Release Date: 1/01/1972
Recording Date: 1/1972
Tracks: 11
Length: 00:54:40 Hrs
Label: RCA
Type: CD,LP
- Genre/Styles
- Singer/Songwriter, Hard Rock, Prog-Rock/Art Rock, Glam Rock, Pop/Rock, Proto-Punk, Album Rock
Album Tracks (11)
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What the Critics Say
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 'n' 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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4/18/2009 3:00 PM
My daughter just put this on ... and I forgot what a great album this is. And I agree with what DouglCoff says above.
6/19/2008 9:48 PM
One of the best albums, not only of the 70's but, of all time. "BOWIE" dared to push the limits of RnR. absolutely brilliant....
5/10/2009 5:44 PM
I listen to this album a MILLION and ONE times in 1973. Was wild then and still sounds good..smoked a lot too