Blog: Fusion 45

Ziggy Stardust wrote the blueprint for David Bowie's hard-rocking glam, and Aladdin Sane essentially follows the pattern, for both better and worse. A lighter affair than Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane is actually a stranger album than its predecessor, buoyed by bizarre lounge-jazz flourishes from pianist Mick Garson and a handful of winding, vaguely experimental songs. Bowie abandons his futuristic obsessions to concentrate on the detached cool of New York and London hipsters, as on the compressed rockers "Watch That Man," "Cracked Actor," and "The Jean Genie." Bowie follows the hard stuff with the jazzy, dissonant sprawls of "Lady Grinning Soul," [...]

• Aladdin Sane » Aladdin Sane.mp3
• Cracked Actor » Cracked Actor.mp3
• Drive In Saturday » Drive In Saturday.mp3
• Lady Grinning Soul » Lady Grinning Soul.mp3
• Panic In Detroit » Panic In Detroit.mp3
• The Jean Genie » The Jean Genie.mp3
• The Prettiest Star » Prettiest Star.mp3
• Time » Time.mp3
• Watch That Man » Watch That Man.mp3