Week 55 | Serious Moonlight EP (2006?)
This one is a little bit of a mystery. There is Bowie EP called, “Serious Moonlight,” which is a phrase that appears in the song, “Let’s Dance,” which is not actually one of the songs on the EP. As a…
Week 54 | Sound and Vision (1989)
What “Sound and Vision” is not is a greatest hits collection. Released at a time when box sets were proliferating (maybe they still are, but it seemed in the late 1980’s and early 90’s that many of the big acts…
Week 53 | SNL Saturday Night Live: the Musical Performances Volume 1 (1999)
This is less a Bowie album than it is a compilation album of performances from the musical acts on Saturday Night Live, including Bowie. He gets one song on the album, “Scary Monsters,” from (an obviously live performance) in 1997.…
Week 52 | Mick Ronson’s Slaughter on 10th Avenue (1974)
It wasn’t until recently that I learned that the instrumental title track of this album was originally composed for a ballet sequence in the 1936 Broadway Musical, “On Your Toes.” Far from being a glam-era rock song, it was…
Week 51 | Shearwater Plays Lodger (2016)
Somewhere in the ether of the internet is a transaction in which I purchased a download of the band Shearwater’s recording of the entire “Lodger” album. I am not, however, nor have I ever been in possession of the download. …