RARE LP DAVID BOWIE - Man Of Words / Man Of Music US Original LP SPACE ODDITY NM
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DAVID BOWIE: Man Of Words / Man Of Music (Mercury #SR-61246 USA 1969)
Very nice USA Stereo Original second LP by David Bowie...
Mode / Speed: Stereo / 33.3 rpm.
When Man of Words/Man of Music 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 great 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. Man of Words/Man of Music itself, however, would prove another dead end in a career
that was gradually piling up an awful lot of such things.
Record: EX to M-
Cover: VG++ to EX Fresh sleeve top and bottom corners are bit bended, there is a
drill-out, slight ringwears and light split on left seam (see picture)
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