Reviews and Commentaries for Ziggy Stardust
Ziggy Stardust Is Yet Another Record We’re Obsessed With
Is this one of the greatest rock albums of all time?
Unquestionably. It’s the pinnacle of glam rock. Every track is superb; not a moment is less than stellar from beginning to end.
Is it Bowie’s masterpiece?
Absolutely. No other Bowie record ranks higher in my book.
Is it amazingly well recorded?
You better believe it. This is not just Bowie’s masterpiece; it’s Ken Scott‘s as well. For BIG, BOLD, wall to wall, floor to ceiling sound, look no further. The recording is swimming in rich, sweet TUBEY MAGIC. This is a sound we cannot get enough of here at Better Records.
The guitars may not sound “real,” they way they actually do in real life, but they sure sound grungy and good.
Notes from a Recent Shootout
Just drop the needle on any song. Guaranteed you will never hear that song sound better. The mastering is beyond perfection. There’s really no “mastering” to listen for — all you’re really aware of is the music flowing from the speakers, freed from all the limitations that you’ve learned to accept.
There’s no need to go track by track trying to explain why this copy is the Ultimate Ziggy. One drop of the needle will tell you everything you’ll ever need to know. All doubts will be erased within moments. We played this copy against our best other pressings and again and again, no matter what track we played, the sound here was superior.
The Tubey Magic Top Ten
You don’t need tube equipment to hear the prodigious amount of Tubey Magic that exists on this recording. For those of you who’ve experienced top quality analog pressings of Meddle or Dark Side of the Moon, or practically any jazz album on Contemporary, whether played through tubes or transistors, that’s the luscious sound of Tubey Magic, and it is all over Ziggy Stardust.
Big Production Tubey Magical British Rock & Roll just doesn’t get any better.
Ranked strictly in terms of Tubey Magic, I would have to put this album on our list of Most Tubey Magical Rock Recordings of All Time, right up there with, in no particular order:
- The Beatles / Sgt. Peppers (1967)
- Dire Straits / Self-Titled (1977, and clearly the outlier in this group)
- The Doors / Self-Titled (1967)
- The Eagles / Self-Titled (1972)
- Elton John / Tumbleweed Connection (1970)
- Pink Floyd / Dark Side of the Moon (1973)
- Cat Stevens / Tea for the Tillerman (1970)
- Ten Years After / A Space in Time (1970)
- The Who / Tommy (1969)
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