1970 Original - DAVID BOWIE - MAN OF WORDS MUSIC POP PSYCH LP RARE
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1970 Original - DAVID BOWIE - MAN OF WORDS MUSIC POP PSYCH LP RARE
USA - MERCURY RECORDS - SR 61246
...RARE...
TOP COPY - BEST i'VE SEEN!
SO hard to find this CLEAN!!! Don't hold your breath for the next copy with so little previous use!
SUPER RARE & SOUGHT AFTER 1970 first pressing unipack cover with lyrics on the inside...
...more art-folk and hippie-ish than his celebrated work. Strummed 12-string acoustic guitars and minor chords dominate.
"MAN OF WORDS, MAN OF MUSIC" was the first record on which David Bowie looked and sounded like the Bowie whom the world has come to know. One glance at the spooky, androgynous face that adorns the record was enough to signal that the Anthony Newley-influenced, light-pop singer who sang the novelty number "The Laughing Gnome" a few years earlier was a thing of the past. Leaving behind the mannered, English music hall-isms of his initial recordings, Bowie roughened up the sound, creating a ragged, eclectic mix of folk and rock tinged with electronic sounds. The record yielded his first American hit, and began the singer's soon-to-be meteoric rise to international rock icon-hood.
SPACE ODDITY, a sci-fi mini-epic, is an enduring classic in which Bowie squeezes every bit of drama from both his dour low range and the soaring upper reaches of his voice. Even after decades of continued airplay, "Space Oddity" is surprising for its intricate arrangement, nifty guitar playing, and palpable sense of interplanetary estrangement. Other fine and lesser-known musical moments include the sublimely subdued "Letter to Hermione," and the sprawling and strange "Memory of a Free Festival."
It has everything from pure popsike ballad to psychedelic rock and progressive folk and still it's a solid entirety. A beautiful one. There are various 12 string guitar based songs on the album and Letter To Hermione, one of his most beautiful, falls squarely into the singer-songwriter genre. Janine does too but there are other songs simply too idiosyncratic to appeal to the same group of listeners.
Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud and An Occaisional Dream are both impressive arrangements but too melodramatic and not introspective enough for the easy listening, middle-of-the-road (west Coast) tastes of the time.
Unwashed And Somewhat Slightly Dazed turns into an enjoyable loose jam and with it's obscure lyrics and rather disarranged presentation might be one of Bowie's first tributes to the Velvet Underground.
Something sinister lurks within the inpenetrable Cygnet Committee which has some delightful twists and turns but gets a bit hard to take at the great crescendo climax. Such darkness sits uneasily alongside the flower-power sentiments of Memory Of A Free Festival, on which Bowie conjures up his version of Hey Jude and, as with that Beatles classic, the song at the beginning is rather diluted by the very extended coda.
The song writing is strong throughout this album, as you would expect from Bowie, irrespective of the style he adopts. God Knows I'm Good might be the slightest of the bunch but it still has an irresistable charm.
Space Oddity, a pun on the film title, was a big hit of course, and deservedly so with it's spacious atmospherics and soaring melody. This is a fascinating and curious album...
CONDITION: The Cover: old unipak gatefold, rated: M- solid all over with miles away from the shelf wear usually found on this extremely wear-prone cover...one of the *best* copies we've yet to see (!) , Obviously of high collectability. No split seams, no bends, and no writing...NO delete marks ...TOP COPY
The Vinyl: is shiny/glossy; EX top copy ...looks so CLEAN will easily play mint without surface noise...The red Mercury labels are both minty clean...
A cool addition to anyone's music library!
EFFICIENT/CAREFUL GRADING
All imperfections are noted both cover & record
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