David Bowie - 1971 - Hunky Dory

This is my favorite David Bowie album, and I imagine for people around my age, I am not alone. For a lot of us Gen-Xers, Let's Dance (1983) was our first introduction to Bowie. He had come off of a hiatus (minus The Cat People single) of about three years, which for people in their early teens, is a generation, really. What brought this album firmly back into the conscious of music lovers was due, in large part, to the 1985 John Hughes film The Breakfast Club.  Though not featured in the film, the lead song, "Changes", was quoted in text at the beginning of the movie:

And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds are immune to your consultations. They're quite aware what they're going through.

 Glen and I were very close friends at ages 14 and 15 (and beyond, obviously), and one Saturday before we had our drivers licenses, my dad dropped us off at Maplewood Mall for a few hours while he ran errands. Glen and I probably plowed through our, what, 20 bucks? in like 2 hours. Chess King had lay away, thank heavens.  And we found ourselves with like an hour to spare and no money and went to the sad sack end of the mall- I wanna say Sears - and in one of those fake plant garden rest areas where nobody dwelled, we laid down on benches and rambled... eventually singing nearly the majority of this album from memory. That was how much of an impact it had on us.

Most, if not all of you, have no doubt heard it. If you haven't, lucky you. It is great.

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