The Acidic Turtle

Something to thank a friend for…

My interest in David Bowie’s music comes solely from one of my friends and from no one else. Neither of my parents particularly liked him when they were younger so it’s not like I inherited a load of records from them; instead, the simple fact that one of my good friends considers him a god was enough for me to investigate. Thanks to him, I found someone who has, for the last year or so, been a consistent favourite of mine.

Of course, when you’re my age, earning just about enough to cover your ‘weekend expenses’ and little else, you certainly do not go out and buy a band’s whole discography from the nearest HMV. In reality, I’ve been getting a record every once in a while and it was only last weekend that I got myself a copy of ‘Aladdin Sane’. If you happen to have noticed my Last.fm stats for last week, you may have noticed that I really like it.

What I like just as much as the album itself is my reason for buying it. Just like being pushed towards Bowie’s music by the simple curiosity brought about by a friend, the only reason I wanted to hunt down the album was that it was featured quite regularly on ‘Control’, the film I watched a couple of weeks ago. These little coincidences and outside factors that result in me finding something new I love really excite me - for some stupid reason - and that’s the only reason I mentioned it. It just shows why it’s always good to buy something on a whim from time to time.