Aladdin Sane

Aladdin Sane to me is the sequel to Ziggy Stardust. Glam rock abounds as well as just some hard rock. Panic in Detroit and the title track are among my favorite Bowie tunes but the whole album is a great listen. Classic album from a rock icon.

This is one of the most epic, timeless albums I’ve ever listened to

This was very easy to listen to three times.

This is the NINTH David Bowie album on this project. 9! And amazingly, I don’t begrudge such a presence when the albums keep finding different ways to surprise. While this clearly was continuing along the glam rock Ziggy Stardust line, I was surprised that I had never heard the opening track “Watch That Man” before - it is already one of my favorite Bowie songs. How have I never heard this song? Is that shades of doo-wop on The Prettiest Star? And a cover of Let’s Spend The Night Together? Wasn’t expecting that. The only song I recognized was The Jean Genie. So yeah go ahead - 9 albums suits me fine.

It’s maybe my favorite Bowie album, partly bc it has great flow.

Love love love!

This album would be the crowning achievement for 99% of artists, and you could argue that it's not one of Bowie's 3 best albums. Favorite track: The Jean Genie

This album rips! Arguably the heaviest Bowie got on his songs. But it's also quite psychedelic. His band is great too on this album. The songs have an edge to it and some double entendres worked throughout. Standout tracks: Watch That Man, Aladdin Sane, Drive-In Saturday, Cracked Actor, The Prettiest Star, Let's Spend The Night Together, The Jean Genie, Lady Grinning Soul 9 out of 10

Fun! Loved the piano in the songs.

Oh yeah, I've been waiting for this day to come. In my opinion David Bowie is the greatest of all time. He's my all time favourite artist. No one else has maintained as much cultural relevancy while being as influential and successful, while continuing to experiment with their sound than he was. Great album. I know there's some more Bowie albums on here and I can't wait to have an excuse to relisten to those either. I almost always listen to at least one of his studio albums every single day. Or one of his live albums as of late. His output is legendary!

Love Bowie - and this has one of my favourite songs of his on it - Drive in Saturday

Astonishing as usual. Bowie never fails to impress me with his work. An absolute force of creativity, style and innovation, I can see much of what influenced the modern years hard rock in this record, definitely worth many re-listens Fav tracks: - Aladdin Sane - Cracked Actor - Let's spend the night together - Lady Grinning Soul

I like his music! However, this album is not so cool than the best ones.

Holy FUCK title track is insane. The dissonant piano solo is incredible. Drive-In Saturday is awesome Time is a stand-out. Super good glam piano rock I'm fucking with this HEAVY I LOVE The Prettiest Star. Doo-wop-ey. Great shit Let's Spend the Night Together is very fun. Great energy from the piano and drums. The Jean Genie is definitely a low on this album. Still solid but somewhat repetitive without much interesting going on. Lady Grinning Soul is beautiful. Soft acoustic guitar coupled with a subtle yet dazzling piano. Holy fuck. Didn't know Let's Spend the Night Together was a Stones song. Cool Need to listen again but after first listen it is a SOLID 9/10.

I’m a Bowie fan and this is one of my favorites. Full of great songs and wonderfully weird

Classic - have it on vinyl

One of my favourite albums every song a masterpiece

Classic Bowie. Not as epic as Ziggy, not as hit-heavy as Hunky Dury, not as coke-frenzied as Station to Station (well maybe…), but it’s as class as any of those. I love the insane title track, which resonates with his final masterpiece Black Star. Let’s Spend the Night together and The Jean Genie give the album some accessibility. All in between are some wonderfully bizarre tunes. This must have been a ballsy release following the success of Ziggy Stardust. Take all the stars Mr. Bowie, you were something else.

For 99% of other artists this would be their unquestioned masterpiece. For Bowie, it's just another album. Absolutely loaded with hits.

Great album by Bowie during his Ziggy Stardust phase. Fantastic energy, wailing guitars and funky beats over a range of song themes -- glam rock at it's rawest; no love songs here. Jean Genie is probably the most well-known track but Panic In Detroit is the best song on the album. Watch That Man, Cracked Actor, Time and his fantastic cover of the Stones' Let's Spend The Night Together are also high quality. I'm not a huge fan of the title track to be honest, but I love this record nonetheless.

What Aladdin Sane did best was prove the brilliance behind Bowie’s image and marketing. Guaranteed the first image most people have in their heads when thinking about Bowie is THAT cover, which was apparently the moat expensive album cover of all time up to that point. It’s amazing what a good cover, good promotion, and a few choice singles can do. But that isn’t to understate how good the music is as well. Drive-In Saturday and The Prettiest Star are two of my favourite Bowie tracks, the hard rockers are all fun and frantic, and Aladdin Sane, Time, and Lady Grinning Soul took some of the mystery and artiness of The Man Who Sold The World and Hunky Dory and transposed it perfectly into the harder Glam sound. So, it isn’t as good as Ziggy Stardust. What is? Bowie is still head and shoulders above any of his contemporaries

Aladdin Sane or ‘Ziggy goes to America’ as it’s widely understood is less a Ziggy continuation (the character of Aladdin Sane was different, but under developed) and more a reflection of Bowie’s second trip to America (and the drugs that followed!) Whilst backed by the spiders from Mars, Mike Garson joined to add his discordant hectic piano on the title track alongside Bowie’s cover of ‘let’s spend the night together’. Garson’s piano reflects the manic highs of all the Coke going up David’s nose at the time. Cracked Actor and Jean Genie are total blues grooves while lady grinning soul and time are suitably spooky and contemplative respectively. Fun fact. On the tour to support the album, Bowie would retire the character of Ziggy live on stage (Mick Ronsen was told beforehand - the other spiders were not leading to deteriorating relationships afterwards)

Top-tier Bowie. I love how generally dramatic and big the whole album is. Watch That Man is such a great opener. I love the elaborate twinkly keys across a lot of the album, definitely in songs like Aladdin Sane but then particularly in Lady Grinning Soul. That song is soooo good and elevates the whole thing.

It’s fucking Bowie.

It’s like being on Mr Toad’s “Wild Ride”, whilst being served high tea by some groovy cat in a space uniform. Utterly brilliant.

Jean genie!

Suuuper interesting! Maybe not something I want to hear every day but I enjoyed it.

Fucking banger

Bowie. Automatic five stars. Memories with camp friends.

This is the fifth David Bowie album I've reviewed on this site, and the fourth I've given five stars to. Almost 10% of my five-star ratings are for David Bowie albums. I didn't want it to be like this! I didn't want to appear to have such a narrow window of taste… but I can't help myself. One listen to "Aladdin Sane" and I know I can't give it anything but. When discussing this 1973 effort, "Ziggy goes to America" was Bowie's own elevator pitch. The subtext? He bloats out, takes more drugs, has more sex, gets increasingly paranoid. And meanwhile, all around him the music amps up. The Spiders from Mars are back and riffing and rocking harder. Mick Ronson plays some excellent sleazy blues with a much more pronounced distortion (if the Stones influence isn't apparent in tracks like "Watch that Man" or "The Jean Genie", a train is driven through it with the cover of "Let's Spend the Night Together"). Doo-wop makes a fitting appearance too, with nostalgic pining for a forgotten '50s in "Drive in Saturday" and "The Prettiest Star" (originally released in 1970 with Marc Bolan on guitar, significantly glammed up here). That just leaves the tracks which don't fit in either camp, and they're perhaps the real highlights here: nothing like anything Bowie had done before, with the unifying factor of Mike Garson on piano. He's the album's MVP, giving utterly stunning contributions to "Aladdin Sane" (which features his bonkers, avant-jazz solo) and "Time" (a Brechtian-cabaret ballad and one of my all-time favourite Bowie tracks: the build up to the central refrain, with both Garson and Ronson playing iconic melodic lines, is wonderful). Finally, "Lady Grinning Soul": a sublime, ethereal end which sends Bowie (and Ziggy, and Aladdin) out on a wave of falsetto and twinkling ivories. The glam era was almost over: Bowie would soon be closing its curtain, nose on the ground for the next emergent trends.

The sound is familiar to me as I know other Bowie material, but I hadn't heard this album. Enjoyable!

This was the first album I bought after college and it is just as stunning as it was then. Been a while since I listened to older Bowie. So glad this one came up

Love the mixing of drums and guitar for a care free and high energy sound. Songs that I personally have not heard but have the quality of being familiar at the same time. For an album that is 50+ years old, holds up beautifully and has that timeless quality about it, lending itself to another 50 years and beyond of enjoyment reaching down into the soul and bringing out the ziggy stardust in us all. Want to go for a run or do chores around the house while dancing? This album delivers the backdrop for such activities. The building of guitar chords and drums on Jean Genie really gets you crackin on bruv!

Pretty sweet album. Never really looked into Bowie or Glam Rock, but this stuff goes pretty hard. Some of my favorties here were Alladin Sane, The Prettiest Star, and Lady Grinning Soul. I'm sure there's more Bowie on this list and I will be looking forward to it.

An all time favourite

There is not really any Bowie I don't like

Wonderful …. It remembers me to my youth

Where has this album been all my life?!?

Everything Bowie does is almost always certified gold

Very creative and innovative - in some sections he has that classic rock sort of feel, but in other sections he delves into experimental almost jazz like sound that would still be considered avant-garde today. Complex and beautiful album.

I think maybe it's because it's been a while since I listened to Ziggy stardust but I really liked this album. It was almost feral. And the piano? Wild. Loved it.

5. One of my faves!

Both the album cover & title alone should be familiar to anyone, even if only by name. The Bowie + Mike Garson combo is unlike anything else. If you're one of the few who've only heard about this album & never actually heard it, you're one of today's lucky 10,000.

I shouldn’t be surprised anymore when I like a David Bowie song. I have yet to find one I don’t like. He’s such a versatile songwriter/musician.

Amazing, always amazing

po ja ouvi demais tb kkk

a lad insane, right?

I used to think of this album as a kind of slighter version of its predecessor, but that’s wrong and more and more, I find myself preferring this album. It has a frenetic and sort of disjointed feel that work in its favor. The songs are pretty uniformly excellent and it’s just a blast. Great stuff.

ya lo conocía papá

The first rock album I ever bought with my own money. I like it more now than I did then - mostly because I appreciate Mike Garson's genius piano work now.

Glam era Bowie is an instant 5 Dude was on fire in the 70s

This blew me and my expectations away. Banger after banger on this thing. Amazing production and catchy tunes. Early to Mid 70s Bowie sure is a treat, huh? I’d highly recommend this to anybody who wants a good glam rock record. Instant classic!

One of the best that's been recommended so far

I'm not the biggest fan of Bowie's voice. But he has great delivery and he is quite versatile with his vocal phrasing and melodies. The music choices are nothing short of top tier. Every note played by the guitar is perfect. Rhythm section is tight. The piano is flawless. I desperately crave more piano in modern music. Despite not fully loving Bowie's voice, his vocals are 5/5. I can see why people love Bowie. He's definitely a visionary, the definition of a true artist. The compositions of each of these songs sound so thought-out but I would bet that Bowie didn't have to over think or spend an unnecessary amount of time on writing this. As I believe he is as creative as creative can be. This effort was probably effortless for him. Endless hooks and refrains that stick in your head. I'm almost certain there is a concept behind this record but I'm giving my opinion on what I'm hearing, without any further knowledge of this album. I will definitely revisit this album. I'm a huge fan of conceptual rock, and if it is part of a concept, I will eat this up and dissect its layers. No second guessing, 5/5

UGHHHHHHHHH BEST THING ON EARTH. among others. extremely formative album for me. nostalgic but always feels like i'm listening to it for the first time somehow. thematically this is just crazy and so much darker and weirder than ziggy stardust... musically too! when you hear that freaking opening piano to watch that man... ! the absolute serve that is side A of this album like oh my god. and then "time" is one of his best songs of all time. SO JOT THAT DOWN. i think the back half is slightly less engaging but lady grinning soul is also perfect. so. no notes! ⚡️

One of my favorite albums of all time. Just such a good combo of the old and the new- the piano solo on Aladdin Sane, the bluesy Rolling Stones/Kinks moments, the music hall and art rock and glam rock guitar and the LYRICS!!! My three favorites are always Aladdin Sane, Drive in Saturday (that’s MY SONG!!), and Time, and also The Prettiest Star as of the past year or two or three. Um. Idk what to say. If anyone says they hate this album I’m going to kill myself on the timeline. Just kidding. I do dislike the cover of Let’s Spend the Night Together. If I were any of The Rolling Stones I would be so pissed. But the same year that the album was released Davis Bowie and Mick Jagger were hooking up so! Love wins.

Would listen again, would recommend

Classique.

This is the 17th album I've reviewed on 1,001 albums and is the first that I recommend getting now, now, now. Perfection.

Great to finally listen to this. David Bowie had a way of taking something that sounded familiar but twisted it in an interesting way, truly making it his own. This seems to stand as a great example. A schizophrenic blend of raunchy glam and loungy experimentation with a timeless quality which is a mark of an excellent album.

Pure genius. Plus it has Bowie's best song on it, Panic In Detroit!

¡Qué bueno!

Quite simply one of the greatest albums by one of the greatest artists. Not my favourite mind (that's Hunky Dory) but pretty close. It's glam, it's weird, inspired and catchy.

Loved this! Will be listening again

This could be Bowie's finest work. Mike Garson makes "Aladdin Sane" one of my favorite Bowie tracks with his avant garde keyboard work. Other great tracks are Time, Watch that Man, Drive-In Saturday, Prettiest star, and Lady Grinning Soul.

Impressions: By the second track, I knew that it is a perfect album. I loved every single track. Album art is iconic! Favorite tracks: Watch that Man, Aladdin Sane, Drive-In Saturday, Cracked Actor, Time, Jean Genie Rating: 5/5

I'm a sucker for an album with a definitive aesthetic, so an iconic album cover is somewhat of an unfair head-start, but the music is just as good, if not better. Loving the horns and background singers throughout, feels very much like an artistic or theatrical performance as opposed to just music, which is on of the reasons why I think Bowie is such a legend. Great opener and incredible closer, wide range of tunes in between while keeping the fun of classic rock. Easy, and first, 5 stars.

¡Qué bueno!

Loved it.

Really good album. 80s hair metal without any cheese

While there are Bowie records with singles I like better, this is probably my favorite Bowie album, and definitely the one that convinced me to listen closely.

Really liked it more than I expected. Such interesting compositions with guitar riffs of the time mixed with operatic vibes. Not sure I "get" it, but I really enjoyed it.

Really good album loved panic in Detroit and time

One of the most iconic

Not as experimental as some of his other albums, but still really interesting and great writing. I love the piano on this record. A really great rock n roll album. Great reminder for me in this project that I like rock music.

Really cool. Everything he does is interesting and cool.

Unlike so many albums on here, Aladdin Sane kept me engaged the whole time. Piano and rock and roll is a combo I love. I also love the drama!

Title track was my favorite. Bliss and chaos.

This is the third Bowie album we’ve gotten, and it’s easily the best so far. David Bowie helped establish the genre of glam rock (along with Elton John), and Aladdin Sane was a key driver of that. Bowie’s work in the late seventies, in my opinion, kind of runs together. The first two tracks of this album prove the opposite was true in the early seventies. “Watch That Man” almost feels like a continuation of 1972’s fast-paced “Suffragette City,” while “Aladdin Sane” boasts a haunting jazz piano. He puts on a theatrical performance in “Time,” which almost feels fit for era-defining rock operas like Pink Floyd’s The Wall. When the Stones write a song they really own it, so the fact that Bowie pulls off a cover of one of their classic concert openers, “Let’s Spend the Night Together,” and even puts his own spin on it, is extremely impressive. “The Jean Genie” is the crown jewel of the record, fusing Mississippi Delta blues with the aforementioned emerging glam rock. Bowie really came into his own in the early seventies (especially in 1971 with Hunky Dory and 1972 with The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars), and 1973’s Aladdin Sane was a crucial part of his evolution into an all-time star. Aside from the music, the album also gave us one of the more iconic personas of seventies rock.

A Bowie classic, so an automatic five stars.

Genialidade em forma de álbum.

I was (and I still am) a big fan of Bowie and this album in peticular had a long way into my heart. At first I thought this was a very average Bowie album with a couple of great songs but also some stinkers... A couple months later it was my favourtite Bowie album and now? Well I still love it! Aladdin Sane, Drive-In Saturday, Cracked Actor, Time, Jean Genie, Lady Grinning Soul are all soooo good and the rest is still unbelievably good! The jazz-piano improv in the title track, the harmonica on the Jean Genie and again the piano on Lady Grinning Soul are some of my favourite moments on here. And we don't have to talk about that cover: It's iconic! favourites: ALL!!!! least fav.: None (but if I HAD to pick: Let's Spend the Night Together) rating: light 9

4.9 Bowie goes rock and roll what's not to love. My second fave bowie. Fave songs: Watch that man, aladdin sane, cracked actor, let's spend the night together, Jean Genie

Cant give anything but a 5. The band backing him and orginality; amaze balls. The Jean Genie is a top 20 track for me!

I'm not even gonna say anything besides I love David Bowie. Doesn't clear Ziggy though!

Classic

Great album. Iconic album cover. Bowie's 70's stuff is classic.

Bowie was a genius. Awesome album of music.

el fin de ziggy, más nihilista, más rocanrol.

one of the greatest albums of the 70’s…pure cutting edge rock n roll perfection front to back.

<3

Excellent

Own on Vinyl

Gonna give this a 5 because it's excellent but it's not one of my fave Bowie's

Great album it starts of with some bluesy, heavy rock and slowly mellows out but really good stuff

My second album from him, and first I hadn’t listened to before. Who can argue with Bowie? This is great. It’s kind of similar to Ziggy Stardust, but A) some of the songs are really unique, such as the R&B-esque ‘Drive-In Saturday’ and ‘Time’, which sounds as if it was from an old musical but got a glam-rock makeover, and B) who wouldn’t want more of that?. Besides, a lot of it straight up rocks; see ‘Watch That Man’, ‘Cracked Actor’, and ‘The Jean Genie’. Even the Rolling Stones cover pulls its weight. I don’t want to gush about this album any more. Just give it a listen.

Yeah, it's a cracker of a Bowie album. It's somewhere round my sixth or seventh favourite, which means it's better than nearly anything else ever, but mid table (well, Europa League) in terms of his own career. Best track is pretty much the album except the Stones cover.

Love myself some David Bowie and this album is no exception. Such a great cover with even better music. Considering that he had released Ziggy Stardust jus previously, it's a great follow up

Top notch from start to finish. Easy 5 stars.

Not as polished as ‘Ziggy Stardust’, ‘Aladdin Sane’ is rougher around the edges, and more camp, with tracks skirting hard rock, jazz, Broadway, 50’s rock & roll and doo-wop sound wise, while oozing desperation and alienation lyrically. Mick Ronson provides his usual blistering guitar playing, but it’s Mike Garson on piano who is the secret weapon here, giving the album an experimental edge with his inventive and avant-garde piano playing. ‘Aladdin Sane’ probably has higher highs than ‘Ziggy’, and even if overall it never quite hits the same level of consistency as its predecessor, it’s still a worthy successor.

Bowie just rules. This is another absolute classic from him. More intense and rock focused than a lot of his material which I dig.

"Aladdin Sane" is the sixth studio album by English musician David Bowie and his final studio album with his backing band The Spiders from Mars. A pianist (Mike Garson), two saxophonists and three background singers were also added. It was written while on tour in the US and is described as tougher, heavier glam rock than his previous "Ziggy" album. The lyrics take on the pros of the his new found stardom from "Ziggy" and the cons of touring - urban decay, drugs, sex, violence and death. The album title is actually based on the phrase "A Lad Insane" and is about Ziggy going to the US. The album reached #1 in the UK and #17 in the US. The album opens with "Watch That Man" based on Bowie watching the New York Dolls. More of a garage rocker. Prominent guitar and piano. The female backing vocals and sax. Sounding very 70's indeed. Bowie goes doo-wop in "Drive-in Saturday." Strumming guitar, sax and doo-wop backing vocals. It was written as the band traveled from Seattle to Phoenix where they saw silver domes and reminded them of a nuclear fallout. The tougher, grittier rock gets going in "Panic in Detriot." Great guitar riffs. The groove. The Bo-Diddly rhythm and beat. People screaming and general chaos in the background. Written about the Detroit Riots and The Stooges. One of my favorite Bowie songs. Piano, an ominous feeling and Bowie singing like he's in a play reading a part open "Time." Harrowing guitar screeching. It's about mortality and the death of the New York Dolls' drummer. Guitar, laser sounds and piano get the party started on the cover of The Stones' "Let's Spend the Night Together." Mick Ronson's guitar makes this version rock a little harder than the original. Bowie goes Suicide eerie at the end. The guitar, the bass drop and the Bo Diddly beat (again) kick off "The Jean Genie." According to Bowie it was "a smorgasbord of imagined America" and inspired by Iggy Pop. I've warmed to this album after repeated listens and actually think it's one of Bowie's best. The variety is there going from garage rock to jazz to doo-wop to blues to hard rock to pop and back. It is definitely grittier and I get a Stones' vibe on some of the songs. Any top notch Bowie is worth a listen and this is one of those.

Not as good as Station to Station, in my opinion, but still a very, very good album

Its good.I dont like it as much as ziggy stardust but i still like it.Its way more experimental and less rocky but its still good.Like a 4.5 so im rouding it up to 5 out of repspect,also jean genie is a banger.

2nd fave album ever

Super impressed once again by Bowie. A follow-up to Ziggy Stardust, it's distinctively glam rock with a harder, lusher sound. Production is astonishing, and everyone does a fantastic job. Everything stands out and has their moments in nearly every song: the guitars, the bass, the drums, the horns, the keyboards, and those back vocals. Obviously, Bowie's signature voice and introspective lyrics too. It's an outstanding album with every song having its own unique style that does what it does well. The opener "Watch that Man" was inspired by the New York Dolls, and you can hear that wild garage style in how high-energy, fast, and chaotic it is. The title track "Aladdin Sane" particularly sticks out for its experimental chaotic piano set again the intentionally repetitive bassline and random horn injections. It just keeps going for more than 5 minutes, with a super drawn-out outro. It's a highly interesting piece and immediately drew my attention and got me excited for the rest of the record. "Drive-In Saturday" is a poppy doo-wop song with some intense synth effects and horns thrown in. Lush and catchy, I was grooving to its smooth flow. "Panic in Detroit" is an accessible track featuring gospel vocals, a Bo Diddley beat, and a really sick instrumental part. Outstanding job from everyone, especially those back singers screaming their lungs out. "Cracked Actor" is the hardest song on the album. Bluesy and catchy with an awesome solo, I would mistake this for a Lynard Skynard song. "Time" is the fan favorite, featuring vaudeville parts that add a whimsical theatrical component. Super emotional. "Prettiest Star" is a personal favorite; I just find it super fun and catchy with its dreamy vocals and melodic groove. "Let's Spend the Night Together" is a wild garage cover of the Rolling Stones version. Very quick, energetic, and a bit strange with the random keyboards and guitars. A lot of people consider this to be the weakest track on here, and that's hard to say cause it's still a great song but stacked against other amazing songs. It doesn't quite fit with the slower styles of the other songs, but I still enjoy it. "The Jean Genie" is the bluesiest song. Great song, wild and accessible. Strange choice in the lead single, and certainly nothing like the rest of his catalog, especially with the harmonica, but a great blues track nevertheless. "Lady Grinning Soul" starts with an eclectic piano piece but becomes very dreamy and jazzy, featuring a flamenco guitar half-way in. It's a beautiful, lush way to close the album.

This is insane

I wish I could have the right words to describe this album, but unluckily, I am not that eloquent today. Let’s start by saying that its influence is legendary, starting from the art in the cover. I think it’s one of the most parodied covers of all time. Following by what represents the album in the Bowie history, many top singles like JeanGenie or Drive-in Saturday, that consolidated his career. 70s Bowie is delightful. Not only for his antics and histrionics, but for the passion he put on each song, and this album is a testament of that. It’s not too long to bore us, and deliciously sequenced to make us feel on a intergalactic journey. I have nothing bad to say about it.

Nearly gave it a 4, but the best tracks are that good it's easy to overlook the lesser ones

Good Bowie Good Classic Bowie

¡Qué bueno!

underrated, great one

First off, it's a bit crazy that it took over 200 albums for me to get my first Bowie. Second, it's equally crazy that I had never listened to this album before. There are so many Bowie albums and I guess I just somehow missed this one. But alas, my eyes have been opened and what can I say? It's great. Not my favorite of his, but that doesn't mean it is anything less than perfect.

What a wild man Bowie is! What a great album in his discography such a staple of his music and just Glam Rock in general! The title track is a wild and awesome song and so many others on this album really stuck out like Drive-In Saturday, Panic in Detroit just so good first time listens. Finally listened to this front to back and did not disappoint!

i love bowie so much😍

The more I know about him. The better he is.

Y'know, I was gonna call this more rockabilly/jazzy Ziggy Stardust, but considering Bowie himself calls this album Ziggy goes to America, I can't think of a more apt description. Really excellent range of songs here that is brief but extremely enjoyable and still undoubtedly Bowie-esque. I love when this album gets really out there for the era, with stuff like the opening guitar for Cracked Actor, and when Lady Grinning Soul closes the album I know no other bliss. Not my favorite Bowie album, but still absolutely excellent, which seems to be a common belief around these parts.

In 1973 David Bowie recorded a song about wanking and that's all.

Outstanding.

Sunday 26th March. Last day in Italy, leave to Morocco tomorrow.

On a five-note scale this has to be a five. On a ten note scale still a ten. On a twenty-note scale maybe 18.5, as the Stones cover is pretty throwaway. Other than that, nastier and harder than Ziggy.

David Bowie is a singular talent and this is one of the many examples of his genius. Every song sounds innovative or groundbreaking. I feel like I never sunk into this one as much as some other Bowie classics, so would want to revisit this, but there’s no doubt it’s excellent.

love

eu amo como esse album vai de 8 a 80 de faixa pra outra. abre com watch that man, rock and roll levado e animado, e depois ja vem aladdin sane, uma balada linda, estranha e deprimida. the prettiest star e cracked actor são minhas preferidas. eu prefiro a conexão e interação entre musicas que ziggy stardust tem, mas esse album não deixa de ser tão bom quanto.

Ah Bowie, how great thou art. Thy are the kingliest of all kings.

Given how many nice reviews in here perfectly encapsulate what I think (and like) about this album, I'm gonna do something else and rank David Bowie's best albums from his legendary discography (leaving the less impressive ones and a couple of clunkers aside). Ranking albums has always been a bit obsessive-compulsive, but it's another way to express your subjectivity. Which I think is pretty fitting here: with an idol such as Bowie, being obsessed and subjective almost feels like a tribute to the amazing artist and personality that he was... So here's the ranking. Needless to say, the vast majority of the first ten albums are all 5 stars to me, including *Aladdin Sane*: 1. Ziggy Stardust And the Spiders From Mars 2. Hunky Dory 3. Low 4. Station To Station 5. Blackstar 6. The Man Who Sold The World 7. Aladdin Sane 8. 1. Outside 9. "Heroes" 10. David Bowie (Space Oddity) 11. Diamond Dogs 12. Earthling 13, Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) 14. Let's Dance 15. Young Americans 16. Lodger Number of albums left to review: 642 Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 180 (including this one) Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: 84 Albums from the list I will certainly *not* include in mine (many others are more essential to me): 101

It's like the first few tracks are purposely there to challenge you - participants willing to navigate their way through the dense thicket of dissonance and buried-im-the-mix vocal tracks are supremely rewarded for their efforts from Drive In Saturday onward, as the undergrowth makes way for a beautifully complex, expansive, uplifting, funny, shred (and sax) filled savannah of joyousness. The energy he brings to some of these tracks is unbelievable, particularly Time and Let's spend the night together.

Before I read a bit about Aladdin Sane yesterday, I never really thought about how one album led into the next. It greatly increases my enjoyment of Aladdin Sane to listen to it as an outgrowth of David Bowie's experiences and challenges during and after Ziggy. Not that Aladdin Sane needs any help being enjoyable. The album is just a dream to listen to in all its swaggering, glammy, debauched rock and roll glory. And Bowie does what he's best at, holding court with lyrical touches all at once artful, whimsical, jaded, suggestive, and even contemplative. It's an album you can just rock out to, but one that's also provocative in all sorts of interesting ways. Fave Songs (all songs, from most to least favorite): The Jean Genie, Aladdin Sane, Lady Grinning Soul, Panic in Detroit, Time, Drive-In Saturday, Cracked Actor, The Prettiest Star, Watch That Man, Let's Spend the Night Together

First album ive listened to from him, now I gotta hear more. Pianist is insane on this album

sonzao nask

I love 70s Bowie. It gives me life ❤️

Instant favourite. And a travesty that I've never listened to this through as one album before. What an all time delight. Highlight probably The Prettiest Star - but the whole thing flows so well. Gorgeous

Always impressed by the Jean Genie and ofcourse the Cracked Actor

Good music and lyrics. The experimental parts were not my thing.

Хороший альбом, люблю Боуи. Есть несколько очень крутых песен

Aladdin Sane/ A Lad Insane - ультрахорош. В целом, если кратко, то это очень хороший, насыщенный альбом гениального мужика, который стоит на обложке весь такой красивый с молнией на ебале. Уже интересно звучит, но надо пояснять. Именно на этой пластинке на мой взгляд "роллингстоуновость" Боуи достигает своего апогея - не из-за романа с Миком Джаггером, а из-за общего звучания и сведения. Особенно это заметно на Watch that Man и на Let's Spend The Night Together (которая и является кавером на "роллингов"). При этом, Боуи не просто копирует, но предлагает свой, провокационный, яркий и разносторонний альбом. Понравилась динамика пластинки: построенный на потрясающих барабанах Panic in Detroit (кстати, ударное звучание напомнило When They Come for Me от Linkin Park с альбома Thousand Suns) перетекает в пафосный Cracked Actor, который срывается в шикарное кабаре Time (где есть одна из величайших строчек рока "Время, мастурбируя, падает на пол"). До этого вторым треком дисгармоничный и экспериментальный Aladdin Sane обрывает драйвовый Watch This Man, а финальная композиция альбома, нежная Lady Grinning Soul мощно завершает пластинку, идя сразу после невероятного The Jean Genie (где есть ебейшая строчка "Sits like a man, but smiles like a reptiles"). Ставлю альбому однозначные 5/5, любимые треки: Panic in Detroit, Cracked Actor, Time, The Jean Genie.

ну не боуи это кумир детства, никакой конструктивной критики поэтому не будет

David Bowie is just so good

Slowly becoming one of my comfort albums.

Aladdine Sane, like Ziggy Stardust, is one of the most ambitious and well executed projects in David Bowie's entire carreer, and so a massive masterpiece.

classic ⚡︎

Too complex for a simple man like me. Genius.

amazing album, 10/10, no skips, top 5 bowie albums

Sûrement sa pochette d’album la plus connue, mais je ne pense pas que les chansons le soient autant. Pourtant, les pièces comme Cracked Actor ou Lady-Grinning Soul n’ont rien à envier à ses autres œuvres. La présence du piano donne aussi à mon avis un son distinctif à cet album parmi les autres

Ziggy Stardust was great. This is greater.

The 3rd (of 9!) Bowie album I've gotten and this is the first one that's really connected with me. It was really great and it sounded fresh to me. Maybe this is finally the entry into Bowie's catalogue I've been looking for.

Just an incredible album. I liked this one better than Heroes (another incredible album) because of the jazz vibes in the instrumentals. Bowie really was a special artist. Favorite track: Cracked Actor

Is this album as good as hunky dory or Ziggy stardust? No Is it still a 5/5? Obviously This one is much heavier and acts as a flurry of bangers each as great as the next. It actually probably has less filler than hunky or Ziggy but it also has one less track and never reaches those exact heights. Oh yeah and it also has got one of the most iconic album covers of all time.

Weird but in the best way possible. The whole record screams Americana and Bowie completely nails it. Experimental and funky and just completely out there at points. Masterful guitars, drums, melodies, and Bowies vocal work is great. Really enjoyed the bulk of the record and I loved how experimental the music and the lyrics could, but I can understand why this record is not as highly regarded as its predecessor in Ziggy Stardust. The lyrics at points were profound and at others were insanely clever and witty, Bowie does not hold back and isn't afraid to not be subtle at all. Great record from start to finish. Favorite Track: Lady Grinning Soul Least Favorite Track: Let's Spend the Night Together

Awesome

Extremely solid rock'n'roll. David doing some of his finest work.

what a neat album! nice and weird with that quick-ass piano going all over the place! super fun - 10/10

As iconic as it's front cover is, Aladdin Sane fails to reach the lofty heights of it's predecessor in continuing Ziggy Stardust, but as a stand alone album the only true misstep is in Bowie's Rolling Stones cover. A gracious and bolstering farewell to The Spiders from Mars.

Probably my favorite album of his. Very rock forward.

Even though I prefer other Bowie albums (slightly) this one still rates!

Decisamente un buon inizio. Decisamente da riascoltare.

実験計画を立てながら聴いていた。 元気が出る。アルバムを通して、明るい印象。ただし歌詞は正確に把握しておらず、雰囲気だけで音楽を楽しむのもありだと思いつつも、やはり歌詞もあとで確認しておきたいところではある。

Such a weird and amazing album

Aladdin Sane frames itself as a straight rock record, but upon a closer listen, it shows itself to be much more. Flashes of experimentalism alongside nods to 50s rock, and straight glam rock show a more forward thinking side. The lyrics detailing excess seem to continue the Ziggy Stardust story, as though the line between Bowie and Ziggy had become blurred.

Great album. Jean Jeanie.

Underrated Bowie album often overshadowed by ziggy and it’s iconic album art. guy in youtube video essay said it best: “it’s like an americanized version of Ziggy Stardust”

Fantastic!

Fun, rythym heavy, Bowie vibes

Heard before: yes Awesome album. Great pop songs, the band sounds amazing. The piano playing is crazy! Favourite tracks: Drive-In Saturday, Jean Genie, Panic in Detroit Least favourite tracks: none

Definitely one of my fav Bowie records.

One of the very best

Album that just gets better while listening to it. Starts off a little odd but has a good vibe.

This experimental (yet accessible) record is more like the type of Bowie music enjoy. There's lots of variety with up-tempo rock and roll tracks like 'Watch That Man', spooky numbers like 'Aladdin Sane' (with an extended instrumental free jazz coda of piano and sax), mellow mid tempo pop like 'Drive-In Saturday' and 'Panic In Detroit' features exotic percussion. Every track is a winner for different reasons (love the diversity), Bowie sings well, the production is ragged and dense, yet it's sounds crisp and clear. I'm not familiar with his whole catalogue, but this rock/pop record is one of his best I have heard so far, in short a timeless classic

More!

Good.

One of my favourite Bowie albums.

Great album - cracked actor underrated! Some big songs.

This album is disturbing and glam. The title track has the extended free jazz solo that sounds like razor blades falling down a bunch of stairs. Panic In Detroit is probably my favorite song on the album. No, it's Cracked Actor. No, Let's Spend The Night Together is it. No, it's Jean Genie! this album goes to some fabulously depraved places with a vaudeville sensibility. Almost to say "Come See The Freak Show, Watch The Descent From The Bottom Up!"

A classic!

My favourite Bowie album - although every Bowie album is my favourite album from Hunky Dory through to The Lodger whenever I play them. This was his sixth album - SIXTH ffs. It was recorded almost as an afterthought in-between legs of the Ziggy tour. It gets a little deep in places and shows where the cracks were starting to appear. Mike Garson's haunting piano ramblings darken the mood, as well as adding a touch of Les Dawson humour. Pretty much flawless. His name was always Buddy. Yep.

Damn

Pucha, nada que hacer. Uno de mis discos favoritos de David y uno de los más rockeros. Ya me imagino cómo era escuchar esta obsenidad por allá en 1973. Mi favorita es Jean Genie, pero tiene otras joyas como Watch that Man o Aladdin Sane. Un clásico

Very good!

Bowie was insanely talented. Every song is unique. Every song could have been a single. He could compose. He could sing. He could perform. He was a full-stack musician.

Features two of his best songs, Jean Genie and Lady Grinning Soul. Great stuff overall and a career highlight in a legendary discography.

Aladdin Sane can stay stuck in my head forever.

Had never before listened to this in its entirety. Listened twice today, once in the background this morning and a second time more focussed while walking Lucy ( my Vizsla). Only knew Jean Genie and “lets spend the night…” - rolling stonspes cover- the rest were new to me. It has the feel of a unique artist very much in his element. Great and original album. A classic.

This is glam, glam, and more glam. Wham glam, thank you ma’am… with your 5 o’ clock shadow and all. (If 'Aladdin Sane' doesn’t share a proud place among folks like T. Rex and Slade and Queen on the national Pride Day’s playlist of rock selections, then I don’t know who should. I don’t know if I’m buying the offered interpretation of that dollop of liquid on Bowie’s shoulder as a tear drop, are you?) I lost count on the number of sub glam genres Bowie explored in a mere eleven tracks : Glam rock, of course, right off the bat on ‘Watchin’ That Man,’ but also the classic glam rock hit, ‘The Jean Genie,’ complete with what Bruce Springsteen lyrics would have sounded like had the boss put on a little eyeliner. Bowie served up some exotic glam jazz on the title track that eventually morphed into a jazzy drone, very Roxy music. And who besides Bowie can get away with lyrics like ‘Sadden Glissando Strings’? Come to think of it, what other lyrics would you expect on this LP? ‘Drive In Saturday,’ a glam 50’s do wop song in 3/4 tempo made an appearance along with the shot of glam western saloon on ‘Time.’ And, for the record, Bowie does not like ‘Him,’ Time. I guess no proper glam artist would. Time can’t seem to shake his tag-a-long kid brother, Age. There was a bit of tribal/world glam on ‘Panic In Detroit,’ complete with a tasty addition of maracas, ala 'Beggars Banquet' Stones (I’d love to hear a Rolling Stones cover of this). Glam punk smacked us across the face on Bowie’s re-do of another Stones’ hit, ‘Let’s Spend The Night Together,’ with Bowie’s version actually out-sexing the Stones more subtle original! Frankly, I’d be more scared to spend the night with this Bowie than with those Stones. By ‘Prettiest Star,’ the seventh track- which could have resided easily among the other tunes on Queen’s 'A Night At The Opera' LP- I was starting to get a little camp-weary. A little bit of this sparkling shooting star Bowie, as glorious as that is, goes a long way. That said, though, this LP was a winner, from start to finish. And how about that finish- glam latino? I imagined this as a score to a Spaghetti western movie, if Sergio Leone had ever come out. ‘Lady Grinning Soul,’ was the perfectly exotic ending to this romp through the many glam lands of the expansive reign of Bowiedom. And what traveling company, too: the legendary Mick Ronson on guitar, who does one of the coolest little variants on a traditional rock chord progression I’ve ever heard; and, in that playfully sassy, trashy, slutty, nasty, crunchy guitar sound for which he was identified. Don’t forget players Mike Garson and Ken Fordham on wild piano and crazy sax, respectively (‘Aladdin Sane’). Incidentally, Aladdin Sane, just like Ziggy Stardust, was yet another persona of Bowie’s. Apparently, he felt Ziggy was too polished, so Aladdin was born to move more towards the more unpolished sound of, again, the Stones. And it works, baby, it works. It rocks AND rolls. Sometimes it even rolls and rocks. I could quote a whole laundry list of lyrics like, ‘You sold me illusions for a sack full of checks. You’ve made a bad connection ‘cause I just want your sex.’ What’s more glam than that? But here’s the defining one for me, and it was on the very first track. I couldn’t help but wonder if Bowie was dissing someone else, or perhaps, if this was actually autobiographical. Either way, its still very much… uh huh… glam: ‘Watch that man! Oh, honey, watch that man. He talks like a jerk but he could eat you with a fork and spoon. Watch that man! Oh, honey, watch that man. He walks like a jerk but he’s only taking care of the room.’ I was entering my freshman year of high school in 1973- awkward, not enough knowledge of self to even know what to esteem, horny, lonely, disaffected, moody… you know, pretty normal for a new teenager. I don’t think I had much exposure or was especially drawn to glam, although looking back on it my love for Elton John’s 'Goodbye Yellow Brick Road' should have served as a sign that my musical orientation might be a little more curious than I had considered. Bi-curious, by rock standards. I enjoyed every song on 'Aladdin Sane,' and several even more than that. Don’t know how this one remained in my closet. Glad it’s out now.

very cool

40 minutes of the craziest glam-rock to ever be recorded. One of Bowie's best without a doubt.

5, easy

25th January 2022 Listened on Monday while pottering. Had a chilled one in the evening with Victor watching the lighthouse. Zavid strides that line between rock and art masterfully.

- Uma das capas mais bonitas de todos os tempos - PURO GLAMOUR - Só tem hit

For some reason in my head I always think this album came out in the early 80s or very late 70s, and am always shocked when I see 1973. Bowie was always ahead of his time. Anyway, it's spectacular.

4.5/5. Has Bowie ever missed?

Classic. Not a bad track, although of course there are some good and some great. Drive in Saturday, let's spend the night night together, jean genie and the title track the best known, and most immediate for me because of that. Look forward to hearing plenty more from one of the best artists there ever was.

It's Bowie, so of course it's brilliant.

One of my favorite albums ever: sound, songs, all perfect. I thought this album was seen as bit uneven but very solid Bowie album, so great that this is on the list after all.

This was more of a rock album than many of Bowies other releases. So not as much up my alley than other albums. But, it's still Bowie before his 90s phase so it's still fantastic. I like the inclusion of a bunch of piano, particularly the solo on Aladin Sane. There are also some entertaining lyrics; "Time (falls) wanking to the floor" made me chuckle.

One of Bowie's best, 'Panic in Detroit' is one of his most overlooked classics

What an incredible run of albums - Hunky Dory, Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane. Bowie’s consistency over this period is astounding. There are some absolute classics here - jazzy dance with a horn section on Watch That Man, nutty piano solos on Aladdin Sane, the masterful ‘50s homage Drive-In Saturday, gritty Panic in Detroit, the affecting Prettiest Star and the floor filler Jean Genie. The Bowie reinvention continues apace and he keeps you guessing.

This album was amazing from start to finish. I listened to it twice in a row, I enjoyed it that much. My highlights were Watch That Man, Aladdin Sane and The Jean Genie.

I hate to say this is my first time listening to this album cover to cover. Of course like ever other Bowie album I've listened to, its terrific.

liked this a lot, surprisingly!

Classic

este es un álbum increible, con buena música, la voz increíble de david bowie y sus composiciones hermosas, obviamente le voy a dar 5 estrellas

Wonderful album full of songs I've never heard. Definitely one to return back to.

Blown away Sounds like a modern release from the 70s

Great

41 minutes of pure listening pleasure!

amazing album, the others all felt great to listen to but this broke that barrier and went more than great. 10/10.

A really good follow up album after the extremely high bar set by Ziggy Stardust. It's not as good as Ziggy but it still holds it's own. I would have probably given it 4.5/5

Of the seven Bowie albums on the list, this is probably the least essential (well, this or Young Americans), but I do love it anyway. It's the sound of Ziggy Stardust coming undone, and it's a fun, wild ride.

Cool

I'm probably not biased in this one, because Bowie is my favourite artist, but this album is a jem.

Loved it. Love Bowie, Love the album and the style. Honestly didn't listen to it again but hey I remember it being great...

Had never listened to this and was really impressed by this album. It felt like there was some thought put into the full album rather than just kind of piling songs together - really enjoyed it all the way through.

Me ha gustado mucho desde la primer escuchada, que buen álbum.

Wonderful

Loved it! David Bowie in the USA. From the play on words within the title I was ready to see through his eyes how America looked to a Ladd from across the pond. A beautiful cover, understandable lyrics and fun beat all worked together to make this is a great album. This is the first album I liked more that 50% of the songs. Favs were Jean Genie, Lady Grinning & AlladIn Sane. I truly enjoyed this album. He was before his time for extravagant display of art, persona and musical talent. “Ground control to Major Tom” is looking down on us all!

Yeah it's good, but feels like he's trying too hard if anything.

Loved every song, but it's Bowie so... that's to be expected

Hi: Watch That Man, Drive-In Saturday, Time, Let's Spend The Night Together There's literally nothing wrong with this album, but as far as Bowie albums go it isn't my favorite. It's raucous and not too moody, pretty good rock n' roll Bowie album. No bad tracks, just better tracks.

iconic

damn fantastic album

This David Bowie guys pretty good. Who woulda thunk

I mean, what can I say? This shit was life changing.

Bowie was always versatile - he shifts around from rock songs to more theatrical type performances. I love how he tries different vocal styles for different songs. Also love Mick Ronson’s guitar sound and his playing. Jean Genie’ and ‘panic iin Detroit’ are the 2 stand-out tracks. The stones cover and some of the theatrical pieces aren’t great: the album is a 4 but he gets an extra point because he is David Bowie - one of the greatest rock n roll stars of all time

What more is there to say than it's classic bowie?

Excellent. Classic Bowie

Panic in Detroit is one of Bowie's best songs.

nice

Great album. Not much to say other than glam rock/bowie essential listening.

Could be my #1 Bowie. It’s close.

Bowie always great. Favorite part about doing these albums is listening to things I haven't heard from greats like him.

YASSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Yes

Modern, kind of jazzy, chromatic.

Two albums in and Ziggy Stardust was already feeling it. David Bowie knew that he needed to call time on his most indelible creation before it consumed him whole but not before he created a signpost that not only signaled the waning of an era but foreshadowed varying detours he'd take to satiate his voracious appetite. Aladdin Sane, while patchwork, showcased Bowie at the peak of his glam powers and proved that he was up for any challenge that provided bucking narratives.

false

8/10

I'm a big fan of early Bowie and late Bowie. As this was an early Bowie album I approve.

It doesn't hit the same as Ziggy Stardust or Hunky Dory but it's still a fantastic classic Bowie album. Favourite Songs: Watch That Man, Aladdin Sane, Time, Lady Grinning Soul. Least Favourite Songs: Let's Spend the Night Together, The Jean Genie.

354/1001 David Bowie - Aladdin Sane Heard before? ✅ Revisit? ✅ It's Bowie, it's great, but not as great as his other stuff around that time.

Not my favorite bowie album but its still great

Really enjoyed this one. I much prefer the rockier, glam version of Bowie over the Berlin stuff which just doesn't do much for me. Can't go wrong with the Jean Genie!

Great album. I don’t think it’s one that’ll be close to my heart as others, but the psychedelic experiments all throughout are just incredibly immersive

The cover I always think of when I think of Bowie. Aladdin Sane is such an interesting follow up to my favorite record of his. The bangers bang on this one, but the lows are just odd. But honestly, I think that really makes sense for Bowie and this time in his career. The more I listen to it, more it just feels like a darker and bleaker Ziggy star Dust. I think the two albums go together a lot more than I initially thought. What a goated title as well. Watch that man, cracked actor, and Jean Genie are some of my favorite Bowie songs. I love when he gets in his hard rocking, hard strutting glam bag. Why did bro have to make so many songs just moaning along throughout his career?

Bowie deepcut that is actually a hit so Many good tracks Bowie just knew the concept of glam rock so so well and this is awesome. Bowie at his most iconic and the music also holds its own here. Fast guitars ton of musical effects. Truly glam and so so rock and roll. Even the piano on some of the songs just explode and take you with it. Bowie is still just as weird here as ever but it feels the start of something and being his first commercial success it goes to show the appeal that Bowie can have with so many eras. Sometimes it sound like Bowie is doing his best doors impression which seems a bit off and throws me off and it sends pretty Bowie where the last song is never the best

Pretty cool

4/5

The songs feel a little long but I know that was the norm at the time so no points off for that. The production is muddy, pretty sure that’s intentional. He’s heading in a southern blues rock direction on some of the tracks. Favorites: 2. YES. Aladdin Sane, kinda jazzy, a lazy tempo, fantastic instrumentation, piano solo, etc.; 4. Panic In Detroit YES! Structured kinda punk; 7. Prettiest Star I like this one, is it Music Hall? Not sure what it is but I like it. Almost Vaudevillian; . 9. Jean Genie. Yes. More blues rock influences. I love the instrumentation. Percussion in particular; sparse but noticeable. Awesome vocals.

he discovered pianos

Preciso ouvir mais, mas é bom sim.

Always loved Bowie, so it was no surprise that I found this to be great. Time was my fav song and first listen of the album. Cracked Actor and The Jean Genie were my other highlights

thank you for reminding me this

Bowie’s victory lap after the success of Ziggy Stardust. It’s not one of my favorites of his records, but it does have several superb tracks.

Day 255 - Aladdin Sane by David Bowie. Watch That Man - 8/10. Classic Glam-era Bowie tune. Aladdin Sane - 8/10. Weird but in the way that Bowie makes very listenable and accessible. Drive-In Saturday - 8/10. Average Bowie (which is very good). Panic in Detroit - 8/10. Really good. Cracked Actor - 7/10. Decent. Time - 9/10. Awesome. The Prettiest Star - 8/10. Excellent. Let's Spend the Night Together - 9/10. A Rolling Stones cover is a choice. In this case, a great one. The Jean Genie - 10/10. Straight Bowie greatness. Lady Grinning Soul - 8/10. Straight Bowie weirdness. Overall Rating - 4.15/5 (8.30/10). This is what I expect from Bowie's Glam era.

always liked david bowie ig

4.3/5

Not the best Bowie but still good

Bowie World!

bowie bein bowie!

AMAZING

Great album, is it the best Bowie though?

Tror kanskje jeg liker denne bedre enn Ziggy Stardust, selv om de er ganske like.

Ikke det beste Bowie albumet. Men høy nostalgifaktor. Snill 4er

Helstøpt album (bortsett fra den unødvendige Stone-coveren). Klarer ikke å like Bowie helt, heller ikke etter dette albumet.

It's amazing how many different styles and transformations Bowie went through. Very different to the last couple we've had from the Berlin trilogy. It's not even stylistically that similar to Ziggy stardust, and that was only released a year before this. Pretty crazy really I was thinking that this isn't that good, certainly doesn't have loads of his hits on..... But I listened again and changed my mind, it's very good. I think the problem is, that my expectations of Bowie are very high. Anyway, very good, think Ziggy stardust is better, but this was very good too, like most of his albums we've had 4 again

Not Bowie's ultimate best but still a great album with some very catchy tunes.

good

A better David Bowie album

The piano solo in Aladdin Sane is lit

Wasnt expecting that I will like at all. Was pretty good. 3.8

The middle of Bowie's three glam albums, and the weakest of the three behind Diamond Dogs and Ziggy Stardust. Really let down by the dreadful Stones cover, unfortunately. However, there's enough here to elevate this above most of his contemporaries. The Jean Genie is a guaranteed floor filler for any DJ. Panic in Detroit and Cracked Actor also rock, so plenty still to love.

Dave cool

first time really listening to Bowie and I get the hype! Will be buying this record.

Album #185 David Bowie: Aladdin Sane I’m certainly not partial when it comes to analyzing David Bowie. The man might be the single most influential person on my music taste, and honestly perhaps just on modern music in general. I’m particularly weak when it comes to his glam era; Ziggy Stardust is closer to being my favourite album than not, and Hunky Dory is not that far behind. Aladdin Sane is the third album in Bowie’s glam trilogy, and to me it was always the ‘weakest’ if that is even a term that can apply to Bowie. But that weakness only stems from the fact that the album is not as immediately infectious and groovy as the previous efforts; there isn’t really an anthem like Starman or Life on Mars here. But, at the same time, that is what makes Bowie so great; he was always moving forward. Aladdin Sane is the most mature of all Bowie’s early efforts, and in my opinion set the stage for the genre-defining music he would go on to make like Low and Heroes. There are certainly anthemic choruses here, but all of them have a darkness lurking within them. Truthfully, this album is quite bleak; despite Bowie’s flashy appearance on this cover, he very much does come off as ‘insane’ here. So though it may not be my most replayed Bowie album, and it wouldn’t be my first choice to throw on at a party, Aladdin Sane carved its own spot in Bowie’s discography, being an enchanting, harrowing, and ultimately thought-provoking listen underneath all the glamour, and it is just one of a million reasons why there will never be another David Bowie. Best Songs: Lady Grinning Soul, Time, Panic in Detroit Worst Song: Let’s Spend the Night Together Score out of 10: 9.5

Rock Solid Bowie Album. Same flow state as Ziggy with less hits for sure. Still a great album. Some lofi and garage elements but ultimately feels very bowie. Album cover outfit is generational.

One of the better Bowie albums but not in his top tier few. Very good throughout, not much to want to ignore or skip, but not the same amount of big tracks that blow your mind like other albums manage.

It makes a steady start with tracks like ‘Watch That Man’ and the title track ‘Aladdin Sane’ and ‘Drive-in Saturday’ being perfectly listenable if not spectacular. I was therefore bedding in for a further procession of ok but not inspiring tracks all the way to ‘Jean Genie’, however’Cracked Actor’ quickly grabbed my attention. You can tell it’s from the same album as JG and represents a proper Bowie rocker. Possibly more surprising was ‘Time’ which is a real gem, despite some not so elegant wordplay “falls wanking to the floor”. ‘The Prettiest Star’ carries on this more interesting vibe with an almost musical feel to it and imaging of silver screen America. The cover of ‘Let’s spend the night together’ is another chance for Bowie to speed things up again with Ronson’s guitar allowed to sing with a heavy dose of piano for good measure. Like a good time in a club give a hypersonic injection. …..and only now do we reach the classic that is Jean Genie. Stomping Ronson guitar, harmonica singing merrily away and a faultless Bowie vocal. In many ways it’s a bit sad to reach the final track. ‘Lady Grinning Soul’ almost sounds like a Bond song and things off in splendid fashion. The second half of this album massively lifts it from middling to really good for me

Two consecutive Bowie albums in a row that I actually like! After handing out so many 1s and 2s like candy, I was starting to think that the one 4 I'd given was a fluke. But no, this album was great. I like the hard rock, the honky-tonk piano, the glam backing vocals, and all the 1950s influence peaking through in places. Parts of this is like listening to the Rocky Horror Picture Show soundtrack (complimentary). I think some of the issues I've had with Bowie albums in the past (things being more experimental than fun to listen to) have hints on this album (the jazzy sax/piano on Aladdin Sane) but overall the fun levels stay pretty high. It also doesn't outstay it's welcome at all, in individual songs or at a whole, with a 41 minute runtime. I enjoyed this a lot, and it's well worth a: 4/5

Stones, free jazz, Kurt Weill, there's a lot going on here. In 72/73 the genre lines weren't so bright. Thankful for that.

Heroes are supposed to be sane.

I liked this more than I thought I would -- certainly challenged me to expand my listening. The avant-garde / jazz flourishes really push it to the next level, and there's some thoughtful, interesting stuff going on here. A lot of songs don't work for me, but there's no denying this is very cool and very smart. Fave tracks: - Watch That Man - Aladdin Sane - Cracked Actor - Let's Spend the Night Together - Lady Grinning Soul

Not the best Bowie album nor one of my favorites, but it's pretty good and has its moments. 3.5 stars

I enjoy the heavier rock influence on this album. It sure seems like there is too much David Bowie on this list, but I keep giving the albums higher stars than I expected.

This is by no means a perfect album and it's not even the best Bowie album we've listened to on this list. But it's still a damn good Bowie album. 4.5 stars, rounding down.

first half of the album is certainly weaker than the latter half, but I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Good

los Stones y Bowie beben de las mismas aguas ...Se nota en este disco las influencias qué comparten .América es la nueva etapa del artista .Se vienen cositas.

Vengo de escuchar Bob Dylan en otro grupo, un álbum que se llama Blondd on Blonde, que tiene un ritmo parecido de algunos temas en la guitarra y la filarmónica pero la verdad, esto tiene estilo, tiene dureza, tiene la onda que le faltaba a Dylan y que sus letras son preciosas, pero no te hace mover. Qué más perfecto que el primer tema que escogió Bowie: Watch that Man No soy un gran oyente de Bowie pero tendré que incursionar más en el. Top Picks: 1- The Jean Genie 2- Cracked Actor (la info es un 10) 3- Time (me llegó mucho esta historia) la canción se vive a flor de piel.

Just a good record. Good from start to finish.

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I don’t know that I’d heard ANY of these songs before, but pretty good album imo

Finally, my ninth and final Bowie album. I feel like the sheer amount of Bowie says more about Mr. 1001 List Guy than it does about Bowie's discography. He's a great artist with a surprising amount of really strong albums, but after hearing all nine, I'd say it'd be better to condense it down to three for this list: Ziggy Stardust, Heroes, and Blackstar. It avoids the really similar-sounding albums (i.e. the two Berlin Trilogy albums or the two post-2000s ones) while still showing his progression in his sound. This one barely doesn't make the cut to me, but that's mostly because its competition is two of the best Art Rock albums ever made and Ziggy Stardust. This is still a great album and a really fun listen front-to-back. I like the heavier songs in the back half, along with the completely out of nowhere soul-ish song he did for the closer. I feel like this album as a whole is the most fun of the nine on the list, and definitely in the better half out of all of them.

there isnt much more to say aboht Bowie. The man is a genius who made amazong music that i was brought up on. not my favourite of his and a bit proggy and indulgent in parts but still top tier.

I so badly wanted to give this 5 stars but I couldn't Obviously still a banger though, he never misses

Great but not best

I really enjoyed this. It kept my interest the whole way through. However, I wasn’t a huge fan of the out of tune piano parts. I was able to pick up on his influence of more recent music, like Lady Gaga.

Album #110, Aladdin Sane by David Bowie ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Yeah, I’m 110 albums in now, and this is my fourth Bowie album. I actually felt a little bit jaded when this one came up. As much as I think Bowie is probably the greatest artist of the 1970s, I do think he’s overrepresented on this list, and if I was rewriting it myself, I’d probably cut a couple of his albums. This might honestly be one of them. I don’t think this is one of his most essential records. Ironically, I think the most iconic thing about it is probably the album cover itself. That image has become bigger than the music on the record. That being said, it’s still a really strong rock and roll album. You can hear Bowie starting to move toward the soul direction he’d explore after The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. It’s got some absolute stone cold classics on it too. Watch That Man has one of my favourite Mick Ronson riffs. Cracked Actor is brilliantly sleazy and disturbing. His cover of Let’s Spend the Night Together is great too. You can really hear the influence of The Rolling Stones all over this album. It’s got that kind of British take on swaggering American rock and roll running through the whole thing. And then, of course, you’ve got The Jean Genie, which is probably the catchiest thing on the album and one of Bowie’s best hooks full stop. Look, it’s a great album, but for me it doesn’t hold a candle to its predecessor, Ziggy Stardust. When that album comes up, I’ll almost certainly be giving it five stars. Still though, four stars is four stars. I just feel a little Bowie’d out at the moment. I know these albums pretty well, and I’m looking forward to something a bit different coming up in the generator. I don’t think this is top tier Bowie. Probably not even top five Bowie for me personally. But even lesser Bowie in the 70s is still pretty damn great.

A mystical, rocking, theatrical musical journey.

I fucked with the piano on here ngl that shit went feral

Whoever was on keys for the title track needs to be neutered NOW.

This album was good, but it’s no Space Oddity. Still gonna give it a 4 though.