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Space Oddity

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El segundo álbum de estudio de la discografía de David Bowie, "Space Oddity", se lanzó en 1969 bajo el título de "David Bowie", aunque una reedición de 1972 para RRCA Records lo rebautizó como "Space Oddity", precisamente el título del tema que abre el álbum.

Una mezcla de estilos como el folk, el rock progresivo y las baladas que definen el estilo un poco incongruente del Bowie de sus inicios, en que se atrevía con todo y que surgió tras la transición que David Bowie hizo a un sonido más hippie y folk

El sencillo "Space Oddity" apareció publicado en julio de 1969 y estuvo inspirado en la película "2001: Una odisea espacial", del director Stanley Kubrick. Fue el primer tema en el que Bowie incluye al personaje del Comandante Tom (Mayor Tom), un astronauta ficticio que aparece en posteriores canciones de David Bowie, como "Ashes to Ashes", "Hallo Spaceboy", "New Killer Star" y "Blackstar".

"Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed" tiene influencias de Bob Dylan en el uso de la armónica y la guitarra y por la voz grave.

Por su parte, "Cygnet Committee" está considerada como la primera obra maestra de Bowie, una canción que marca el camino que el artista seguiría a continuación. Nos habla de un personaje mesiánico que descubre que finalmente sólo ha dotado a sus seguidores de herramientas para destruirlo. Es una paradoja sobre la época hippie, en la que se buscaba un líder carismático al que seguir.

El lanzamiento inicial del álbum "Space Oddity" fue un fracaso comercial, a pesar de que su primer sencillo alcanzara el puesto número cinco en las listas de Reino Unido. No obstante, la reedición de 1972 rescató el álbum del ostracismo y lo colocó en los puestos 17 y 16 en Reino Unido y Estados Unidos, respectivamente.

Listado de canciones del álbum Space Oddity

  1. Space Oddity 5:16
  2. Unwashed And Somewhat Slightly Dazed 6:11
  3. Don't Sit Down
  4. Letter To HermioneVer letra 2:36

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    letra de Letter To Hermione

    (Bowie)

    The hand that wrote this letter
    Sweeps the pillow clean
    So rest your head and
    Read a treasured dream
    I care for no one else but you
    I tear my soul to cease the pain
    I think maybe you feel the same
    What can we do?
    I'm not quite sure what we're supposed to do
    So I've been writing just for you

    They say your life is going very well
    They say you sparkle like a different girl
    But something tells me that you hide
    When all the world is warm and tired
    You cry a little in the dark
    Well so do I
    I'm not quite sure
    What you're supposed to say
    But I can see it's not okay

    He makes you laugh
    He brings you out in style
    He treats you well
    And makes you up real fine
    And when he's strong
    He's strong for you
    And when you kiss
    It's something new
    But did you ever call my name
    Just by mistake?
    I'm not quite sure what I'm supposed to do
    So I'll just write some love to you

  5. Cygnet CommitteeVer letra 9:36

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    letra de Cygnet Committee

    I bless you madly,
    Sadly as I tie my shoes
    I love you badly,
    Just in time, at times, I guess
    Because of you I need to rest
    Because it's you
    That sets the test

    So much has gone
    And little is new
    And as the sparrow sings
    Dawn chorus for
    Someone else to hear
    The Thinker sits alone growing older
    And so bitter

    "I gave Them life
    I gave Them all
    They drained my very soul
    ... Dry
    I crushed my heart
    To ease Their pains
    No thought for me remains there
    Nothing can They spare
    What of me?
    Who praised Their efforts
    To be free?
    Words of strength and care
    And sympathy
    I opened doors
    That would have blocked Their way
    I braved Their cause to guide,
    For little pay

    I ravaged at my finance just for Those
    Those whose claims were steeped in peace, tranquility
    Those who said a new world, new ways ever free
    Those whose promises stretched in hope and grace for me"

    I bless you madly,
    Sadly as I tie my shoes
    I love you badly, just in time,
    At times, I guess
    Because of you I need to rest, oh yes
    Because it's you
    That sets the test

    So much has gone
    And little is new
    And as the sunrise stream
    Flickers on me,
    My friends talk
    Of glory, untold dream, where all is God and God is just a word

    "We had a friend, a talking man
    Who spoke of many powers that he had
    Not of the best of men, but Ours

    We used him
    We let him use his powers
    We let him fill Our needs
    Now We are strong

    And the road is coming to it's end
    Now the damned have no time to make amends
    No purse of token fortune stands in Our way
    The silent guns of love
    Will blast the sky
    We broke the ruptured structure built of age
    Our weapons were the tongues of crying rage

    Where money stood
    We planted seeds of rebirth
    And stabbed the backs of fathers
    Sons of dirt

    Infiltrated business cesspools
    Hating through Our sleeves
    Yea, and We slit the Catholic throat
    Stoned the poor
    On slogans such as

    'Wish You Could Hear'
    'Love Is All We Need'
    'Kick Out The Jams'
    'Kick Out Your Mother'
    'Cut Up Your Friend'
    'screw Up Your Brother or He'll Get You In the End'

    And We Know the Flag of Love is from Above
    And We Can Force You to Be Free
    And We Can Force You to Believe"

    And I close my eyes and tighten up my brain
    For I once read a book in which the lovers were slain
    For they knew not the words of the Free States' refrain
    It said:
    "I believe in the Power of Good
    I Believe in the State of Love
    I Will Fight For the Right to be Right
    I Will Kill for the Good of the Fight for the Right to be Right"

    And I open my eyes to look around
    And I see a child laid slain
    On the ground
    As a love machine lumbers through desolation rows
    Ploughing down man, woman, listening to it's command
    But not hearing anymore
    Not hearing anymore
    Just the shrieks from the old rich

    And I Want to Believe
    In the madness that calls 'Now'
    And I want to Believe
    That a light's shining through
    Somehow

    And I Want to Believe
    And You Want to Believe
    And We Want to Believe
    And We Want to Live
    Oh, We Want to Live

    We Want to Live
    We Want to Live
    We Want to Live
    We Want to Live
    We Want to Live

    I Want to Live
    I Want to Live
    I Want to Live

    I Want to Live
    I Want to Live
    I Want to Live

    Live
    Live
    Live

  6. JanineVer letra 3:25

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    letra de Janine

    Oh my love, Janine
    I'm helpless for your smile
    Like a Polish wanderer
    I travel ever onwards to your land
    And were it not just for the jewels, I'd close your hand

    Your strange demand
    To 'collocate' my mind
    Scares me into gloom
    You're too intense
    I'll have to keep you in your place
    I've no defence
    I've got to keep my veil on my face

    Janine, Janine, you'd like to know me well
    But I've got things inside my head
    That even I can't face

    Janine, Janine, you'd like to crash
    My walls
    But if you take an axe to me
    You'll kill another man
    Not me at all

    You're fey, Janine
    A tripper to the last
    But if I catch you standing on my toes
    I'll have a right to shout you down
    For you're a lazy stream
    In which my thoughts would drown

    So stay, Janine
    And we can glide along
    I've caught your wings for laughs
    I'm not obliged to read you statements of the year
    So take your glasses off
    And don't act so sincere

    Janine, Janine, you'd like to know me well
    But I've got things inside my head
    That even I can't face

    Janine, Janine, you'd like to crash
    My walls
    But if you take an axe to me
    You'll kill another man
    Not me at all

  7. An Occasional DreamVer letra 3:01

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    letra de An Occasional Dream

    I recall how we lived
    On the corner of a bed
    And we'd speak of a Swedish room
    Of hessian and wood
    And we'd talk with our eyes
    Of the sweetness in our lives
    And tomorrows of rich surprise...
    Some things we could do

    In our madness
    We burnt one hundred days
    Time takes time to pass
    And I still hold some ashes to me
    An Occasional Dream

    And we'd sleep, oh so close
    But not really close our eyes
    'Tween the sheets of summer
    Bathed in blue...
    Gently weeping nights
    It was long, long ago
    And I can't touch your name

    For the days of fate
    Were strong for you...
    Danced you far from me

    In my madness
    I see your face in mine
    I keep a photograph
    It burns my wall with time
    Time
    An Occasional Dream
    Of mine
    An Occasional Dream
    Of mine
    An Occasional Dream
    Of mine

  8. Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud 4:51
    Músicos invitados: Paul Buckmaster (Cello)
  9. God Knows I'm Good 3:21
  10. Memory Of A Free FestivalVer letra 7:09

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    letra de Memory Of A Free Festival

    The Children of the summer's end
    Gathered in the dampened grass
    We played Our songs and felt the London sky
    Resting on our hands
    It was God's land
    It was ragged and naive
    It was Heaven

    Touch, We touched the very soul
    Of holding each and every life
    We claimed the very source of joy ran through
    It didn't, but it seemed that way
    I kissed a lot of people that day

    Oh, to capture just one drop of all the ecstasy that swept that afternoon
    To paint that love
    Upon a white balloon
    And fly it from
    The topest top of all the tops
    That man has pushed beyond his brain
    Satori must be something
    Just the same

    We scanned the skies with rainbow eyes and saw machines of every shape and size
    We talked with tall Venusians passing through
    And Peter tried to climb aboard but the Captain shook his head
    And away they soared
    Climbing through
    The ivory vibrant cloud
    Someone passed some bliss among the crowd
    And We walked back to the road, unchained

    "The Sun Machine is Coming Down, and We're Gonna Have a Party
    The Sun Machine is Coming Down, and We're Gonna Have a Party
    The Sun Machine is Coming Down, and We're Gonna Have a Party
    The Sun Machine is Coming Down, and We're Gonna Have a Party
    The Sun Machine is Coming Down, and We're Gonna Have a Party."

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