Best of 2012: Back catalogue: Frank Zappa Reeditions

Reedition of the Year:

After the Zappa Family regaining control of Zappa’s extensive catalog, on a deal signed with Universal, they began releasing the original albums. 

The first batch was released in July and another batch was expected in September, but didn’t make it till now.

Among this batch of twelve there are some works that are absolute classics and masterpieces. Apart from the groundbreaking "Freak Out!", that I personally find difficult to listen to today, "Hot Rats", "Burnt Weeny Sandwich" and "Chinga's Revenge" are some of my favourite Zappa Records. I bought Hot Rats and have to say that the remaster, made in 2008 from the original tapes, is very good and allowed me to listen to the record in a different way, discovering details that I didn't know were there.

This is was the first batch of releases:

1. Freak Out! (1966)

2. Absolutely Free (1967)

3. Lumpy Gravy (1968)

4. We're Only In It For The Money (1968)

5. Cruising With Ruben & The Jets (1968)

6. Uncle Meat (1969)

7. Hot Rats (1969)

8. Burnt Weeny Sandwich (1970)

9. Weasels Ripped My Flesh (1970)

10. Chunga's Revenge (1970)

11. Fillmore East, June 1971 (1971)

12. Just Another Band From L.A. (1972)

Christmas at the door: The Killers - Feel it in my bones

Música Nova: Elephant Revival

Interesting quiet folk

Wiki Knowledge:

Elephant Revival is a folk music group from Nederland, Colorado, formed in 2006. The band consists of Bonnie Paine (vocals, washboard, djembe, musical saw), Sage Cook (electric banjo/guitar, acoustic guitar, mandolin, viola, vocals), Dango Rose (double-bass, mandolin, banjo, vocals), Daniel Rodriguez (acoustic guitar, electric banjo/guitar vocals) and Bridget Law (fiddle and vocals).^[1]

Their style of music is often referred to as "transcendental folk," which incorporates elements of Scottish/Celtic fiddle tunes, original folk pieces, traditional ballads, bluegrass,^[2] psychedelic country, indie rock,reggae, 40s/50s jazz standards and an occasional hip-hop beat. All members of the band are multi-instrumentalists and contribute vocals and to songwriting.

http://rapidgator.net/file/63560108/Alive.rar.html

Novo Tema dos Divine Comedy

Os Divine Comedy têm novo tema, incluido na compilação Oscar The Hypno Dog, saído dia 7 de Dezembro e disponível para download em mp3... num site perto de si. E ainda sem youtube.

No disco participa também Cathy Davey, cantora irlandesa premiada - e dava um dedinho se esta não é a  Cathy do disco do Rodrigo Leão. No concerto do passado dia 27 Neil referiu que a Cathy da canção era a sua mulher. E o certo é que eles aparecem muito unidos em torno da temática canina em várias fotos...

Whatever, aqui fica "I Only have eyes for you", em que ambos cantam.

A new state of the soul: Goodbye Ravi Shankar

He is probably more know today for being the father of pop jazz artist Norah Jones, but Norah is not the only daughter of Ravi Shankar, deceased yesterday at 93 after heart surgery. His legacy is probably best represented by his daughter Anoushka, that also plays the sitar and that has played with him many times.

Ravi Shankar was revered in the sixties for bringing the indian culture to the west and mixing influences of classical indian music and rock. A good friend of the Beatles, especially of George Harrison, he mixed influences also in the jazz (e.g. John Coltrane)  and in the classical field (e.g André Previn). He also played at rock events like Monterey and Woodstock.

He was, on his own, a legend, and one of the musical icons of the last century.

R.I.P. Ravi Shankar

Sitar maestro dead at 92, after undergoing heart surgery.

The Indian maestro who put the sitar on the musical map....

Ravi Shankar on the Dick Cavett Show

'Back To Front' tour Europe 2013

Peter will be taking the 'Back To Front' tour into Europe in Autumn 2013.

Following the tour's success in North America, Peter and the original band will be celebrating the anniversary of the release of 'So' with shows featuring a performance of the entire album uninterrupted, along with other hits.

Just wish Peter would consider visiting us in Portugal!

Should no show be confirmed for Portugal, guess I'll just have a new excuse to go to London next year!

Peter talking @ Talks at Google about the tour:

Tour Dates:

Ziggo Dome – 30 September 2013

Amsterdam

Netherlands

Forest National – 1 October 2013

Brussels

Belgium

Vienna Stadthalle – 3 October 2013

Vienna

Austria

Arena Zagreb – 5 October 2013

Zagreb

Croatia

Forum – 7 October 2013

Milan

Italy

Arena Geneva – 8 October 2013

Geneva

Switzerland

O2 Arena – 10 October 2013

Prague

Czech Republic

Arena Leipzig – 11 October 2013

Leipzig

Germany

Schleyer-Halle – 13 October 2013

Stuttgart

Germany

Bercy – 15 October 2013

Paris

France

ISS Dome – 16 October 2013

Düsseldorf

Germany

O2 World – 18 October 2013

Hamburg

Germany

O2 World – 19 October 2013

Berlin

Germany

O2 Arena – 21 October 2013

London

UK

O2 Arena – 22 October 2013

London

UK

Hydro – 24 October 2013

Glasgow

UK

MCR Arena – 25 October 2013

Manchester

UK

O Musical dos Flaming Lips

Regular como o Vitor Gaspar a anunciar más notícias, os Flaming Lips publicam um / dois trabalhos por ano. Desta feita é a banda sonora do musical (!) que a banda criou, "yoshimi battles the pink robots", a partir do (excelente!) álbum de 2002 do mesmo nome. Pena o musical estar em exibição em La Jolla, California... (será algum festival da cerveja?).

Enfim aqui fica um bom endereço para apreciar a obra:

http://rapidgator.net/file/60797960/OneMore.rar.html

Feeling Yourself Disintegrate Freak Out Film

Sex Covers: Wishbone Ash - There's the Rub

Sex is one of the main drivers of the world (some say "THE" main driver), and has been very frequently associated with rock music. This could be the subject of an entire book given the numerous examples we can easily find. The image of rock is the "macho" image usually associated with Rolling Stones and the likes.

The cover of the albums (in a time when they were meant to be seen) reflected frequently hot topics, centered on the woman body. But man has also been presented in some covers, usually exploring the penis as a symbol. This 1974 Wishbone Ash (a rock / hard rock band from the seventies) album that I bought recently is a particularly good one, that could go along with the Stones' "Sticky Fingers". The cover is by the famous Hignosis firm.

The best of 2012: Paul Buchanan

We start today a review of some of the works that have pushed the envelope in 2012. No special criteria, no attempt to make definitive choices, it's basically sharing some of the music that caught our attention.

Paul Buchanan is better know as Mr. Blue Nile; after four albums and eight years of silence, Paul returned this year as if nothing happened; even more, as if Blue Nile was him and him alone. The spirit is here, but reduced to the essence. Songs of loneliness that scarcely arise from silence. Voice, piano, occasional synth and a faraway orchestra.

This is not for everyone, as Blue Nile wasn't. But for those who is, is a lot

Buraka Som Sistema in a box

The BSS are a portuguese glory, one of today freshests sounds. Full stop.

They are very, very good and luckily they have been getting the recognition they deserve, indoors and outdoors. Their last "komba" it's a prodigy of rythm and  invention.

Now they come out in a box, ready to use... Their previous work, new versions, remixes and unreleased tracks. A feast for the senses.

O Canto das Gatinhas IV: Sonja Kristina

Já algum tempo que não havia O Canto das Gatinhas, a nossa secção de apreciação do Belo Sexo aqui no Perú. Pois bem, há que manter as boas tradições. E para que não nos acusem de andar a promover alguma lambisgóia mal acabada, desta vez é uma verdadeira senhora, que ainda este ano passou pelo Gouveia Art Rock - nada menos que Sonja Kristina, dos Curved Air.

Sonja é da respetável colheita de 49 e deve o seu nome pouco inglês à mãe sueca. A sua fama veio de se ter juntado à banda Curved Air em 1970, permanecendo sempre como vocalista ao longo dos 9 álbuns da banda.

Como curiosidade, o seu segundo marido foi Stewart Copeland, baterista dos Police. Divorciaram-se em 1991.

De uma beleza indisfarçável,  numa altura em que a imagem não era o principal argumento para vender a musica, muito ajudou a afirmar os Curved Air. Mas foi a sua voz que os ajudou a permanecer até hoje como uma banda de culto do progressivo inglês.

Sem mais delongas, Sonja Kristina:

Peru = Turkey

O Peru está a fazer um shift para o inglês... Não é total, mas o número de visitantes do blogue que vem de países não lusófonos (Estados Unidos, Alemanha, Japão, Reino Unido...) leva-nos a pensar que pode haver uma oportunidade de nos fazermos entender de forma mais global.... 

Esperamos que os fãs peruanos não emigrem e continuem connosco!

Great Gigs in the Cloud: Episode 1

After so many full concerts shared here on "Perulandia", I've decided to start a new line of posts that shall be called from now on Great Gigs in the Cloud and what better way to start than with a music video that reminds us somehow the proposed title. Would you agree?

Although it would take them after this film two years before they would publish an album with a music that had a title that resembled in any way the title of these new line of posts (despite this video being an edited release in 1974 with studio recordings of Dark Side of The Moon), I thought of it as a good excuse to publish another Floyd act!

Anyway it was this particular video that triggered the idea of starting this new wave of posts, so although historically the suggestion isn't quite precise, the intention is good.

Great Gigs in the Cloud: Episode 1 - Pink Floyd - Live at Pompeii - Directors Cut

Remastered 2003 Director's Cut version

Pink Floyd - Live at Pompeii - Directors Cut
Live at Pompeii was originally released in September 1972, an edited release in 1974 with studio recordings of Dark Side of the Moon.
Rereleased in 2003 as The Director's Cut with additional footage and Nasa space shots.


2003 Director's cut (wiki)
1. "Echoes, Part 1"/"On the Run" (Studio Footage) (Uncredited) (from Meddle/The Dark Side of the Moon, 1971/1973)
2. "Careful with That Axe, Eugene" (B-side of "Point Me at the Sky" single, 1968)
3. "A Saucerful of Secrets" (from A Saucerful of Secrets, 1968)
4. "Us and Them" (Studio Footage) (from The Dark Side of the Moon, 1973)
5. "One of These Days I'm Going to Cut You into Little Pieces" (from Meddle, 1971; also known as "One of These Days")
6. "Mademoiselle Nobs" (from Meddle, 1971; previously known as "Seamus")
7. "Brain Damage" (Studio Footage) (from The Dark Side of the Moon, 1973)
8. "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun" (from A Saucerful of Secrets, 1968) 9. "Echoes, Part 2" (from Meddle, 1971)

91 mins total

Directed by :Adrian Maben
Produced by : Steve O'Rourke
Michele Arnaud
Reiner Moritz
Starring: Pink Floyd
Music by : Pink Floyd
Cinematography :
Willy Kurant
Gabor Pogany
Editing:Jose Pinheiro
Distributed by: Universal Home Video

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Fã: The Unthanks - Diversions Vol.3

As Unthanks são um duo do caraças. Belíssimas harmonias vocais destas duas manas e uma repescagem de temas do cancioneiro folk, rock e tradicionais intocável. Entre elas uma versão muito honorável de Starless, dos King Crimson.

As suas Diversions vão no Volume 3 (Songs from the Shipyards), o primeiro tema é do volume anterior e o segundo é do disco dedicado a Robert Wyatt e Antony & The Johnsons e se não sentirem nenhuma afinidade com esta música procurem um cardiologista, porque o vosso músculo vital está morto.

Genesis: Live 1973

Never ceases to amaze me!

Why wasn't there any high definition digital recording technology in those days? What a shame that most of these old 70's gigs where so poorly recorded. 

There were some exceptions such as Led Zeppelin's "The song remains the same" film that was originally  shot on 35mm with a 24-track quadraphonic sound recording, at a cost of $85,000 to shoot the live footage in the US alone. The band's manager, Peter Grant, called it "the most expensive home movie ever made", and today we all thank the band for that "management" decision! Kudos for the band's investment.

But most of them didn't had the public nor the funds that would justify such an investment.

Either way it's all about the music and the show itself and boy did PG's Genesis era know how to put one.

Nowadays newer generations don't get that much impressed with the characterization used at the time neither with the production level of these shows. I understand, I really do... 

But you need to put things in context and a instead of being more excited with the high technicolor production level of today's standard, really listen to the music and pay attention to the story telling. 

Absolute bliss if you ask me. Just my 2¢

Genesis: Live 1973 - First time in HD with Enhanced Soundtrack

Genesis: Live 1973 - Original Film with Original Soundtrack

The WHO live at the Isle of Wight 1970

oh not again... 

Here he comes once more with another "The Who" post, you might all say!

The truth is that I just couldn't go by yet another great finding on youtube and keep it just for myself.

I'll leave you with The Who's full concert video that was held in August of 1970 on the isle of Wright, in England.

Where they plugged directly to High voltage power line or what? Completely contagious vibe...

Jeez Pete, did you need to be that theatrical? Just kidding...

"The Isle of Wight Festival is a music festival which takes place every year on the Isle of Wight in England. It was originally held from 1968 to 1970. These original events were promoted and organised by the Foulk brothers (Ron, Ray and Bill Foulk) under the banner of their company Fiery Creations Limited. The venues were Ford Farm (near Godshill), Wootton and Afton Down (near Freshwater) respectively. The 1969 event was notable for the appearance of Bob Dylan and the Band. This was Dylan's first paid performance since his motor cycle accident some three years earlier, and was held at a time when many still wondered if he would ever perform again. Followers from across the world trecked to the Isle of Wight for what seemed like a 'second coming'. Estimates of 150,000--250,000 attended. The 1969 festival opened on Friday 29 August—eleven days after the close of Woodstock. Dylan was living in Woodstock, New York, at the time and it was widely believed that he would perform there, after the event had been "put in his own backyard". As it happened, Dylan left for the Isle of Wight on 15 August—the day the Woodstock festival began.

The 1970 event was by far the largest and most famous of these early festivals; indeed it was said at the time to be one of the largest human gatherings in the world, with estimates of over 600,000, surpassing the attendance at Woodstock. Included in the line-up of over fifty performers were The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis, The Doors, Ten Years After, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Joni Mitchell, The Moody Blues, Melanie, Donovan, Free, Chicago, Richie Havens, John Sebastian, Leonard Cohen, Jethro Tull, Taste and Tiny Tim. The unexpectedly high attendance levels led, in 1971, to Parliament passing the "Isle of Wight Act" preventing gatherings of more than 5,000 people on the island without a special licence.

The 1970 festival was filmed by a 35mm film crew under the direction of future Academy Award-winning director Murray Lerner who at that point had just directed the Academy Award-nominated documentary Festival of the Newport Folk Festival. The footage passed to Lerner in settlement of legal fees after a dispute with the Foulk brothers in which the two sides claimed against each for breach of contract. Lerner distilled material from the festival into the film A Message to Love: The Isle of Wight Rock Festival released theatrically in 1996 and subsequently on DVD. In addition to this film, Lerner has created full-length films focused on performances by individual artists at the 1970 festival. To date there have been individual films of The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, The Moody Blues, Free, Leonard Cohen and Jethro Tull.

The event was revived in 2002 at Seaclose Park, a recreation ground on the outskirts of Newport. It has been held annually since that year, progressively extending itself northwards beyond Seaclose Park along the fields of the eastern Medina valley. Many notable artists have performed since its revival including The Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney, Muse, Stereophonics, Donovan, Ray Davies, Robert Plant, David Bowie, Manic Street Preachers, The Who, R.E.M., Coldplay, The Proclaimers, Bryan Adams and The Police. It was sponsored by Nokia from 2004 to 2006. The promoters of the event now are Solo Music Agency and promotions. Apart from being held on the Isle of Wight, and featuring the now customary artwork of Dave Roe, there is no connection with the festivals of 1968--1970."

From Wikipedia, the free ecyclopedia.

Rodrigo Leão hoje à noite no Coliseu

Antecipação do concerto desta noite, com este belíssimo tema com Neil hanon, dos Divine Comedy (álbum "A Mãe")

George Benson e Carlos Santana: Breezin'

Quando se aliam o prazer de tocar e uma grande sensibilidade musical, o resultado é este...

Diego Figueiredo: Take Five

Diego Figueiredo é um guitarrista brasileiro que acompanho com particular atenção. Ouçam esta versão do standard Take Five e percebam porquê.

Birdman

McDonald and Giles, as to be one of the greatest hidden gems of the 70's.

Sometimes I wonder how Fripp's project, aka KC, would've turned out should Ian McDonald & Micheal Giles stayed on the band.
More life celebrating?



Anyway, tonight I'll leave you with a theme that I enjoy especially when played in the wee hours...

Brief History & Album Review by Nigel Camilleri

McDonald and Giles - An Analysis by Andrew Keeling 

Birdman's return to the Earth

Angústias de Natal e o novo Sufjan Stevens

Cada vez mais angustiado, o Peru vê chegar o Natal com preocupação.Não se augura nada de bom no seu futuro...

Para já, a única coisa que o anima é que já saiu a nova obra de Sufjan Stevens, um dos preferidos aqui dos Peruanos. Trata-se de uma compilação de 5 EPs com temas de Natal recriados / compostos por SS, entre 2006 e 2010 e chama-se Silver & Gold: Songs for Christmas, Vols. 6-10.

Vale a pena ouvir a criatividade infindável deste americano de Detroit e as harmonias delicadas e complexas destes temas.

Disponível em CD e Vinil (além dos raquíticos mp3, claro)

Pérolas do Passado: Kerry Minear, I´m Home Again

Para verdadeiros connoisseurs, esta faixa de Scrapping the Barrel, uma coletânea de demos e inéditos dos Gentle Giant, é uma verdadeira preciosidade. A voz inconfundível de Kerry Minear num tema próprio, mais doce que o habitual nos GG, a lembrar algumas passagens de Octopus.

Can You See the Real Me?

I stumbled accidentally on yet another fabulous BBC documentary that I felt obliged sharing with you all...

Instead of rewriting what as already been so well written, I'll just rep-post Andy Markowitz's post made on musicfilmweb and leave you with a great documentary of, IMHO, one of the greatest albums of all time!

Hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

Posted on July 2, 2012 by Andy Markowitz

Source: Musicfilmweb

Pete Townshend conceived the Who’s second rock opera with an eye to replacing Tommy as the band’s live centerpiece. Upon release in 1973 his allusive tale of a disaffected and unstable teenager adrift in mid-’60s Britain’s mod movement won critical plaudits and charted well (better than Tommy, in fact), but between its pre-digital synth ‘n’ loop complexities and drummer/lunatic Keith Moon’s increasing unreliability, Quadrophenia toured disastrously. Despite being musically and thematically richer and more layered than its predecessor (or perhaps because of it), the story of Jimmy the Mod never caught on like the deaf-dumb-and-blind pinball wizard. Only years later did songs like the pulsing “5:15″ and the symphonic “Love Reign O’er Me” return to the Who’s set list, and today Franc Roddam’s cult film version of Quadrophenia is probably more imprinted on the public imagination than the album that spawned it.

This BBC music documentary wisely avoids that after-story to focus on Quadrophenia the record, examining the drama of both its narrative and its production, which very nearly blew the Who apart. The tropes of the form are here – the enthusiastic talking head critics, the knob twiddling engineer breaking songs down into component parts – and sufficiently enlightening. What separates this from the usual run of making-the-record docs is the number and variety of secondary themes rockumentary veteran Matt O’Casey packs into its 70 minutes, among them an illuminating primer on fashion-obsessed mod, a detour into the London council estate where the Who built their studio, and a thorough exploration of the illustrated lyric book that accompanied the original release. The starkly beautiful photos by veteran rock shooter Ethan Russell (he of the Abbey Road and Who’s Next covers) clearly influenced Roddam’s film, and they give Can You See the Real Me? a cinematic quality unusual for such exercises, as O’Casey juxtaposes them with the record’s formative and evocative landscapes of Battersea and Brighton.

Underlying it all are the internal dynamics of the Who, that most combustible of bands – the constant push-pull between Townshend’s artistic ambitions/pretensions and his mates’ (and his own) street-fighter volatility. That comes through here in particularly sharp relief, perhaps because the canvas is relatively small. We see closely how those tensions informed a specific piece of work as Townshend, with his typical mix of acuity, self-absorption, insecurity, and wit, recounts a growing alienation from the band that mirrors his anti-hero Jimmy’s fall from mod. It’s mainly Pete’s story, but Roger Daltrey, who has aged into dinosaur rock’s most generous elder statesman, is the down to earth yin to his cohort’s sturm and drang and offers an affectionate but knowing counter to Townshend’s slagging of the long-gone Moon, who drifts through the proceedings like a cackling poltergeist. (Interviewer: “What was Keith like in 1973?” Daltrey: “Just a little bit drunker than we was in 1972.”) Just as Quadrophenia is not the place to start if you’re a Who novice, this is a documentary for aficionados – but if you’re one, it’s a thoroughly engrossing trip into the heart of a record that still feels under-appreciated

Full BBC Documentary

In his home studio and revisiting old haunts in Shepherds Bush and Battersea, Pete Townshend opens his heart and his personal archive to revisit 'the last great album the Who ever made', one that took the Who full circle back to their earliest days via the adventures of a pill-popping...

But in 1973 Quadrophenia was an album that almost never was. Beset by money problems, a studio in construction, heroin-taking managers, a lunatic drummer and a culture of heavy drinking, Townshend took on an album that nearly broke him and one that within a year the band had turned their back on and would ignore for nearly three decades.

With unseen archive and in-depth interviews from Townshend, Roger Daltrey, Keith Moon, John Entwistle and those in the studio and behind the lens who made the album and thirty page photo booklet.

Contributors include: Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey, Ethan Russell, Ron Nevison, Richard Barnes, Irish Jack Lyons, Bill Curbishley, John Woolf, Howie Edelson, Mark Kermode and Georgiana Steele Waller.

Piada do dia

Um destes dias juntaram-se num café o Keith Jarrett, o Herbie Hancock e o Chick Corea.

Vai o Corea e diz: " li ontem na revista Down Beat que eu sou o melhor pianista do mundo". 

Diz o Hancock: "Olha, Deus disse-me que eu é que sou o melhor pianista do mundo!"

Vem o Jarrett e diz: "O quê??? Não me lembro de alguma vez ter dito isso...!!!"

Hiatus Kaiyote: Nakamarra

Ambiente cool jazz, pleno deserto e carros abandonados: cenário para estes australianos de Melbourne a seguir. Recomendação de Renato C.

Nova Música: Steven Wilson: Grace for Drowning

Sempre prolifico, Steven Wilson divide as suas atividades pelos Porcupine Trees, a recente associaçao com Akkerfeldt dos Opeth, Storm Corrosion, e o trabalho a solo.

BjorK: Video para Mutual Core

Um novo vídeo de Bjork, para um tema de "Biophilia", "Mutual Core". À volta do tema Terra. Visualmente espantoso, como sempre.

Black Mountain: The Hair Song

Com muito feeling zeppeliniano, um bom tema do álbum 2010 dos Black Mountain (Wilderness Heart)

 

Revisitando os Clássicos III: Yes - And you and I

Um dos mais emocionantes temas dos YES, do "Close to the Edge" ilustrado com a arte onírica de Roger Dean, autor da quase totalidade das capas dos próprios. Sugestão do amigo Vitor S.

Elisa Rodrigues no 5 para a Meia Noite

Uma das revelações do Jazz Português deste ano (a outra é a Susana Cruz!), ontem no 5 para a meia noite, com Júlio Resende ao piano.

O tema Run é da pena da própria Elisa.

Revisitando os Clássicos II: David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust

Pois é. Um dia acordamos e descobrimos que os nossos amores têm 40 anos...

 É um choque, mas depois reparamos como estão bem conservados e até melhores do que nos lembramos deles...

Mais uma edição dos 40 anos, desta feita de 2012 (editado originalmente em 1972), este clássico de David Bowie é um disco seminal (como se dizia para aí há uns anos, daqueles que não só contribuiram decisavamente para a carreira do seu autor como ajudaram a definir o futuro da música pop rock.

Este é um album que aparece ciclicamente na lista dos melhores de todos os tempos, veja-se por exemplo esta enumeração da wikipedia: "In 1987, as part of their 20th anniversary, Rolling Stone magazine ranked it #6 on "The 100 Best Albums of the Last Twenty Years." In 1997, Ziggy Stardust was named the 20th greatest album of all time in a Music of the Millennium poll conducted in the United Kingdom by HMV Group, Channel 4, The Guardian and Classic FM. In 1998, Q magazine readers placed it at number 24 and Virgin All-time Top 1000 Albums ranked it at number 11, while in 2003 the TV network VH1 placed it at number 48. It was named the 35th best album ever made by Rolling Stone on their list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. In 2000 Q placed it at number 25 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever. In 2004 it was placed at number 81 in Pitchfork Media's Top 100 Albums of the 1970s. In his 1995 book, "The Alternative Music Almanac", Alan Cross placed the album in the #3 spot on the list of '10 Classic Alternative Albums'. In 2006, the album was chosen by TIME magazine as one of the 100 best albums of all time.[25]"

Os temas que mais se destacam: Ziggy Stardust, Five Years, Rock'n'Roll Suicide, Starman...

 Portanto, esta história de um extrarrestre que se torna um idolo rock é uma daquelas obras que não pode faltar na cdteca de qualquer amador de música. E esta edição do 40 anos é muito boa.

Aqui fica o álbum na íntegra: