No.4079
Everything after the 70s descended into complete and utter shit
No.4081
>>4079reaganism/thatcherism nuked culture in general
No.4087
>>4078How can you say that? Blackstar is easily his magnum opus.
No.4088
>>4087Came here to praise Blackstar too.
No.4090
>>4087>>4088blackstar is an exception
No.4092
>>4090but also it’s still nothing like anything he did in the 70s
No.4094
>>4078He said it once himself, in the 80s he was just out to make money.
No.4127
The 80s were rough on a lot of musicians. Bob Dylan put out a long of garbage after the 70s too.
No.4129
>>4128are the 68 kids in the room with us now
No.4130
Descend into shit? uygha its been shit the whole time!
No.4652
>>4079FPBP
Literally about to type this. Computers killed music. Every artist I like were in peak form in the 70s. 80s the music becomes computer quantized mess for most of them. By the 90s they are pure trash.
No.4653
>>4652Should add even if they still did live songs. I can't really describe it, but starting with the 80s the mixing became horrendous. Everything started sounding so thin and tinny. Then 90s they start overmixing in bass but it still lacks the full warm sound music in the 70s.
No.4654
>>4652>Computers killed musicnah the fairlight cmi was a fucking revolution on par with the electric guitar, computers didn't do shit, it was the industry
No.5268
Let's Dance is a guilty pleasure of mine, nice New Wave album.
No.5269
>>4079>>4652holy shit i hate boomers and "i was born in le wrong generation" fags
No.5270
wasn't this guy a fascist
No.5272
>>5270>In late 1976, following a suggestion by writer Christopher Isherwood, Bowie moved to West Berlin, with his friend Iggy Pop. For a time the retreat only relocated Bowie's troubles. He became a heavy drinker. He threw up in alleys at night. He reportedly called out to people, "Please help me." He also did worse: He became intrigued by Third Reich history and Nazi mythology. He had said years earlier in an interview, "I believe very strongly in fascism." In 1974 he told Playboy, "Adolf Hitler was one of the first rock stars. Look at some of the films and see how he moved. I think he was quite as good as Jagger." In Strange Fascination, Buckley reports that customs officers detained Bowie at the Russian-Polish border in April 1976, and seized a collection of Nazi memorabilia. When an assistant later criticized him for his interest, Bowie grew infuriated. "Fuck you," he said. "I changed the world! Kiss my arse" – then broke down and cried. The worst moment came in 1976, when Bowie arrived in an open-top Mercedes-Benz convertible at London's Victoria Station and was photographed giving what some people wrongly thought was a Nazi salute. The reaction in England was furious. Bowie was sickened when he saw the photo. "I'm NOT a fascist…," he told Melody Maker in October 1977. "That didn't happen… I just WAVED… On the life of my child, I waved." The longer Bowie stayed in Berlin, the more he came to understand the ruin that fascism had done to Germany and Europe. He was repelled by nationalists and racists, and was horrified to see his name made into a swastika in graffiti. He later called his interests "ghastly," and said he had been coming out of a year of terrible duress. "I was out of my mind, totally, completely crazed.">https://web.archive.org/web/20171216064719/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/cover-story-excerpt-david-bowie-20120118 No.5273
>>5270musicians arent very bright and he was addicted to cocaine at the time (more proof that coke is a fascist drug)
No.5378
>>5268I like China Girl myself. Let's Dance I just never got into, hated his singing on it.
Love me some Young Americans era content
No.5381
>>5379
I wonder if this is literally what he meant and he overheard a New Left Althusserian Maoist rambling in some café.
No.5391
>>5390it's bad and doesn't come close to his 70s stuff at all
bowie was nothing without his early collaborators like mick ronson or tony visconti or iggy pop or the soul/r&b influence of the time, in all honesty
No.5690
I mean I assume you're not counting scary monsters since that is 88, but I have a soft spot for earthling. Drum and Bowie is a weird little experiment
No.5699
>>5269Me too, anon. Me too.
The answer to OP's question is simple: Bowie got old. Popular music is a young person's game. Bowie was innovative elsewhere tho- the was the first big artist to really make use of the internet, and foresaw music being sold online.
No.5706
>>5699bowie was nearing 30 when he first got started
has nothing to do with age
No.5707
>>5706listen, it's hard to cope, but I'm an old person too… and I love laughing gnome era Bowie. I even love Davie Jones and the lower third.
No.5708
>>5707im probably the youngest person on this site
No.5709
>>5708you are also wrong re: Bowie's age when he started.
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