I just discovered "I'm Deranged" yesterday and have probably played it about 12 or so times by now. Really great song that grabs me for some unknown reason. Hope to find more like this.
Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps). To all the people who turn up their nose at side two. This is just the low-fi alternate version of Teenage Wildlife, with great backing vocals ...
Is it just me, or does the count-in on this track make absolutely no sense? Someone tell me I'm wrong. Been listening to Liveandwell.com today. Don't really like disc 2 - it's a chore to listen to - but disc 1 is good. Now selling for around £100 on Discogs. (It could do with a full release!)
Unless maybe if one owns the mispressing, who knows what a nut will pay for that (extra void playtime).
Found a box of old 7 inchers in a cupboard at my mothers house. Thought these were long gone. Life on Mars? Space Oddity / Alabama Song - with fold out poster Sorrow Laughing Gnome (!) - Deram Space Oddity - Philips, surface noise on the run in really took me back and put a lump in my throat.
Wow - I never thought if it that way. You are right! Extending the metaphor: Low (Fall) Heroes (Winter) Lodger (Spring) Scary Monsters (Summer) I don't necessarily restrict my listening seasonally, but aesthetically this kinda works!
Hang on! Secret Life of Arabia and Moss Garden do not make me feel Wintery. I agree that Lodger is Spring though - SM could be Winter. Don't forget Crystal Japan - that sounds more wintery - ice crystals?
Well it IS completely subjective. Heroes has a bit of glam flair to it, but it's also chilly and cold and many of the songs have a rather icy/isolated outlook. Low has it's frosty moments too but it is also warm in places, like an Indian Summer in the middle of a crisp fall. I classified Scary Monsters as a summer album just because it's full of relatively straight ahead pop songs and because it was the soundtrack to my first summer out of High School. Your mileage may vary....
"Station to Station" (Original single edit) and then the album track off the same album, because three minutes doesn't get it done for that tune.
"Scary Monsters" SACD (ripped DSFs) via my Pono. I apparently upped the Pono firmware to v 1.06 before Neil went fishing, so, DSD playpack. Don't know if it's the greatest sonic adventure known to man, but I had a damn good time.
There are so many damn versions of this now, it's hard to know what cover image to associate with each digital version as my "cover.jpg" when sorting my files. For the "Original Analogue" DVD rip from the 2010 box, I use an image of a yellowed 8-track I found on the web. By the time the 2016 "WCIBN" box rolled along, the whole "Look! A color version of the 'Station to Station' cover!" was pretty tired news, and had been trotted out three too many times, so I started looking for outtake pics from the "Man Who Fell to Earth" movie from the same scene, because "Look! Color Station to Station cover!!" was just too Ryko. (Not that Ryko's a bad thing. But "revelatory color STS cover!" just screams 1990 for me.) I'm willing to let the Maslin Mix help itself to the WCIBN box cover, because, even though the Maslin Mix is seven years older than WCIBN, it's still a strong association for me.
That's the reason I indicated it was the SE--too many versions. Ryko had to be excited to get the Bowie catalog when it did. It probably made them a "player" for a while.
