Search - David Bowie :: Hunky Dory

WOW!!!!!

Jon Clypto | 07/08/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"my first bowie cd, i just got it, ziggy stardust and diamond dogs. i just finished listening to this and now i am going to listen to the others. boy, this was great!! LIfe on Mars? Is without a doubt the best, the other songs are masterpeices. this was a very good introduction to bowie, none of theese songs are bad"

The best written album ever!

Morton | Colorado | 08/21/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Hunky Dory by David Bowie is easily the best lyricly written album of all time! Long concedered Bowie's best album next to, The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars. Released in 1971, just before Ziggy, and right after the hard rocking, The Man Who Sold The World. As metioned The Man Who Sold The World is a hard rock album, with heavy piledriving guitars by Mick Ronson. Where as The Man Who Sold The World was a rare album in Bowie cannon, so is Hunky Dory. This is an almost all acoustic guitar album, and mainly a pianon fueled effort. To me David Bowie never before or since wrote better songs then he did here, the lyrics are nothing short of amazing! Bowie vocals shine through beautifuly. Mick Ronson's acoustic guitar work still amazes as well as his great arrangements. A real treat is the feature yes keyboardist Rick Wakemen's piano playing.



Hunky Dory opens with the all time Bowie classic, 'Changes' which for most people is the first Bowie song that people ever heard. Though the song was not a hit it still to this day is played on the radio and is concedered a classic among classics! 'Oh, You Pretty Things' is one of the best songs on the album, with a nice catchy chorus and a great rythmicly sung verse that sounds really cool. I think Bowie wrote this song about himself. 'Eight Line Poem' is exactly what its called, the poem really doesnt make since but the guitar intro by Mick Ronson is absolutly stunning. 'Life On Mars' is one of David Bowie's all time best songs. Featuring one of his all time best chorus' and lyrics, it's really a shining moment in music history. 'Kooks' is a cheesey song about his daughter I think, it's really catchy. The next song contains some of the best lyrics ever written by anyone, 'Quicksand' is just down right amazing, and fantastic, and any other good word you could use to describe it. 'Fill Your Heart' is a cover song, that I dont really like to much, I mean its ok every once in a while but it's deffinatly not one of my favorite songs on the album. I love 'Andy Warhol' this song has one of the coolest chorus' ever. The songs lyrics are really great, and this song also features one of the all time best guitar riffs, Mick Ronson never fails to amaze me. Also the intro to this song where Bowie tells the guy in the soundboard how to say Warhol. 'A Song For Bob Dylan' is another cool song and it's about.... you guessed it Bob Dylan. 'Queen Bitch' was really a sign of things to come, it is straight up glam-rock, before there was even glam-rock proven that once again David Bowie is and always has been ahead of his time, the damn genius! The album closes with the epic 'The Bewlay Brothers' which is a long acoustic jam with great lyrics and amazing vocals by Bowie. I glad this is the song the end the album because it eases you out perfectly.



Hunky Dory is with out a doubt one of the all time best albums, certainly one of Bowies brightest moments. As I said before the lyrics and phnomenal. So as I think of a group of people to recomend this album to I can only say, I recomend this album to anyone because it is that good and fans of any kind of music would enjoy this, well except for rap!"

Look out, you rock and rollers!

Johnny Heering | Bethel, CT United States | 01/02/2007

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Hunky Dory takes Bowie's sexual ambiguity and runs with it. He hasn't completely donned the entertainer's mask yet; there are flashes of humanity, like "Kooks" (a touching song for his son) on the breathlessly eclectic whirlwind. Bowie tips his hat to forefathers Lou Reed ("Queen Bitch") and Andy Warhol ("Andy Warhol"), while "Changes" and "Oh, You Pretty Things" herald the coming of a confused, flamboyant post-hippie style glitter.



This version of the CD features four bonus tracks. "Bombers" is a previously unreleased song recorded at the same sessions as this album. "The Supermen" was on Bowie's previous album; the version here was re-recorded at the Hunky Dory sessions. There is also a demo version of "Quicksand" and an alternate mix of "The Bewlay Brothers"."