The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
David Bowie
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The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars by David Bowie ranked # 35 on Rolling Stone Magazine's 500 Greatest Albums list.
The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars is a
1972 concept album by David Bowie, praised as the definitive album of
the 1970s by Melody Maker magazine. It peaked at #5 in the United
Kingdom and #75 in the United States on the Billboard Music Charts.
The album is considered archetypal glam rock, full of hard rock
guitar riffs, catchy choruses and confusing, opiate lyrics. It is
both gloomy, as in the first song, "Five Years", where it is revealed
that the Earth will be destroyed in five years, and joyous, as in the
optimism of Ziggy in "Starman". Though Bowie's previous albums had
built him a serious fanbase (particularly the hit song "Space
Oddity"), his music was largely inaccessible and avant-garde.
Ziggy Stardust was still innovative and pioneering, but was also
accessible to people who couldn't hear or understand the significance
of Bowie's revolutionary techniques and style. Songs like "Starman",
"Suffragette City", "Five Years", "Lady Stardust" and "Ziggy
Stardust" are strange mixtures of pop rock and art rock.
Ziggy Stardust was a monumental album in music history. Its sound has
changed the way heavy metal, punk music, hard rock, glam rock, and
prog rock sound. The direct descendants were later glam musicians
like the glam-metal of Alice Cooper (Billion Dollar Babies - 1973),
the glam-disco of Labelle (Nightbirds - 1974), and the glam-pop of
Gary Glitter (Touch Me - 1973).
Track Listing
Disc 1:
- Intro
- Hang On To Yourself
- Ziggy Stardust
- Watch THat Man
- Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud
- All The young Dudes
- Oh! You Pretty Things
- Moonage Daydream
- Changes
- Space Oddity
- My Death
Disc 2:
- Intro
- Cracked Actor
- Time
- The Width Of A Circle
- Let's Spend The Night Together
- Suffragette City
- White Light/White Heat
- Farewell Speech
- Rock 'N' Roll Suicide
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