Sound Thinking - Episode 7 (Post-Punk)

This radio series, that originally aired on Flirt.FM a licensed student radio station for NUIG, takes one particular type of music, subculture, sub-genre, or moment in time each week and examines it in detail. Listening to some of the best or underrated music of that time and looking at the history behind it.

Episode 7 was post-punk and I am I joined by Ryan O’Gara and we discuss some of the best music of the era as well as some hidden gems.

Listen: Here (Originally aired 25/01/21)

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David Bowie (1969)

The Bowie Project #2 - David Bowie aka Space Oddity aka Man of Words/Man of Music (1969) Click here to listen to an audio version of this review on Spotify Many call this the first true David Bowie album. After the commercial failure of his first record two years earlier (also called David Bowie ), the future Ziggy Stardust sought to reinvent himself and shed his jaunty music hall vaudeville past, and what better way to erase everyone’s memory of the first album than by giving the next one the exact same name? The origins of this album begin with the promotional movie Love You till Tuesday which Kenneth Pitt, Bowie’s new manager, hoped would showcase his talents and introduce him to a larger audience. The film ended up being shelved and was not released until 1984 when it finally appeared on VHS. The half-hour promo was originally planned to include seven previously released Bowie songs and one mime performance, but before shooting began Bowie wrote a new song for the fi...

David Bowie (1967)

The Bowie Project #1 – David Bowie (1967) Click here to listen to an audio version of this review on Spotify The David Bowie we find on his 1967 debut album is not quite the Bowie so many would later come to know and love. The pieces are there, the ambition, the creativity, the lyricism but it never quite manages to come together as a cohesive whole. There’s a strange mix of genres on display here, ranging from baroque to music hall to psychedelic rock with Bowie himself stating that the album “seemed to have its roots all over the place, in rock and vaudeville and music hall. I didn't know if I was Max Miller or Elvis Presley ". But in a way, that’s part of its charm. Bowie is finding his feet and personally I find that rather enjoyable. It’s nice to know that his artistic vision didn’t arrive fully formed, that there was a couple of false starts before the real good stuff, that even if we’re not fully satisfied with the things we create, we can go back to the drawing ...

Hunky Dory (1971)

The Bowie Project #4 - Hunky Dory (1971) Click here to listen to an audio version of this review on Spotify David Bowie’s fourth studio release is commonly referred to as the album where “Bowie starts to become Bowie”, while his previous efforts laid the foundations for all that would come after and explored themes which he would return to again and again, this is the record where he truly finds his distinctive style and sound. This release sees Bowie move away from the hard rock sound of his previous album The Man Who Sold the World and into a more pop rock piano-based style. The themes explored reflect many of the same things Bowie had been writing about previously, such as occultism and Nietzschean philosophy, but it also explore his newfound fascination with America and American culture. This was a resulted of touring the U.S. the previous year which inspired him to write songs dedicated to three American icons: Andy Warhol , Bob Dylan , and Lou Reed . At this point B...

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