10 PERFECT Classic Rock Albums With No Bad Songs
8. The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie
After shaking off the vaudeville elements of his debut record, David Bowie found his true calling taking rock in a more eccentric direction. With his latest single "Space Oddity" rocketing up the charts, Bowie started to think about the possibility of draping an album under a different persona. In 1972, the world got a look at Bowie's alter ego Ziggy Stardust and fell in love.
Across this record, songs wash over your body that almost feel like you're being put into a trance like on the waltz-flavored opener "Five Years." However, that's just the start of the madness, as the rest of the record takes you from the backalleys of London to the ethereal cosmos, all while Ziggy commands his Spiders from Mars to deliver the most raucous glam rock to ever be seen this side of Marc Bolan.
Though glam is the main look of the record, the styles veer off from punk to blues to ballads to even a theatrical take on the entire genre with "Rock n Roll Suicide." By the time you hear Bowie's cries of "Gimme Your Hands," you'll be more than willing to follow him to the ends of the Earth and beyond. .