I agree that it looks...repetitive. Diamond Dogs remastered and the book are all that look interesting to me.
What a complete rip off! Nothing of interest even on the Recall 2 discs (all singles edits). Duplicate mixes of a live album. Plus The Gouster has only handful of tracks of which the unique tracks and alternative versions to Young Americans could have been part of Recall 2. Wonder if The Gouster will get a seperate release? Can't see this selling outside of the most fanatical fan base.
So the three LP David Live is likely to get a standalone release? If so yay! I love David Live and have fancied the expanded Visconti version on vinyl for years. That'll do me to be honest...
Regarding the fight a couple pages back about Bowie's decisions regarding unreleased albums when he was alive: I agree that provides no insight into whether he intended to let his family release them after his death. For all we know he hoped his unreleased material would be a boon to them.
It's an archive box, like the first one. It archives. It does its job. The content may not fit everyone's needs, but it's not meant to. Archive. Box. And I'm preordering the moment I see it on Amazon.
, But that doesn't mean that we cant discuss it. Yes its an archive box but do we really need all of these duplicate mixes?
The two mixes of David Live seem a waste of time, and the Nassau set really needs a decent master, otherwise the box looks slight.
Not really. I find they are usually something that is played once and then never again. This could have easily been a 9 lp set.
No, EMI was bought by UMG in 2012. Monopolies and Mergers made them sell off lucrative parts of the EMI catalogue. Maybe that's where Warner's came in. See here for info: EMI - UMG ยป I didn't know Nigel Reeve is called Mr. EMI. An insider's joke, I guess. Nevertheless, I do not see that the story refutes the possibility that Bowie wanted to release The Gouster in this box.
I agree, they couldn't do that. Scary Monsters is just so obviously the end of a particular era for Bowie.
Just programmed a playlist for The Gouster. I really liked the flow of it, but I did miss Win and Fascination. If those two were in and John I'm Only Dancing Again were out, it'd be pretty much perfect.
Those are both great tracks...maybe I'm too focused on the stuff I don't like. It seems my fav version would be a mixture of both albums
To be fair I've been playing these tracks today and actually agree with you. Mine would be something like this: Young Americans Win Can You Hear Me? Fascination Who Can I Be Now Fame Somebody Up There Likes Me Right I think that fits. I would add John I'm Only Dancing (again) over Fame but at seven minutes i think it would be too long for vinyl. Maybe David should of done this as his double album.
Yes it was, in 2006. But 5.1 mixes aren't a feature of these boxes, sadly. But you also attested that Stage probably wouldn't be featured on the following box in both original and 2005 mixes because RCA had issued the original mix on CD (unlike David Live), even though the reordering is much more apparent than on DL, making it an even more different release from the original. Um, as I already said, Warners bought EMI UK (minus The Beatles). There is nothing you are correcting me on.
Were is the unedited [13:08] "Panic in Detroit" from Nassau Coliseum? Should be at least on the Re:Call2
