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068: David Bowie - Station to Station (1976)

Discord and Rhyme: An Album Podcast

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Is This One Hit That's Not Going to End Up in the Biopic?

Nothing from this album Really would have had a chance To have the same kind of ubiquity Just because of the place that it came from. The catchy guitar riff on golden years was invented Either by guitarist Carlos Alamar or Earl Slick They both claimed to have written it And when presented with the controversy Bowie split the difference and didn't credit either of them For the songwriting That's some brilliant King Solomon shit right there With all respect to the spiders from Mars I love Alamar Yeah He was the unsung hero Of just so much of Bowie's music during this time Unsung uncredited unpaid they could be twisty and slinky And they were always danceable.

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