Album Project Update! 'Space Oddity' (1969). The first track on this album is one that everyone knows, the title track of the album. The story of a space man sent to the moon whose space craft breaks leaving him marooned. Ok, so perhaps it is about drug use, but seeing as the moon landing took place on 20th July 1969 and the album was released 4th November 1969 it's easy to just see it as a story about space exploration. Well, I think so anyway. It's probably the best use of Stylophone in a song ever! The track is very different to the other songs on the album, which are a mixed bunch including an orchestral song with fairly inexplicable lyrics ('Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud'), songs about everyday life like the shoplifting old lady ('God Knows I'm Good') and the trippy 'Memory Of A Free Festival' (which I remember from Dario G's 1998 hit 'Sunmachine'). 'Space Oddity' really is a great song. Hooray!
Labels: 1969, Album Project, David Bowie, Space Oddity
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