Pin Ups stands not only as a symbol for the retirement of Ziggy Stardust but also as an homage—and, perhaps, a farewell—to the inspirations and ambitions of Bowie’s youth.

Aladdin Sane is many things at once, such was the result of the different directions that Bowie was being pulled in at the time.

Reinvention is a form of immortality, and Bowie seemed to crack the code.

Hunky Dory showed Bowie the artist become fully realized, resulting in his most coherent artistic statement to date, not to mention one of the best capital A Albums in his entire catalog.

The Man Who Sold the World is David Bowie’s first truly great album.

Offers a tantalizing glimpse of Bowie’s formative genius

David Bowie is very much a product of its time, all peace-and-love and early psychedelia, music hall and esoteric folk music melded together into something bemusing.

Warzone is as much about stasis as it is about change.

A reminder that artists like Ono were freely combining the obscure and mainstream long before the content smorgasbord of the Internet exposed artists to rabbit holes of contradictory sounds.

Feels like more than a curio, a frustrating failure to launch for what should have been an invigorating collaboration.