Happiness is...
Apr. 8th, 2003 10:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
inulroFinally having a copy of Diamond Dogs on CD.
Virgin had a sale. I got not only Diamond Dogs, but also The Man Who Sold the World and Space Oddity and REM's Monster for £6.99 each.
Space Oddity, title track aside, is hippy bollocks. Some of it is good hippy bollocks, but a classic Bowie album it's not. Man Who Sold the World may be one of the works Bowie himself is proudest of, but it's never done a lot for me (title track aside - see a theme with the early works?). (Still, sad Bowie fan and completist I had to pick them up as they were cheap). Have realized that I don't have Hunky Dory on CD yet, but I doubt the world needs me singing along loudly with Life On Mars anyway.
Diamond Dogs, OTOH, is sheer genius and I'm happy to have it on something other than scratchy old tape.
Monster doesn't suck either.
Virgin had a sale. I got not only Diamond Dogs, but also The Man Who Sold the World and Space Oddity and REM's Monster for £6.99 each.
Space Oddity, title track aside, is hippy bollocks. Some of it is good hippy bollocks, but a classic Bowie album it's not. Man Who Sold the World may be one of the works Bowie himself is proudest of, but it's never done a lot for me (title track aside - see a theme with the early works?). (Still, sad Bowie fan and completist I had to pick them up as they were cheap). Have realized that I don't have Hunky Dory on CD yet, but I doubt the world needs me singing along loudly with Life On Mars anyway.
Diamond Dogs, OTOH, is sheer genius and I'm happy to have it on something other than scratchy old tape.
Monster doesn't suck either.
