Listening to Bowie

I'm sitting and waiting for Annie, music pumping — Those 1970s Bowie hits were aggressively danceable.

But that's starting in the middle. I grabbed David Bowie's Changesbowie — the double-length best of originally issued as two albums — and found myself singing like I was on stage, like I was Wayne and Garth and their buds in the car in Wayne's World.

It's easy, I think. to forget how great a songwriter and recording artist Bowie was (I'd say “is,” but I haven't been crazy about much of the little he's done in 20 years.

My only questions are is: Why “Fame '90 Remix” and not the far superior original? And what about “Panic in Detroit” or TVC15? Just wondering.

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Author: hankkalet

Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie. View all posts by hankkalet