For me it's pic related. VERY solid lineup of tracks. Easily listenable all the way through. Typically overshadowed by his other renowned releases.
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Jayden Jones
Liam Baker
Funny, I was literally just thinking about this album.
Easton Sanders
Listening to it right now. I didn't realize this, but the old 80s RCA CD releases have og versions of Fascination, Win and Fame which were edited on the Ryko and Au20 releases... maybe some others too.
Andrew Lopez
I think it's good. FAME is an absolute standout though, what a brilliant song.
Ryder Sanchez
His vocal performances, the arrangements and instrumental layers, it's all fantastic, but I wish it had a more consistent running order that also drops Across the Universe. The other stuff he recorded at the Philly sessions that didn't make the album are so good it's criminal that Bowie just shelved them. Can You Hear me is one of my favorite Bowie songs.
Jeremiah Martinez
Christian Gray
Blasting Young Americans with the T top off in an '89 Camaro is a e s t h e t i c
Blake Brooks
>The other stuff he recorded at the Philly sessions that didn't make the album are so good it's criminal that Bowie just shelved them.
Did they get released??
Dominic Foster
>Prom King album art
Kayden Hughes
>plastic soul
Lincoln Gonzalez
excuse me Disco was the progression of Funk.
Jeremiah Miller
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There's also this early version of Somebody Up There Loves Me that ended up on a compilation album by one of Bowie's session musicians: youtube.com
Brandon Foster
Disco and funk were separate offshoots of soul
Landon Garcia
Wyatt Miller
I mean in the consumption of popular music
Jaxon Green
Awesome. Not sure if there's a torrent out there but this dude's DL still works with all the session stuff in lossless:
>guitars101.com/forums/f145/david-bowie-young-american-sessions-stu-flac-234513.html
Sebastian Lopez
I'd say their most underrated album
Matthew Gomez
There is a very rare bootleg called "young American Sessions" I can't find it
Connor Hill
>guitars101.com/forums/f145/david-bowie-young-american-sessions-stu-flac-234513.html
fuck, I been looking for this for a long time
Leo Kelly
The best songs are the bonus tracks. Across the Universe is also shit.
Alexander Phillips
probably contains bowie's best vocal performances in an album, songs like heroes can be pointed it out for how much he strains his voice, but he's really going at it consistently with his voice throughout young americans. you can just taste the alcohol, cigarettes and massive amounts of coke. some people say it's cheesy but the entire album is really good and overlooked
has some of bowie's more underrated outfits for the soul tour as well
if any of you care, the original version of young americans was titled "the gouster". bowie had recorded a lot of shit for gouster/young americans and a lot of it that's been bootlegged is impossible to find on official releases.
the "who can i be now" boxset has a recreation of the gouster using bowie's written tracklisting for it and alternate takes of young american songs that appear on it. i've read somewhere that it's more focused but i don't really see what they mean, i actually think the track listing is a bit weaker and less focused.
Nathan Walker
British Bowie fans at the time hated it because it wasn't glam rock, but the Americans liked it.
And I get the feeling that most zoomer Bowie fans only listen to the early 70s stuff, the Eno trilogy (plus Scary Monsters) and the "hello fellow kids" stuff like Earthling and Blackstar. Everything else is deemed uncool because they don't really fit in with other Yea Forumscore / redditcore / rymcore staples.
Nathaniel Perez
>"hello fellow kids" stuff like Earthling and Blackstar
blackstar doesn't deserve to be on there
hello fellow kids is black tie white noise through reality
Kevin James
He was listening to Death Grips and Kendrick Lamar while recording Blackstar and it very much shows.
>hello fellow kids is black tie white noise through reality
Not really - except Outside.
Black Tie White Noise was very much in the "Phil Collins" pop superstar style in terms of presentation (but 90sified)
Buddha of Suburbia was made for nobody but himself
and Hours, Heathen, Reality and The Next Day are all dad rock.
Michael Martin
why the hate on across the universe? easily one of his best vocal perfomances
Eli Martinez
>Heathen
One of his better later albums nullified by the production. Instrumentation wasn't as fluid as it needed to be and then the retail release is brick walled to hell. The down mix of the 5.1 eases the loudness/compression slightly but it's hardly adequate.
>gouster
>Gouster was a word unfamiliar to me but David knew it as a type of dress code worn by African American teens in the '60's, in Chicago. But in the context of the album its meaning was attitude, an attitude of pride and hipness.
That's interesting. Perhaps this version would've resonated more British fans. Seems like it would've been more character focused and more detached.
I can't really get into most Bowie stuff 80s-until death. Starting with Let's Dance, which signaled a turning point in prioritizing sales over artistry and seemingly exploited to launch his film career which took more of his focus off his future 80s stuff... basically turning his music career into a side project for the remainder of the 80s. Bowie's greatest asset was his backup band. Through the 70s he surrounded himself with talented musicians. Those players were able to make some very unique sounds. But with the advent of the digital age, the 90s stuff sounds so bland. I feel Bowie could've had a good run through the 80s at a minimum had he not tossed his og rhythm section, but even reading about his creation of Scary Monsters (which I consider a wreaker selection) it becomes apparent that Bowie was pivoting toward commercial success over artistry. After Let's Dance, he lost the plot and he never recovered.
Tyler White
THIS. Easily their best alongside Clockwork.
Plebs don't get it's idiosyncratic aesthetics.
True. It has some very comfy songs. It's kind of inconsistent though.
Julian Russell
>and Hours, Heathen, Reality and The Next Day are all dad rock.
That's a bit unfair, there's plenty of stylistic diversity between those.
Hours is relaxed and takes a bit from 90s dream pop. Pretty comfy album.
Christian Robinson
Nah, this one just sucks. Earthling is def underrated and one of my favourite LPs by him.
Luis Taylor
His work varied throughout his career. I don't like Diamond Dogs and YA and those came out in the 70s. Earthling and Blackstar,rank up with his best.
Brayden Rogers
You're right user. Easily one of Bowie's best
Michael Nguyen
>Nah, this one just sucks.
wow good point, really changed my mind. heres a (You) for your good work
Nicholas Ramirez
One of the best symphonic rock albums of all time, but it's rarely mentioned.
Ayden Long
While were on topic about underrated albums, I thought it'd be a better time than ever to just add this one here.
It has great vocal work, and the beat is just so, for the lack of a better term, aesthetically pleasing. That's the only real way I can describe it.
Highly reccomend listening to it sometime!
Parker Ward
I really dislike the songwriting on it. Station to Station is lyrically his best and it def wasn't the sife effects of the cocaine.
Daniel Flores
Lodger is better
Colton Ward
STS was 100% due to the side effects of the cocaine. This was the period when he believed his swimming pool to be haunted by the devil and he persisted on a diet exclusively consisting of whole milk and cigarettes (and cocaine). And the lyrics are fine on YA.
Xavier Howard
No disagreement here, however I think YA is simply pushed aside and "forgotten" whereas Lodger has a certain element of notoriety for being... unusual.