DAVID BOWIE - Man of Words Man of Music 1969 LP pristine NEAR MINT
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MOST OF THE ALBUMS I AM NOW LISTING ARE PROMOTIONAL COPIES WHICH CAME FROM THE COLLECTION OF A FORMER RADIO STATION EXECUTIVE; THERE ARE MANY RARITIES FROM THE 1960s AND 1970s
DAVID BOWIE
"Man of Words / Man of Music"
Stereo
Mercury SR 61246
Released in 1969
Record Condition: Near Mint, appears unplayed, hard to imagine finding a nicer copy
Labels: Red, "12 ovals" logo
ABOUT THE ALBUM:
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 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.
Tracks
Title Composer Time1
Space Oddity Bowie 5:15
2
Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed Bowie 6:55
3
Don't Sit Down Bowie 0:39
4
Letter to Hermione Bowie 2:28
5
Cygnet Committee Bowie 9:23
6
Janine Bowie 3:18
7
An Occasional Dream Bowie 2:51
8
The Wild Eyed Boy from Freecloud Bowie 4:45
9
God Knows I'm Good Bowie 3:13
10
Memory of a Free Festival Bowie 7:05
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