well from "stoneage romeos" in 1984, let's rewind a dozen years or so.
and going back to my blog posts of a coupla months ago, or thereabouts - i was in the process on compiling my list of favourite albums, which i do still intend to finalise & post here. and coincidentally, the abc tv here then ran a 'my favourite album' contest. i voted online for a coupla my candidates (one to be discussed next), and the results are to be made public in a few more weeks. but my own fave albums list here came before that poll of the abc! ;-D

anyhow, one album that's definitely in my top 3, and possibly first on my list, is the epic "the rise & fall of ziggy stardust & the spiders from mars" by david bowie. i'll talk more about my own reflections on this great rock & roll opus at another time. what i mainly want to draw your attention to today, is the post of yesterday (november 1st) on "the time being", the blog of steve kilbey of the church - see link to this blog on the right. kilbey reflects in detail about his own imrpessions of & reaction to "ziggy stardust", and then subsequent bowie albums & bowie more generally, including what might be termed the 'demise' of bowie as a creative entity from about 1980 and beyond. if one is to take kilbey's perspective on the latter, and i already had similar feelings myself, then it might be appropriate to take a line from the title track of "ziggy" - i.e., "he took it all too far, but boy could he play guitar!". although it must also be noted here that mick ronson was lead guitarist in "the spiders".

until next time, "freak out in a moonage daydream, oh yeah!" ... or alternatively, just focus on getting the mortgage balance down, & other such things ...

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