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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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By J. Carroll (Island Heights,NJ)
I have to admit this creeped me out when I was a kid. The bizarre subject matter and Bowie at his most affected were just too strange for me in my adolescence and time has not improved my opinion. I will admit to a certain fascination with the psychotic narrator of "Running Gun Blues" the quirky little interruption of "Black Country Rock" and the title cut and "The Width of a Circle" still have an exotic majesty, but the overall effect is an odd mixture of apocalyptic science fiction and pointlessness. Musically there are a lot of interesting choices but by the time Bowie gets done with his various methods of doing in humanity, I found myself bored by the repetitiveness of these themes. While I'm sure this Bowie incarnation has its defenders, I'm really glad he outgrew this stage rather quickly.
By IRate
2 1/2
Another overblown release in my ears. I understand Bowie kicks off an apparently esteemed, extended creative streak here, but thin production aiding showy charisma always highlights how little of his material actually penetrates with songwriting memorability.
By J. Garcia
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By Nicholas E. Mendoza
It came fast and I love this album. Listened to it all the way to California for christmas.
By Kerry Leimer (Makawao, Hawaii United States)
Thin white duke-ing it out with god while lathered in the period-defined gestalt of Gibran mingled with contemporaneous man/superman/machine doodling that apes either Nietzsche and/or the plot outline of "The Forbin Project", we must be satisfied mostly in knowing that meetings are already set for the next bardo (a 7 to 49 day visit depending on your behavior while on this plane o' being). Which makes "The Man Who Sold the World" a charming but merely transitional record for Bowie. Here he strives to set aside his memories of a free festival by being fitted for mock madness and women's clothing -- just one look at the restored cover art should give pause to the "heavy metal" theorists here among us and hear it instead as it is: The trial balloon for Bowie's more successful marketing of a seemingly dangerous/thrilling androgyny that finds its better expression not within "The Width of a Circle", but rather when all at last became "Hunky Dory". Bowie proves it's no fluke by then going on to realize the full mutation of Ziggy and Aladdin, each a more mature and more deliberate record than this. Hey, you gotta re-restart somewhere...
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