Side One
Changes
Oh! You Pretty Things
Eight Line Poem
Life On Mars?
Kooks
Quicksand
Side Two
Fill Your Heart
Andy Warhol
Song For Bob Dylan
Queen Bitch
The Bewlay Brothers
DISCOVERY; Filling in the back catalogue of Bowie albums (remember it's still 1976) Hunky Dory was part of the little cluster of albums I bought including Mott and Quadrophenia. Back in the 70s when you could buy a clutch of "classic" albums less than ten years old between them! Of course Hunky Dory would be the one of the three that dwarfed the others. I didn't warm to Quadrophenia until quite recently. The Mott album started strong but eventually faded from the collection. Hunky Dory doesn't age. I can imagine listening to this album at any point in the future and it still makes sense. Still relevant.
WHERE & WHEN; Monumentally brilliant album. It's strange, quirky, epic, beautiful and profound. Even the oddball numbers like Fill Your Heart, it's David as the fragile camp cabaret hanging on by his neatly polished fingernails, exposed to the world. The whole album is like that. Anthems for the kids who don't fit in.
HIGHLIGHTS; Every bleeding note! But mostly Oh! You Pretty Things - Life On Mars? - Kooks - Quicksand - Andy Warhol - Queen Bitch & The Bewlay Brothers
STATUS; CD
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