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Hunky Dory (Remastered) (CD)

By: David Bowie

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Track Listing

DISC 1 for Hunky Dory (Remastered) (CD) Album By David Bowie
1   Changes  
2   Oh You Pretty Things  
3   Eight Line Poem  
4   Life On Mars  
5   Kooks  
6   Quicksand  
7   Fill Your Heart  
8   Andy Warhol  
9   Song For Bob Dylan  
10   Queen Bitch  
11   Bewlay Brothers  
 

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Review

NME (10/2/93, p.29) - Ranked #38 in NME's list of the `Greatest Albums Of All Time.'
Q (6/00, p.80) - Ranked #16 in Q's "100 Greatest British Albums"
NME (9/18/93, p.19) - Ranked #12 in NME's list of The Greatest Albums Of The '70s.
Rolling Stone (1/6/72, pp.63-64) - "...HUNKY DORY not only represents Bowie's most engaging album musically, but also finds him once more writing literally enough to let the listener examine his ideas comfortably..."
Q (11/99, pp.140-1) - 5 stars out of 5 - "...the turning point: a roller-coaster ride through umpteen influences and styles, opening with 'Changes' and tipping its 'bibberty-bobberty hat' at Dylan, Warhol, Aleister Crowley, Lou Reed and Bowie's mentally ill half-brother Terry Burns..."
Classic Rock (04/06, p.59) - "...Bowie at his most subversive and understated."

Product note

This is an Enhanced audio CD which contains regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.
Personnel: David Bowie (vocals, guitar, saxophone, piano); Mick Ronson (guitar); Rick Wakeman (piano); Trevor Bolder (trumpet, bass); Mick Woodmansey (drums).
Digitally remastered by Peter Mew & Nigel Reeve (1999, Abbey Road Studios).
Subdued and acoustic, HUNKY DORY was the calm before the storm for David Bowie, who would explode a year later with ZIGGY STARDUST. This was Bowie in transition--hinting at his love for the theatric ("Life On Mars?"), and showing off his ability to suss out a generation's evolving self-obsession ("Changes").
HUNKY DORY was also a tour of the posters framed on young Bowie's impressionable walls. His obvious romance with pre-punk New York City is evident in "Andy Warhol," and his fascination with the public-private schism shows up in "Song For Bob Dylan." In hindsight, "Dylan" seems an introduction to Bowie's idea that a rock performer needs an alter ego. He was preparing for his transformation into Ziggy Stardust.

Album Description

It seems hard to believe, given the career full of revolutionary and hugely influential stylistic shifts that followed, that this superb record was only David Bowie's fourth. Yet HUNKY DORY ranks alongside ZIGGY STARDUST, LOW, and SCARY MONSTERS as one of Bowie's finest and most consistent albums. Ironically, it is one of the artist's least rock-oriented efforts, bearing little relation to what came before or after in his discography. Instead, HUNKY DORY covers a wide range of styles from operatic pop ("Life on Mars?") to low-key folk ("Quicksand") to English music hall ditties ("Kooks").
There are standout tracks, most notably the glam-rock anthem "Oh, You Pretty Things!" and the chugging, life-affirming "Changes", which went on to become one of Bowie's all-time signature songs. But HUNKY DORY is solid from beginning to end, thanks to the fine musicians, Bowie's excellent songwriting, and the artist's now-mature sense of performance. These qualities fold such wild cards as the tongue-in-cheek celebrity send-up "Andy Warhol", the psychedelic folk of "The Bewlay Brothers", and exuberant jam of "Queen Bitch", the album's only overt rocker, neatly into the deck, making for the first of Bowie's truly indisputable masterpieces.

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