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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. and then killed him. 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. there's certainly not a cooler one. 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. and there never will be again. His name's Ziggy Stardust." i thought it was a good introduction to music, as well as theology.
i don't know if there's a better album out there.
One of the best 20 albums of all time and Bowie's best. Every cut on this classic album is enjoyable. 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. When I first heard this album in 1972, I was floored. It is a surreal dream. No longer was it just dumb music to nod off on. 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. It was different, weird but it rocked with a new attitude of glam-rock star personna.
This is just a great album. The songs are strong in theme, as most of his later would show. 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. What can you say about Bowie. Get it. Well this CD is maybe the best of Bowie's. Well lots, but this is just a review. It's his first work that he become theatrical both in concert and in the music.
From the urgency of "5 years" to the introspective "rock n roll suicide " this is a complete perfectly flowing album. By far his best album in my opinion. If your new to Bowie and are looking for a good offering from this period in his career, this is where to start. 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.
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