I was a huge David Bowie fan growing up, and Lady Grinning Soul is my favorite Bowie song and in my opinion one of the best songs ever written. This album is really something so special, I don't think I've ever heard something that was this mix of glam rock, boomer hard rock and avant garde jazz solos. It's flamboyant, chauvinist, introspective and pretentious at the same time. Diamond Dogs after this kind of plays up the first two a little more and refines it to a science but there is this beautiful vulnerability to Aladdin Sane, like, the self-titled song, my god! Ugh I want to give this a five so bad but I think some of the songs like Watch That Man are pretty unremarkable Bowie piano rock songs and are kind of stinkers, reminds me of Elton John or other shit like that I don't really care about, he's at his best when he's playing as sultry minx and there's a lot of that here and it's veiled in dusting powder and velvet and saxophones. Like it's not just gold leotard over hairy chest flamboyant it's like Sophia Loren in a slip dress flamboyant and I respect that.