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Things That They Missed..

posted 10 years ago by Jeepster7
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The thing I don't understand is how they left out the albums "Lodger" (1979) which was the last of the so called "Berlin Tribology" albums. & the classic "Aladdin Sane" (1973) Since "David Bowie: Five Years" covered these time periods I'm more than a little take aback that these albums which were as crucial/formative to Bowie as any of the other ones were completely omitted from the documentary. As a matter of fact, they pretty much skipped over "Logder" to get to "Let's Dance" which was his first of the 80's.

"Aladdin Sane" which had the classic "Lady Grinning Soul" was the album that came after the legendary "Ziggy Stardust". You couldn't find time to mention it? Sheesh! That's like talking about "Dark Side of the Moon" & failing to mention "Wish You Were Here/Animals" in a Floyd documentary. "Lodger" as you know had the great song "DJ" on it. "I am a DJ, I am what I play!"

When you watch the movie "The Runaways" based on the group, Cherrie Currie is seen making herself up like Bowie from the cover of "Aladdin Sane" in the beginning of the movie when she was doing her school play.

Again how these two albums were left out has me scratching my head.
This documentary would have been so much better for want of including just these couple of more albums. It would have maybe added 7 maybe 10 more minutes to the documentary. Big deal.

[–] barcham_99 10 years ago

They also totally left out the Diamond Dogs album which was his first post Ziggy release and led to the most elaborate tour of his career. This led to the David Live album, also passed over by this documentary, which led directly to his Philadelphia sound discovery. But that period of time also included his slide into cocaine addiction which was also totally ignored by this documentary. This documentary really is not for real Bowie fans, but more for casual fans or those who are simply curious about his career. Not on the level of the recent Alice Cooper movie, Super Duper Alice Cooper, which glosses over nothing at all.

[–] maxi13 8 years ago

i found it strange that a documetary made in the year 2013 ends with his career in the 80s.
i am not a huge fan, though one of his older albums was even my favorite for nearly a year,
and i havent followed his career after this mainstream album in the early 80s,
but wasnt there an electronic album in the 00s which was quite interesting agin?!
wasnt there a album with trent reznor?
not that this album was such a milestone,
but as far as i remember i liked it and it showed once more how much Bowie was able to change himself.

a docmetary made in 2013 really shouldnt stop with the story in the early 80s

[–] Celeste2013 8 years ago

We need a new documentary that embraces his career start to finish.

[–] moilane 8 years ago

Here's a helpful hint for everyone who's posted in this thread so far:

The documentary's called "Five Years".

[–] mph1-3 8 years ago

^ LOL no kidding!