Bonus Song Thursday - David Bowie "Let's Dance"

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2016

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

It's Bonus Song Thursday! And that means Brian and Bill once again join forces to discuss a single song. This week, we follow up our conversation with Savannah Pope of SpaceCream (spacecreamband.com) about David Bowie's The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars by discussing a slightly less regarded section of his discography in the 80s, "Let's Dance." We talk about Nile Rodgers and Stevie Ray Vaughn's influence on the song as well as Bowie's career trajectory through the 80s. Additionally, we read some listener feedback that questions Bill's supposition that the Age of the Album started in 1964 and continued through till 2007, which leads Brian to metaphorically climb to the roof of the house and shout literal expletives.

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0:00.0	I'm a
0:02.0	AHA MINOWSKI-
0:05.0	A-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha
0:08.0	A-ha-ha-ha-ha. Let's dance. Let's dance. Let's dance.
0:21.6	Let's dance Put on your red shoes and dance the blues
0:48.3	Let's dance dance
0:51.3	To the song they're playing on the radio Hello, I'm Bill.
1:05.0	And I'm Brian.
1:05.7	And this is the great albums podcast, bonus song Thursday.
1:10.0	Welcome to it.
1:11.7	What were we just listening to right there, Brian?
1:13.6	Oh, man, that banger was Let's Dance.
1:17.5	Is that a red light banger?
1:18.7	No, that's just a banger of a tune right there.
1:21.3	That's Les Dance by David Bowie came out on April 14th, 1983.
1:28.6	Oh, so we're coming up on a 33rd anniversary.
1:36.2	Happy anniversary, happy birthday, let's dance.
1:40.7	So what we do here on the podcast every week is take a different great album of music and talk about what makes it great.
1:48.4	The other day, we were talking about David Bowie's Ziggy Star-Dard...
1:53.5	Or the rise and fall of Ziggy Stardust and the spiders from Mars.
1:59.0	Yep.
1:59.8	Because we don't have enough ands in there.
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