David Bowie | Space Oddity | The Man Who Sold the World | Hunky Dory
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars | Aladdin Sane | Pin Ups | Diamond Dogs | Young Americans
Station to Station | Low | "Heroes" | Lodger | Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) | Let's Dance | Tonight | Never Let Me Down
Tin Machine | Black Tie White Noise | The Buddha of Suburbia | Outside | Earthling | 'hours...' | The Next Day | ★
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- Contested Sequel: The album blindsided fans and critics with its shift to soul and funk after Bowie's previous success as a Glam Rock star, and it still generates mixed responses from audiences today. Some enjoy it for having the audacity to make such a drastic left turn and praise it as a fun, passionate soul album, while others consider it awkward and inconsistent, not helped by the fact that much of it was retooled midway through production.
- Retroactive Recognition: The album features contributions from a young Luther Vandross, who sings backing vocals, provided vocal arrangements, and co-wrote "Fascination". Vandross was completely unknown at the time, but would go on to achieve success as an R&B singer throughout the '80s and '90s.
- Signature Song: "Fame" remains the best-known track from the album and one of Bowie's most famous songs overall, being his American Breakthrough Hit and a staple of Greatest Hits Albums. Bowie himself was aware of the song's huge standing in his catalog, choosing to remix it in 1990 for the soundtrack to Pretty Woman.
- They Changed It, Now It Sucks!:
- Fans of The Beatles were not pleased by the decision to omit the "jai guru deva, ohm" chant from Bowie's Cover Version of "Across the Universe", stating that doing so missed the point of the song, which John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote as a reflection on the band's fascination with Transcendental Meditation. Ironically, Lennon played guitar on Bowie's version of the song and thus had a say in the lyric's omission.
- Fans and critics weren't keen on "Fame '90", considering it superfluous and inferior to the original; the fact that it was included on Changesbowie in place of the original "Fame" only emboldened negative reactions to the remix. It got to the point where Rykodisc eventually reissued the compilation in 1996 with the original version of the song in place of the remix.
