Bowie’s fourth full-length studio LP and one of my all-time favorites. This followed The Man Who Sold the World but all these early Bowie albums are so great they sound to me like they have just always existed.

It can be hard to find decent early pressings of these but there have been many great reissues, including this one from a digital remastering done in 2015. Bowie is joined here by Mick Ronson, Woody Woodmansey, Trevor Bolder, and Rick Wakeman on piano. Purportedly Wakeman was asked to join the Spiders From Mars but opted to goin join Yes instead.

My copy—via Record Exchange in Salem MA—is the Parlophone labeled 180g reissue from 2016 (or a later repressing of that reissue). I love these labels where BOWIE replaces the old RCA label.