Thursday April 28, 2005

David Bowie

One of the most talented UK musicians and his never ending ability to come up with innovative material never ceases to amaze me. If you want a flavour of his music the singles collection cd's are the ones to go for but buy an album and listen carefully and each of these is like a mini opera. The best has to be "Ziggy Stardust" named after the character he created and then destroyed to make way for other ideas. The album is Bowie at its best. Looking at the track list there is not one that is bad. The starting mournful track "Five years", "Starman" that you cannot help but sing along to, the title track and "Suffragette city". My next favourite cd would be "Hunky Dory" , with the singles "Changes" and "Life on Mars". "Kooks" and "Andy Warhol" are memorable. The final track "The Bewley brothers" is very clever.

I would say the other CD's are not so consistant; I recently bought "Diamond Dogs" which has an excellent title track. "Aladdin Sane", again a good title track, also with "Watch that man" the first track and the unforgettable "The Jean Genie". Both these were anniversary editions with lots of interesting information from the time of the initial appearance of the album. "Space Oddity" has highlights such as the title track and the "Memory of a free festival".

His newer stuff is not so inspiring, I would like to see him live but only if I would know I was going to hear a lot of his older stuff. Collaborations with artists are numerous "Dancing in the street" with Jagger was good.

Justice be mine !

Well at last after my attempts to find a white van doing something bad which I documented before has finally happened. I was driving to work heading over a roundabout patrolled by traffic lights. As I went around it ( following green lights of course) my path was blocked. For some reason the exit I was to take was full of stationary cars. So not wanting to block the roundabout I stayed by the light. Behind me a white van lurked. Its driver gesticulated, then beeped his horn. I stayed put. The van then veered off to the right and then headed to the line of traffic. By this time our light had gone red and the blocked traffic then moved on. I then waited for the next green light and carried on. I then saw the white van in the distance stationary behind another line of traffic. My lane continued to move on. The reason for the lack of motion was clear, at the head of the queue was another white van having a bit of technical bother. As I passed him I could not resist a "YeeeeeeSSSSSS !!!".