It's interesting to think that it was so early in his career that Bowie put forth the song "Changes" that would in some ways come to be seen as his ‘theme song’.
The album sticks with this theme; 'changing' genres and 'changing' moods from song to song (and occasionally within songs). There's the brassy>mellow ballad>upbeat pop shifts of "Changes". The almost Beatles-esque (though slightly more posh sounding) 'kooks'. The bold, punky Velvet-Underground-meets-Blur jive of of "Queen B", the epic bombast reached in ‘Life on Mars’ and the subdued acoustic ‘Andy Warhol’, that could almost be heard to be planting the early seeds of what would become.
At this stage, Bowie was already a fountain of creativity, throwing out a range of ideas that can be heard as the inspiration for a large number of artists who have come since.
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