The songwriting imperious peak

How about Bowie's career probably have been different if he had already had his big break with this album? Maybe it would be a serious competitor for Elton John for the title, Best UK sing-a-songwriter 'has become - the anthemic and opulent underlaid refrains from, Changes' od, Life On Mars' are so far not by John plays like. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road 'and the quality of the songwriting on, Hunky Dory' it can absorb loose with Regi's best albums.

The fact is however that Hunky Dory was not mega-seller when it first appeared and 'blossomed only after the success of, Ziggy Stardust into a veritable success - because Bowie was then indeed been too much absorbed in his Ziggy role than that it could have been a step back here given.

Already recorded favorably by the critics at the show include 11 songs on this album actually the finest what British songwriting art has ever produced, what it - makes virtually untouchable - for Bowie fans, as skeptics.

The tw. vaudeville-like production Tony Visconti underscores Bowie often chanson-like compositions grand and fit these songs like Cinderella her glass slipper. The weakest "song here is characteristically the only foreign composition it - Fill Your Heart ', but even the interrupts - almost magical -. Flow this album that in any way with, Queen Bitch' then, Spiders From Mars' already resonate is a harbinger of the near-miss, Rock'n'Roll Suicide 'still came there.

, Changes', Oh You Pretty Things' and 'Life On Mars' songs are anyway for eternity, Quicksand' and 'Song For Bob Dylan' close behind and the rest hardly drops. That on, Ziggy 'then, Five Years' and' Soul Love 'still a sequel finds this magnificent songs round dance' is certainly the temporal proximity of these albums ascribed, but is easy to see if the two LPs sounds once consecutively.

, Hunky Dory 'is certainly one of Bowie's best 3 albums and was his songwriting-driven climax. First, Scary Monsters 'bot then here and there again this tune bliss, there indeed often implemented evil distorted, but as a continuous kompositorsches highlight how, Hunky Dory' he managed never again.