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It seems hard to believe, given the career full of revolutionary and hugely influential stylistic shifts that followed, that this superb record was only David Bowie's fourth. Yet HUNKY DORY ranks alongside ZIGGY STARDUST, LOW, and SCARY MONSTERS ... Full Descriptionas one of Bowie's finest and most consistent albums. Ironically, it is one of the artist's least rock-oriented efforts, bearing little relation to what came before or after in his discography. Instead, HUNKY DORY covers a wide range of styles from operatic pop ("Life on Mars?") to low-key folk ("Quicksand") to English music hall ditties ("Kooks").
There are standout tracks, most notably the glam-rock anthem "Oh, You Pretty Things!" and the chugging, life-affirming "Changes," which went on to become one of Bowie's all-time signature songs. But HUNKY DORY is solid from beginning to end, thanks to the fine musicians, Bowie's excellent songwriting, and the artist's now-mature sense of performance. These qualities fold such wild cards as the tongue-in-cheek celebrity send-up "Andy Warhol," the psychedelic folk of "The Bewlay Brothers," and exuberant jam of "Queen Bitch," the album's only overt rocker, neatly into the deck, making for the first of Bowie's truly indisputable masterpieces.
Personnel: David Bowie (vocals, guitar, saxophone, piano); Mick Ronson (guitar); Trevor Bolder (trumpet, bass instrument); Rick Wakeman (piano); Mick Woodmansey (drums).
Personnel: David Bowie (vocals, guitar, saxophone, piano); Mick Ronson (guitar); Rick Wakeman (piano); Trevor Bolder (bass); Mick Woodmansey (drums).
Producers: Ken Scott, Ken Scott, David Bowie
This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.Rolling Stone (12/11/03, p.120) - Ranked #107 in Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums Of All Time" - "[W]ith a new pop sound that seems just as modern today as it was then."
Rolling Stone (1/6/72, pp.63-64) - "...HUNKY DORY not only represents Bowie's most engaging album musically, but also finds him once more writing literally enough to let the listener examine his ideas comfortably..."
Q (1/03, p.64) - Included in Q Magazine's "100 Greatest Albums Ever"
NME (Magazine) (10/2/93, p.29) - Ranked #38 in NME's list of the 'Greatest Albums Of All Time.'
NME (Magazine) (9/18/93, p.19) - Ranked #12 in NME's list of The Greatest Albums Of The '70s. Hide Description Hunky Dory Music | List Price | $16.98 (You save $6.69) | | Category | Rock Albums, Pop CDs, Rock/Pop, Glam, Gold Discs, Enhanced CD | | Label | Virgin | | Orig Year | 1971 | | All Time Sales Rank |  3713  | | CD Universe Part number | 1032950 | | Catalog number | 21899 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Sep 28, 1999 | | Studio/Live | Studio | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Personnel | David Bowie - vocals, guitar, saxophone, piano
Trevor Bolder - trumpet, bass instrument
Mick "Woody" Woodmansey - drums
Also: Rick Wakeman, Mick Ronson | | Additional Info | Enhanced CD |
David Bowie Hunky Dory Songs Hunky Dory Music Review Average Rating: (4 out of 5 stars)  Remixing stinks!
Warming up to Ziggy, this album of tasty,great tunes is just destroyed by being "re-mixed". The sound is now so bright that unless you have a "close and play" system, this classic album is unlistenable. I can not believe Bowie would allow this disc to go out (the Rykodisc "re-mix" is excellent) but being "enhanced" with his selling website, I see why.Pass on this one and all the other Island re-mixes.
Submitted by slkmcdon (Elyria,OH)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No 1 of 1 found this helpful. Under-rated
how come nobody ever told me about this album? this is already one of my favorites... granted, the production is not phenomenal, but the writing is spectacular.
Submitted by cannon (Boone, NC) 
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No Has its moments
This album reminds me of Space Oddity, as it isnt balls-out hard rock the whole time, like The Man who Sold the World. This album definatley has its moments. Changes and Oh! You Pretty Things are both wonderful pop songs, and the vocals in Oh! You Pretty Things are to die for. Eight Line Poem is brilliant, the piano and guitar have a slight phased sound and the vocals are mindblowing. Unfortunatley the rest of the album doesnt follow this blueprint. Life on Mars? is an absolutely beutiful song, on every level. However, Kooks is kind of boring, seeing as its about his son and is obviously gonna be abit lame and sappy. Quicksand is a great flashback to Space Oddity. Fill your Heart is a cover song, and can be abit lame at first, but it does grow on you. Andy Warhol has got a strange, psychedelic beggining which also throws me back to Space Oddity, but the rest of the song is very very strange and hard to follow (especially the chorus). Song for Bob Dylan has a nice melody, but can get abit boring. Queen Bitch belongs on the Ziggy Stardust albumm, and the Bewlay Brother is yet another Space Oddity moment. Overall, as is all of Davids work aside from the 80's stuff, it is worth the money.
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SPACE ODDITY was originally released as MAN OF WORDS, MAN OF MUSIC on Mercury in 1969.
SPACE ODDITY is an Enhanced audio CD which contains regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.
Digitally remastered by Peter Mew & Nigel Reeve (1999, Abbey Road Studios, London, England).
SPACE ODDITY was the first record on which David Bowie looked and sounded like the Bowie whom the world has come to know. One glance at the spooky, androgynous face that adorns the record was enough to signal that the Anthony Newley-influenced, light-pop singer who sang the novelty number "The Laughing Gnome" a few years earlier was a thing of the past. Leaving behind the mannered, English music hall-isms of his initial recordings, Bowie roughened up the sound, creating a ragged, eclectic mix of folk and rock tinged with electronic sounds. The record yielded his first American hit, and began the singer's soon-to-be meteoric rise to international rock icon-hood.
The title track, a sci-fi mini-epic, is an enduring classic in which Bowie squeezes every bit of drama from both his dour low range and the soaring upper reaches of his voice. Even after decades of continued airplay, "Space Oddity" is surprising for ...
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Every track on ZIGGY STARDUST & THE SPIDERS FROM MARS sounds like it was pulled from the rock 'n' roll bible. The album created a mythology that reached beyond the Chuck Berry folklorisms of the everyday rocker to create a new type of rock star. With ZIGGY, Bowie created a viable alter-ego to descend onto the planet and wreak havoc on rock's fertile soil. In doing so, he created the most original rock creation since the music's inception 20 years before.
Musically, the album was as inspired as Ziggy's persona. Mick Ronson's snarling guitar evoked the triumphant power of the late '60s guitar heroes, but added a flash so dynamic fans knew why the Spiders were labelled "glitter rockers." As an album, ZIGGY STARDUST told the story of rock through the eyes of Ziggy, an alien--with a narrative that was equally sensational and intimate.
Any doubts as to Bowie's intentions to take over rock were displaced on a closer listen to "Star." At the end of the song Bowie (as Ziggy) whispers, "just watch me now," and his determination is eerily obvious. Combining skills as a mime artist and top-rate vocal dramatist, Bowie created Ziggy, the bisexual space man, who sang "songs of darkness and disgrace." The planet was dying, something made evident on the first track "Five Years," and the only way to survive ...
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Principally recorded at Trident Studios and Advision Studios, London, England.
By 1970 David Bowie was already hinting at his talent as a master pop manipulator. "Space Oddity," released in 1969, showed a performer with a keen sense of cultural detail (we had just put a man on the moon), but THE MAN WHO SOLD THE WORLD signaled Bowie's full entry into the rock domain. The album's eclectic pop stylings proved Bowie to be not only a watchful observer, but also a hip modifier of pop music trends.
THE MAN WHO SOLD THE WORLD is a gritty tour through late '60s rockisms. The folky title track is wary and sensitive, while the bombastic "The Supermen" mixes crushing drums and Allman Brothers-esque guitar chimes. "All The Madmen" is Bowie at his vulnerable, evocative best, and "Black Country Rock" stomps along with the best of the White Boy Blues contingent. While it did not yet approach the space-age sci-fi atmosphere of Bowie's future releases, THE MAN WHO SOLD THE WORLD reaffirmed the themes ...
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It's no surprise that ALADDIN SANE and PIN UPS came out in the same year. Each drip with the seedy sexuality of London's late '60s sexual revolution. Yet, while PIN UPS was a mid-'60s sampling of influences--a glorified cover album--ALADDIN SANE was all Bowie.
Stepping out of the Ziggy Stardust shadow (Bowie would announce his temporary retirement from the stage later that year), ALADDIN SANE was the aftermath of Ziggy's visit, a brutal memoir of the drugs, sex and glamour that a young starlet could find at the time. "Forget that I'm 50/'Cause you just got paid," Bowie croons, adopting the persona of a "Cracked Actor," and one wonders how far stardom had pushed Bowie. Was he indeed a lad insane?
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