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[jimmiefearsylar]

AKA: Bowie Not-Really-A-Month is of to a slow start. Slooooowwwww.

I was going to start at the beginning, but um.... 25 studio albums. Have you met my short attention span? Then I was like, "Okay, I will do like I did with everyone else.I will find some sort of compilation and work my way back. The only problem is that for once, I actually know a

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[eevilalice]

Cool artwork. :)

New Order's pretty amazeballs. In small doses, IMO.

Honestly, I don't think there's a wrong way to get into Bowie. There will always be stuff you do and don't like. I'm sure the method you picked will be fine. I will say that the problem with any Bowie "best album" method would be that no one truly agrees what his best album is; although the argument might produce a handful that would give you a start. I had the additional handicap of dealing with the fact that much of his catalog was out of print at the time. Therefore, it was what I could find.

After you've read the bio and gotten into his music (if you do), you should check out the movie Velvet Goldmine, which is like a bio of a Bowie-like figure, complete with childhood Little Richard impersonation. :)

I predict Lou Reed, Velvet Underground, and Iggy Pop in your future...

[jimmiefearsylar]

Thanks! I am trying to be more of a finisher, but keep adding to the In-Progress Wall. The upside is that it's pretty full now, so nothing else can go up until something comes down.

New Order pops up over and over again in everything music-related I've been reading/watching lately, but I had no idea who they were until last night. I didn't even look to see if they had another song I knew, I just listened to "Blue Monday", edited the mistaken tags that came with the mp3, read that they rose from the ashes of Joy Division and had an "Oh!" moment.

I am still working on my Bowie program. Before I went to the library this afternoon I remembered that the library has CDs. Cool, right? Yeah, of all the Bowie CDs in the system's catalog, the branch I went to has all of one (Station to Station). And when I got there, it was nowhere to be found! I am trying to become a reformed downloader, but man, this is a lot of work!

I've heard about, but never seen Velvet Goldmine. That's Ewan McGregor and Johnathan... umm, Henry VIII, right? That's about