David Bowie, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars Review

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Helen of Troy's Review of David Bowie, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars

6th Oct 2006

Overall Rating

5 stars
  • Value for money
    5 stars
  • Format
    Vinyl
  • Other Artists Listened To
    Back then? T.Rex of course!
Good Points

Amazingly weird and wonderful lyrics!
David Bowie as Ziggy Stardust, strange but fantastic!
I was born in time to live through this colourful and musically fantastic era!
David Bowie is a living legend. This era he came into his own.


General Comments

Aaaah!!! Those were the days!! All the kids were colouring their hair with food dyes, much to the annoyance of the parents! And teachers! The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars album is my favourite David Bowie one. I still have the old vinyl, but now in CD form and the sound is fantastic. Mick Ronson plays some great guitar riffs throughout the album.

This album begins with "Five Years". Ziggy was telling us we only had five years and we were doomed! Lyrics like "Five years, my brain hurts a lot, five years that's all we got!" sound a bit naff, but David Bowie sings this with such emotion as Ziggy! (Ziggy was an Alien who came to earth of course!) And there's the track "Ziggy Stardust" that tells us that he plays guitar, "But where were the spiders, when the fly tried to break her bones, like a leper messiah...." Of course we understood every word!?!? The album cheers up with joyous optimism with "Starman". My personal favourite track is "Suffragette City" fast and rockin'!

Many artists admit to being heavily influenced by Ziggy Stardust, including Marilyn Manson, Moby, Smashing Pumpkins, and Bob Marley named his son Ziggy!

If you have the album dig it from your collection and play it to someone of this generation. I bet they will be impressed, if not surprised and amazed!! But if they say they don't like it, it's old hat etc, I bet they'll listen to it again when you are not around, but won't admit it! If yours is like mine, old vinyl with crackles and scratches, maybe it's time to buy it again on CD!!

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  • zharca Rank: 2nd Lieutenant on 8th Oct 2006

    Back when I was spotty kid in Kent, a band called "The Mannish Boys" played at one of our school dances.
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    Wish I'd bought the 45 they released. Thinking about what it's worth now is bringing the spots back.