David Bowie - The Man Who Sold The World

[sonic]

Wow! How did I miss this one? I just bought this for a couple of bucks and am blown away. Despite having been a Bowie fan for ages and owning many of his albums, this one was off my radar.

What's the consensus on this one?

[Bake 1]

Rawest, hardest rockin' record he's made, (except for maybe some of the Tin Machine stuff).

[mogrooves]

Of his LPs that I know, this is the one I most dig...

[Lopez]

Love the record, too. Bought it in college in '72. Wish I had the original UK pressing cover with David in a dress. I do have the cartoon cover pressing. Favorite tune is "Width of a Circle." Mick Ronson is immense on guitar.

[ForeverAutumn]

Excellent album that flies under the radar far too often.

[strawberrybrick]

I imagine in some circles his early work is overshadowed by that of his Berlin years, but those albums, in particular Hunky Dory (for me), are fantastic.

[Progmatic]

Am I correct to say that the album belongs to a glam era of Bowie's music?

[Blah_Blah_Woof_Woof]

Width of a Circle was a concert staple with Ronson on guitar. THe title song is a nice haunting figure. There is a bit of tribute to Marc Bolan in some of Bowie's vocal stylings on this record.

[zravkapt]

My favourite Bowie album. Like a lot of people, I heard the Nirvana version of the title track before the original.

[Rufus]

Didn't know Nirvana covered it ...i know LuLu had a hit with it i!

[sotdude]

Great album-some of Ronson's finest guitar work on it.

[JIF]

Love the record, too. Bought it in college in '72. Wish I had the original UK pressing cover with David in a dress. I do have the cartoon cover pressing. Favorite tune is "Width of a Circle." Mick Ronson is immense on guitar.

The remastered version uses the Bowie in a dress cover.

[meimjustalawnmower]

The remastered version uses the Bowie in a dress cover.

The Ryko version has a folded insert that gives you all four covers. So you can pick the one you want and face it out.

[no.nine]

My favorite Bowie album. And easily his most rocking one, too, I think.

[scags]

cool, but I prefer Ziggy. The ideas were there, though.

[polmico]

Great bass work by Visconti. Visconti produced a real great string of albums around this time that included one of my favorite albums of all time, Gentle Giant's Acquiring the Taste.

[scags]

Listening to it now. Good stuff, but a little unfocused, compared to the albums after it.

[gryphs also]

Oh by Jingo.......

Brilliant.

[jake]

Great bass work by Visconti. Visconti produced a real great string of albums around this time that included one of my favorite albums of all time, Gentle Giant's Acquiring the Taste.

I think Visconti's big bass sound really drives this album. This is my fave Bowie album by a mile and I really dig almost everything he has done. The track She Shook Me Cold is one of the best things Bowie ever recorded - but mostly for the Cream like improv section in the middle - Ronson and Visconti really go for it and it is a unique sound in Bowie's repertoire.

[JIF]

These are my three favorite Bowie songs, and they are all from the same album. The last one recently became a favorite when I heard it on a station called The Sound. They have a program called My Turn. It's a two hour program that features one celebrity, and one regular person that takes over the station for one hour. Taylor Hawkins played the song on his guest DJ spot.

[JKL2000]

Used to have the vinyl but I don't think I ever listened to it! And how does Arnold Corns fit in - was that before this?

[Cuz]

Definitely an "under the radar" album, and one that I didn't hear until around 15 years ago. A friend insisted I borrow it, and I was blown away.

[spellbound]

David Bowie: "in America especially, when I do 'The Man Who Sold The World' the amount of kids that come up afterwards and say, 'It's cool you're doing a Nirvana song.' And I think, 'Fuck you, you little tosser!'"

[zravkapt]

David Bowie: "in America especially, when I do 'The Man Who Sold The World' the amount of kids that come up afterwards and say, 'It's cool you're doing a Nirvana song.' And I think, 'Fuck you, you little tosser!'"

I remember arguing with somebody on an internet forum years ago about that song being a Nirvana song or not. I explained to them that after Nirvana plays it, Cobain says: "that was a David Bowie song", to which they replied: "I don't remember that part"

[Progbear]

I remember a discussion of the 20,000 alternate covers this album had a while back, including that hideous German foldout cover with the mutant Bowie/hand monstrosity.