It’s tragic, but a beautiful sendoff to one of my favorite artists

[TheGlooga]

God, the release of Blackstar was a weird time. It was coming out and there were really positive reviews pre-release about how it was this jazzy and dark album that feels simultaneously like a throwback to his early years and forward thinking. I actually hadn't listened to any of Bowie's work, but I was getting hyped so I downloaded all his albums and blitzed through them so that I could listen to Blackstar when it dropped (skipping from Let's Dance to Black Tie White Noise, based on the reputation of his middle albums). I fell in love with his music, and then immediately fell in love with Blackstar. It really did feel like an exciting new direction for a singer with a LONG discography. And then he died, and the conversation around the album instantly shifted from "what's next in Bowie's post-haitus post-Blackstar career" to "so, death was a prominent theme in that work, huh?" It's now considered his final artistic statement, and the album is certainly good enough and appropriate enough to warrant that, but I do miss those short two days in between the album dropping and his death, when the Blackstar wasn't a full stop, but the beginning of a new sentence.

[JohnFassold]

You're honestly one of my favorites channels of all time, ily

[darklordthomaspie]

Let's Dance is awesome! He did not sell out. He simply went into a new musical direction that just so happened to be popular at the time. Nothing wrong about this.

[ziniminimon]

I'd love to see talk about The Velvet Underground's discography.

[jeffdenoe]

I have been a constant Bowie fan since 1969 . I am now turning 69 years of age this year. He has never let me down except for his 2 albums after Let’s Dance. He was constantly changing, and after his 10 year break to come back with the brilliant Next album and to finish his astonishing Black Star album 2days before he died. What a parting gift! The greatest rock and live performance star EVER!

[johnwilkins]

He returns with a 46 minute Deep Discog Dive, holy hell, heaven is real

[kanyewest]

Everybody, including Bowie, is too hard on the Young Americans album. It’s a fantastic soul album, regardless of race.

[Rsgg]

Fun facts about Bowie: I live in the countryside of Tuscany and I'm Always Surprise about the three weird links between my homeland and David Bowie.
1) In the 60's, Italy had the trend to take British and american songs and make an italian cover of that Song by an italian singer (for example i suggest the Italian cover of Stones' Paint it black by Caterina Caselli). We have an Italian cover of space oddity sung in Italian by David Bowie with his strong British accent. It named "ragazzo solo, ragazza sola" and It isn't about space but It was about a teen love story.
2) He Lost a contest for young musicians in 1969 in Monsummano terme, which Is a city Very near to where I live.
3) He starred in an italian Western movie in the late 90's with Leonardo Pieraccioni, the Italian Adam Sandler. And this movie was also made very near where i live, in the Mountains of Tuscany.
Sorry for the wot but i wanna share this trivia with someone

[kuma]

Blackstar fucking blew my mind. I had a very surreal first listen, flying from Argentina to Panama in the middle of the night. The first time I took a plane outside my country, going to a convention in the States.

Everyone was sleeping and I was floating in the middle of the Pacific listening Blackstar.

[WilliamMaranciMashups]

Do a Soulja Boy Deep Discog Dive next year.

[mcFreaki]

i'm not gonna lie, if bowie were still alive, Blackstar would still be among my favourites of his discography.

[prpldragon]

Why does 2000s Bowie look like the villain from National Treasure

[dancetx]

Me, trying to get into Bowie for the first time:
So HOW many records has this guy made??? He had no chill whatsoever!

[steadyrhythms]

i think blackstar might be one of the greatest musical achievements ever quite honestly. to do a record of such quality while suffering and having it be one of the best of your career, better than probably anything you did in the last 25 years at least, is insane to me. and then to have a lot of the album reflecting on your life, as if you know your time’s ending, and then having it release and passing away shortly after - this is all just fascinating to me. i feel slightly inappropriate in saying that the album and its timing was a miracle, but i think it is. it’s really horrible that he died, but i think the fact that he did an exited with such a monumental and reflective statement is transcendent. i don’t think any other artist ever will do what David did by releasing blackstar. it’s as if he made the stars align for that moment, and made the universe take him on his own terms. because of all of this, i think blackstar is one of the most fascinating albums to ever be released. there’s something about it that feels transcendent, like one of the most ultimate statements of art to me. i am not sure why it intrigues me this much, but it really does.

[RemnantCult]

I love how David Bowie saw the good in all music and took inspiration from everything. That sort of open mindedness is essential for a musician.