David Bowie - Same (Space Oddity) SBL 7912 Philips UK

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Mar 19, 2006 Sold Date

Mar 9, 2006 Start Date

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Great Britain Country Of Seller

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General Details Artist David Bowie Title Same
(Original version of the lp that was later released as Space Oddity on RCA) Record Label Philips Cat. number SBL 7912 Mono/Stereo? S

Country

UK Sleeve If blank, no sleeve manufactured credits present Released 1969

Matrix number

Side 1 852 146 1Y//2 * 1 1 3 Side 2 852 146 2Y//2 * 1 1 3

Condition

Disc

Paper Scuffs

Side 1

Minor paper scuffs

Side 2 EX Minor paper scuffs

Surface Marks

Side 1

Side 2 EX

Scratches

Side 1

EX Side 2 EX Other Info.

Sound

Surface Noise

Side 1

Side 2 EX

Pops/Clicks

Side 1

EX Side 2 EX

Scratches

Side 1

EX Side 2 EX Other Info.

Cover

Ring / Surface Wear

Front

EX Back EX Inner EX

Card Creases

Front

EX Back EX Inner EX

Shelf Wear

Edge

EX Minor edge wear Spine EX Corner EX Inner Sleeve

Other Info. Gatefold cover

Guide to grades used

Ex+ Cover Looks virtually New - no marks, wear or damage Disc Looks unplayed - no marks visible Sound I don't use this grade for sound - as all records (even brand new) produce some noise Ex Cover Slight signs of wear on edges/spine, corners or ring wear. Minor creases. No damage caused by sticker removal/residue. Light sleeves may show slight discolouration due to age or handling Disc May have minor paper scuffs caused by moving record in & out of paper sleeve. Sound May be occasional pops/clicks and minimal surface noise Vg Cover Moderate edge/spine or ring wear. Corners may be a little blunt. Opening edge may show feathering caused by removal of record. Visible creases or laminate lift. Disc Some surface marks &/or hairline scratches. Moderate paper scuffs. Sound May be pops/clicks caused by marks/scratches. Moderate background surface noise and crackles. G Cover Heavy ring or edge/spine wear. Corners noticable bashed. Heavy creases. Considerable laminate damage. Disc Looks very well played. A lot of surface marks/scratches Sound Considerable surface noise. Audible scratches.

Background Information

Click on the link to see the original information source: - David Bowie - Same When the lp 'David Bowie' first appeared in late 1969, David Bowie was riding high. His first ever hit single, the super-topical "Space Oddity," had scored on the back of the moon landing that summer, and so distinctive an air did it possess that, for a moment, its maker really did seem capable of soaring as high as Major Tom. Sadly, it was not to be. "Space Oddity" aside, Bowie possessed very little in the way of commercial songs, and the ensuing album (his second) emerged a dense, even rambling, excursion through the folky strains that were the last glimmering of British psychedelia.

Indeed, the album's most crucial cut, the lengthy "Cygnet Committee," was nothing less than a discourse on the death of hippiness, shot through with such bitterness and bile that it remains one of Bowie's all-time most important numbers — not to mention his most prescient. The verse that unknowingly name-checks both the Sex Pistols ("the guns of love") and the Damned is nothing if not a distillation of all that brought punk to its knees a full nine years later.

The remainder of the album struggles to match the sheer vivacity of "Cygnet Committee," although "Unwashed and Slightly Dazed" comes close to packing a disheveled rock punch, all the more so as it bleeds into a half minute or so of Bowie wailing "Don't Sit Down" — an element that, mystifyingly, was hacked from the 1972 reissue of the album. "Janine" and "An Occasional Dream" are pure '60s balladry, and "God Knows I'm Good" takes a well-meant but somewhat clumsy stab at social comment.

Two final tracks, however, can be said to pinpoint elements of Bowie's own future. The folk epic "Wild Eyed Boy from Freecloud" (substantially reworked from the B-side of the hit) would remain in Bowie's live set until as late as 1973, while a re-recorded version of the mantric "Memory of a Free Festival" would become a single the following year, and marked Bowie's first studio collaboration with guitarist Mick Ronson. 'David Bowie' itself, however, would prove another dead end in a career that was gradually piling up an awful lot of such things.

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