I don't think the top six need any introduction, to be fair. Please don't read anything else into it.
Who's the laughing gnome? EDIT OK, it's a Bowie song. Still don't understand though.
No more write-ups. I think we're past the point where they are necessary as the artists are well known, and I haven't got a wind-up to prepare for :)The laughing gnome was one of his early songs and for a while many refused to believe he wrote it as it was nowt like his style eventually it found new found fame and would be used on pub quizes.
I wasn't reading anything into a lack of write up tbh, though I expect a ban worthy description of the smiths upon their arrival ;-)
Surely Bowie tomorrow to calm the storm.
I agree re the three album run of classics and Bowie is a member of that elite, but would add Dylan, Steely Dan and Stevie Wonder to that list in terms of popular music !Massive global icon. Hugely influential. The 3 album run from Hunky Dory to Aladdinsane via Ziggy Stardust, arguably 3rd only to The Beatles (Rubber Soul, Revolver, Pepper) and The Stones (Beggar’s Banquet, Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers). Pure subjective opinion of course!
some wonderful albums:
Man who sold the world
Hunky Dory
Ziggy Stardust
Aladdin Sane
Diamond Dogs
Lets Dance
Blackstar
and some not so wonderful but that’s allowed.
He changed the world through his art.
Favourite song/video
Fat Little Man from Extras.
Sorry. Chubby not Fat.He's so depressed at being hated
Fatso takes his own life
He blows his stupid brains out
But the twat would probably miss
He sold his soul for a shot at fame
Catchphrase and wigs and the jokes are lame
He's got no style, he's got no grace
He's banal and facile, he's a fat waste of space
See his pug-nosed face
Pug, pug, pug, pug
Sorry. Chubby not Fat.
this was just the tonic needed after recent debates - no one can deny Bowies place here and I think 6th is just about right.
Influential, ground breaking and some amazing records over the decades - Hunky Dory I reviewed and it was a brilliant listen
It's not. No one is close. How many critics' or fan polls pick OK Computer or Kid A as the best record ever made, let alone made in the 90s, let alone merely one of the best records made in the 90s? Dozens.
Meantime, I see Radiohead music as Pink Floyd without hooks, an awful terrible sallow singer, faux depressed (while they run off to the bank with their millions), with no sense of humo(u)r, drenched in excessive irritating atmospheric echoes, obsessed with its own "coolness", soul-less and heart-less metal machine music.
As such, it's perfect for pasty-faced awkward teenagers, and hence, enormously popular.
Small doses of Radiohead can be okay -- a tune or two on In Rainbows, the bridge on Paranoid Android -- but their only redeeming accomplishment was a credible pickup cover of "Ceremony." Whoop-de-doo. My high school friends did one in their band The Lunkheads (though their punk cover of "White Christmas" was even better).