My Top 2000 Songs #1040: The Width Of A Circle

"The Width Of A Circle," the lengthy opener for 1970's The Man Who Sold The World , is David Bowie at his proggiest. Sort of picking up on tracks like "Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed" and "Cygnet Committee" from the prior year's Space Oddity , it's a look at a direction he might have headed had he not pulled back on sprawling epics and moved in a more pop/glam direction (and then a million other directions, but that's another story).
As with most of Man, the song also has Bowie rocking harder...