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17 Mar, 2008
David Bowie - The Man Who Sold The World
1 of 1 found this helpful Sandwiched between the semi-hippy folkiness of "Space Oddity" and the retro-rock proto-glam of "Hunky Dory", we have "The Man Who Sold The World", a much under-rated album. At times the music is almost redolent of early Deep Purple - bluesy, heavy guitar accompaniment and some breakneck often high-pitched vocals. There is also, for good measure, an elongated workout a la Yes or Led Zeppelin in the monumental "Width Of A Circle", with its many changes of pace.
At times, much of this album sounds almost like Tin Machine, Bowie's ill-fated "back to roots" experiment in the early nineties, particularly "Black Country Rock", one of the most metal things Bowie ever laid down. Similarly, "Running Gun Blues" and "Saviour Machine" are blessed with Mick Ronson's heaviest riffs from his time with Bowie. The latter has echoes of the unused outtake for "Ziggy Stardust", "Sweet Head".
"After All" and "All The Madmen" deal with the contemporaneous Bowie theme of madness. The former somewhat spoilt by it's "Bewlay Brothers" fade-out style cockney chanted vocal, The title track is sublime and really should have been cashed in on as a single at the height of Bowie's popularity. Instead, he allowed Lulu to record an appealing, but inferior version which was a big hit in 1974.
Finally, a clue to Bowie's future direction can be found in the album's haunting closer "Supermen" which would not sound out of place on any of the next three albums Bowie was to release. The heavy becomes lighter here and therein we see the future. An interesting album to listen to nonetheless.
27 Jan, 2008
mannequin
Jonathan Window and Kim cattral star in what is considered one of the best romantic comedies in the last 2 decades.
The movie speaks to many guys who have wanted to find the girl of their dreams and Window gets that and more than he imagined when a Mannequin he made comes to life in a shop window that he works for.
The romantic side of the movie is very sweet and tender, the humour is great with an actor who looks supsiciously familiar to another 80's movie franchise, and the fantasy is just great and magical.
And to end it all; you get Starship performing the theme of the movie 'nothing's gonna stop us'.
So, like a romantic comedy with a little bit of fantasy to it?
16 Feb, 2008
X Files - Series 2
X Files season 2 carries off from where season 1 left off, Mulder and Scully have been reassigned yet they never give up their search for the truth.
Season 2 focuses on and develops the Mythology of the series much more. We are introduced to one of the series most memorable characters, Alex Krycek (Nicholas Lea) and also get to know the familiar faces much better such as AD Skinner and The Cigarette Smoking Man. Added to this we meet Mulder's new and mysterious informant, simply known as X (Steve Williams) a much darker and angrier character than his predecessor Deep Throat (Jerry Hardin) from season 1.
The Mythology begins straight away with the brilliant season opener "Little Green Men" and takes a chilling turn when Scully disappears in the two-parter "Duane Barry" and "Acension". Other myth-arc episodes include "One Breath", "Red Museum", the two parter "Colony" and "Endgame" and the suspenseful season finale "Anasazi", that leaves you on the edge of your seat and will definitely make you want to buy season 3!