Bleep

Though he’d already established himself as an artistic oddity with his 1969 self-titled LP, David Bowie really became David Bowie with the following year’s The Man Who Sold The World. Here reissued under its intended title The Metrobolist and remastered by original producer Tony Visconti, the LP is a juggernaut of prog-inflected hard rock, delivered in Bowie’s early trademark youthful yelp. ‘The Man Who Sold The World’, ‘All The Madmen’, an early, pitch-perfect version of ‘After All’: what more could you ask for?