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One of classic rock's more successfully flamboyant concept albums achieves that charmingly calibrated combination of art, rock, and pop many of his other albums failed to synthesize.
there was no rock'n roll messiah before ziggy stardust. in ziggy stardust, he became the incarnation of the rock star before he even was a rock star.
i turned to my daughter, aged three at the time, and said, "When you hear people talk about God, this is who they mean. His name's Ziggy Stardust." i thought it was a good introduction to music, as well as theology.
Ziggy Stardust, the song, was playing on the stereo. and there's certainly no one who's just taken rock 'n roll and run with it the way david bowie did.
i don't know if there's a better album out there. there's certainly not a cooler one.
and then killed him. and there never will be again.
Every cut on this classic album is enjoyable. In an era of Deep Purples, Zeppelins and Black Sabbaths, Bowie's freeze-dried Ziggy Starbust had a lot of surreal imagery that changed the face of pop music. When I first heard this album in 1972, I was floored. My Faves': Suffragette City, Star, Moonage Daydream, Ziggy Stardust, Hang On To Yourself, Soul Love and the sound is punchy and clean and in your face and the band rocks out like highly energized speed freaks. No longer was it just dumb music to nod off on. It was different, weird but it rocked with a new attitude of glam-rock star personna. One of the best 20 albums of all time and Bowie's best. It is a surreal dream.
The songs are strong in theme, as most of his later would show. Well lots, but this is just a review. What can you say about Bowie. It's moods very and yet have a strong center core of emotions and feelings that are subdued by the lyrics and themes which they speak of. Well this CD is maybe the best of Bowie's. It's his first work that he become theatrical both in concert and in the music. This is just a great album. Get it.
By far his best album in my opinion. Whenever I hear a song from this album I need to play all of it. it is one of those albums that makes you want to hear the whole thing from beginning to end. From the urgency of "5 years" to the introspective "rock n roll suicide " this is a complete perfectly flowing album. If your new to Bowie and are looking for a good offering from this period in his career, this is where to start.
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