David Bowie's mimes.
 

Bowie rules!
Have you ever seen the Cracked Actor documentary? It's the best thing I've seen in a long time. It's up on the Trader's Den at the moment:
http://www.thetradersden.org/forums/...rac ked+actor

Glad to hear some love for Bowie, _tunic_. I listened to Aladdin Sane, Station to Station & Low yesterday.

Look! He's wearing a puffy shirt.

He can mime. He's good at it.

I, like most people, am not big on the miming.
That's just the way it goes.
I am, sometimes into the rhyming, though.

he reminds me of the joker there.

I bought an LP of station to station a week ago and left it in my car... it warpped before i got to listen to it. It was a total drag.

Bowie studied miming under Lindsay Kemp in the sixties. One of the things I've always loved about Bowie is the way he drew from so many diverse influences well outside the relatively narrow world of rock music. For example, the way the Ziggy-era stage show contained elements of miming and Kabuki theater or the way he incorporated Orwell's "1984" and William Burroughs' cut up technique into the lyrics of "Diamond Dogs". He's drawn from such a diverse well of influences throughout his career and as he himself has pointed out, his greatest talent probably lies in his ability to create these unique synthesises, these unholy marriages, in his work. That's what he's all about, really. I think Sonic Youth has done something similar in the sense that their aesthetic is just as influenced by say, abstract painting and beat poetry as it is by other musicians. And I think people like Bowie's and SY's knowledge of not only music, but art, film and literature, and their ability to gain inspiration from these other mediums and incorporate that into their work, is by and large what makes them so special.

Twat.

Bowie rules, but the miming is borderline creepy.

The Bowie doc that's played on the Biography channel has a good minute or two of vintage mime footage.

Who has more great albums than Bowie?

No one...besides Sonic Youth, Neil Young, The Stones & The Beatles.

THE GRATEFUL DEAD

studio albums?

The only GD releases that are great are Aoxomoxoa, Workingman's Dead, & American Beauty.

Blues for Allah & In the Dark are just good.

Reckoning & Europe '72 are monstrously sweet, but they are releases of live recordings.

so officially released lives don't count?

If you want them to haha.
Well, Zappa has a gazillion studio albums, but how many are really great besides Apostrophe, Joe's Garage & Over-nite Sensation? Hot Rats & Baby Snakes & many others are good.

true, true

and I do agree with you about them only having a couple of great studio albums. Anthem Of The Sun is great too, though it has live recordings mixed in with the studio record.

But ya just can't beat the live stuff like Live/Dead and Skull & Roses and the Dick's Picks series.

The only Zappa LP I've ever enjoyed was Hot Rats. and some parts of Weasels Ripped My Flesh

There's way too many great live dead ones to even begin counting.

I believe khchris(original) wrote once that Apostrophe is Zappa's best. I agree. At the time, I didn't wanna write that I agreed.

Whiny Homos & Irritable Malcontents

Yeah, Bowie is/was bi. He was never an insufferable jerk though.

Just a bit of my own damage...

Bowie = 1 excellent albums and 3 goods ones, then pure junk

I guess he's good, a bit boring

out yo mind

I consider Let's Dance as a great album even.

1 great one? WHIM can sponsor you if you need help with accutane or anti-psychotic medication.

Hunky Dory
Ziggy
Aladdin Sane

3 that can top most anyone right there.

Everyone here listen to Brian Eno's pop albums and maybe some of his ambient now, totally better than Bowie.

Ziggy is excellent though and might be better than Take Tiger Mountain, just a comparison of 70 pop solo albums

I'm thinking about buyng one or two more Bowie CDs but I have no clue which ones... what I have now is Ziggy Stardust, the BBC sessions (including the bonus CD), and a Best of I never listen to.
So, what should I buy next?

I love the Ziggy Stadust album, played it in my car yesterday, I think it may have caused me some speeding tickets ;-)

Get Aladdin Sane.

Why didn't you vote for, "Twat"? Is it because your opinions are wrong?

Shame on you, Sonic Youth fans.

But it's David Bowie.
He can do no wrong.

Right, I don't actually like Bowie, but we'll leave our personal feelings about him to one side for second.

MIMES ARE THE SINGLE WORST THING EVER APART FROM BONO. This is the law. I didn't make it, but I do respect it.

If Bowie started doing Poi you'd all laugh his teeth out. Is mime any different? No.

We all know mimes suck, Glice.


great choices with Ziggy & Beeb already, _tunic_, but yeah, get Aladdin Sane, but first perhaps get Hunky Dory, although Scary Monsters & Low are certainly not ones to sneeze at either.

david bowie is kind of boring. i really like some of the stuff he did though.

He's the greatest arranger (along with his assorted producers & arrangers) in Rock 'n' Roll history except for George Martin.

Kinky Ray/Dave Davies & those lads in Queen aren't shabby either.


Not sure how that lends itself to being "boring."
Maybe because all those cats dig classical & it shows sometimes?

I think this is perfect for a beginner.

& its the LP that made me want to explore music.

oh, don't get me wrong, i think he's very talented. he's written some of the best music i've ever heard, but there's so much more out there.

That is the only one I have.

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elaborate

of course there VD parks & B wilson

Mimes who pretend to be trapped are a good excuse for lynchmobs.

Bowie's a genius.

he made great music until he decided to do that collaboration with mick jagger. although it is pretty awesome when he yells "SOUTH AMERICAAAAAAAHHHHGGGHH".

i happen to enjoy a lot of other stuff a lot more. just personal preference i suppose.

"Hunky Dory", "Ziggy Stardust", "Aladdin Sane", "Diamond Dogs", "Young Americans", "Station To Station", "Low" and "Heroes" are ALL absolute must haves. If you really like "Ziggy" though, I'd purchase it's rather underrated follow up next, "Aladdin Sane".

I love my bowie!!!!

Bowie rulezzzz!!!!

Mime is shit.

Bowie is not.