Bowie albums that are better than Ziggy Stardust...

[kalowski]

Hunky Dory
Aladdin Sane
Young Americans
Station to Station
Low
Heroes
Lodger

...and probably
Diamond Dogs
Scary Monsters

[lazyhour]

Yes to these except Young Americans and Lodger. I'm not Aladdin Sane is better, either.

Great thread, cheers

[rue the polywhirl]

David Bowie Greatest Hits.

[kalowski]

Yes to these except Young Americans and Lodger. I'm not Aladdin Sane is better, either.

Great thread, cheers

Young Americans has a couple of turkeys: Fame and Across the Universe, but I adore every other track. I really love Lodger too.
Aladdin Sane let down by Let's Spend the Night Together, but Ziggy has Star and Hang Onto Yourself as the weak links (confession: I like It Ain't Easy).

[The Mollusk]

How in the sweet fuck is "Fame" a turkey?! That tune SPANKS

[non capisco]

Aladdin Sane let down by Let's Spend the Night Together, but Ziggy has Star and Hang Onto Yourself as the weak links (confession: I like It Ain't Easy).

Hang On To Yourself did give the world the sleng teng riddim though.
I don't dislike It Ain't Easy but the verses sound like Rentaghost or something.

[buttgammon]

Hunky Dory
Aladdin Sane
Young Americans
Station to Station
Low
Heroes
Lodger

...and probably
Diamond Dogs
Scary Monsters

Correct (I'd put it neck and neck with Young Americans and a notch above the others).

[sevendaughters]

only Statto to Statto and Blackstar for me, Manish

[Brundle-Fly]

The Deram years.

[phantom_power]

How in the sweet fuck is "Fame" a turkey?! That tune SPANKS

A groove so funky that James Brown got jealous and nicked it

[The Mollusk]

A groove so funky that James Brown got jealous and nicked it

It's so good. The slap of the bass whump... whump makes me want to strut down the street pointing at things emphatically in time with it. I first heard it on the amazing "Yeah Right!" skate video and the way the editing set those whumps in time with the skater landing tricks was awesome, I was totally sucked into it. Incredibly cool.

[Jerzy Bondov]

It's Hunky Dory, Station to Station, Low, Heroes, Scary Monsters and Blackstar. Thank you.

[The Mollusk]

To be perfectly fair to "Low", it's better than pretty much any other album period.

[Thomas]

I have never listened to Tonight and Never Let Me Down in full, so it could be them.

[SteveDave]

For me Alan it's-

Hunky Dory
Station To Station
The first side of Low
Lodger
Blackstar

[phantom_power]

On any given day it changes but on average:

Station to Station
Heroes
Diamond Dogs
Hunky Dory

[Johnboy]

There are three that are as good as Ziggy, wouldn't say they are better

Diamond Dogs
Heroes
Station to Station

[shagatha crustie]

People only bring Ziggy down a peg because of overfamiliarity, it's easily in his top tier. There are six or seven GREAT songs on there, towering by anyone's standards, including non-singles. Dunno how many e.g. Scary Monsters has but it ain't that many.

[Neville Chamberlain]

Obviously, we all know that none of his albums is ACTUALLY better than Ziggy Stardust, but if I were to pretend that any of them were, I'd go for this:

- Aladdin Sane
- Diamond Dogs
- Station to Station
- Lodger (I love this album; it's got a very haunting quality)
- Blackstar

[SteveDave]

- Lodger (I love this album; it's got a very haunting quality)

It's him running on fumes but in a good way. Two songs have the same chord sequence, one song is "Sister Midnight" with different words, one song is "All The Young Dudes" backwards and then he tries to be David Byrne on a couple.

[Natnar]

Outside.

[peanutbutter]

Hunky Dory, Station to Station, Blackstar, Low, mayyyybe the Idiot; several of the latter ones would've had a chance if they were 10-20 minutes shorter too tbh


It is just that Ziggy is overfamiliar though, yeah.

[SteveDave]

Outside.

Let's go then. Let's go then. You and me. You and me. Come on.

[kalowski]

Tell you all what, maybe I am over familiar with Ziggy Stardust, but Hunky Dory is definitely better than it. I've got it on right now and I am glued... it's a brilliant record.

[Pearly-Dewdrops Drops]

Unfortunately Ziggy Stardust is his best album, as obvious and boring as that may be.

[Natnar]

Unfortunately Ziggy Stardust is his best album, as obvious and boring as that may be.

It is certainly his most overrated.

[lazyhour]

Unfortunately Ziggy Stardust is his best album, as obvious and boring as that may be.

It's not better than Hunky Dory though.

[kalowski]

And I am sure now that Aladdin Sane is better than Ziggy Stardust. Good as Ziggy is, it has nothing as good as Aladdin Sane (1913-1938-197?) or Lady Grinning Soul.

[non capisco]

I just wish his vocal was mixed higher on Watch That Man. Rather than a deliberate decision to have it murkier back in the mix like Jagger's vocals on 'Exile On Main Street' it's always sounded like an unrectified mistake to me.

[Egyptian Feast]

That's always struck me as weird. It's a great vocal and would have so much more impact if it came bursting in. Poor decision, whatever they were aiming for.