Bleep

Special Vinyl Edition lands from Mars! The Fourth Bowie Album, and the one that would smash his name through to the Other Side of pop stardom. All Music’s Erlewine describes the record thus “a kaleidoscopic array of pop styles, tied together only by Bowie's sense of vision: a sweeping, cinematic mélange of high and low art, ambiguous sexuality, kitsch, and class”, and we can’t do much better than that. Lower the needle for a 41 minute ride through ‘Changes’, ‘Oh You Pretty Things’ (best opening two tracks on an album, ever?), ‘Life on Mars’ (a clue to where he goes next), ‘Bewlay Brothers’ (a stirring, spine-tingling folk space-Odyssey). It don’t get much better than this (well, in Bowie’s case it actually does).