fc<p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/FortnightFridayMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FortnightFridayMusic</span></a><br>Mar 21 2025<br>The prompt is Utopia
</p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/DavidBowie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DavidBowie</span></a>, “Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed” <br>from Bowie’s second album issued as “David Bowie” in the UK, “Man of Words/Man of Music David Bowie” in the States, 1969</p><p>(The single “Space Oddity” wasn’t an instant hit but in 1972 it followed Ziggy Stardust back to radio, prompting the album's rerelease as “Space Oddity.”)</p><p>Lyric:<br>I'm the cream<br>Of the great Utopia dream<br>And you're the gleam<br>In the depths of your banker's spleen</p><p>Bowie's “Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed” seems to critique society's class structure, via a lot of hippy-dippy weirdness - but the ringing 12-string is lovely, the chord progression sets the drama building, and there’s a freedom to the vocals from this fresh-faced flouncy-haired lad, so endearing though so soon supplanted with the switch of the eponymous album’s cover headshot to the coiffed and glittered spaceman of <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/SpaceOddity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceOddity</span></a>'s cover.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHvsgzFcvDs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=EHvsgzFcvD</span><span class="invisible">s</span></a></p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Folk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Folk</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Psychedelic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Psychedelic</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/60s" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>60s</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/70s" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>70s</span></a></p>