After his last album 'Heathen' being a big suprise by not being crap, he's done it again - 'Reality' is another corker, probably better than the last one in fact though i need to listen more to say for sure.

Not a patch on his older material but still a damned fine album.. anyone with a passing interest in anything Bowie related should give it a look. There's a pretty good new version of "Rebel Rebel" on the bonus disk too if you get the ltd edition version.

Anyone else got it? What do you think?
Hope he's gonna tour the UK, would love to see him at least once.. apparantly he did a low key small gig at Rock City a couple of years ago.. so low key i knew nothing about it and missed it - damnit!

Ok, just checked on NME and he is touring - Birmingham, Manchester, London and Glasgow - all of which are sold out.. bollocks!

Ony a Silver Sun gig can cheer me up now.. oh hold on.. yay! :D

I've got 3/4 Bowie LP's its all about money for him now...

Releases a Best Of then a new LP, nice ploy............

I think that's a bit unfair, I don't agree with all the re-releases/compilations but I imagine a lot of that is down to the record label rather than him.

He's a musician afterall, you can't blame him for writing and releasing new material - especially when it's this good!

Plus when you've done 20+ albums you're gonna miss a lot out when you do a greatest hits album anyway.

Now Aerosmith, they're a band that knows how to milk the greatest hits thing, they released two in the space of about 2 years without even a single studio album in between.. :rolleyes:

The best Aerosmith Greatest Hits album is their very first one, which covers 1973 to 1980. It's got 'Dream On' on it, which Eminem sampled recently.

I'd agree until recently, i think their new one is better now though as it has 2 disks and goes from their first album up till their last one so you get the best of everything they've ever done.

There's some classics missing from their early stuff but it charts their career really well starting with Dream On & Mama Kin up through Walk This Way (both versions) and bigger newer hits like Dude, Janies Got A Gun and erm.. I Don't Want To MIss A Thing..

Good value for money and whilst the old stuff is easily a million times better than the new, the new stuff's still good too.

Hope their next album is good, they're doing a blues album.. should be more like their 70's stuff with any luck, they even have Jack Douglas producing again who did a lot of their 70's albums.

The early stuff has the added impact of making you think "How the hell have they managed to stick around this long?"

The new Lowgold single (out Sep 29) promises a cover version of "I Don't To Miss A Thing"...! :D

Bowie can make LP's sure though performing LIVE I dunno.

That's just reminded me, I was watching some crap film the other day where half way through the cast just burst randomly into that song.. and I can't remember what film it was or why they did it now.. that's really gonna bug me.. <_<

EDIT: Just remembered, it was the amazingly crap "The Sweetest Thing".. worst film i've seen in a long time - avoid! :angry:

I dunno, he's not that old - Aerosmith are about as old as him and they're still one of the best live bands around.

He's always sounded good when i've seen him live on TV like at Glastonbury and stuff.. probably nowhere near as good as seeing him in his earlier years but i reckon he'd still be worth seeing..

I've seen him live a few times - twice at the Phoenix Festival and once by himself, when he had stopped playing most of the old stuff. Then I was at the Glastonbury show where he changed his mind and did the greatest hits. It was ruddy marvellous.

I was at that Glastonbury, but decided not to see Bowie because I was worried he'd only play the newer stuff (although I do like 'Little Wonder'). Went to see Doves in the New Bands Tent instead - they were mindblowing.