David Bowie - Brilliant Adventure (1992-2001) [Box set #5]

Garson was playing live with bowie as far back as 1972.

 

Exactly! Like we get Zeroes (2018) / Beat Of Your Drum (2018) on 7" picture disc. These tracks were also released seperately as digital downloads.

 

Thank God for that.

 

That would be so hologrammic! We could all watch it on our new Parlophone TVC15s.

 

I'm not sure this is conclusive proof though

 

But Garson wins, by virtue of having been absent during the Brown Period.

 

Is that a racist remark or my lack of fully understanding English ?

 

He's referring to the 83-87 albums...

 

No doubt some appreciate the download option but, for me, the poor audio quality of picture discs makes them fancy collectibles at best.
Over the years I’ve amassed quite a collection of picture discs, many bought as RSD limited editions.

Most (but not all) 7” releases in the past 10 years have been picture discs and I for one am pleased to see the back of them. I gave up on the “anniversary” picture discs about 4 years ago and just find them to be as tiresome as coloured vinyl.

Now if we could have some lovely black vinyl singles with correct single edits cut as AAA in quality glossy card sleeves, I’d be both amazed and delighted….we can all dream can’t we

 

This is nonsense.
You do know the resolution of a video tape?

The bigger the screen the WORSE video tape looks.

 

I have no problem with picture discs, or limited releases, but as we have seen from the BLA and Mother 7" debacles, they manufacture substantially under capacity. Being a Bowie fan shouldn't be this hard!

 

I too have no problem with picture discs or coloured vinyl per se, but I want to have copies that I can play and enjoy listening to, not to just sit in a record box as a pretty collectible (of which I have many ).
I’m simply tired of those being the ONLY option.

For example, I have no interest in the coloured vinyl and picture disc versions of “Ultra Vivid Lament” but then I was easily able to buy copies of the deluxe 2 CD edition and the black vinyl LP instead.

 

I despise what the business has become. The occasional Limited Edition - sure. But now it's just part of the sales cycle to produce an initial sales rush. It's pure manipulation. However, a whole lot of music fans have bought into the "collectable" mentality and are happy to leverage it by using music as a monetgary investment. It's not just Bowie, it's everywhere, sadly. If the labels want a healthy, thriving physical environment, then it's got to stop. All core Bowie albums should be easy to find, imo.

 

WE - US - have allowed this to happen.

Just look at this thread. It's good fun moaning about this rubbish, but the less fun side is that people - lots of them - are giving multinational corporations and Bowie's estate LOTS of money for music they have already heard. That is just weird.

Pop records used to be recreational. It was a cheap hobby. Spend a couple of quid and throw it on the player after school, play the tape in the car on the way to work; upgrade and buy a CD to play at the weekend whilst doing the housework; put 20p in the jukebox whilst having a pint. When I was a teenager, on the way to work, I would listen to my Bowie tapes on a cheap walkman-knockoff my mum bought me from the market for a couple of quid (with those leaky foam headphones). Tapes recorded from scratchy and skipping vinyl. I swear to god the music sounded fine - it sounded fantastic. Would listening to those songs from a £300 box set sound any better? Is it more fun? Then I upgraded to the Ryko CDs which remain the only Bowie CDs I own (which I taped and played on the same crappy walkman). People pretending they can appreciate an incremental difference between this and that version are, frankly mental. That is NOT what Bowie records are supposed to be about. How many people on this thread (and others) haven't even opened their previous box sets? Those that do, how often to they play them? I bet its not a lot. It's pop music ffs, it's supposed to be fun.

Is it fun listening to a £300 version of a song you have heard a thousand times and a song that you will never listen to again (some inane irrelevant remix)? For god's sake "why"????.

I've enjoyed listening to I'm Only Dancing with all it's flaws. How enjoyable would it be to listen to Earthling on vinyl when I have already heard those songs? What's new? What is the bloody point?

Thank god this crap is going to die with the generation above me (I'm late 40s). Thank god the generation below me is listening to music the way it is supposed to be - for fun, just on their phones on the bus rather than on their walkmans on the bus. And these kids will be throwing dad's records in the skip when dad snuffs it.

 

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that logo is bordering on the Schutzstaffel runes.
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bit of a worry

 

Harsh, but I agree with pretty much everything you've said.

 

Call me a curmudgeon (and you would be correct to do so) but I would rather have the Hunky Dory box set including Glastonbury 71. Nice try Bowie Estate but no.

 

this

 

I think he means that those albums might have had a faecal element for those who didn't like them much

 

That's the company you are keeping by coming here. The majority [aka 'Normal folk'] are happy with streaming and/or the one copy of the physical studio album they bought years ago.

This site captures most of the geeks, collectors [myself included] that buy this stuff. It's always been the same.

 

The Phil Collins years is what he used himself.

 

No not quite.

 

Garson is so overrated, especially by himself. He’s really turned me off him over the last decade or so.

The way he spins it he done more Bowie shows than Bowie

 

Bowie did call the 80s his Phil Collins years on the Jonathan Ross Show

"Of the 26 albums I've made I think there were two when I really wasn't involved and that was "Tonight" and "Never Let Me Down", the two follow-ups to "Let's Dance". That period was my Phil Collins years."