Ziggy Goes To America

The title character was actually to be understood as the alter ego to Bowie's Ziggy alter ego, a little complicated the Anyway, AS -. Whose songs were written on Bowie's US Tour, leads the music essentially the Glam Rock of Ziggy Stardust on, but without to have a universal concept. Perhaps this is the reason why it first as album so closed as its predecessor acts, and secondly also songwriting does not know to convince to this extent.

Safe - Watch That Man ', which obviously difficult inspired by Bo Diddley, Panic In Detroit' and also the mega hit, The Jean Genie 'can easily keep up with the best Ziggy tracks, but there are also less successful one.

The title track, for example, acts. That had crashed like a patchwork of discarded Kinks songs from that time and also, Drive In Saturday 'or' Lady Grinning Soul 'know compositionally not quite convincing. Even the attempt to - folky held in the original - The Prettiest Star 'teach the glam boogie, acts quite wooden.

When, Time '- perhaps the best piece on here - to make not only Bowie's admiration for Brecht quite noticeable, but also the influence of the impressions New Orleans, the city in Bowie wrote the song written, left with him. Cabaret-way, vaudeville-like composed and set to music so you could almost think it was an outtake from, Hunky Dory '.

Incredibly then, as the Spiders the Stones rags, Let's Spend The Night Together 'dahinmetzeln. Not only affenartig Fast Acting and hounded by Bowie and sang pretty non-chalant, comes from that, but also very punky Seeming. For diehard fans Stones an affront. Mike Garsons insane avant-garde jazz piano transmits and characterizes this number from the beginning, but as the band the song then can tear off in the middle and Bowie lascivious, let's make love 'breathed into the microphone that needs Jagger probably rage tears to my eyes have driven.

Ever get the - again - great gambling Ronson (see, Time '), by Garson serious competition, because the sphere is much more dominant - but unfortunately also more strenuous - as on Ziggy Stardust.

Apart from Bowie's own version of the Mott The Hoople giveaways, All The Young Dudes 'and the Sax mix of `John I'm Only Dancing' (of a little Bowie's Blue Eyed Soul can resonate phase), the additional CD provides only the UK Single Mix by Jean Genie 'as an interesting supplement. The live tracks of the 72nd Tour are neither musikalsich yet sonically enriching.

Again really 3einhalb stars that I aufrunde for the outstanding, Time 'and the absurdity of, Let's Spend The Night' on 4.