loose - melodic - sounds young and fresh

You can feel the influence of Marc Bolan to Bowie in the song "Star Man". End 71 T.Rex was with their strange Singles and märchhaften lyrics in the European charts very successful. Bowie had similar aesthetic androgynous feeling and made songs like "Holy Holy" which sounded all the way to his school friend Marc. Unfortunately, this time was not long before this (here for Bowie ratios quite innocent) androgynous mood. The cover also shows this spirit of Poster Art Nouveau (much masterful as the cover of "Sold the World") by Marc Bolan, who hung in many nurseries this month. The songs are very different from the draw "Heavy" -Vorgänger "The Man Who Sold the World", they come easily and compelling melodic therefore. "Kooks" has a nice chorus, and is dedicated to the new child. "Pretty Things" has an interesting piano figure and sounds in the poetry as to Bowie would incorporate the very young teenagers of the time, as this will see the adult world. "
"Bewlay Brothers" sounds kind of occult text, but has a nice atmosphere, as clear to a friendly autumn evening. One of the strangest songs Bowie and one of the most beautiful in melody and instruments. Similarly mystical is what "Quicksand" to which offers a quiet melody with esoteric text.
It also heard how good it was to get involved Mick Ronson, who also dominated the original acoustic guitars like the Gibson Les Paul, but may sound on only one song "heavy" "Queen Bitch". The song sounds like something put on and superficially by Lou Reed and disturbs the clear overall concept a bit, "Fill your Heart has a rousing saxophone melody," Andy Warhol "seems to have the painting while listening to a little annoyed, because it is the passivity of the artist ( pokes fun at his gestures and speaking).
For young and old Bowie lovers one of the finest albums, where it hardly boring tracks, for me subjectively as at that time the child is also a beautiful memory of that time atmosphere, where not least also had Marc Bolan and D.Bowie influence on the teenagers of that time ,