Well for a sado like me multiple formats is a shoot in. I plumped for The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars. I reckined had on 14 formats / editions. Nor sensible.
I must confess my initial interest was from the Ziggy segment on Stage which I had on cassette one summer in particular I was living with my Grandparents. That and Space Oddity as it had become known.
So I suggested Hang On To Yourself, Five Years got the nod...happy with that.
Quite a good theme I think following the sad passing of Little Richard. There are so many amazing influential artists wherever do you start? Ray zcharles, Elvis, Beatles, Dylan, Bowie, The Clash....
Anyway i plumped for the first ever rock n roll single and if you are ever in memphis there’s a great display on the track and it’s originns in the rock n roll museum...
Very topical theme tonight on get It On. Probably something that has been on most peoples minds recently, troubled times indeed and I for one am worried at the apparent rush to relax the "rules" but that is not a debate for here.
So songs for troubled times....Bruce has ben writing consistently about "troubles" and making searing social commentary more than any other main stream artist, from My City of Ruins, How Can a poor man stand such times and live, we take care of our own, long walk home, hey blue eyes, 41 shots, devils and dust, rocky road....and that is just the start.
Watch the spike lee film on New Orleans and Katrina if you can, it is different but I see so many parallels where the poor, the elderly and infirm and the minority groups are being disproportionately affected by this crisis
However lets be positive and uplifting here is Bruce with a song of hope and redemption - rise up people we need it!
Bonus track make of it what you will
UPDATE
They changed the theme, it is now happy songs to make you sing along. Not to worry I stuck with the Boss:
I thought a good idea, one which I should have done before, would be to mirror suggestions I make to BBC Scotland Get In On show. If you don't know thw format is a theme every night Mon-Thursday. I have been contributing for years and this should give a good flavor of the kind of things I like I suppose.
First up is "songs which reference books". The obvious is the Bible but I am up with two of my all time favourite artists, Bruce Springsteen and David Bowie.
I am not sure if there is an official video for this track, I happen not to like the version with Tom Morello as I find his guitar really intrusive and the song is taken from a moody reflective piece to a bit of not very good stadium rock. In my opinion of course.
Bowie is, well 80's Bowie in this one but I love it:
