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?
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?
Rawest, hardest rockin' record he's made, (except for maybe some of the Tin Machine stuff).
Of his LPs that I know, this is the one I most dig...
Hell, they ain't even old-timey ! - Homer Stokes
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.
Lou
Looking forward to my day in court.
Excellent album that flies under the radar far too often.
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.
"Always ready with the ray of sunshine"
Am I correct to say that the album belongs to a glam era of Bowie's music?
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.
My favourite Bowie album. Like a lot of people, I heard the Nirvana version of the title track before the original.
Didn't know Nirvana covered it ...i know LuLu had a hit with it i!
Great album-some of Ronson's finest guitar work on it.
My favorite Bowie album. And easily his most rocking one, too, I think.
"I tah dah nur!" - Ike
cool, but I prefer Ziggy. The ideas were there, though.
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 want to dynamite your mind with love tonight.
Listening to it now. Good stuff, but a little unfocused, compared to the albums after it.
Oh by Jingo.......
Brilliant.
"The woods would be very silent if the only birds that sang were those who sang best..." - Henry David Thoreau
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.
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.
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?
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.
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!'"
We're trying to build a monument to show that we were here
It won't be visible through the air
And there won't be any shade to cool the monument to prove that we were here. - Gene Parsons, 1973
The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off
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.
Confirmed Bachelors: the dramedy hit of 1883...
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