Can't agree with that, Hunk Dory was 1971, very early 70's! The Man Who Sold The World is another great album, in my opinion anyway.
I didn't say they were bad albums or otherwise - just not as commercially successful and Bowie and his manager had hoped and expected them to be.
Commercially successful doesn't mean good though. Look at Let's Dance for ****s sake, his biggest selling album ever. Couple of good songs on it, the title track and Ricochet, the rest is just pop muzak for the brain dead.
Didn't claim it did. I was referring to Bowie's expectation of success compared with the reality of the situation in response to Gambol's previous post.
Gotta compilation CD lying about somewhere so might give it a blast later; currently treating the neighbours to the only(?) album from a band called 'Stress'.
Not heard of them. I heard a song on the wireless a few days ago, must have been 86/87 something like that. "Beds Are Burning" by Midnight Oil, what a cracking song that was with one of the best vocals I've heard. I don't think they did much else though to be honest.
The Monkees weren't bad at all. They got a bit experimenty later on in their career when the TV show had finished but still carried on with the music. Mike Nesmith wrote a few nice tunes and his mum invented Tippex. Made up boyband for the telly but knocked out a few decent choons in their time.
You could be yankin' ma chain here! Midnight Oil were and are are once again one of Australia's most successful rock bands! They broke up and the lead singer, Peter Garrett, went into politics; he was appointed Minister for the Environment, Heritage and The Arts but chucked politics a few years ago. Try this: <iframe width="1019" height="573" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/LcxdbZ5chcc" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> The band members are 'big' on Aboriginal rights and against colonialism (in any sense).
Cannae remember if he was meant to be Davy Jones or Mike Nesmith but Stephen Stills got knocked back from the auditions because he wisnae pretty enough! This could of course be an urban myth!
