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| Hunky Dory | 
| Artist: David Bowie
Label: Virgin Records Us
Category: Music
List Price: $16.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (110 reviews)
Sales Rank: 2289
Format: Enhanced, Original Recording Reissued
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 21899
UPC: 724352189908
EAN: 0724352189908
ASIN: B00001OH7O
Release Date: September 28, 1999
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| Tracks:
| • | Changes | | • | Oh! You Pretty Things | | • | Eight Line Poem | | • | Life on Mars? | | • | Kooks | | • | Quicksand | | • | Fill Your Heart - David Bowie, Rose, Biff | | • | Andy Warhol | | • | Song for Bob Dylan | | • | Queen Bitch | | • | The Bewlay Brothers |
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Album Description
Manufactured in Japan. CD sits within an exact replica of the original vinyl packaging including the inside sleeve. Packaging includes the Japanese spine sleeve.
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The precursor to Bowie's masterpiece, The Rise And Fall of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars, Hunky Dory points in many of the same musical directions as Ziggy, with Bowie camping it up outrageously through a mixture of cabaret piano, coquettish lyrics and soaring vocals. After the hard rock "The Man Who Sold The World", Mick Ronson's guitar is turned down in favour of plenty of piano and acoustic guitar, as Bowie proves his mettle as a masterful singer-songwriter. Not a dull note is struck on the whole album, which flits from opener "Changes" to the vampy "Oh! You Pretty Thing" to the heart-wrenching "Life On Mars" with a seemingly impeccable ear for a tune. Flirty, sexy and irresistibly seductive. --Amber Cowan
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A classic from Bowie! Great moments of Bowie of the 70's December 26, 2008
I knew the album before I bought it. Some of the songs we almost forgot after listening David Bowie in the 80's. This is different and something you got to have in a collection. "Life on mars" is one of my favourite of all time. If you like it, then get Ziggy stardust and Aladdin Sane... etc.
 HUNKY DORY (RCA RECORDS/1971) December 19, 2008
REVIEW: What a weird album! On "HUNKY DORY" Bowie combines the Anthony Newley-induced music hall of his first British LP with the sonic whoomp! of "THE MAN WHO SOLD THE WORLD" and the more singer/songwriter conventions of "SPACE ODDITY" in order to come up with a really unusual conglomoration of a record. And so the dude jumps from cutsey-pie outings like a cover of Biff Rose/Paul Williams' "Fill Your Heart" (cheesy cabaret) and "Kooks" (written for his son Zowie) to the eerie, acoustic guitar apocalypse of "Quicksand" and its name dropping references to occultist/black magician Aleister Crowley, Nazi Himmler, Greta Garbo, etc. Which was either an inspired slice of mayhem or pure lyrical drivel. "Changes" became a belated pop hit, and an anthem for many an alientaed adolescent in the early seventies. "Oh! You Pretty Things" only hints at the decadent, (homo)sexually-charged Ziggy Stardust character that Bowie would be forever linked to. But the record's best moments comes via a series of artistic portraits/tributes/homages that he fashions on side two (on CD: tracks 8, 9, and 10): the odd-sounding yet brilliant "Andy Warhol", the Lou Reed/Velvet Underground-inspired rocker "Queen B**ch", and the melodic "Song For Bob Dylan" which are absolutely stunning. Yet it is the somber, doomsday-ridden closer "The Bewlay Brothers" (with its haunting melody and drunken English climax) that provides a surefire testament to Bowie's genius even though it seems a mile removed from the striking pop of "Life On Mars?" and the slight (yet pretty) poesy of "Eight Line Poem". Definately a curiosity. HARSH LANGUAGE: about 6 words. VIOLENCE: about 5 instances. SEXUAL REFERENCES: about 4 references including inferences of homosexuality (i.e. the cover shot of Bowie in drag)
THE MORAL COMPASS: David Bowie's career (fraught with genius though it is) has always flirted with occultism, sexual aloofness, and Nietzsche-ian philosophizing (the latter of which got him into major trouble when he flashed a Nazi salute while greeting fans in England). And so it's not surprising that "HUNKY DORY" also creaks with a certain immoral decadence and cynicism that can be especially grating if you are a Christian believer (or have any moral backbone whatsoever). Add to that the loose sexual (and homosexual) overtones, the "closer to the Golden Dawn/immersed in Crowley's uniform/of imagery" line in "Quicksand" (the Golden Dawn was the occult organization that black magician Aleister Crowley joined and was subsequently kicked out of), and his pessimistic attitude toward religion ("don't believe in yourself/don't deceive with belief/knowledge comes with death's release...can't take my eyes from the great salvation/of bull***t faith") and life in general: and you are dealing with a very spiritually confused individual. What makes the record doubly disappointing is that Bowie is capable of some wonderful conceits that are quite humorous and (dare I say it?) humane ("Andy Warhol", "Kooks", etc.). But because of the reasons stated above: the album would probably earn a strong CAUTIONARY to mild OBJECTIONABLE rating for its content.
HIGHEST BILLBOARD ALBUM CHART POSITION: Number 93
HIT SINGLES: "Changes" (BILLBOARD: Number 41)
3rd Upgrade November 26, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
If it was not for Amazon, the Reveiwers, and Sellers I would be up a musical creek without a paddle. I would not have known of this release of Hunky Dory, or liked my chances of buying this release.
Hunky Dory is my all time No1 Album, which even surprises me, considering my No1 Rock Albums are Tonights The Night by Neil Young and Bringing It All Back Home By Bob Dylan. Iam not a reveiwer, although I have played the reveiwer in the past, and would not be able to do the album justice. Only to say Art (lyricly abstract) as never sounded so emotional or searching to my ears.
Being a mini Lp jacket version caught my interest. After reading reviews on the better sound decided to buy.This being my third upgrade: first upgrade; 1990 RYKODISC, secound upgrade; 1999 EMI (24 bit remastering). Begining a Japanese pressing there is usally a improvement in sound and the album does sound better, and the improvement is more than a slight one.
To me this upgrade was worth the purchase, and I do not have to wait another 9 years for a Deluxe or Collectors Edition
'She's seen it ten times or more' August 16, 2008
Hunky Dory was Bowie's last album as an aspirant, just before he found fame with Ziggy Stardust. It's a fascinating work on many levels that display lyrical depth, vivid imagery, wit and great musical variety, from the music hall pop of Changes through the sixties pop of Oh You Pretty Things to the cinematic lyricism of Life On Mars, a soaring masterpiece. Another of my favorites is Fill Your Heart, a quirky number with his somersaulting voice over lively piano and cheeky sax. Elements of the folkie singer/songwriter are evident on numbers like Song For Bob Dylan while The Supermen reminds me of his later science fiction work like Diamond Dogs. Bowie also salutes Lou Reed and Andy Warhol here, in fact the whole album makes references to his musical influences. Hunky Dory is a bridge between his earlier music hall style and the glamrock that was to follow, and this was just the right mixture of catchy tunes & brilliant lyrics to ensure a timeless classic.
'Oh boy look at those cavemen go' August 15, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Hunky Dory was Bowie's last album as an aspirant, just before he found fame with Ziggy Stardust. It's a fascinating work on many levels that display lyrical depth, vivid imagery, wit and great musical variety, from the music hall pop of Changes through the sixties pop of Oh You Pretty Things to the cinematic lyricism of Life On Mars, a soaring masterpiece. Another of my favorites is Fill Your Heart, a quirky number with his somersaulting voice over lively piano and cheeky sax. Elements of the folkie singer/songwriter are evident on numbers like Song For Bob Dylan while The Supermen reminds me of his later science fiction work like Diamond Dogs. Bowie also salutes Lou Reed and Andy Warhol here, in fact the whole album makes references to his musical influences. Hunky Dory is a bridge between his earlier music hall style and the glamrock that was to follow, and this was just the right mixture of catchy tunes & brilliant lyrics to ensure a timeless classic.
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