Yet MORE Andrew Oliver, amateur music critic extraordinaire

YET another ARMCHAIR COUCH POTATO music review

David Bowie Best Of DVD#1

The Late English Performer Extraordinaire

Each track rated on a seven point scale as:- (1) Truly great song: (2) Great song: (3) Good
song: (4) Technical merit pass: (5) Filler: (6) Terrible song: (7) Sehr langweilig: Together
with notes and cultural allusions, to better criticise great music and pan terrible music, in the
hope that the great artists of the future do, forevermore, keep up the good work
1. Oh, You Pretty Things
1972
Great Song.
David's deep projection to pretty things. Rejecting John Wayne sortof masculinities, David
wants to participate in being a pretty thing amongst the others. To express his deep love of
pretty things.
Oh you pretty things don't you know you're driving your mamas and poppas insane.
Listen to the passion.
Written in awe.
2. Queen Bitch

1972

Technical Merit Pass. Lyrics too jarring.

Starts with bankrupted jazzed up melodrama, covered up by ritziness.
The Queen Of Diamonds? No not, not, if the rules be Rickety Kate, but that game's got an
object
Beyond selfishness, beyond the survival instinct, beyond into, to drives and desires ...
3. Five Years

1972

Great song.
Billion year spree. Solar flare zone. The muon source singularity yellow dwarf star core region
enters an iron cycle. The gigantic flares begin. All agree, Five years, five years at most.
Achieve something before the end. Stop the right wingers stalling. Is the outcome fated,
inevitable, the iron source exploding when the big flare comes?
What of the lepton inverter companion, the moon? And the green cheese? Will the mice eat
it ????

4. Starman

1972

Great Song.
Starwatchman. Intergalactic sailorman, newbie officer, parking 50 light years out, the
collapsed galactic core timed automata in its rocky mantle, on the bridge, sends in the
longboats
Shore leave. Fear not, all stick together. Gambling at the end, drunk from the immorality of
trade, with his copper purse floating after in the air, his burial rites, the cross that says: A
sailor lies below.
To touch one, his mates might return and demolish the planet. That's the way life is.
5. John, I'm Only Dancing
1972
Good Song.
Gotta stall. Only romancing, gotta stall. Heard too many books gamblers won in games
known all across the universe. The book planet, where things get filtched, and too many
sailors won books in too many games Immune from destruction their master copies, stall
that, go for the other two ...
6. The Jean Genie
1972
Truly Great Song.
The genie in the bottle. Letting the secret out. Is it the truth? Hegelian illumination traps.
Multi level hegelian illumination traps. Brain singularity shell structures. For men, women,
clairvoyants, knight-clairvoyants, knight-astrologers, warlocks
What is truth anyway? Neutral monism? I think, therefore I am?
That clairvoyants see dimly, using their props, as far as the end of their own lives ...
Given David Bowie's conformance to sex stereotypes, his delight in letting it out
7. Space Oddity
1972
Truly Great Song.
Alludes to Catastrophe Theory. Rene Thom. A way of mapping functions a state vector to a
state vector so that discontinuous transitions can be modelled, corresponding to states of
probabilistic timed finite state automata.
Ground control to Major Thom. Sounds NASA, could be European Space Agency? What's
Mars like, then?
8. Drive-In Saturday
Good Song.

1973

Melancholic. Sadly telling the tale of drive in culture, the fun of yesteryear, ended by general
availability. The payment for silence the silence of so many 1945-1970.

9. Life On Mars?
1973
Technical Merit Pass. Think song too jarring.
Jazzed up anguish. Why won't they talk, talk to us? First contact, what's the hold up?
Is there life on Mars?
tortured brow?
Why oh why?
10.Ziggy Stardust
1973
Truly Great Song.
The stars like dust Dune
How to use iron source singularities and neutron stars and flip over a neutron star through a
very large lanthanide shadow force ring and crash another neutron star and the anti-neutron
star into a collapsed galactic core How to do it right To power intergalactic warp jumps
Star Trek ...
The immorality of intergalactic travel Steadily uses up captured planets stabilising the
neutron star arrays ...
When will the end of eternity come? First contact?
And why does every nearby galaxy buy planetary system cloaking devices, also using a
collapsed galactic core, with the dust and particles burnt off, rather than talk to us? Are we
such barbarians? Such barbarians as to have inspired Ringworld Engineers? To protect their
precious cable TV?
11.Rebel Rebel

1974

Good Song.
Teenage rebellion, a celebration. Celebrates also tomboys and sissys.
12.Young Americans

1974

Great Song.
Tribute paid to the young americans, those fated by the stars to win, should be must be
The young intended winner being setup as replacement intended major winner
13.Be My Wife

Bambi
1977

Great Song.
Sometimes you get so lonely. Sometimes you get nowhere.
Deep melancholia. The garish eye shadow. The tragicomic face. The pure horror. Broken

wires.
Terror Keep. The redundance of 90% of menfolk. Retrenchment theorist?
14.Heroes

1977

Good Song.
The policy of too many faithless Christians, to worship dead heroes This helps to create
wars
Of Arthur Mees' Thousand Heroes, Engineering Press 1933-34 And what the S.I.S. Right
thought of all that, Heroes Hero Worship And The Heroic In History, Thomas Carlyle, dripping
scorn
Seems David took Charter Orders, got a job eh?
15.Boys Keep Swinging
1979
Filler.
Seems to be flim flam, keeping the boys in the dark about the 1948 master plan
16.D.J.

1979

Truly Great Song.

Old J Berlin, 1925 Castle Gay John Buchan the credit-book establishment point
Joyless Street, meant to lose ...
Lost my job. I am a D.J., I am what I play.
Reciprocity? I'm not a rock star, look I've not been to Jodrell Bank, never in times late ever
ever looked at intergalactic cable T.V.! Look, war criminals breeding horses and dogs and
sinisters in the South of France Implementing value sets from TV shows I'm not a rock
star
The Eight Of Swords I've got a social reality too ...
17.Look Back In Anger

1979

Filler.
Look back in angst more like it.

Higher and higher bankrupt melodrama.

18.Ashes To Ashes
1980
Truly Great Song.
Got a message for the action man. Soldier ashes. Look, arranged payments that go value
conflict, the detriments to reputation continue, no obligation I never did anything.
Anyway, people are better off without major downpayment, recreational reading's better

19.Fashion
1980
Great Song.
Anguish at the crimes of fashion. Fashion victims amany. The bankrupt melodrama of fashion
competitions.
Pleasure in expression nevertheless.
20.Wild Is The Wind

1981

Good Song.
Trilling strings, Pan-like, the wild ones, the free, touched by the call, the call of the wild
Wild Thing
21.Let's Dance

1983

Truly Great Song.

Let's dance. The blues. Let's dance and make romance. The sound they're playing on the
radio
Music, the language of the emotions.
22.China Girl

1983

Good Song.
Puzzled wonderment. Must have been being told lies. Cygnus X-1. What perniciousness.
Smash the worker state!
23.Modern Love

1983

Great Song.
Don't believe in modern love. Too many left on the shelf. Best thing for them, retrospective
abortion ????
Strange kind of coexistence policy
Interlude to get to the church on time ...
Church's Thesis Physics. Can't unify the forces, can't be done. Church's Thesis Chemistry.
Duality of acid and base no end of variants. Church's Thesis Biology. Male/analog and
female/digital life forces, no end of side effect duality minor force variants ...
24.Cat People (Putting Out Fire)
1983
Filler.
Anguish at a society where no one cares. No one believes. Where there's no way to rid the
society of psychos.

25.Blue Jean

1984

Great Song.
Putting on the ritz. Bankrupt melodrama resented, remembered. What to do? Talk to
Blueprints. Talk to the right people, get the right answer.
26.Loving The Alien
Filler.
An interlude. Seemed unbelievable. The salt tax. Didn't believe the French Death Register
almost empty, full of food offense cascades, asked for payments going forced compassionate
detriment chill.
This song reeks of disbelief.
27.Dancing In The Street
1985
Good Song.
Not just guys and dolls A song of remembrance. Remembering a war crime.
From the tone of voice, something that needs vengeance ...
Paris the middle of May 1945. The US Army go berserk. Mass rape of Frenchwomen.