With cutting edge songs that hold up thirty years later, David Bowie’s
Aladdin Sane album is a seminal moment in the artist’s career, as well as rock history. It’s Bowie at the pinnacle of his glam rock phase, utilizing a variety of pop structures from doo-wop to jazz to blues and rock and roll and a sleek sexy sound (courtesy of his great back-up band) to come up with disc that would influence his fellow rockers for decades. Here, we’ve got the glam rock world at the height of wild partying ("
Watch That Man" "
Drive-In Saturday"), trashy self-indulgence ("
Cracked Actor," "
Time") and rose-scented romance ("Lady Grinning Soul,").
David Bowie did for glitzy art rock what no artist has done before or since.
