Can I put a vote in for a wonderful Bowie album before Ziggy,,,, 'The Man Who Sold The World'.
Classic songs from just before the wave broke....Bowie does metal. Ish. There's more adrenaline & raw sexuality in the first track than I can easily describe...+ 'Running Gun Blues, 'All The Madmen' - su-bloody-perb.
I'd go Space Oddity too, because it was the first and for the beautiful 'Wide Eyed Boy...' and 'Janine'. I remember having only enough scrimped-for pocket money for either Space Oddity or The Soft Parade (just released that week), standing in the record shop with both sleeves in my hand (that beautiful blue original SO sleeve, not the post-Ziggy reissue). Agh, what a dilemma. Of course, I had to buy The Doors, but it took some doing I can tell ya...