Been giving Outside another go because of the thread, and it's got a hold of me pretty good right now. These songs are actually a lot more hooky than I remember. It definitely is a little excessive though. Feel like he had to have been drawing from this album when he was working on Blackstar, they're on a similar wavelength.
For anyone interested, the entirety of the Moonage Daydream doc's audio is up on streaming. It is a wonderful listen while working.
I watched it twice this week already, I wish more music "documentaries" were like this, but of course they couldn't be, because most artists aren't Bowie. It's just so well done and captures his all idiosyncrasies, and how he changed over the years. I especially like that it's all in his own words and interviews.
Bowie was terrific live. I Think I saw him on Sound & Vision in 1990. The show could have gone on forever.
Been diving into his discography for the first time these past three weeks. Up to Earthling and jeez how did he manage to pull it off and keep reinventing himself 30+ years into his career? That album is nuts so far, which was also my reaction to hearing Outside a couple days back.
Bowie will probably always have the most interesting discography I've ever heard. He made something like 30 albums, and Never Let Me Down is the only one I don't enjoy to some degree (outside of Time Will Crawl, that's a goddamn bop). The fact he made Blackstar, arguably his best and most unique album, when he was almost 70 and was actually dying is wild.