The Man Who Sold the World Artist : David Bowie List Price : $16.98 USD Your Price : $9.97 USD ProductGroup: Music Release Date : 1999-09-28 Studio : Virgin Records Us Label : Virgin Records Us Avg. Customer Rating : (71 reviews)
Reviews Customer Reviews for The Man Who Sold The World JUVENILIA IN EXCELSIS Rating: Thin white duke-ing it out with god while lathered in the period-defined gestalt of Gibran mingled with contemporaneous man/superman/machine doodling that apes either Nietzsche and/or the plot outline of "The Forbin Project", we must be satisfied mostly in knowing that meetings are already set for the next bardo (a 7 to 49 day visit depending on your behavior while on this plane o' being). Which makes "The Man Who Sold the World" a charming but merely transitional record for Bowie. Here he strives to set aside his memories of a free festival by being fitted for mock madness and women's clothing -- just one look at the restored cover art should give pause to the "heavy metal" theorists here among us and hear it instead as it is: The trial balloon for Bowie's more successful marketing of a seemingly dangerous/thrilling androgyny that finds its better expression not within "The Width of a Circle", but rather when all at last became "Hunky Dory". Bowie proves it's no fluke by then going on to realize the full mutation of Ziggy and Aladdin, each a more mature and more deliberate record than this. Hey, you gotta re-restart somewhere...
Customer Reviews for The Man Who Sold The World Cd Boy could he play guitar Rating: Mick Ronson's guitar, The most under-rated guitarist ever. Bowie's best work was, in my and many peoples opinion, were the years he had Ronson as his guitarist. This cd along with honky dory, Ziggy, Pin-ups and Aladdin Sane were his best. After that, no more Ronson and nothing was ever as good. Bowie still had a lot of great stuff but something was always missing.
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