David Bowie - Hunky Dory

The precursor to Bowie's masterpiece, The Rise And Fall of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars, Hunky Dory points in many of the same musical directions as Ziggy, with Bowie camping it up outrageously through a mixture of cabaret piano, coquettish lyrics and soaring vocals. After the hard rock "The Man Who Sold The World", Mick Ronson's guitar is turned down in favour of plenty of piano and acoustic guitar, as Bowie proves his mettle as a masterful singer-songwriter. Not a dull note is struck on the whole album, which flits from opener "Changes" to the vampy "Oh! You Pretty Thing" to the heart-wrenching "Life On Mars" with a seemingly impeccable ear for a tune. Flirty, sexy and irresistibly seductive. --Amber Cowan Amazon.com

Bowie was always Bowie

Even in his early days, Bowie changes his sound radically from album to album. Departing from heavier sound of his prevoius two prog classic ablums ( Space Odddity and The Man Who Sold The World), Bowie explores a more accostic sound of guitar and paino with "Hunky Dory" This album contains not only the classic hit "Changes" ( Which combines teen angst with beatiful meoldies), but contains tracks ( such as "Oh you pretty things" and "Andy Warhole" that would lay the foundation for alternitive and indi music, which reminds of future bands, such as "Radiohead" and "Beck".
June 23, 2008

Great!!!

A Five Star album from a Five Star musician..
Kooks is wonderful and imaginative...
like the Beatles April 14, 2008

Second to none

This album really is second to none when it comes to David Bowie as a pop artist. I wouldn't really qualify some of these songs as "pop" but that's okay because I'm not a walking dictionary.

I fell in love with all of the songs on this album the moment I heard them. "Oh, You Pretty Things" is a song that I can play over and over again and never get bored of because it's really THAT good. Don't get me started on "Queen Bitch". I'd give you all a detailed description of how much I love each of the songs on this album, but I don't have the time, so I shant.

On an overall note, however, the messages behind the songs in this album are just so raw, it's hard to take in over the course of one listening. I'll find myself constantly going over the songs in my mind, discovering new things about them that I'd never noticed before. Of course, I think that was kind of the point. March 18, 2008

Brilliant

After my daughter started watching " Life ON Mars" and asking about the music I decided that I needed to add this CD to my collection so that I could retire my worn LP from 30+ years ago.

A softer younger Bowie. Wonderful. February 18, 2008

Currently my favorite album of all time

I listen to this album almost every day. I will burn out on it in a while and rotate to Ziggy Stardust. David Bowie is a genius. The program director of my university radio station and I discussed creating an all David Bowie station in the 80's. I only wish he hadn't replaced his English teeth with California chicklets. His teeth gave him his special handsome look. He looks great now but I miss his real teeth! February 11, 2008

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