David Bowie [Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered]

David Bowie | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 23, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
• Label: Umvd Special Markets
• ASIN: B000006P8I
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #40,324 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This album is hillarious!...and yet, March 22, 2003

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Sarah Dimento "roadhunter" (Calgary, Alberta Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: David Bowie (Audio CD)

This much underrated early debut is a must for any Bowie fan. Though the music at this point lacks the sophistication of his later work, the lyrics are brilliant and the production is excellent. His early work shows him to be one of the wittiest lyricists of his time. This album is a thoughtful jab at all the pretensions of the 60's. It makes a connection with far stranger artists such as the Bonzo Dogs and Frank Zappa, but is more clever and dignified than either.

Somehow, this album makes the whole rest of Bowie's career fall into place, and made me even more mindful of the underlying wit present in all his other albums. This album may seem strange at first, but it grows on you. I find myself loving it more with each listening, which is odd for an album full of "novelty songs". It proves to be so much more.

I would also recommend The Deram Anthology 1966-1968 as a more complete collection of early Bowie recordings, but some of the added songs were unwelcome intrusions next to the coherence of this album as it was originally released. I myself own both and wouldn't part with either of them.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A look at where David Bowie's lyrical brilliance came from, June 28, 1998

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[e-mail] (Tacoma, WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: David Bowie (Audio CD)

David Bowie was 19 when this album was released, and it is proof of the origination of his unearthly writing genius. Released in 1967, it's sound has it's own light oddness, but it's distinctly mid-1960's London. However, the album's sounds are extremely contradictory to the subject matter; The incongruities of suburban London. The track "Please Mr. Gravedigger", is the story of a gravedigger with an unhealthy fetish. It's subjects that lie within remain to be explored by the listener. From polotics to things that seem to be plainly silly, but deserve the most inquiry.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This cd rented a hotel room in my heart, April 21, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: David Bowie (Audio CD)

This cd rented a hotel room in my heart, and I let it stay for peanuts. Honestly, I think its brilliant. I much prefer this Bowie to the "Star Man" that came later. There is something so pure and unjaded in the melodies, and the lyrics reveal a popstar in the making.