![]() ![]() ![]() This means that I could quite easily disprove my own theory on the subject, but live by the keyboard, die by the keyboard as they say (and if they don’t then they should), so join me as I take a walk through the worlds of Ziggy Stardust and Aladdin Sane and pray to the Rock ‘n’ Roll heavens that I come out of this smelling of roses. Initially, I was going to do a piece explaining how I’m right, and everybody else is wrong, but after I actually put some thought into it, I’ve decided that the best way forward is to do a track by track comparison to see which comes out on top. “Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust – David Bowie 1972” by Oddsock is licensed under CC BY 2.0 I’ve always considered Aladdin Sane the superior of the two records, but normally when I make such a claim, the other people in the discussion are already on the phone to the men in the white coats. Now, far be it for me to argue with a Legend, but that “…pale imitation of Ziggy” line has always stuck in my craw. In my mind, it was Ziggy Goes to Washington: Ziggy under the influence of America.” I guess what I was doing on Aladdin Sane, I was trying to move into the next area-but using a rather pale imitation of Ziggy as a secondary device. With the first, he took the Glam Rock stylings of Marc Bolan and cranked them up to 11, and with the second he did it all again, this time just in America. Even if Ziggy does it to a sci-fi backdrop of an alien rock God coming to Earth just as it’s about to end, they’re Bowie at his best. Ziggy Stardust in ’72 which was swiftly followed a year later by Aladdin Sane.īoth records are concept albums, of a sort, that look at fame and the many pitfalls that come with it. Exile on Main Street, Highway to Hell, Bomber, Physical Graffiti, the list goes on and on, and right at the start of this 10 year period, a certain Mr David Bowie dropped the two best albums of his career. So many fantastic albums saw the light of day during this period. This is down to the fact that I’m a child of the ’70s and, as everybody knows, that was the decade that music attained perfection. It’s just that sitting at the head of the table will always be loud guitars and Marshall stacks. Jazz, soul, funk, blues, even classical music has a place in the Gray household. Unless it’s Pop Music, I really hate that s*it. In fact, if you name a genre, there’s a pretty good chance I can talk about it for hours. It may come as a surprise to some of you, but I’m not just about Rock and Metal. ![]()
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