10 Classic Albums With Glaring Errors

10. Hunky Dory - David Bowie

Hunky Dory is an album that marks a certain transitionary period in David Bowie’s discography. Though albums like the Man Who Sold the World and Space Oddity were looked at as genuinely strange takes on rock and roll, this was the album that showed Bowie coming into his own as a songwriter with beautiful ballads and songs that foreshadowed the glam rock movement.

The songs do still hold up, but the actual quality of the sound is much dirtier than people probably remember.

When talking about glam rock music, most of the sounds people think of seem to have just the right amount of crunch with a healthy sonic sheen over everything...but Bowie was not running with the rest of the crowd. Across songs like “Queen B*tch” or “Quicksand,” the whole album feels like a romp that could be taking place somewhere between a lush recording studio or a dumpy dive bar.

Even on songs like “Andy Warhol,” Bowie has a few experimental moments where he is just messing around the studio before the song starts. Hunky Dory may have its more blemished moments, but this was one of the greatest musical minds in rock just getting his momentum going.