The Bowie hippy album (Space Oddity - David Bowie)

Member Name: Rumblefish

Product:	Space Oddity - David Bowie
Date:	04/07/00 (75 review reads)
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Advantages: Nice, foot-tapping songs

Disadvantages: Lack of edge

The title track is in many ways a misleading example of the tone of this album, which is not nearly so rooted in outer space as so much of Bowie's subsequent work. This is for the main part a gentle folk-rock album, with the vaguely hippy pretensions you might expect from a guitar-based album made in 1969. Songs like 'Janine', 'God Knows I'm Good', and the superb 'An Occasional Dream' are more reminiscent of Simon and Garfunkel than the kind of music Bowie was to make in the following decade. It passes by pleasantly and without fuss, and for the most part, without staying in the memory too long.

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