David Bowie (commonly known as Space Oddity) is the second studio album by the English musician David Bowie ...It featured an array of collaborators, including Herbie Flowers, Rick Wakeman, Terry Cox and the band Junior's Eyes.

Departing from the music hall style of Bowie's 1967 self-titled debut, David Bowie contains folk rock and psychedelic rock songs, with lyrical themes influenced by events happening in Bowie's life at the time, including former relationships and festivals he attended.

"Space Oddity" is a largely acoustic number augmented by the eerie tones of the composer's stylophone, a pocket electronic organ. Some commentators have also seen the song as a metaphor for heroin use, citing the opening countdown as analogous to the drug's passage down the needle prior to the euphoric "hit", while noting Bowie's admission of a "silly flirtation with smack" in 1968. - Wikipedia

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeS66Gl-ttA&list=PLfIDINzT3xf3SW7V0_hflIIDcjKJ4oeHx&index=1

#FortnightFridayMusic
Mar 21 2025
The prompt is Utopia


#DavidBowie, “Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed”
from Bowie’s second album issued as “David Bowie” in the UK, “Man of Words/Man of Music David Bowie” in the States, 1969

(The single “Space Oddity” wasn’t an instant hit but in 1972 it followed Ziggy Stardust back to radio, prompting the album's rerelease as “Space Oddity.”)

Lyric:
I'm the cream
Of the great Utopia dream
And you're the gleam
In the depths of your banker's spleen

Bowie's “Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed” seems to critique society's class structure, via a lot of hippy-dippy weirdness - but the ringing 12-string is lovely, the chord progression sets the drama building, and there’s a freedom to the vocals from this fresh-faced flouncy-haired lad, so endearing though so soon supplanted with the switch of the eponymous album’s cover headshot to the coiffed and glittered spaceman of #SpaceOddity's cover.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHvsgzFcvDs

#Folk #Psychedelic #60s #70s