David Bowie (Space Oddity)
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| Studio album by David Bowie | ||||
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Publication |
4th November 1969 |
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admission |
June – September 1969 |
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| Label (s) | Philips Records (GB), Mercury Records (US) | |||
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Format (s) |
LP, CD |
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Title (number) |
10 |
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running time |
45 min 13 s |
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Tony Visconti , Gus Dudgeon (Track 1) |
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Studio (s) |
Trident Studios, London |
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David Bowie , also known as Space Oddity , is the second studio album by David Bowie . It was released on November 4, 1969 on Philips Records in the UK . At Mercury Records in the USA it was also released under the title Man of Words / Man of Music . It was later released several times by RCA Records as Space Oddity . A 2009 edition reverted to the original title, David Bowie . The album is considered Bowie's first rock album.
Emergence
The album contains one of Bowie's most famous songs, Space Oddity - it was written on the acoustic guitar and the stylophone . The song was inspired by Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey and featured the character Major Tom . Overall, Bowie gave up the orientation to Anthony Newley that made his earlier recordings. Instead, he turned his songwriting to a mix of styles that can be described as somewhat progressive and psychedelic folk rock , with occasional influences from Bob Dylan .
reception
Allmusic .com awarded 3 out of 5 stars. Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote that the album "isn't very cohesive, but it is charming, especially in light of his later records."
Track list
All titles are written by David Bowie.
- Space Oddity - 5:14
- Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed - 6:10
- (Don't Sit Down) (On later releases this title was omitted from the title list and merged with track 2.) - 0:39
- Letter to Hermione - 2:30
- Cygnet Committee - 9:30
- Janine - 3:19
- An Occasional Dream - 2:56
- Wild Eyed Boy from Freecloud - 4:47
- God Knows I'm Good - 3:16
- Memory of a Free Festival - 7:07 am
swell
- ↑ David Bowie (Space Oddity) at Discogs
- ↑ a b David Bowie at Allmusic (English)