David Bowie ~ Space Oddity (1969) CD 2015 Parlophone Records U.S.A. •• NEW ••

Description: David Bowie Space Oddity AUDIO CD BRAND NEW FACTORY SEALEDParlophone Records RPR2-218988 UPC | 825646283453 Album originally released in 1969 Made In U.S.A. 2015 TRACK LISTING 01. Space Oddity 02. Unwashed And Somewhat Slightly Dazed 03. Letter To Hermione 04. Cygnet Committee 05. Janine 06. An Occasional Dream 07. The Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud 08. God Knows I'm Good 09. Memory Of A Free Festival CD reissue of second studio album by the rock chameleon. The album was later re-released under the title Space Oddity when the song of the same name became a belated worldwide hit. David Bowie: David Bowie (AKA SPACE ODDITY) When David Bowie's second album appeared in late 1969, he was riding high. His first ever hit single, the super-topical "Space Oddity," had scored on the back of the moon landing that summer, and so distinctive an air did it possess that, for a moment, its maker really did seem capable of soaring as high as Major Tom. Sadly, it was not to be. "Space Oddity" aside, Bowie possessed very little in the way of commercial songs, and the ensuing album (his second) emerged as a dense, even rambling, excursion through the folky strains that were the last glimmering of British psychedelia. Indeed, the album's most crucial cut, the lengthy "Cygnet Committee," was nothing less than a discourse on the death of hippiness, shot through with such bitterness and bile that it remains one of Bowie's all-time most important numbers -- not to mention his most prescient. The verse that unknowingly name-checks both the Sex Pistols ("the guns of love") and the Damned is nothing if not a distillation of everything that brought punk to its knees a full nine years later. The remainder of the album struggles to match the sheer vivacity of "Cygnet Committee," although "Unwashed and Slightly Dazed" comes close to packing a disheveled rock punch, all the more so as it bleeds into a half minute or so of Bowie wailing "Don't Sit Down" -- an element that, mystifyingly, was hacked from the 1972 reissue of the album. "Janine" and "An Occasional Dream" are pure '60s balladry, and "God Knows I'm Good" takes a well-meant but somewhat clumsy stab at social comment. Two final tracks, however, can be said to pinpoint elements of Bowie's own future. The folk epic "Wild Eyed Boy from Freecloud" (substantially reworked from the B-side of the hit) would remain in Bowie's live set until as late as 1973, while a re-recorded version of the mantric "Memory of a Free Festival" would become a single the following year, and marked Bowie's first studio collaboration with guitarist Mick Ronson. SHIPPING TO USA ONLY Buyer Pays Shipping $3.99 1st CD $3.99... each additional $1.50 CDs will only be combined with other CDs or DVDs To qualify for the combined discount, all items must be purchased together, paid for with 1 payment, and shipped all together in 1 shipment. Please use the add to cart feature, once you have ordered all your desired items, proceed to checkout to complete your order with the combined total.

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Features: Remastered

Catalog Number: RPR2-218988

MPN: 825646283453

Format: CD

Run Time: 44:53

Producer: Gus Dudgeon, Tony Visconti

Era: 1960s

Country/Region of Manufacture: United States

CD Grading: Mint (M)

Edition: Reissue, Remastered, Remastered (2015)

Record Label: Parlophone Records

Case Type: Jewel Case: Standard

Language: English

Release Title: Space Oddity

Artist: David Bowie

Release Year: 1969, 2015

Style: Art Rock, British Invasion, Classic Rock, Glam Rock, Rock 'n' Roll, Album Rock, Rock/Pop, Alternative Rock, British Rock, Proto-Punk, British Psychedelia

Genre: Alternative, Rock, Classic Rock, British Rock, Glam Rock, Hard Rock, Rock/Pop, Album Rock, Art Rock, British Psychedlia, British Folk

Case Condition: Mint (M)

Inlay Condition: Mint (M)

Type: Album