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| 1. Space Oddity (1999 Digital Remaster) |
| 2. Unwashed And Somewhat Slightly Dazed (1999 Digital Remaster) |
| 3. Don't Sit Down (1999 Digital Remaster) |
| 4. Letter To Hermione (1999 Digital Remaster) |
| 5. Cygnet Committee (1999 Digital Remaster) |
| 6. Janine (1999 Digital Remaster) |
| 7. An Occasional Dream (1999 Digital Remaster) |
| 8. Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud (1999 Digital Remaster) |
| 9. God Knows I'm Good (1999 Digital Remaster) |
| 10. Memory Of A Free Festival (1999 Digital Remaster) |
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4.0 out of 5 stars
The Sun Machine Is Coming Down and We're Gonna Have a Party.,
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This review is from: Space Oddity (Audio CD)
David Bowie's sixth album, Space Oddity, was released in 1972, less than six months after the release of Bowie's classic concept album, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust. While Ziggy Stardust sounds Martian and is mostly driven by finely polished electric guitars, Space Oddity has elements of Ziggy, but overall has a childish, dreamlike quality all of its own and is accompanied most by acoustic guitars--like an album recorded in heaven. I think it's one of the nicest records I've ever heard. The first song on the album is the very popular "Space Oddity." The song, as we all know, is about Major Tom, an astronaut sent into space in a "tin can." Somewhere "past one hundred thousand miles" he becomes disconnected with communication with Earth, and, like David Bowman--the main character of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey [which the song name and album are based, yes?]--is left to float about the galaxy for eternity. The reference to 2001, somewhat disappointingly, is more musically-based than it is lyrically. The bulk of the album is comprised of light-hearted, celestial love songs--like something that would be nice to hear if you were flying on a hang-glider. Only a couple of the songs are heavy lyrically ["The Cygnet Committee" and "Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed"], but most are free and lilting, as they should be on such an album. After the opening track, we are not confronted, verbally, with the sky or outer space until "The Wild-Eyed Boy from Freecloud," the third to last track. Musically it's theatrical and fanciful--when hearing it, you feel like you are in a fairy tale and something wonderful and magical is about to happen. Lyrically, it's also whimsical--it tells the story of a Wild-Eyed Boy who is to be executed only because of the "madness in his eyes." Though the townspeople are going to have him hanged, he doesn't become angry or even frightened--he is calm and only thinks of Freecloud, his home. The magical land of Freecloud, as he wishes, saves him from death. "The Memory of a Free Festival," the closing track, is another whimsical and lighthearted melody, this time about a wonderful and heavenly day at a carnival in London: "to capture just one drop of all the ecstasy that swept that afternoon--to paint that love upon a white balloon and fly it from the topest top of all the tops that man has pushed beyond his brain." The day was so happy, even, that when the children looked up to the sky there were foreign "machines of every shape and size" floating around. The aliens were friendly, and one of the little boys "tried to climb aboard, but the captain shook his head--and away they soared." The album and the song close with the repeated line, "The sun machine is coming down and we're gonna have a party." It's one of the nicest lines I've ever heard--it's the best way to even describe the album. After releasing The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust just before this, it is very good that Bowie chose to next create something lyrical, fantastic, and whimsical. This whole album feels like it was recorded by a child--that meant in the best possible way. At times the lyrics are silly, but they're forgiven because it's such a pleasant and dreamy record.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Great second album,Dave!,
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This review is from: Space Oddity (Audio CD)
It is the fusion of music genres that makes this work outstand among other 1969 albums.Is it pure rock or is it a mix of folk and glam?David Bowie brought us this gift with his first hit ever,Space Oddity in it.It was a good sign of great things to come.The Great Thin Duke spawned gems such as Don't Sit Down and Occasionally as well.It is a 5!
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