David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
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Track List: Ziggy Stardust
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- Five YearsDownload & Buy
- Soul LoveDownload & Buy
- Moonage DaydreamDownload & Buy
- StarmanDownload & Buy
- It Ain't EasyDownload & Buy
- Lady StardustDownload & Buy
- StarDownload & Buy
- Hang On To YourselfDownload & Buy
- Ziggy StardustDownload & Buy
- Suffragette CityDownload & Buy
- Rock 'N' Roll SuicideDownload & Buy
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Album Details: Ziggy Stardust
- Release Date:
- 08/16/1994
- Label:
- Emi Int'l
- UPC:
- 077779440023
User Reviews: Ziggy Stardust
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, December 14, 2001Reviewer: ciudadreptil - See all ciudadreptil's reviewsThis album exists in its owns terms. This album belongs to Ziggy and his band, not to David Bowie. -
Bonafide Classic
, November 26, 2001Reviewer: yocambio - See all yocambio's reviewsTotally defines the whole "glam rock" era - everything else is simply derivative (with due respect to Marc Bolan). This album marks the beginning of Bowie's brilliance, sustained over an 8 year period, culminating in the release of Scary Monsters.
Mick Ronson deserves his place among the immortals based on this album alone, which contains some of the raunchiest rhythm guitar playing of all time.
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Pro Reviews: Ziggy Stardust
| EXPERT RATING: From AMG Reviews Borrowing heavily from Marc Bolan's glam rock and the future shock of A Clockwork Orange, David Bowie reached back to the heavy rock of The Man Who Sold the World for The Rise Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars. Constructed as a loose concept album about an androgynous alien rock star named Ziggy Stardust, the story falls apart quickly, yet Bowie's fractured, paranoid lyrics are evocative of a decadent, decaying future, and the music echoes an apocalyptic, nuclear dread. Fleshing out the off-kilter metallic mix with fatter guitars, genuine pop songs, string sections, keyboards, and a cinematic flourish, Ziggy Stardust is a glitzy array of riffs, hooks, melodrama, and style and the logical culmination of glam. Mick Ronson plays with a maverick flair that invigorates rockers like "Suffragette City," "Moonage Daydream," and "Hang Onto Yourself," while "Lady Stardust," "Five Years," and "Rock and Roll Suicide" have a grand sense of staged drama previously unheard of in rock roll. And that self-conscious sense of theater is part of the reason why Ziggy Stardust sounds so foreign. Bowie succeeds not in spite of his pretensions but because of them, and Ziggy Stardust -- familiar in structure, but alien in performance -- is the first time his vision and execution met in such a grand, sweeping fashion. - Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide |
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