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The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars has been voted the greatest, gayest album of all time by
This news has sent the BowieNet MBs into a bit of a tizzy, but
Elsewhere in the poll both Hunky Dory and Diamond Dogs make an appearance, not to mention Lou Reed's Bowie/Ronno produced Transformer.
Go here to see who's underneath DB. Meanwhile, the Bowie entry is a good read worth reproducing in full here...
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#1 ~ David Bowie, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars, 1972
It?s ironic that an album with an opener forecasting Earth?s expiration and a closer tackling celebrity excess and self-destruction remains one of the most liberating, uplifting records of all time -- about as ironic as a straight man topping this list. Robust, swaggering anthems ?Ziggy Stardust? and ?Suffragette City? prove this space odyssey is far from morbid or apocalyptic, yet it is on standouts like the languid, gender-flirting ?Lady Stardust? and brash come-on ?Moonage Daydream? -- in which the singer asks for a raygun to be placed to his head with almost masochistic sexual glee -- that Ziggy and his Spiders really shine.
When in the grand finale, ?Rock ?n? Roll Suicide,? Bowie wails ?Oh no love! You?re not alone!? over a sea of theatrical strings, you know he was singing for every exiled, dejected, sexually confused young kid who longed for a world of greater possibilities.
"At a time when social and sexual taboos were just starting to break down, Bowie as Ziggy created a world where the possibilities were limitless. You could be whatever you wanted to be.? -- Boy George
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Boy George had both Hunky Dory and Ziggy Stardust in his top ten, with Ziggy Stardust topping his list. Amy Ray also had Ziggy Stardust in her top ten, but I'll leave you with John Cameron Mitchell's comments regarding Hunky Dory which topped his list...
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"Whether Bowie was a fake bisexual or not, this is the best queer rock album of all time. Look at the cover photo! Listen to "Queen Bitch" with the drag queen screaming "I can do better than that!" -- John Cameron Mitchell
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