DomLennox

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Air: Moon Safari
CD Audio I have it ★★★★
David Bowie: Aladdin Sane
CD Audio I have it ★★★
The cover is more iconic than the music. The story behind the photo shoot is recounted in various websites and books, so you can read about it without me telling it again. The photographer is Brian Duffy, famous for his photos of Swinging London, alongside colleagues David Bailey and Terence Donovan (the most in Vogue trio of the '60s).

The pieces on the album, however, are quirky and of uneven quality. "Aladdin Sane" expresses Bowie’s fears about war and madness, "Panic in Detroit," "Cracked Actor," and "Drive-in Saturday" are descriptions of life of "Ziggy in the States," as someone wrote. On a trip to the New World, Ziggy is overwhelmed by all the novelties and becomes cynical and arrogant. The album also includes a cover of a Rolling Stones song.
David Bowie: Young Americans
CD Audio I have it ★★★
At the time, it caused a stir for its "Plastic soul" sound. But back then, I wasn’t following Bowie. Listening to it in retrospect, it’s a solid soul album, but not groundbreaking, with a version of "Across the Universe" that sounds very much like a filler. The rest of the tracks also come off as the product of a musician who didn’t know which direction to take. After leaving Ziggy and Aladdin behind, Bowie was drifting aimlessly. Already produced by Visconti, but still in search of the right path that would eventually come with the SF twist of "The Man Who Fell to Earth" and thanks to the influence of the punk revolution. Best tracks: "Young Americans," though burdened by an incredibly dense lyricism - which Bowie would shed in "Low" and "Fame," for which we also have to thank Lennon.
David Bowie: Low
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Great. Pieces that start and end without any introduction, hysteria, experimentation. Everything is there.
David Bowie: Heroes
Vinile I have it ★★★★★
Difficult to love a vinyl more than this. I know every track by heart:
Side A
"Beauty and the Beast" pulls us into the musical experience without frills and preambles; "Joe the Lion," my second favorite song, with screeching punk guitars; "Heroes," upon which rivers of ink, bits and bytes, have already been spilled; "Sons of the Silent Age," the soundtrack for a science fiction film; "Blackout," about losing consciousness from drug and alcohol use.
Side B
"V-2 Schneider," "Sense of Doubt," "Moss Garden," and "Neukoln" follow each other harmoniously, ending with the absurd "The Secret Life of Arabia," a foreboding sound of the forthcoming "Lodger." But it wouldn't be a perfect album without this imperfection.
David Bowie: Station to Station
Vinile I have it ★★★★★
For me, this marks the beginning of the Berlin Trilogy, even though I know very well that it was composed and recorded in the US, with Bowie in paranoia over his cocaine addiction. But those are his own issues. I'm interested in the six magnificent pieces that make up this sublime work. The most famous are "TVC 15" and "Golden Years," which are obviously sublime. But what about the train of "Station to Station"? And "Stay" is a magnificent love song from an artist who has never been particularly romantic. It closes magnificently with an extraordinary version of "Wild is the Wind." Bowie the crooner.
Joy Division: Permanent
CD Audio I have it ★★★★
Leonard Cohen: Death of a Ladies'Man
CD Audio I have it ★★★★
mocked at the time for Phil Spector's baroque production, it remains for me one of the best records from Lugubrious Len. First of all, because in the folk/depressed version (see "The Famous Blue Raincoat") I didn’t like it as much and then because in my opinion Spector's wall of sound adds a surreal dimension to Leonard's depressed and depressing lyrics. Even the most bleak and desolate love disasters seem less severe when viewed from this perspective.
  • Littlelion
    16 jan 18
    The album has beautiful lyrics (duh!), but personally I can't stand the music and the way he sings (is it just me or does he have a very particular voice here?). Such a shame because the title track is amazing (aside from the music .P)
  • Zimmy
    19 jan 18
    Cohen’s voice is quite particular because, unfortunately, almost all the vocal lines on the album are nothing but demos, since the good Leonard, after listening to the unthinkable arrangements that Spector had created, refused to record the definitive vocal parts, but he couldn’t stop the production of the album, which was nonetheless mixed and released using those temporary tracks. Practically, a catastrophe. The album, of course, is far from unbearable as it has often been portrayed, but it remains, in my opinion, one of the weakest works of the Canadian Maestro already in terms of songwriting: too many divertissements like "Memories," "Fingerprints," and especially the improbable boisterous romp of "Don't Go Home with Your Hard On" (which means literally… don’t go home with a hard dick), lacking substance, few truly memorable songs except for the title track, great lyrics but a definitely syrupy production. The lyrics, however, are not at all depressed or depressing, here they are actually much less so than usual. Personally, I would give it 3 stars, no more. The subsequent "Recent Songs," on the other hand, now that is a great album.
  • Littlelion
    19 jan 18
    I didn't know that, well this explains everything, even though to be honest I don't mind the "particular voice" at all. It's the arrangements that are terrible. Anyway, yes, the next album is a masterpiece, especially "Ballad of the absent mare."
Pink Floyd: Ummagumma
Vinile I have it ★★★
Pink Floyd: The Dark Side Of The Moon
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Pink Floyd: Meddle
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Stereo MC: Connected
CD Audio I have it ★★★★
The Thievery Corporation: The Cosmic Game
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
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