I'm not quite sure, but this may even be better than Ziggy. It's certainly as good. Not one single bad track. Not one. Nada. And some amazing material here - "Drive in Saturday Night", "Lady Grinning Soul", "Panic in Detroit", title track, "Jean Genie" of course - a solid 5 without any question. Bowie hit his peak, in so far as I can see, with Hunky and just keeps going here, with no real slowdown till maybe Tonight or Never Let Me Down (I don't count Pin-Ups, as it's an album of covers).
One small niggle though (NO I said NIGGLE!) - given how much ultra-high quality material is here, I'm a little irked that he saw fit to stuff in a cover of the Stones' classic. I mean, he does it well, of course, but we could have had another original song. Not filler, not quite, but, well.... anyway it's only a very tiny complaint. Super solid album, deserves its rep.
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