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Yeah man I'm funny that way, I want it hard & heavy nearly all of the time. Wasn't easy being a metalhead growing up in an era when the hard heavy music I craved didn't really exist yet and even as a kid I was always conscious of that. I was always frustrated by the fact that aside from Sabbath there weren't any other bands who served it hard all or even most of the time. Most of those 70's bands I grew up with would have one or two songs or maybe just brief sections of songs that were hard and the rest was softer fluff.

That's why I latched onto the Ramones in '76 as my instant favorite band because they kept it hard and fast 95% of the time. Not sure why grabbing a guitar, running it through a distortion pedal and strumming the fuck out of it was such a novel concept in the mid 70's when I was in school.

Wish I had been born just a little later so that I could have had more hard musical options at a younger age. Even you just 4 years younger than me had some heavy metal to listen to in high school. I missed out on that by being a boomer. Now all these years later most of the people who I connect with on music are 5 or 10 or 15 years younger than me. That's when I probably should have been born, early 70's like Navy and Hungarino. 

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2 hours ago, markm said:

Love hard rock but rock doesn't have to be hard for me to enjoy. I've gone back to a few classic rock artists recently and picked up some of their catalog-The Kinks, Neil Young, Jefferson Airplane. 

I definitely have not heard every Bowie album, but of those I've researched, three Bowie albums stand out to me as sort of the best of the bunch..

The albums below were released in succession between 70-72 and probably his most fertile era when he  could do no wrong. :

The Man Who Saved the World

Hunky Dory

Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust

 

Aladdin Sane was on my short list but haven't grabbed that. It's definitely great.  Darkstar is wonderful as well but  I'm heavily biased to his early 70's era. David Bowie 69-74 is a strong comp.

 

 

Post Diamond Dogs (somewhere around there anyway), Bowie got in a spat with his record company over artistic freedom and intentionally made inaccessible music to stick it to them. That's the era of the Berlin Tapes and his collabs with Brian Eno. Brilliant stuff, but again not very accessible to the average fan. After that contract had expired, he again decided to show them he could be a giant pop star. That's when the early 80's stuff started (Scary Monsters was '79 I think, then Under Pressure w/Queen, then Let's Dance around '83-84). Bowie could basically do whatever the fuck he put his mind to. He owned an ISP in the 90's (bowienet) and even was one of the first to open an online bank.  Watch some of his interviews online and you can tell that he was on another level of reality from your average human. 100 million albums sold, 11 of them platinum, movies, painting... 

Anyway, enough of that.

Today:

David Bowie - Heathen

David Bowie - Welcome to the Blackout '76

David Bowie - Earthling

Queen - Live at the Rainbow '74

Queen - Live at Wembley Stadium

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26 minutes ago, navybsn said:

Post Diamond Dogs (somewhere around there anyway), Bowie got in a spat with his record company over artistic freedom and intentionally made inaccessible music to stick it to them. That's the era of the Berlin Tapes and his collabs with Brian Eno. Brilliant stuff, but again not very accessible to the average fan. After that contract had expired, he again decided to show them he could be a giant pop star. That's when the early 80's stuff started (Scary Monsters was '79 I think, then Under Pressure w/Queen, then Let's Dance around '83-84). Bowie could basically do whatever the fuck he put his mind to. He owned an ISP in the 90's (bowienet) and even was one of the first to open an online bank.  Watch some of his interviews online and you can tell that he was on another level of reality from your average human. 100 million albums sold, 11 of them platinum, movies, painting... 

Anyway, enough of that.

Today:

David Bowie - Heathen

David Bowie - Welcome to the Blackout '76

David Bowie - Earthling

Queen - Live at the Rainbow '74

Queen - Live at Wembley Stadium

Huh, that's interesting history. The only Bowie that's ever reached out and grabbed me has been the Berlin stuff, "Low" in particular. I'm sure I'm missing out on a lot of good music and I might even like it if I went back to it at this point, but the early 70s recordings have always held me at arm's length. Related to what Goatmaster said, I sometimes wonder if I would have an easier time with 60s and 70s music if I'd either been born a little earlier, or been exposed to it more growing up. I was born in the late late 70s and didn't really hear any contemporary popular music until the late 80s. Growing into music has been partly a process of working backwards for me. It took me a long time to even appreciate classics like Black Sabbath, and it took a heavy dose of prog and fusion to really open the door to the 70s for me. 

NP: Deathspell Omega - The Furnaces Of Palingenesia

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8 hours ago, Thatguy said:

There must have been some good music in 1976, but the Goatmaster has deliberately avoided listing any.

 

I bet you owned at least one of those albums back in the 70's Doc, maybe more than one. What were YOU listening to in 1976? That was high school for me. We all know I'm not the biggest fan of 70's rock these days but going back occasionally to listen to some of those old random songs from decades gone by is kinda like looking through an old photo album at pictures of yourself when you were a teenager. We wouldn't want to go back to those old hairstyles and clothing styles now, but it's still fun to remember and have a laugh.

 

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1 hour ago, FatherAlabaster said:

Huh, that's interesting history. The only Bowie that's ever reached out and grabbed me has been the Berlin stuff, "Low" in particular. I'm sure I'm missing out on a lot of good music and I might even like it if I went back to it at this point, but the early 70s recordings have always held me at arm's length. Related to what Goatmaster said, I sometimes wonder if I would have an easier time with 60s and 70s music if I'd either been born a little earlier, or been exposed to it more growing up. I was born in the late late 70s and didn't really hear any contemporary popular music until the late 80s. Growing into music has been partly a process of working backwards for me. It took me a long time to even appreciate classics like Black Sabbath, and it took a heavy dose of prog and fusion to really open the door to the 70s for me. 

NP: Deathspell Omega - The Furnaces Of Palingenesia

I hear you man. I'm vintage 1975, so the music of the 80's is my childhood. I didn't appreciate classic rock for many years because that was my dad's stuff (save for Rush and a few others). Only in the past 10 years or so have I started going back and really getting into the discographies of bands like Thin Lizzy, Uriah Heep, UFO, and many of the forerunners of the metal I grew up on. It's an interesting study to follow the progression backwards. Of course I had heard most of those bands "radio hits" a million times, but it's the deep album cuts I usually find that turn out to be my favorites.

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My first real concert was DAVID BOWIE in 1974....the Diamond Dogs tour...my older brother took me....at the Norfolk Scope....I saw practically every tour after that...76, 83 87,etc,etc....including both TIN MACHINE tours...BOWIE is probably my favourite artist...with IGGY, Nick Cave, Neil Young and John Coltrane not far behind....

...every era of BOWIE is sublime...but I would put the Berlin Period through Scary Monsters as my favourite years....

 

...in Honour of BOWIE....one of his favourite artists...

 

SCOTT WALKER - Tilt

SCOTT WALKER - Bish Bosh

 

 

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5 hours ago, navybsn said:

Bowie could basically do whatever the fuck he put his mind to. He owned an ISP in the 90's (bowienet) and even was one of the first to open an online bank.

Haha what? That's crazy. The Bank of David.

I think I just have this suspicion that I'd love the man if I just could find the right songs. I listened to Lazarus and Blackstar and they were wonderful tbh. Chilling to know that he was writing his epitaph, that's enough to paralyze most people.

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4 hours ago, FatherAlabaster said:

Blut Aus Nord - 777 - Cosmosophy

Blut Aus Nord - 777 - Sects

Yay!

1 hour ago, MarkhantonioYeatts said:

BOWIE is probably my favourite artist...with IGGY, Nick Cave, Neil Young and John Coltrane not far behind...

Seriously can't wrong with any of those.....love Coltrane and I've been all over Neil Young lately.

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3 hours ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

I bet you owned at least one of those albums back in the 70's Doc, maybe more than one. What were YOU listening to in 1976? That was high school for me. We all know I'm not the biggest fan of 70's rock these days but going back occasionally to listen to some of those old random songs from decades gone by is kinda like looking through an old photo album at pictures of yourself when you were a teenager. We wouldn't want to go back to those old hairstyles and clothing styles now, but it's still fun to remember and have a laugh.

 

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Off the top of my head in the mid  '70s?  Soft Machine, Yes, Brian Eno, Split Enz first album (the only good one)...and Anthony Braxton.

1 hour ago, MarkhantonioYeatts said:

My first real concert was DAVID BOWIE in 1974....the Diamond Dogs tour...my older brother took me....at the Norfolk Scope....I saw practically every tour after that...76, 83 87,etc,etc....including both TIN MACHINE tours...BOWIE is probably my favourite artist...with IGGY, Nick Cave, Neil Young and John Coltrane not far behind....

...every era of BOWIE is sublime...but I would put the Berlin Period through Scary Monsters as my favourite years....

 

...in Honour of BOWIE....one of his favourite artists...

 

SCOTT WALKER - Tilt

SCOTT WALKER - Bish Bosh

 

 

Now you're talking.  I like Bowie -  but he is mainly for listening with the wife - but Scott Walker was just brilliant.  What voice!

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1 hour ago, Thatguy said:

Off the top of my head in the mid  '70s?  Soft Machine, Yes, Brian Eno, Split Enz first album (the only good one)...and Anthony Braxton.

Now you're talking.  I like Bowie -  but he is mainly for listening with the wife - but Scott Walker was just brilliant.  What voice!

I've been trying to get a copy of Nite Flights for years with no luck.

Spirit Adrift - Enlightened in Eternity - I hear people like this band. Never heard of them before but I can see that they could fall in that relatively friendly radio rock category and have wide appeal.

 

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1 hour ago, navybsn said:

I've been trying to get a copy of Nite Flights for years with no luck.

Spirit Adrift - Enlightened in Eternity - I hear people like this band. Never heard of them before but I can see that they could fall in that relatively friendly radio rock category and have wide appeal.

 

Bowie's version of the song is very good but not as good as the original.  I too have been chasing the album forever but without any luck.  I would even break my rules and go physical if I found it.

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Funny the Bowie songs appearing in this thread. I was never much into him. Some songs maybe. But mid 70's I was only 5-6 years old so missed all that music.

Listneing now to Ominous Ruin - Amidst Voices That Echo In Stone. Really nice tech death and exactly how I like it release like Unbirth and Cytotoxin I think. 

 

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