M- AMAZING 1970 ORIG DAVID BOWIE MAN OF WORDS MUSIC Groovy Psych POPSIKE
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357
$ 357
Sold For
Oct 22, 2023
Sold Date
Oct 15, 2023
Start Date
37
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USA
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Description
- RARE ... 1970 TOP RATED & SOUGHT AFTER COLLECTIBLE !
SOLID FINAL COLLECTION COPY ..|/\|...............................................|/\|.. - ★★★★★★★★★★
- DAVID BOWIE
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- ★★★★★★★★★★
- Man Of Words, Man Of Music
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- USA - Mercury Records - SR 61248 (Stereo)
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- ~ Highly wished for ~
- HERE IS THE BEST COPY WE'VE EVER COME ACROSS !
NO ONE LIKELY TO DISAPPOINTED WITH THIS BEAUTY
SOUGHT AFTER 1970 first pressing unipack cover with lyrics on the inside... most spare copies have been virtually dried up for years having been long ago snatched up by collectors ...
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...more art-folk and hippie-ish than BOWIE'S to come far more celebrated work. Strummed 12-string acoustic guitars and minor chords dominate with never again BOWIE engaging infectious song-craft ..............................................................................................
MAN OF WORDS, MAN OF MUSIC was the first record on which David Bowie looked and sounded like the BOWIE whom the world has come to know. .....................................
One glance at the spooky, androgynous face that adorns this beautiful visual GATEFOLD record was enough to signal that the light-pop singer who sang the novelty number "The Laughing Gnome" a few years earlier, was SO a thing of the past.
Leaving behind the mannered, English music top of the pops of initial recordings, Bowie roughened up the sound, creating a ragged, eclectic mix of folk and rock tinged with electronic sounds. The record yielded his first timeless "SPACE ODDITY" and began the singer's soon-to-be meteoric rise to international rock icon-hood
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It has everything from pure popsike ballad to psychedelic rock and progressive folk and still it's a solid entirety. A beautiful one. There are various 12 string guitar based songs on the album and Letter To Hermione, one of his most beautiful, falls squarely into the singer-songwriter genre. Janine does too but there are other songs simply too idiosyncratic to appeal to the same group of listeners.
Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud and An Occasional Dream are both impressive arrangements but too melodramatic and not introspective enough for the easy listening, middle-of-the-road (west Coast) tastes of the time. -
Unwashed And Somewhat Slightly Dazed turns into an enjoyable loose jam and with it's obscure lyrics and rather disarranged presentation might be one of Bowie's first tributes to the Velvet Underground.
Something sinister lurks within the impenetrable Cygnet Committee which has some delightful twists and turns but gets a bit hard to take at the great crescendo climax. Such darkness sits uneasily alongside the flower-power sentiments of Memory Of A Free Festival, on which Bowie conjures up his version of Hey Jude and, as with that Beatles classic, the song at the beginning is rather diluted by the very extended coda.
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- A:
Space Oddity 5:15
Unwashed And Somewhat Slightly Dazed 6:55-
Letter To Hermione 2:28 -
Cygnet Committee 9:33 -
B: - Janine 3:18
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An Occasional Dream 2:51 -
Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud 4:45 -
God Knows I'm Good 3:13 -
Memory Of A Free Festival 7:05
- CONDITION:
- The cover: rated: M- Simply BEAUTIFUL highly wear-prone Legendary 60's teen-scene groove-monster ~ should be of no issue ... There are no delete marks, no split seams, no bends, and no writing ...
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- The vinyl: Rated: M- complimenting the beautiful cover is immaculate vinyl ... Final collection copy !
- We'll advise most likely not find a better ever - 53 years & counting ....
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