Well after yesterday's big heavy romantic symphony today's choice is going to be something more than a little different. David Bowie released the album Man Who Sold the World in 1971 but given that I would only have been about 12 at the time I'm sure that it must have been quite a lot later that I heard this track. I know one of my brothers had the album and at one point played it incessantly.
While I was certainly attracted to Bowie's androgynous look it was very much the music that appealed to me, in particular the keyboard work of Rick Wakeman captured me. I have never been a great follower of "Pop Music" and songs have always been problematical for me as I so often struggle to understand the lyrics, something about the bleakness of the message behind this song, appealed to me at the time, and has stuck with me ever since.
Certainly it also brings back memories of a certain time in my life, when I was hitting puberty and feeling very confused about the whole thing. However hard I tried I couldn't work out who and what I was, or how I was going to fit into the world. I can't remember ever making a decision but somehow I came to the conclusion that I would have to fit in with "All the Mad Men" and play their game and pretend the best I could.
While I was certainly attracted to Bowie's androgynous look it was very much the music that appealed to me, in particular the keyboard work of Rick Wakeman captured me. I have never been a great follower of "Pop Music" and songs have always been problematical for me as I so often struggle to understand the lyrics, something about the bleakness of the message behind this song, appealed to me at the time, and has stuck with me ever since.
Certainly it also brings back memories of a certain time in my life, when I was hitting puberty and feeling very confused about the whole thing. However hard I tried I couldn't work out who and what I was, or how I was going to fit into the world. I can't remember ever making a decision but somehow I came to the conclusion that I would have to fit in with "All the Mad Men" and play their game and pretend the best I could.
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