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My Bowie-world view is somewhat skewed: for many people David Bowie WAS the 1970s, and yet I wasn’t there to witness it. I came to the David Bowie party in late 1986 (yes, “Never Let Me Down”!) and then again just as EMI began its “Sound and Vision” re-issue campaign of his entire 70s output. My (pre-University) summer of 1990 will always be remembered as the year I left home and the year “The Width Of A Cirlce” blew my mind.
Making a list of my Top 10 favourite Bowie songs is a akin to trying to nail water to a wall. Ask me again tomorrow and you’ll probably get a completely different set of songs. But, for today, it will be these:
1. I’m Deranged (from “1. Outside”)
2. Always Crashing In The Same Car (from “Low”)
3. Stay (from “Station To Station”)
4. Young Americans (from “Young Americans”)
5. Starman (from “Ziggy Stardust”)
6. Candidate (from “Diamond Dogs”)
7. Blackout (from “‘Heroes’”)
8. The Width Of A Circle (from “The Man Who Sold The World”)
9. The Bewlay Brothers (from “Hunky Dory”)
10. Look Back In Anger (from “Lodger”)
I tend to lean towards the strange, dislocated Bowie more than anything else and you’ll hear plenty of this – as well as “Greatest Hits” Bowie – at The Gladstone Hotel this coming Saturday night (27th March).
The set times will run like this:
7 – 8 Medusa
8 – 9 Johnny Darko spins Bowie
9 – 10 Johnny Darko spins Bowie
10 – 11 Andrew P Street
11 – 12 Johnny Darko spins Bowie
12 – 1 El Mariachi
1 – 2 Tom Libertine
2 – 3 El Mariachi
I am a DJ. I am what I play.
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Anniversary editions are usually the preserve of cultural benchmarks, albums that helped define the zeitgeist. Few people would disagree that Spiritualized‘s seminal (yes, I went there) album “Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space” was possibly one of the finest albums of the 1990s. Perhaps – as The Guardian suggested at the time – even better than “OK Computer“?! The recent 10th Anniversary edition might have been a 3-disc barrel scraping exercise with endless outtakes and alternate versions, but the remastering was exquisite and provided ample opportunity for re-appraisal and re-enjoyment*.
So, it must have taken a staggering leap in both arrogance and audacity – even by Crispin Mills’ standards – to consider Kula Shaker‘s second album “Peasants, Pigs and Astronauts” worthy of 10th Anniversary re-issue treatment. It comes with a re-sequenced running order, don’t you know. Still, it remains the follow-up album that “didn’t” and we at Britpop are obliged to ask – in neon letters about 6ft high – WHY?
http://www.kulashaker.co.uk/boutique/
Behold, the original EPK:
* possibly not a real word
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Finally, a remix of a Florence & The Machine tune that won’t make you want to nail-gun your own ears. Breakage push heavy on the electro-1980s pedal for “Dogs Days Are Over“. Download here [via NME.com].
Breakage’s MySpace is here.
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