Re: David Bovvie - David Bovvie (1969)

by Nightjar Fri May 22, 2020 4:34 pm

Shades of Lellow Sumbarine.

by Nightjar Fri May 22, 2020 4:38 pm

It's quite fascinating how this kind of material presages so much his later stuff, but how at the same time it was stylistically more-or-less ditched permanently after 'Man'.

by Nightjar Fri May 22, 2020 4:39 pm

Plodding junga-junga guitars like off of Oddity.

by Nightjar Fri May 22, 2020 4:39 pm

Is that an harmonium?

by Nightjar Fri May 22, 2020 4:41 pm

David Bowie used a child's Rosedale Electric Chord Organ, obtained from Woolworths, on both LP and single versions of the song to give a "classic Ivor Cutler/harmonium feel"

by Nightjar Fri May 22, 2020 4:42 pm

Is this the first album where we all reviewed it at different times? hmm

by Nightjar Fri May 22, 2020 4:43 pm

I like the sing-a-long ending of this track.

Get your lighters out! happy

by Nightjar Fri May 22, 2020 4:44 pm

Hey Jude meets After the Goldrush.

by Nightjar Fri May 22, 2020 4:49 pm

Well, that that done and dusted.

If it'd been by someone else it'd probably be held in higher regard, but since it's D. Bovvie it falls under a more harsh, unforgiving light.

Still, compared to what came before it, it's a triumph of reinvention so, thus, deserved a fair degree of credit.

In many respects it's no worse than "The Man Who etc" and people bot that like mad (I think it's a bit overrated).

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David Bovvie - David Bovvie (1969)

And there's Nothing I can do