Happiness is...

[inulro]

Finally 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.

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[inulro.livejournal.com]

I've got all those early gems on a tape somewhere.

I don't have Stage in any format, but I picked up both Scary Monsters and Low on CD for reasonable prices within the last year - I think I got Low cheap on ebay.

[sheepthief.livejournal.com]

I'll dig it out and see what condition it's in. Not likely to be soon though due to work/Whitby/etc. Stage too, though I do recall that having an irritating jump in it. I may need reminding. But I really should get all the old vinyl out anyway.

Stage is one of only three live albums [by anyone] that I like. The other two are by Siouxsie and, um, ~gets coat~ Dire Straights.