Who's the Main Man : Bowie, Iggy or Lou ?

& tbh i love the overall sound of New York, just nicely recorded, crisp sounds, doesn't sound terribly dated. that eighth grader had skillz.

Still wish he had gone back to get his GED

The Blue Mask and LH bombed. Wonder if they would have performed better at the height of boomer revivalism several years later.

he was never exactly a steady hitmaker! 'dirty blvd' benefited alot from the emergence of modern rock radio

Always thought it was deeply weird that that's Dion singing backup on Dirty Blvd, but in the video that part is lip-synced by an old black guy (iirc)

we should all just pay attention to dennis perrin's twitter instead

his 'dressing up as Bowie in high school' blog post was pretty good.

is there an album that has all three together? feels like as much as they all collaborated there should be....

Re-run the thread when Iggy pops his cloggs as 4th option.

they're all only a couple degrees removed from one another (thx to Cale and Eno), but no

xp

"The Blue Mask, Legendary Hearts, and New Sensations are wonderful records, superior to anything Bowie and Iggy released in that period.

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, January 26, 2016 10:45 AM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink"

"Legendary Hearts" is hell of underrated, ha I ignored it for a long time cuz of the dumb album cover

and well duh Bowie worked w both obviously

xxp

is there an album that has all three together? feels like as much as they all collaborated there should be....

I don't think there's an album but maybe a song ?

or at least a session/demo/outtake whatever.

12" version of 'hands across america' maybe

i could be wrong, but i don't think Lou really liked Iggy -- did they become buddies in the latter days?

"The Blue Mask, Legendary Hearts, and New Sensations are wonderful records, superior to anything Bowie and Iggy released in that period.

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, January 26, 2016 10:45 AM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink"

"Legendary Hearts" is hell of underrated, ha I ignored it for a long time cuz of the dumb album cover

I've never read about Lou and Iggy interacting tbh. I can imagine Lou feeling threatened

might just be thinking of Lou dissing Iggy in that Lester Bangs article -- "sweet, but stupid" or something like that.

xxp I think yr right, I think Iggy liked Lou, but Lou...I mean who knows

Also, I thought it was interesting in that Iggy interivew when Bowie died he was very complimentary but also made it sound like they hadn't spoken in yrs & yrs

Malkmus's vote, btw: http://www.nme.com/news/lou-reed/74044

Anyway, this poll...head says Lou, heart says Ig, for me at least

"sweet, but stupid" or something like that.

of course if you took this as an insult Lou would probably come back with "what's wrong with stupid? I love stupid"

My cursory Bowie bio reading this past week led me to believe that Iggy was perhaps Bowie's best rock star friend, but he still considered people like George Underwood his only true friends. Also seem to recall reading about some, um, cat fight between David and Lou.

iirc Lou wasn't all that grateful about Bowie saving his career in 1972

Lou had the best music video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiyX70ZqsVQ

Lou guitarist Chuck Hammer:

As a guitarist in the Lou Reed band at that time, I was actually sitting next to both David and Lou at dinner when this exchange took pace, I can tell you exactly what transpired verbally.

‘Lou had been discussing details regarding his upcoming new album- as yet un-recorded. Lou asked David if he would be interested in producing the record and David replied yes – but only upon the condition that Lou would stop drinking and clean up his act. And upon that reply, the aforementioned chaos ensued.

‘It should be noted that this verbal bantering also continued into the night back at the hotel -With Bowie in the hallway demanding that Reed “come out and fight like a man” Eventually it all quieted down as Lou never reappeared to continue the fight, and was most likely already fast asleep.’

yeah bowie and reed seemed to patch things up later in life -- think i read they socialized pretty regularly in the 2000s since both were NYC residents?
hard to imagine bowie telling Lou to "fight like a man" but who knows

Bowie would know.

Lou had the best music video:

I assume this is a mistake, since that is not the Original Wrapper video

woah puppet Lou is freaking me out

Starman says it was perhaps his first fight "since being clocked in the eye by George Underwood."
(Xp)

I haven't that video in yrs and just the memory of puppet Lou is going make me not be able to sleep tonight

think i read that Lou's mother really hated that video, which is understandable.
xp a bowie-produced Lou Reed record in 1980 would've been ... interesting.

"Legendary Hearts" is hell of underrated, ha I ignored it for a long time cuz of the dumb album cover

Meanwhile The Blue Mask could easily be mistaken for a cheapo comp, as it's just the Transformer cover photo tinted blue...

Lol, right

did Bowie get the idea of uglifying The Next Day sleeve from Lou?

Ha, I just had that thought myself...

Still think the idea that David borrowed Aladdin Sane's lighting bolt from Elvis's TCB jewelry is undercirculated.

I mean it was three years before the King bought the Lisa Marie and painted it on the tail fin.

surely Captain Marvel is the real source there

Right! Elvis was way into Captain Marvel.

"his last album was a grim, rage-filled contrarian "fuck you" move (ie, standard operating Lou procedure) so yeah"

But.... Junior Dad?

I can never choose between these guys. They're just the best thing in Music.

The head says Bowie, the heart says Lou.
the crotch definitely says Iggy though.
still, went with the heart.

Music: Bowie >>> Lou > Iggy
Interesting-ness of 70s lifestyle: Lou > Iggy > Bowie
Practical approach to music: Iggy > Bowie > Lou
Intellectual approach to music: Lou > Bowie > Iggy
Who would be the best company in a bar: Iggy > Bowie >>> Lou

Collaborators: Bowie >>> Iggy > Lou (not counting Bowie as a Lou or Iggy collaborator)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ioRWlG9PBQ

always feel like this is the soundtrack to the OP photo

write-in for Entwistle.

According to The Complete David Bowie (quoting Bowie himself I think) the inspiration was more prosaic

http://www.covington.coop/images/voltagesignsmall.jpg

write-in for Entwistle.

― by the light of the burning Citroën, Tuesday, January 26, 2016 3:46 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Pretty sure that's Tony DeFries behind them.

Though Entwistle did play on Susanna Hoffs' cover of "Boys Keep Swinging," so it's all a rich tapestry.