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David Bowie Ziggy Stardust [Japan] Release Date: 2007 01 15 Label: EMI Rating:

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

Tracks:

	Title	Composer	Time
1	Five Years	Bowie	4:42
2	Soul Love	Bowie	3:33
3	Moonage Daydream	Bowie	4:39
4	Starman	Bowie	4:13
5	It Ain't Easy	Davis	2:57
6	Lady Stardust	Bowie	3:21
7	Star	Bowie	2:46
8	Hang on You Yourself	Bowie	2:38
9	Ziggy Stardust	Bowie	3:13
10	Suffragette City	Bowie	3:25
11	Rock 'N' Roll Suicide	Bowie	2:58

Releases:

Year	Type	Label
2007	CD	EMI
	CD	Toshiba EMI
2007	CD	Toshiba EMI
2006	DI	Jones/Tintoretto

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