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Post by Reactionary Rage on Oct 23, 2019 11:36:51 GMT
Bowie.....the greatest catalogue of songs in the post Beatles world?
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Post by oh oooh on Oct 23, 2019 11:52:30 GMT
I'd like to see challengers for that title first.
Having said that, I can't think of one sensible suggestion.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Oct 23, 2019 12:01:38 GMT
Randy Newman
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Oct 23, 2019 12:01:49 GMT
Richard Thompson
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Oct 23, 2019 12:02:23 GMT
That fella from Brian Jonestown Massacre
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Post by loveless on Oct 23, 2019 13:19:39 GMT
I probably listen to Neil Young's work from that period with greater frequency, but...I tend to think of both of them as having a similar calendar window of "the shit that I really love".
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Post by oh oooh on Oct 23, 2019 16:07:00 GMT
Some might nominate Springsteen, I suppose.
Who else from the UK? You'd have to look to the late 70s, to someone like Costello, I suppose (not that I'd put him forward - those so-called classic albums are DRABSVILLE)
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Post by countmachuki on Oct 23, 2019 16:38:13 GMT
I'd like to see challengers for that title first. Having said that, I can't think of one sensible suggestion. Prince. The songs are there.
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Post by nolamike on Oct 23, 2019 16:42:41 GMT
Stevie Wonder. Duh.
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Post by nolamike on Oct 23, 2019 16:48:46 GMT
Jack Malik.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2019 16:57:46 GMT
We couldn't produce a top 50 with anything like the quality, diversity and distinctiveness of the Bowie top 50. He's not in the same league.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2019 16:58:24 GMT
I'd like to see challengers for that title first. Having said that, I can't think of one sensible suggestion. Prince. The songs are there. For a top ten maybe.
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Post by nolamike on Oct 23, 2019 17:59:08 GMT
We couldn't produce a top 50 with anything like the quality, diversity and distinctiveness of the Bowie top 50. He's not in the same league. You're insane. Stevie's six-album run from "Where I'm Coming From" through "Songs in the Key of Life" is pretty damn close to being perfect straight through... and that's not even including any of his '60s singles, of which there are some stone-cold classics.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2019 18:39:40 GMT
We couldn't produce a top 50 with anything like the quality, diversity and distinctiveness of the Bowie top 50. He's not in the same league. You're insane. Stevie's six-album run from "Where I'm Coming From" through "Songs in the Key of Life" is pretty damn close to being perfect straight through... and that's not even including any of his '60s singles, of which there are some stone-cold classics. You have to wade through a lot of generic material and soppy ballads to get to the gold. His best is certainly comparable, but artistically he's not on the same scale and he works from a far narrower genre template. Where's his equivalent of Quicksand or Sweet Thing/Candidate? I don't think he has the artistic reach to try and write something like that.
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Post by Cousin Lou on Oct 23, 2019 18:42:46 GMT
Dylan’s probably a contender but I won’t sit through a fifty song list by him, a thing I could easily do with the Bowie list.
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