Just listened to the radio edit of Zeroes. It’s good! It is still dense, multilayered - clearly no easily dashed off remake - still evoking the 1960s pop references as detailed in this essay at Pushing Ahead of the Dame, but very different too. Oh if I were to quibble, some bits come in a split second late for my tastes, but all in all this preview single solidifies it: this will be an album to get. My ears are not what they once were but I think they managed to tamp down some of the excessive high end from Bowie’s vocals, too.
I think what they call the 7" version and the single version here are edits of the dance mix. The single version first appeared on the 2002 Best of Bowie compilation. Neither are authentic and that Australian promo is the only authentic edit (ie single version/edit) from the period and it has, as far as I am aware, never been re-released anywhere. Hence, I think it could/should have been included here somehow.
I haven't heard it yet (stuck at work), but a friend in the UK sent me an instant message comparing its sound to XTC....
The 2018 NLMD intrigues me.... and the tracklisting for Re:Call 4 is surprisingly good. But I can't really justify buying this. My RL of LD sounds awesome and cost me all of $5. (In fairness Side 2 is still unplayed.) Tonight and NLMD aren't in my collection for a reason, and I was only able to watch 30 minutes of the Glass Spider show on VH1 years ago before turning it off. (The audio minus visuals might be an improvement tho.)
I’ve been a Bowie fan for 20+ years. I always thought he sang some of the lead vocals on “Chilly Down,” just with a variety of vocal effects. Gentlemen, I’ve been living a lie. Thank you for pointing me to the truth.
I think Cracked Actor is as close as we're gonna get with a 'soul tour' document. After all, the tour wasn't officially called the 'soul tour,' was essentially just the next leg of the Diamond Dogs tour and Bowie unexpectedly changed the set to include just a handful of soul-tinged tunes so I doubt there's any official professional live recordings ever made from that short of a period. My dad's buddy has a funny story about the soul tour though. He loved the hard-rocking Bowie of the earlier years like "Suffragette City" and the like, so he got tickets to see Bowie in Cleveland in late '74. He was sorely ticked off when he heard Bowie pull out the more R&B/soul-inspired arrangements of tunes so he kicked over row after row after row of folding chairs. I believe he was a bit 'refreshed' and/or had his senses 'enhanced,' shall we say, but every single time someone brings up Bowie in a conversation, he'll ALWAYS bring up that story. Great story though. He said he's slowly come around to like the Young Americans material. Unfortunately not many people say the same about the Glass Spider tour and the Never Let Me Down material.
The completist in me will make this purchase even though most of this doesn’t interest me in the slightest.
I have to say, I never cared much for Never Let Me Down until I got a nice minty original pressing. Ever since then, I’ve listened to it more than any one person should. I’ve grown to love that album. I’m excited for this box set. The completist in me is very upset I didn’t buy the first two box sets, instead opting to get the LPs separately.
Have to say I’m super excited for this one. Tonight is one of the few Bowie records I don’t have, and I recently rediscovered NLMD—so much better than I remembered it.
So from what I can tell, the Serious Moonlight album is the same as the DVD, but with "Modern Love" added. The other encores are MIA ("Stay", "Star"). I wonder how much, if at all, this mix will differ from what's on the DVD? I hope they had the decency to restore the intro to "Station to Station", at least.
Was the Glass Spider live album released somewhere before? They describe Serious Moonlight as unreleased but not that.
It was a completely different show in philly from the tower theater show (This was about november, david live tower was july) There was no stage set to speak of all white floor with red lightning bolt mike garson band opened show with luther handling most of the vocals ended with memory of a free festival, bowie entered on an upstage deck behind them, gouster suit with a cane, like on dick caveat he finished the song then started his set songs were partially from david live but included a "LOT" of the unreleased young americans, including i think foot stomping, cause fame had not yet been recorded. I don't know if it would be great, but is defiantly a missing link
The date on the press release says 19th July 2018, which is tomorrow (where I'm at). I wonder if they prematurely announced it. Pre-orders will probably be up tomorrow. I'm jumping as soon as I see 'em too
I was hoping for some unreleased Stevie Ray Vaughan stuff in this set. I haven't had a chance to look at this in detail yet.
It's weird. Despite being the least appealing studio album trio of his career, this is perhaps the most appealing box set, just due to the lack of unnecessary cost-inflating duplication. Although all the edits cluttering up the ReCall set are disappointing...I think they'd be much stronger listens if they just contained non-album tracks or fully alternate recordings/remixes.
I have a soft spot for Tonight, I remember the videos for Let’s Dance on MTV On first airing. Sign me up.
yeah thats what i was asking hard to believe with everything that was saved, nothing was saved from this as he was very into it at the time
