The Friday Canon: DAME DAVID BOWIE

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

What a lot of singles David Bowie has had! But which are the best? This week's instalment of the canon polls casts a spotlight on the mysterious Pierrot of Pop through the prism of his Top 40 hits, including collaborations and....side projects.

You get NINETEEN ticks to sum up Bowie's style-spanning career.




[Poll #838332]

Comments

[awesomewells.livejournal.com]

David Bowie has the worst voice in pop, it's genuinely a horrible, horrible sound. A complete vacant, emotionless, smugly-arch smirk of a voice. Everything he has ever sung on he has ruined, which is a shame as some of his songs would be quite good sung by, well, anyone else.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

i found his over-emoting 84-94 to have become tiresome and his voice -- technically probably better -- was 1xbig operatic turn-off; but i follow koganbot's line: along the ordinary rock-pop continuum there are few people more openly sentimental

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

i kind of enjoy his voice i suppose. except on 'Peace On Earth'. i think i prefer it when he goes low e.g. 'Golden Years', 'Sound And Vision'. anything where he really strains does tend to grate a little, except 'Let's Dance' and 'Modern Love' which are both kfab.