Sunday, June 27, 2010

David Bowie - Space Oddity

Before the Ziggy Stardust album or any of David Bowie’s other conceptual incarnations there was his debut Space Oddity. And throughout this LP just like with his other LP’s, one question remains: Is David Bowie really an alien inhabiting a human’s body? Listening to the orchestral, theatrical title track documenting an astronauts’ view from space we wonder “Is he speaking from experience?” Even when one looks at the picture in the cd disc tray of a young Bowie curled up in a cocoon like pod, one may think “Maybe it’s the same pod he crash landed to earth with!” But the real meat of the album is covers the styles of folk rock, blues rock and a tinge of psychodelia. Throughout this album Bowie mixes and jumps from style to style demonstrating his deep musical understanding with lyrics to match. Space Oddity basically set the stage for later on in his career when David Bowie would make even greater successful leaps and explorations with different types of genera’s, making rock critics wonder if he was possibly an alien sent to Earth to observe and imitate human life collecting data we have yet to understand. All the tracks are great but the stand out tracks for me are “God Knows I’m Good” and “The Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud”. Maybe Freecloud is Bowies’ home planet? But Speculation aside, I recommend anyone who enjoys David Bowies’ music or just enjoys talented well thought out songs to pick this up at your nearest record store.


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