David Bowie | Space Oddity | The Man Who Sold the World | Hunky Dory
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars | Aladdin Sane | Pin Ups | Diamond Dogs | Young Americans
Station to Station | Low | "Heroes" | Lodger | Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) | Let's Dance | Tonight | Never Let Me Down
Tin Machine | Black Tie White Noise | The Buddha of Suburbia | Outside | Earthling | 'hours...' | The Next Day | ★
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- Covered Up: The late Ron Davies' work is pretty obscure, and the various cover versions of his songs, particularly Bowie's cover of "It Ain't Easy" on this album, are how he's best remembered.
- Epic Riff: Throughout the album, but "Hang on to Yourself", "Ziggy Stardust", "Starman", and "Suffragette City" stand out.
- Hilarious in Hindsight:
- Bowie mentions being a Space Invader in "Moonage Daydream".
- The sign on the cover reads "K. West." It was a real furrier, but just try not to thin of a certain rapper with that initial and name.
- Older Than They Think: The vast majority of tropes found within later UK-centric genres of Post-Punk and anything else take many elements from this album.
- Sacred Cow: It's one of the most acclaimed albums of all time and frequently considered the primary representative of David Bowie's work in popular culture and critical acclaim. Those who don't like the album will have to brace for the pitchforks.
- Tough Act to Follow:
- While nobody will say that Bowie failed to follow up on Ziggy Stardust, no album of his has ever received as much acclaim, recognition, and galvanization in pop culture as much as this one. Even after his death, Ziggy is usually the first thing that comes to mind when people hear the name "David Bowie".
- Ziggy Stardust is also considered a tough act to follow for the entire genre of Glam Rock, to the point where retrospective analysts consider it a Genre-Killer for simply being too good. The album has become synonymous with the genre, and was so successful and critically acclaimed upon its release that all later glam rock albums were measured directly against it; the movement did manage to carry on until the rise of Punk Rock in the second half of the 70s, but less because of an ability to one-up Ziggy Stardust and more because the amount of sonic diversity in the movement kept other acts from being too directly comparable to David Bowie.
