musicalprostitute wrote:Sir Didymus wrote:musicalprostitute wrote:
For me, he was vocally overrated. There is no denying his legendary status or his influence on music and musicians, but his voice simply does not move me in any way whatsoever.
For you. That's the sincher.
Personal opinion is not fact. I imagine if you named your 30 favourite singers I'd feel the same way about a lot of them as you do about Bowie.
Especially in later life, I think his vocal delivery was phenomenal. His version of Nature Boy for example is my favourite by a country mile...
Of course it is merely my personal opinion - that's why I stated 'for me'. This is all personal opinion - surely we don't need to remind each other of that, do we?
No doubt you would not agree with some of my favourite vocalists, but I don't give a shit who else likes or dislikes who I like: it is irrelevant. Same with you and your love of Bowie: no one is going to convince you otherwise.
A legend, for sure. A great vocalist? No fucking way. Incredibly dull vocalist with zero feeling...IN MY OPINION.
Indeed. But the issue I had was with the initial phrasing of your taste as something closer to fact rather than opinion.
I personally find it incredibly hard to understand how anyone could legitimately say he was 'dull' with 'zero feeling', particularly in later life, when his work was so full of emotional resonance it'd make me cry before he died, let alone now. Have you heard 'Bring Me The Disco King', for example? Or 'I'm Afraid Of Americans'? 'Slip Away'? At the very least, listen to some of the last pieces he recorded: there's a track called 'Killing A Little Time' where he's raging against the disease that's destroying him, and it's *THE* most amazing thing I've heard since Mother Love.
But hey... no pleasing everyone. If all I've ever really heard of him was Let's Dance and the big 80s hits, I'd probably agree with you.
