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Rating: Can there ever be a songwriter, a shapeshifting artist, a mime, or better yet: a poet, who is capable of creating rock music (both hard and light)/electronic/blues/pop/neo-soul and, last but not least, dance? Yes, there can be, but only if his name is David Bowie. David Bowie is an actor/musician/painter and much more... In his art, there's an entire world, from psychedelia to pop art, from decadence to futurism.
I first encountered him many years ago through his role in the fantasy film "Labyrinth" as the antagonist. I rediscovered him later in the role of the alien in the film "The Man Who Fell to Earth." Fascinated by his personality, I delved into his biography, uncovering his outstanding importance in the history of international music.
"Pin-Ups," released in 1973, particularly intrigued me more than the others, perhaps because this is the highlight of Bowie's long metamorphosis that, more than any other, enhances an aspect in him that I admire in many other artists: THE GLAM STYLE. Let's admit that it is actually a collection of covers of '60s bands, and certainly not among the most important produced by the legendary English chameleon, but since we're here, let's also admit that the album remained in the UK charts for 37 consecutive weeks.
In the album in question, conceived after the death of the now-legendary Ziggy Stardust, it transitions from the rock'n roll of "Rosalyn" to the synth-pop with the amazing "Here Comes The Night." "I Wish You Would" is a rock/country piece, followed by the now-historic "See Emily Play," a tribute/homage to Syd Barret, the first undisputed leader of Pink Floyd. Rocking rhythms in a blues/jazz context make up the legendary "Everything's Alright," but the best remain surely "Sorrow," a cover by The Merseys, "Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere" by the Who, and absolutely "Port Of Amsterdam" with which the album concludes beautifully. An album that, today as ever, in a world where media-commercial phenomena are cited and promoted without any importance to the detriment of true music creators, everyone should have.
Tracklist and Lyrics
01 Rosalyn (00:00)
Hey Rosalyn, tell me where you've been
Hey Rosalyn, tell me where you've been
All the night and all the day
Hide and seek's the game you play
Treat me as sure as sin
Oh Rosalyn, yeah Rosalyn
Hey Rosalyn, you're the girl for me
Hey Rosalyn, you're the girl for me
When I'm holding you so tight
It's so hard to say goodnight
It's you that I love now can't you see?
Do you really love me, do you love me true
Do you really love me Rosalyn?
Yeah gotta know, yeah gotta know
Yeah gotta know Rosalyn
Yeah gotta know, yeah gotta know
Yeah gotta know Rosalyn
Rosalyn
Yeah Rosalyn, Rosalyn, Rosalyn, Rosalyn, ooh-yeah, ah
05 I Can't Explain (00:00)
New feeling inside
It's a hot certain kind
I feel hot and cold
Down my soul, baby
I can't explain
Going out of my mind
Dizzy in the head, and I'm feeling blue
Things you say well maybe they're true
I get funny dreams again and again
Knows what it means, but
Can't explain
I think it's love
Say it to you
When I feel blue
I can't explain, no, I can't explain
You know I can't explain
I'm going out of my mind
Well I'm a worried guy
But I can't explain
06 Friday On My Mind (00:00)
Monday morning feels so bad (Friday's gone)
Everybody seems to nag me
Coming Tuesday I feel better (te te te te te te ter)
Even my old man looks good (bah-oom)
Wednesday just don't go (bah-oom)
Thursday goes too slow (bah-oom)
I've got Friday on my mind
(See my baby soon) Gonna have fun in the city (feel like f***ing you)
(Do my baby) Be with my girl she's so pretty (all I want to do)
(I am crazy) She looks fine tonight (zoom zoom zoom
zoom) She is out of sight to me (so divine)
(Tonight) I spend my brain
(Tonight) I lose my head
(Tonight) I've got to get tonight
Monday I have Friday on my mind
Do the five day drag once more (Monday blues)
There was nothing else that bugs me
More than working for the rich man (poor man, beggar man, thief)
Hey I'll change that scene one day (bah-oom)
Today I might be mad (bah-oom)
Tomorrow I'll be glad (bah-oom)
'Cos I'll have Friday on my mind
(See my baby soon) Gonna have fun in the city (feel like f***ing you)
(Do my baby) Be with my girl, she's so pretty (all I want to do)
(I am crazy) She looks fine tonight (zoom zoom zoom
zoom) She is out of sight to me (so divine)
(Tonight) I spend my brain
(Tonight) I lose my head
(Tonight) I've got to get tonight
Monday I have Friday on my mind
(See my baby soon) Gonna have fun in the city (feel like f***ing you)
(Do my baby) Be with my girl, she's so pretty (all I want to do)
(oo-oo-oo-oo-ooh) Gonna have fun-a, gonna have fun in the city (zoom zoom zoom zoom zoom)
(oo-oo-oo-oo-ooh) Be with my girl-a, be with my girl she's so pretty
(zoom zoom zoom zoom zoom)
(See my baby soon) Gonna have fun-a,gonna have fun in the city(real life loving you)
(Do my baby) Be with my girl-a,be with my girl she's so pretty ey ey(all I want to do)(zoom zoom zoom zoom) Gonna have fun-a , gonna have fun in the city (zoom zoom zoom zoom zoom) (ooh ooh ooh oooh) (zoom zoom zoom zoom zoom)
08 Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere (00:00)
I can go anyway (way I choose)
I can live anyhow (win or lose)
I can go anywhere (for something new)
Anyway, anyhow, anywhere I choose
I can do anything (right or wrong)
I can talk anyhow (and get along)
I don't care anyway (I never lose)
Anyway, anyhow, anywhere I choose
Nothing gets in my way
Not even locked doors
Don't follow the lines that been laid before
I get along anyway I care
Anyway, anyhow, anywhere
I can go anyway (way I choose)
I can live anyhow (win or lose)
I can go anywhere (for something new)
Anyway, anyhow, anywhere I choose
Anyway, anyway I choose
I wanna go
Do it myself, do it myself, do it myself, do it myself
Anyway, anyway I choose
11 Sorrow (00:00)
With your long blonde hair and your eyes of blue
The only thing I ever got from you was sorrow
Sorrow
You acted funny trying to spend my money
You're out there playing your high class games of sorrow
Sorrow
You never do what you know you oughta
Something tells me you're a Devil's daughter
Sorrow, sorrow
Ahhhh, ah, ahhhh
I tried to find her
'Cause I can't resist her (I tried to find her)
I never knew just how much I missed her
Sorrow
Sorrow
With your long blonde hair and your eyes of blue
The only thing I ever got from you was sorrow
Sorrow
Oh-oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh
With your long blonde hair
I couldn't sleep last night
With your long blonde hair
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By MauroCincotta66
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