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The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars |  | Artist: David Bowie
Label: VIRGIN
Category: Digital Music Album
Buy New: $7.99
as of 9/7/2010 20:52 CDT details
Seller: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
Rating:  207 reviews
Sales Rank: 1522
Genre: album-oriented-rock-music
Media: MP3 Download
Running Time: 2297 Minutes
ASIN: B000SXBOP4
Publication Date: July 18, 2000
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Ziggy rocks! June 10, 2010
Stuart Brenner (Irvine, CA United States)
Bowie's masterpiece! With masterful production by "the thin white duke" and Ken Scott. Bowies's previous record, "Hunky Dory", had been driven by the melodic piano playing of Rick Wakeman, but with "Ziggy Stardust", Bowie hits you with a full body blow of heavy guitar/bass/and drum sound. Driven by the playing of Mick Ronson and the Spiders from Mars and recorded by one one of greatest recording engineers of all time, the aforementioned Ken Scott. No cymbals on this one, just straight ahead rock and roll and Bowie's voice placed front and center. Bowie's space age lyrics and vocals give the album a timeless appeal. A must have for any serious rock and roll collector.
 Bona fide classic January 3, 2010
IRate
One of classic rock's more successfully flamboyant concept albums achieves that charmingly calibrated combination of art, rock, and pop many of his other albums failed to synthesize.
God? October 17, 2009
A NYC Screenwriter (NY, New York United States)
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
Ziggy Stardust, the song, was playing on the stereo. i turned to my daughter, aged three at the time, and said, "When you hear people talk about God, this is who they mean. His name's Ziggy Stardust." i thought it was a good introduction to music, as well as theology. i don't know if there's a better album out there. there's certainly not a cooler one. and there's certainly no one who's just taken rock 'n roll and run with it the way david bowie did. in ziggy stardust, he became the incarnation of the rock star before he even was a rock star. and then killed him. there was no rock'n roll messiah before ziggy stardust. and there never will be again.
Turning point in American pop music. A surreal dream! September 7, 2009
Robert G. Martinez (Brooksville FL)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
When I first heard this album in 1972, I was floored. In an era of Deep Purples, Zeppelins and Black Sabbaths, Bowie's freeze-dried Ziggy Starbust had a lot of surreal imagery that changed the face of pop music. No longer was it just dumb music to nod off on. It was different, weird but it rocked with a new attitude of glam-rock star personna. Every cut on this classic album is enjoyable. My Faves': Suffragette City, Star, Moonage Daydream, Ziggy Stardust, Hang On To Yourself, Soul Love and the sound is punchy and clean and in your face and the band rocks out like highly energized speed freaks. One of the best 20 albums of all time and Bowie's best. It is a surreal dream!
Ziggy Stardust August 1, 2009
Mike (USA)
What can you say about Bowie? Well lots, but this is just a review. Well this CD is maybe the best of Bowie's. It's his first work that he become theatrical both in concert and in the music. The songs are strong in theme, as most of his later would show. It's moods very and yet have a strong center core of emotions and feelings that are subdued by the lyrics and themes which they speak of. This is just a great album. Get it.
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