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In Reply to: David Bowie "Aladdin Sane" UK RCA 1st press.."his name was always Buddy" posted by j. barleycorn on April 29, 2007 at 07:25:05:
For all intents and purposes, Aladdin Sane was Bowie's sophomore --for the US and World Market, anyway--- effort, only the second to be supported by world touring, and no one was more aware of that than he.
This one had to re-ring the bell.As it happens, much of the music was written on the Spider's inaugural tour of US supporting the Ziggy album, in rapt amazement of both the circus-freakshow-&-highwire conditions, and the starmaker machinery happening hour-to-hour as they mesmerized audiences and offended the upstanding populace at every stop....
As such it finds Bowie the lyricist in full-visionary mode, drug-addled, paranoiac and clairvoyant ... he goes from the required all-out rock stomps like Panic and Watch That Man, and of course Jean Genie, right into enraptured curio-cabinet bits like Lady Grinning Soul, Time and obviously, the title tune. Drive-In Saturday is the rare Bowe love song, albeit wildly staged in SciFi and Cinematic drag; it's actually Bowie's "Autumn In New York", another future & present translation of the jaded lush life, except maybe this time for aliens who won't fly in jetliners.
This record never grabbed the Brass Ring that Ziggy had, but was the soundtrack for the decadence-dipped Bowie era that was quickly following. If I recall, the music from Alladin Sane was actually meant to be the basis of the 'stage show' that eventually became the Diamond Dogs tour, and was liberally used in that show.* The case could be made, regardless, that with the AS material Bowie had already begun the transformation toward the vampiric 'Thin White Duke'.
A 'crash-course for the ravers' for sure.
J.D.
* The Diamond Dog tour, Bowie's most theatrical--- stage sets, skyscrapers, hydraulic arm-platforms -- ended up as 'David Live At The Tower', which sounds quite contrived these days, kind of hollow and distant, as compared to the actual studio tracks it does.
Probably the best live Bowie is the soundtrack (or better, the video) called Ziggy Stardust The Motion Picture-- it was released on vinyl--- which, though early for this material, already contains 'Watch That Man', 'Time' & other Aladdin material.........
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groove
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- 'she's uncertain if she likes him' - J.D. 10:44:35 04/29/07 (1)
- Re: she's uncertain - J.D. 15:06:12 04/29/07 (0)
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