Running through David Bowie discography. Less running and more gleefully gliding. Gonna share my thoughts in this thread as I go.

There’s a comforting whimsy that runs all throughout David Bowie(‘67). It’s that mid-60’s London composition that some Beatles and Syd-years Floyd tracks have.

Rubber Band - the emotion in his voice sounds like the popular Bowie that I’m more familiar with. It’s there, but man what a leap from this to what’s to come.

Also, the tuba is a ridiculous sound. I love it, but I think the free use soundtracks of Curb and Always Sunny have made the tuba an instrument of sarcasm for me...or maybe it just is sarcastic and they nailed it with their selections.

Man the lyrics in We Are Hungry Men hit hard. Something to do with the current us vs them politics, but we the populus are the ones being eaten.

Fucking hell talk about hitting hard, Please Mr. Gravedigger is the anti-pandemic tune

Anyway, onto David Bowie 2.0 aka Space Oddity. So he was dropped from his label after the first album flopped. He recycled a lot of those tunes into a musical or something and then used that production to land another deal...thus giving the world Space Oddity

There’s a generation of Adam Sandler movie watching bozos (myself included) that have a special connection with this song because od the scene in Mr Deeds. And there is nothing wrong with that

Just a few songs in and Space Oddity is definitely a better composed, more complex album than David Bowie. And it has 1000 times more guitar.

BIG CSNY vibes in Letter To Hermoine. How very 1969 of him.

What a parallel between that “so much is gone and little is new” line in Cygnet Committee and Pink Floyd’s Jugband Blues and then the next line is crazy similar to Darkside Floyd (Eclipse, maybe).

Cygnet Committee is a wild finish; the classic ‘60s counter-culture vibes here that Hunter Thompson writes his eulogy to with his Wave Break passage:

Bowie wrote Janine for Elvis you’ll never convince me otherwise

Wild Eyed Boy from Freecloud is a whole play