David Bowie The Man Who Sold The World LP Aust 1972 NM
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David Bowie The Man Who Sold The World LP Aust 1972 NM
Original Australian reissue pressing on RCA
The Man Who Sold the World is the third studio album by David Bowie. It was originally released on Mercury Records in November 1970 in the United States and in April 1971 in the UK. The album was Bowie's first with the nucleus of what would become the "Spiders from Mars", the backing band made famous by The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars in 1972. Though author David Buckley has described the singer's previous record Space Oddity as "the first Bowie album proper",NME critics Roy Carr and Charles Shaar Murray have said of The Man Who Sold the World, "this is where the story really starts". It has been claimed that this album's release marks the birth of glam rock.
The album was written and rehearsed at Bowie's home in Haddon Hall, Beckenham, an Edwardian mansion converted to a block of flats that was described by one visitor as having an ambience "like Dracula's living room". As Bowie was preoccupied with his new wife Angie at the time, the music was largely arranged by guitarist Mick Ronson and bassist/producer Tony Visconti. Despite his exasperation with the singer's preoccupation, Visconti would later rate The Man Who Sold the World his best work with Bowie until 1980's Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps).
Much of the album had a distinct heavy metal edge that stands it apart from Bowie's other releases, and has been compared to contemporary acts such as Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath. The record also provided some unusual musical detours, such as the title track's use of Latin rhythms to hold the melody. The sonic heaviness of the album was matched by the subject matter, which included insanity ("All the Madmen"), gun-toting assassins and Vietnam War commentary ("Running Gun Blues"), an omniscient computer ("Saviour Machine"), and Lovecraftian Elder Gods ("The Supermen").The song "She Shook Me Cold" was an explanation of a heterosexual encounter. The album has also been seen as reflecting the influence of such figures as Aleister Crowley, Franz Kafka and Friedrich Nietzsche.
A1 The Width Of A Circle 8:07
A2 All The Madmen 5:38
A3 Black Country Rock 3:33
A4 After All 3:52
B1 Running Gun Blues 3:12
B2 Saviour Machine 4:27
B3 She Shook Me Cold 4:13
B4 The Man Who Sold The World 3:58
B5 The Supermen 3:39
CONDITION:
SLEEVE: EX Unlaminated sleeve shows only faintest traces of ring impression on both sides, surface not broken.
RECORD: NM
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