David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust [Japan]

Title: Ziggy Stardust [Japan] Artist: David Bowie Release Date: 1972 Re-Released On: 1/16/2007 Label: Toshiba EMI, EMI Music Distribution UPCs: 094638232926, 4988006831742, 4988006849808 Genre: Rock Styles: Singer/Songwriter, Hard Rock, Glam Rock, Contemporary Pop/Rock, Proto-Punk, Album Rock, Art Rock Moods: Brooding, Clinical, Eccentric, Eerie, Stylish, Bravado, Cerebral, Complex, Detached, Dramatic, Elegant, Enigmatic, Exciting, Literate, Lush, Nocturnal, Playful, Provocative, Quirky, Rebellious, Sophisticated, Swaggering, Tense/Anxious, Theatrical, Urgent, Wry, Campy, Hypnotic, Intense, Ironic, Sexy, Yearning, Outrageous, Austere, Elaborate, Refined/Mannered Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 3 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 1

1. Five Years
2. Soul Love
3. Moonage Daydream
4. Starman
5. It Ain't Easy
6. Lady Stardust
7. Star
8. Hang on You Yourself
9. Ziggy Stardust
10. Suffragette City
11. Rock 'N' Roll Suicide

Year Type Label Catalog # 2007 CD EMI Music Distribution 70144 2007 CD Toshiba EMI 70144 ------ CD Toshiba EMI 53505

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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. [A Japanese version of the CD was also released.] ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide

Name Credits Brian Ward Photography David Bowie Arranger, Vocals, Guitar, Producer, Saxophone Mick "Woody" Woodmansey Drums Mick Ronson Vocals, Guitar, Piano, Arranger Terry Pastor Artwork Trevor Bolder Bass