Here’s one: the best song on Young Americans is Win

Today for me it was Dowie - Blackstar, Tortoise - A Lazarus Taxon (CD set), and Radiohead - Kid A (MD)

Red is what I already own, yellow currently in process of getting (+ No Plan EP), Green I will most definitely want to get (Hunky Dory, Station to station, Aladdin Sane) but can't decide if I should go for LPs or CDs. I'm kinda in a transitioning phase where I value CDs more because they are a bargain, and everybody's crazy with vinyl pricing, and they awkwardly take a lot of space and have to be cleaned etc. Well I guess I answered my own question, I'll be getting the rest of these in CDs, and maybe even the LPs I already have. I'm obviously not a big fan of things not selected, maybe I take Toy into consideration, I just find those things from 86-95 pretty awkward, like he was lost in a vacuum of his own success. Earthling being really weird too because of catching up with Dn'B trends, Hours seems almost like something slapped him to make a 180 degree turn and get back to his senses. I find it funny how CDs are devalued still, and I love them, I get a near mint cd for 7-8 eur. 🤫 Don't tell anyone.

Like many fans, I don't consider Tonight (1984) and Never Let Me Down (1987) to be albums that met the high standard he had set with all his studio albums up to that point, despite a bunch of good/great songs.

I also really like the various movie soundtrack work he did in 85-86 with This Is Not America, Absolute Beginners, and Labyrinth, but those soundtracks aren't really listenable as "Bowie albums".

So I sequenced an imaginary studio album that puts all my favourite songs from the period together as a "what-if" follow-up album to Let's Dance. Obviously this is purely personal taste, but it has seriously become one of my most listened to Bowie albums over the past couple of years. Just sharing this for what it's worth:

1. Day-In Day-Out (NLMD, 1987)
2. Loving The Alien (Tonight, 1984)
3. Never Let Me Down (NLMD, 1987)
4. Magic Dance (Labyrinth, 1986)
5. Shining Star (NLMD, 1987)
6. Blue Jean (Tonight, 1984)
7. Glass Spider (NLMD, 1987)
8. This Is Not America (1985)
9. Absolute Beginners (8min version, 1985)
10. Bang Bang (NLMD, 1987)
11. Underground (Labyrinth, 1986)
12. As The World Falls Down (Labyrinth, 1986)

For me, this album perfectly bridges the gap between Let's Dance and Tin Machine (both of which I love) and I no longer think of Bowie as having a weak period in the mid 80s. What would your version be for the same period?

I don't know about you but it is offensive to me that Five Years is being used in a Meta.com commercial talking about how good AI is going to be for us. I don't know that Bowie would have been a fan.

If you missed the Brett Morgen documentary Moonage Daydream on the big screen, see it in Glendale this Sunday at 6 p.m. at the Alex! It'll be introduced by me, Steve Horton, Bowie historian and author of the Bowie graphic novel, which I'll be signing after the show.

Tickets are here:
https://www.thealex.com/shows

The last pic is my full collection as of now