- Width Of A Circle is said to be the only ready-written track Bowie. The rest was written in the studio. The text is a radical change to the previous album, computer nightmares, mental hospitals, running amok with guns, ... Bowie, who had lyrically tried a lot, seemed now to arrettieren the role of the prophets of doom. The guitar Ronson is a contribution to one of the very first heavy metal albums and is reminiscent of Tony Iommy. - All The Madmen is quiet, is supposed to act on Bowie's brother, who was in the mental hospital. - Black Country Rock sounds schwermetallig and (again) a little to the then successful T.Rex. - After All is almost meditative - Running Gun Blues is my favorite. The MG-Ronson's guitar riff like shapes the song. - Saviour Machine suddenly shows one of the best vocal performances Bowie, it goes back to fear of the future, George Orwell. - She Shook Me Cold has a lead-heavy riff - The Man Who Sold The World is the catchiest title, with his flowing keyboards and chorus. But hit parade level it had not. - The Supermen: the chorales seem to come out of the grave or the asylum. Perhaps the weirdest and ausgeflippteste track, the Bowie ever pressed on an LP. The plate was then unsuccessful, buyers of Black Sabbath`Paranoid thought "The Man Who Sold the World" probably too oblique and the cover to tuntig.
