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

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.

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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.

heh i've always thought there should be an in-depth oral history just about that lou-david-iggy party, but it is likely no one remembers much.

For real! Do we even know what's its from? The MainMan holiday party?

It was taken at the Dorchester Hotel in London.
http://www.5years.com/rock.htm
(scroll down to the picture Rock's paragraph describing the circumstances is below)

Damn, I never thought about the timeline, but "Transformer" was recorded August 1972, "Raw Power" recorded September 1972

Bowie > Iggy >>>>>>> Lou

Really?

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

I dunno, I thought it was the last cry for his mortality and so on.

it was hardly the valedictory lap that Bowie's last album has been. Granted Lou didn't die the day after came out or anything, but I doubt that would have improved its reception. Certainly since Lou died it hasn't really gotten a critical reappraisal (which might still happen!) It's a bleak album imo, done in a style and with collaborators that he knew would throw people for a loop, at the very least.

it's definitely bleak, but maybe aside from "junior dad" it doesn't seem "old-man-about-to-die" bleak to me?

yeah there doesn't seem to be a lot of personal reflection or soul-searching or career-summing up in it.

I mean, Little Dog is obviously personal but

All that bit about "spermless" or whatever it was? I only heard it once, entirely. (The ILX lulu, however...)

Raging against the dying of the light, etc..

Who would be the best company in a bar: Iggy > Bowie >>> Lou

"You know, you have to be real careful where you sit down
In a bar these days"

For me, the Velvet Underground makes it no contest.

(btw that is Tony DeFries in the background of the photo at the top of the thread)

write in vote for b.g.

gah that's "made man". Ban me

Bowie's defense of Lulu looks a bit more calcualted now tbf.

iggy all the way

Poor Marc Bolan is in that picture too

Don't really dig Iggy or Bowie or Lou all that much tbh.

or you tbh

any velvets album > any bowie album

that's like saying any Dylan album > any Petty album

or Shakespeare > O'Neill

Meh, I'd say there are a few Bowie albums that are preferable to Loaded.

a disciple's albums rarely surpass a master's.

fun house is my pick of the litter. bowie was warhol and had the most cosmic imagination. lou came from long island accountant money and acted like it. bowie

this is David Bowie for me but Lou Reed is like 1B.