People like say well what about Magic Jump or Let's Dance, whatever, but even there, he knew exactly what he was doing and what his goals were, and even his most commercial and mainstream fare was purposeful and executed with contemporary good taste.

Very much so on both counts: Bewlay is one of the key transitional songs that makes Hunky Dory such a pivotal and in a sense futuristic record. Bowie always had great taste and good judgement, always had a keen perspective on trend that meshed with his more experimental leanings.

Interesting choice for sure, and not one surfaced often in best of discussions. I don't know what I'd go with... maybe Queen Bitch, maybe Candidate, maybe Lady Stardust, maybe Sound & Vision, probably Station to Station...

Have a look at Gretel and Hansel- virtually no one saw it (it came out like minutes before Covid hit). It's his best to date, a really fascinating, witchy fairy tale. Seeing Longlegs in a theater with a packed, completely baffled audience was a delight.

Well, I'd like to be...it's just so weirdly rigid. I dig the extreme abstraction but I feel like there's not much to hold on to in terms of identification. I got really into it a while back with a friend on BGA and I never really felt like I completely had a handle on it.

I really liked The Substance despite feeling like it's Cronenberg and Yuzna made over...probably the biggest body horror film ever made. Loved The Monkey too- I'm kind of a huge Oz Perkins follower though. So far he's not made an uninteresting film. I am firmly in the Longlegs=great camp.

Homeworlds FFS...it seems so great...yet...

It's also an unusually awesome video...it captures a really interesting working musician vibe...it's intimate, but still weirdly remote. Also- the best part of the song is when Hooky comes in of course.