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SunriderYRX
Am I the only one who thinks the Ziggy Stardust era was actually one of his less interesting ones? Not saying it wasn't great, but to me he only got more interesting with Diamond Dogs and the Plastic Soul era. His peak years, to me, are from Station To Station (possibly my favorite album of any artist) until Scary Monsters, and I loved how he revitalized his creativity from Black Tie, White Noise/Buddha of Suburbia onwards, culminating in his final masterpiece Blackstar. As great as Ziggy Stardust was (and it absolutely was!), there were still greater things to come!
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exaybachay69
"You would think that a rock star being married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is" - David Bowie
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Account124
Oh Man! Oh God! Oh Man! Oh God! Oh Man! Oh God! Oh Man! Oh God! Oh Man! Oh God! It's all remastered.
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jaylienplanet
Bowie being so big on art and creating; we sure did get some lackluster album covers. I would've loved to see some of his hand-drawn art as covers.
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maninbrussels
Your thoughts are as good as anyone's but I think The Next Day is powerful from an album artwork standpoint. It takes one of his most iconic pieces of album artwork & strips it of everything important & memorable. They took an empty vessel, the embalmed cadaver of the artistic peak of his career — the Berlin period, which the 'Heroes' cover is effectively an effigy of — & made THAT the symbol of the album. The Next Day feels a lot like Bowie beginning to recognize his life was not getting any longer, & thus recalling his life & career as well as his isolation & retreat from the public, as well as creative affairs in general, after his health issues on A Reality Tour. It's intentionally derivative but in a way that actually says something of its own. I don't think many 66 year old musical artists would voluntarily choose artwork that desecrates a career-defining image of theirs.
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jaylienplanet
That's a great way to put it; I never thought about it from Bowie's perspective. Let alone think about WHY Bowie would print over an existing cover. Very well-spoken; it makes me appreciate what I once thought was a lackluster cover.
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maninbrussels
Not all of his covers are genius (dude had 26 studio albums — not every cover is going to be perfect) but I think many of them are highly underrated. Since his primary method of creation was music, he & those around him probably felt it was best to leave graphic design/packaging & album artwork to professionals. It worked well, considering Aladdin Sane's cover is basically THE photo of him people remember, as well as the covers for Ziggy Stardust & Heroes. & there's memorable covers in Earthling, Hunky Dory, & a couple others. Frankly, getting professional visual artists is a better choice from a business standpoint than doing it yourself, no matter how cool it sounds artistically. But I do agree with you, on a purely creative standpoint it would've been cool to see him do his own artwork (like Joni Mitchell did) but with more varied influences like Die Brücke, Egon Schiele, Dadaism, etc.
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jaylienplanet
I never really expected perfection. I remember seeing Bowie's artwork and how creatively driven they were; they were some stunning pieces. I later listened to one of his albums and thought, "Why is this cover just him sitting down? What about all the emotion and detail of his art." From your other post, you were right to consider Bowie's perspective on the cover; I was thinking from a consumer standpoint.
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