All The Records I've Ever Owned

                                                                                     Year Released: 1972 Label: RCA Year Bought: 2005 (although listened to mum's vinyl a lot before this) I got into Bowie when I was in my mid-teens, loving Hunky Dory in particular.  I remember being reluctant to listen to Ziggy Stardust in case it wasn't as good. Of course I was wrong. It's probably better. From the opening drums of Five Years to the closing cacophony of Rock 'n' Roll Suicide, Bowie takes us on a journey through his fantastical imagination, smeared with glitter and garish eyeshadow. Mick Ronson is an absolute starman on this album. That solo at the end of Moonage Daydream is one for the ages. There's not a bad song on it. There's no...

  Year Released: 1975 Label: RCA Year Bought: 2002 Sometimes I don't think its appreciated just how prolific David Bowie was in the '70s. 'Young Americans', released in 1975, was his seventh studio album of the decade, and came just three years after 'The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars'.  Apart from 'Pin-Ups', it was all fantastic. I can only think of the Beatles as a comparison for quantity and quality. 'Young Americans' is the album that showed Ziggy truly was dead. Previous album 'Diamond Dogs' still had one foot in the glam camp, but this record is so far from that genre it sounds like it's been made by a completely different musician. Dubbed "plastic soul" by Bowie himself, 'Young Americans' was recorded as he was pushing on with his red peppers, milk and cocaine diet. The Thin White Duke persona would be crystallised on the next album, 'Station to Station', but the transition ...