Álbum Hunky Dory de David Bowie - Canciones
Hunky Dory
1971 | 
Estilo(s) | Classic Rock,Glam
Sello | RCA Victor
La puntuación está basada en 13 votos.
Reseña
"Hunky Dory" apareció publicado el 17 de diciembre de 1971 por RCA Records y fue el primero con este sello tras haber abandonado Mercury. Contó con la producción de Ken Scott y del propio Bowie y fue aclamado por la crítica, estando considerado como uno de los mejores trabajos de David Bowie.
Con algunos ajustes (Trevor Bolder sustutuía a Tony Visconti como bajista) quedaba conformada la banda que acompañaría a Bowie en sus próximos trabajos y que sería denominada como Spiders From Mars. En la producción, el álbum llevaría la etiqueta "Producido por Ken Scott (asistido por el actor)", siendo "el actor" el propio Bowie, quien ya se postulaba también para la interpretación.
Los temas retomaban el estilo de "Space Oddity" e incluía un tema ligero, "Kooks", dedicado a su hijo Duncan Zowie Haywood Jones, nacido el 30 de mayo de 1971. Otros temas más serios que rendían tributo a sus influencias fueron "Song for Bob Dylan", "Andy Warhol" y "Queen Bitch", un homenaje a la Velvet Underground de Lou Reed.
Sin obtener un gran registro de ventas en su momento, sí consiguió una crítica aceptable, siendo valorado como un buen trabajo de David Bowie y considerado como un disco cautivador. La fama del álbum aumentó a raíz de la publicación del anticipo del siguiente álbum de Bowie, "Ziggy Stardust", que provocó una relectura de "Hunky Dory" que le aupó al tercer puesto en Reino Unido.
En 1998, una votación en la revista Q colocó a "Hunky Dory" en el puesto número 43 de la lista de los mejores álbumes de la historia de la música. En el año 2000, la misma publicación lo situó en el puesto dieciseis de los 100 mejores discos de la música británica. Por su parte, la revista Rolling Stone lo ubicó en el puesto 107 en su lista de los mejores 500 álbumes de la historia, una clasificación realizada en 2003.
Listado de canciones del álbum Hunky Dory
- ChangesVer letra 3:33
[X]letra de Changes
Oh yeah
Mm
Still don't know what I was waiting for
And my time was running wild
A million dead-end streets and
Every time I thought I'd got it made
It seemed the taste was not so sweet
So I turned myself to face me
But I've never caught a glimpse
Of how the others must see the faker
I'm much too fast to take that test
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
(turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-changes
Don't want to be a richer man
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
(turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-changes
Just gonna have to be a different man
Time may change me
But I can't trace time
I watch the ripples change their size
But never leave the stream
Of warm impermanence
So the days float through my eyes
But stil the days seem the same
And these children that you spit on
As they try to change their worlds
Are immune to your consultations
They're quite aware of what they're going through
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
(turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-changes
Don't tell them to grow up and out of it
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
(turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-changes
Wheres your shame
Youve left us up to our necks in it
Time may change me
But you can't trace time
Strange fascination, fascinating me
Ah changes are taking the pace I'm going through
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
(turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-changes
Oh, look out you rock n rollers
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
(turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-changes
Pretty soon now you're gonna get a little older
Time may change me
But I can't trace time
I said that time may change me
But I can't trace time - Oh! You Pretty Things 3:12
- Eight Line PoemVer letra 2:53
[X]letra de Eight Line Poem
The tactful cactus by your window
Surveys the prairie of your room
The mobile spins to it's collision
Clara puts her head between her paws
They've opened shops down West side
Will all the cacti find a home
But the key to the city
Is in the sun that pins
The branches to the sky - Life On Mars?Ver letra 3:48
[X]letra de Life On Mars?
It's a God awful small affair
To the girl with the mousey hair,
But her mummy is yelling, "No!"
And her daddy has told her to go,
But her friend is no where to be seen.
Now she walks through her sunken dream
To the seats with the clearest view
And she's hooked to the silver screen,
But the film is sadd'ning bore
For she's lived it ten times or more.
She could spit in the eyes of fools
As they ask her to focus on
Sailors fighting in the dance hall.
Oh man!
Look at those cavemen go.
It's the freakiest show.
Take a look at the lawman
Beating up the wrong guy.
Oh man! Wonder if he'll ever know
He's in the best selling show.
Is there life on Mars?
It's on America's tortured brow
That Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow.
Now the workers have struck for fame
'Cause Lennon's on sale again.
See the mice in their million hordes
From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads.
Rule Britannia is out of bounds
To my mother, my dog, and clowns,
But the film is a sadd'ning bore
'Cause I wrote it ten times or more.
It's about to be writ again
As I ask you to focus on
Sailors Fighting in the dance hall.
Oh man! Look at those cavemen go.
It's the freakiest show.
Take a look at the lawman
Beating up the wrong guy.
Oh man!
Wonder if he'll ever know
He's in the best selling show.
Is there life on Mars? - KooksVer letra 2:49
[X]letra de Kooks
[Chorus (x2)]
Will you stay in our Lovers' Story
If you stay you won't be sorry
'Cause we believe in you
Soon you'll grow so take a chance
With a couple of Kooks
Hung up on romancing
We bought a lot of things
To keep you warm and dry
And a funny old crib on which the paint won't dry
I bought you a pair of shoes
A trumpet you can blow
And a book of rules
On what to say to people
When they pick on you
'Cause if you stay with us you're gonna be pretty Kookie too
[Chorus:]
And if you ever have to go to school
Remember how they messed up
This old fool
Don't pick fights with the bullies
Or the cads
'Cause I'm not much cop at punching other people's Dads
And if the homework brings you down
Then we'll throw it on the fire
And take the car downtown
[Chorus (repeat ad inf.)] - Quicksand 5:03
- Fill Your HeartVer letra 3:07
[X]letra de Fill Your Heart
Fill your heart with love today
Don't play the game of time
Things that happened in the past
Only happened in your Mind
Only in your Mind-Forget your Mind
And you'll be free-yea'
The writing's on the wall
Free-yea'. And you can know it all
If you choose. Just remember
Lovers never lose
'Cause they are Free of thoughts unpure [sic]
And of thoughts unkind
Gentleness clears the soul
Love cleans the mind
And makes it Free.
Happiness is happening
The dragons have been bled
Gentleness is everywhere
Fear's just in your Head
Only in your Head
Fear is in your Head
Only in your Head
So Forget your Head
And you'll be free
The writing's on the wall
Free-yea'. And you can know it all
If you choose. Just remember
Lovers never lose
'Cause they are free of thoughts unpure
And of thoughts unkind
Gentleness clears the soul
Love cleans the mind
And makes it Free!!
Free-yea'. Yeah-yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah-yeah [repeat] - Andy WarholVer letra 3:53
[X]letra de Andy Warhol
Like to take a cement fix
Be a standing cinema
Dress my friends up
Just for show
See them as they really are
Put a peephole in my brain
Two New Pence to have a go
I'd like to be a gallery
Put you all inside my show
[Chorus:]
Andy Warhol looks a scream
Hang him on my wall
Andy Warhol, Silver Screen
Can't tell them apart at all
Andy walking, Andy tired
Andy take a little snooze
Tie him up when he's fast asleep
Send him on a pleasant cruise
When he wakes up on the sea
Be sure to think of me and you
He'll think about paint
And he'll think about glue
What a jolly boring thing to do
[Chorus:] - Song For Bob Dylan 4:12
- Queen Bitch 3:13
- The Bewlay Brothers 5:21
Con algunos ajustes (Trevor Bolder sustutuía a Tony Visconti como bajista) quedaba conformada la banda que acompañaría a Bowie en sus próximos trabajos y que sería denominada como Spiders From Mars. En la producción, el álbum llevaría la etiqueta "Producido por Ken Scott (asistido por el actor)", siendo "el actor" el propio Bowie, quien ya se postulaba también para la interpretación.
Los temas retomaban el estilo de "Space Oddity" e incluía un tema ligero, "Kooks", dedicado a su hijo Duncan Zowie Haywood Jones, nacido el 30 de mayo de 1971. Otros temas más serios que rendían tributo a sus influencias fueron "Song for Bob Dylan", "Andy Warhol" y "Queen Bitch", un homenaje a la Velvet Underground de Lou Reed.
Sin obtener un gran registro de ventas en su momento, sí consiguió una crítica aceptable, siendo valorado como un buen trabajo de David Bowie y considerado como un disco cautivador. La fama del álbum aumentó a raíz de la publicación del anticipo del siguiente álbum de Bowie, "Ziggy Stardust", que provocó una relectura de "Hunky Dory" que le aupó al tercer puesto en Reino Unido.
En 1998, una votación en la revista Q colocó a "Hunky Dory" en el puesto número 43 de la lista de los mejores álbumes de la historia de la música. En el año 2000, la misma publicación lo situó en el puesto dieciseis de los 100 mejores discos de la música británica. Por su parte, la revista Rolling Stone lo ubicó en el puesto 107 en su lista de los mejores 500 álbumes de la historia, una clasificación realizada en 2003.
[X]
Oh yeahletra de Changes
Mm
Still don't know what I was waiting for
And my time was running wild
A million dead-end streets and
Every time I thought I'd got it made
It seemed the taste was not so sweet
So I turned myself to face me
But I've never caught a glimpse
Of how the others must see the faker
I'm much too fast to take that test
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
(turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-changes
Don't want to be a richer man
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
(turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-changes
Just gonna have to be a different man
Time may change me
But I can't trace time
I watch the ripples change their size
But never leave the stream
Of warm impermanence
So the days float through my eyes
But stil the days seem the same
And these children that you spit on
As they try to change their worlds
Are immune to your consultations
They're quite aware of what they're going through
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
(turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-changes
Don't tell them to grow up and out of it
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
(turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-changes
Wheres your shame
Youve left us up to our necks in it
Time may change me
But you can't trace time
Strange fascination, fascinating me
Ah changes are taking the pace I'm going through
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
(turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-changes
Oh, look out you rock n rollers
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
(turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-changes
Pretty soon now you're gonna get a little older
Time may change me
But I can't trace time
I said that time may change me
But I can't trace time
[X]
The tactful cactus by your windowletra de Eight Line Poem
Surveys the prairie of your room
The mobile spins to it's collision
Clara puts her head between her paws
They've opened shops down West side
Will all the cacti find a home
But the key to the city
Is in the sun that pins
The branches to the sky
[X]
It's a God awful small affairletra de Life On Mars?
To the girl with the mousey hair,
But her mummy is yelling, "No!"
And her daddy has told her to go,
But her friend is no where to be seen.
Now she walks through her sunken dream
To the seats with the clearest view
And she's hooked to the silver screen,
But the film is sadd'ning bore
For she's lived it ten times or more.
She could spit in the eyes of fools
As they ask her to focus on
Sailors fighting in the dance hall.
Oh man!
Look at those cavemen go.
It's the freakiest show.
Take a look at the lawman
Beating up the wrong guy.
Oh man! Wonder if he'll ever know
He's in the best selling show.
Is there life on Mars?
It's on America's tortured brow
That Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow.
Now the workers have struck for fame
'Cause Lennon's on sale again.
See the mice in their million hordes
From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads.
Rule Britannia is out of bounds
To my mother, my dog, and clowns,
But the film is a sadd'ning bore
'Cause I wrote it ten times or more.
It's about to be writ again
As I ask you to focus on
Sailors Fighting in the dance hall.
Oh man! Look at those cavemen go.
It's the freakiest show.
Take a look at the lawman
Beating up the wrong guy.
Oh man!
Wonder if he'll ever know
He's in the best selling show.
Is there life on Mars?
[X]
[Chorus (x2)]letra de Kooks
Will you stay in our Lovers' Story
If you stay you won't be sorry
'Cause we believe in you
Soon you'll grow so take a chance
With a couple of Kooks
Hung up on romancing
We bought a lot of things
To keep you warm and dry
And a funny old crib on which the paint won't dry
I bought you a pair of shoes
A trumpet you can blow
And a book of rules
On what to say to people
When they pick on you
'Cause if you stay with us you're gonna be pretty Kookie too
[Chorus:]
And if you ever have to go to school
Remember how they messed up
This old fool
Don't pick fights with the bullies
Or the cads
'Cause I'm not much cop at punching other people's Dads
And if the homework brings you down
Then we'll throw it on the fire
And take the car downtown
[Chorus (repeat ad inf.)]
[X]
Fill your heart with love todayletra de Fill Your Heart
Don't play the game of time
Things that happened in the past
Only happened in your Mind
Only in your Mind-Forget your Mind
And you'll be free-yea'
The writing's on the wall
Free-yea'. And you can know it all
If you choose. Just remember
Lovers never lose
'Cause they are Free of thoughts unpure [sic]
And of thoughts unkind
Gentleness clears the soul
Love cleans the mind
And makes it Free.
Happiness is happening
The dragons have been bled
Gentleness is everywhere
Fear's just in your Head
Only in your Head
Fear is in your Head
Only in your Head
So Forget your Head
And you'll be free
The writing's on the wall
Free-yea'. And you can know it all
If you choose. Just remember
Lovers never lose
'Cause they are free of thoughts unpure
And of thoughts unkind
Gentleness clears the soul
Love cleans the mind
And makes it Free!!
Free-yea'. Yeah-yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah-yeah [repeat]
[X]
Like to take a cement fixletra de Andy Warhol
Be a standing cinema
Dress my friends up
Just for show
See them as they really are
Put a peephole in my brain
Two New Pence to have a go
I'd like to be a gallery
Put you all inside my show
[Chorus:]
Andy Warhol looks a scream
Hang him on my wall
Andy Warhol, Silver Screen
Can't tell them apart at all
Andy walking, Andy tired
Andy take a little snooze
Tie him up when he's fast asleep
Send him on a pleasant cruise
When he wakes up on the sea
Be sure to think of me and you
He'll think about paint
And he'll think about glue
What a jolly boring thing to do
[Chorus:]
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