Hunky Dory

And I therefore had carte blanche to go through them.

And in that box was Loaded by the Velvet Underground, Hunky Dory by David Bowie, Disraeli Gears.

Is that the name of that album? Disraeli Gears? Yeah.

You know, and Garland Jeffries.

Yeah, yeah.

Jumping on with Let's Dance and then suddenly you get to go through every iteration of, you know, Hunky Dory to Ziggy Stardust to Young Americans.

Yeah, mind-blowing, mind-blowing.

Yeah.

Halfway, here we go.

Hunky Dory, Let's Dance.

David Bowie.

Galvin.

The distant echo of faraway voices bought in faraway trains To take them home to the ones that they love and who love them forever The cries that he sniffs repeat my own and reflect my thoughts Uninviting Partially naked But so far Toppy rappers And the smallest papers Mr. Jones got run down Headlines of death And sorrow They tell of tomorrow Mad men on the red page And I'm down in it Just listen to me Pull out the queen Smiling big island I put in the money And pull out a plum Behind me Whispers in the shadows Grump eyes and voices Hating waiting Hey boy they shout Have you got any money? And I say, I've only took money and a takeaway curry I'm on the way home to my wife She's been lining up the cutlery and now she's expecting me Polishing her glasses and pulling out the coke I'm down in the Tuesdays and I'm in the hay I first felt a fist And in a kick I could now smell their breath They smelled of pubs And wormwood scrubs And too many right wing meetings My life swam around me It took a look and drowned me And it's all in existence The smell of brown leather Evening idiom with the weather Feel my eyes, it smells of mouth and blood So my senses couldn't see, hear, speak any longer I'm down in a two-station window I said I was down in a two-station window Our souls are lying there on a boat Jesus says fight it by like the earth's not a head A British adversary having a white day A cheap holiday, I'll do it today I've lost about my life, I've thought about more I've decided to please, she'll think it's me I'm down in a true station of midnight The wine will be flat and the cabbage will know I'm down in a true station of midnight And that's just what I'm gonna do

massive massive paul weller fan i am and um that was taken from the album all my cons which is one of my favorites along with like the gift and sound effects and snap all great albums but um yeah paul weller to me he's a god and um hope you enjoyed that one on to the next

Talking about us, telling lies Well, that's no surprise Can you see them? See right through them They have a shield, nothing must be revealed It doesn't matter what they say In the jealous games people play Our lips are sealed Silence.

The heart is sorrowful When death and life are in the bow of the tongue Even in the laughter, the heart is sorrowful When death and life are in the bow of the tongue Rising hearts will receive commandments You say I will animate.

And we had a night in Bournemouth called Coco Shabeen, ran along with Slinky Brand.

And when I used to do drum and bass, I used to actually end up most night time when I played a set.

playing food for thought just just been something different than that for being such a great team and i suppose after that we've um got the who from from the album quadrophenia which is probably one of my one of my favorite films of all time especially musically wise and um it's just a great great great film with the likes of phil daniels and leslie ash toyah wilcox ray winstone they're all in there but it's just one of those things you know and one of those films i would say it's yes i just just brings back a lot of memories to me and it's just an amazing soundtrack and an amazing film

So I always remember Quadrophenia and the whole, I felt like I touched on this with John, our friend John Coomer last month in The Music and Memories.

More power to Mark Bolin.

And the final 1971 essential glam rock album on our list, David Bowie, Hunky Dory.

They are different kinds of Bowie fans.

You have the casual Bowie fans who just like the hits.

Like you said, Bowie had several amazing albums in the 70s.

This is the first album.

I think the most telling lyric is... that kind of defines it and makes Hunky Dory kind of an ironic title.

Quote, I'm living in a silent film portraying Himmler's sacred realm of dream reality.

Bowie later claimed living with Angie was like living with a blowtorch.

by 1971 then bowie was professionally unfulfilled stalked by fears of mental illness and embarking on the relationship equivalent of the hindenburg disaster the only solace must have been the way his music continued to evolve his third album hunky dory was well underway a mix of pop serious rock and callbacks to cabaret and musical it's the album that would give the world future classics like changes and life on mars it was also the album where bowie found his kooky esoteric voice nietzsche references pop art shout outs and all Trouble was, the general public still wasn't buying it.

When Hunky Dory dropped, it had beat a rave reviews and disappointing sales.

Bowie might have been finding his sound, but he still needed to find his audience.

It's at this point that he hit on a plan that would change British music forever.

In 1971, with Hunky Dory not yet released, Bowie found himself working on two ideas.

The first was to take his gigs to another level, away from being just some guys with instruments and into a full sensory experience.

More theatre.

So it wasn't a hit.

perhaps because it's so complex I wonder you know but I think it should have been you know and I actually I prefer the lyrics this time it slightly reminds me of reminded me of Kooks by David Bowie from Hunky Dory which is you know throw your homework on the fire let's go down you know And it's the same time signature, of course, as well.

But I think the words here are quite funny, you know, and I think there's some resonances, again, between the music and the words, you know, there's a sort of programmatic element, like the words fit the tune very nicely, and the way the tune is structured, which is clever.

I think the lyrics are sort of, I take it that they're about the sort of romantic cynicism, you know, of the English, right? um which ray seems to be satirizing here right so for the first time for me like the theme starts to make a little bit of sense um you know but um yeah i just think this is musically so strong this track i can imagine a kinks fan listening to this even at the time and thinking well this is crap this isn't classic kinks at all i think this is really great kinks this this track it's a good

Dent later claimed the house was undeniably haunted He reported doors slamming, rugs being piled up, and heavy chairs moving of their own accord.

The apex of Jimmy's occult integration occurred with the release of the band's fourth album in 1971.

Page insisted that the album have no title, no band name, and no text on the cover.

Instead, each band member chose a representative sigil.

Page's symbol, often referred to as Zozo, had been the subject of decades of speculation.

While some fans often linked it to Saturn or a stylized 666, researchers have traced its origins to the 1557 work Ars Magica Artificiae, by George Lamo Cardano, where it represents the planet Saturn in a grimoire of planetary sigils.

By placing this symbol on an album that sold over 37 million copies, conspiracists argue Page conducted a mass sigil ritual, binding the listeners to his esoteric intent.

The internal gatefold of Led Zeppelin IV, as it's otherwise known, features an illustration of the Hermit, the ninth card of the Major Arcana in the Tarot.