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

That's a great little story to read. Even as a seasoned Bowie fan, I use the boxes to reassess, which means I try to hear for the first time, in context. At this point, the boxes themselves are a "thing" or release, sort of like an extended "greatest hits" for whatever period it covers. It also allows you to ease yourself along the discography.

That said, if you're going in totally blind, you're in for perhaps some of the most jarring of moments for Bowie. I look forward to hearing your opinion of the albums once you get a chance to explore.

 

I sort of wish I had written out my thoughts and first impressions of the earlier box sets as I listened to each of them for the first time.

When the Five Years set came out, I’d only heard Changes, Space Oddity, and Nirvana’s cover of The Man Who Sold the World. Oh, and the snippet of Moonage Daydream that’s in Guardians of the Galaxy. But that’s all I’d heard before starting on that set.

With the later releases, there were even fewer songs I was familiar with. Looking back it would’ve been fun to post about my initial experiences with the songs and albums as I’d heard them for the first time over the last couple of years.

I can try to do that with Brilliant Adventures. I’ve purposefully avoided the later albums, waiting for new box sets.

 

Please do! This is the first era of Bowie I remember "as it happened", so it would be interesting to hear from someone who's first impression is of taking it all in at once...

 

That's special, unless of course you were born after the mid 80's commercial Bowie albums, never watched MTV and since then you've only heard those tracks on some old school classic rock radio station ?

 

I think I first heard Space Oddity in a movie. I really don’t remember except that I knew of it already. I’d probably heard Changes on the radio. Same with the sprinkling of other Bowie tracks I’d heard (like “Heroes” and Let’s Dance…a couple others I didn’t mention because they aren’t on the Five Years box).

I grew up with 90s alternative rock and just wasn’t very familiar with Bowie. Parents had a **** ton of albums but none from him.

 

If I may ask without having to go back through this thread. Huge fan and have the vinyl box set in my cart and ready to preorder. I will gladly pass on RSD BF this year to get this. Is this limited and does anyone know who mastered/cut the vinyl box? Thanks in advance...

 

Time is my favorite Bowie song. Listening to it now. Just a masterpiece.

 

He really went far out with the lyrics on that one

 

Japanese edition ordered. Can't wait for christmas.

 

I was just looking at CDJapan and saw the Japanese edition of the cd box is now listed, but that they notify that the discs are not Japanese made, so no special blu-spec or anything, and there is no mention of anything unique to this box in the Japanese edition. They do charge 10 dollars more for the Japanese edition though, but it just sounds like it is the same as the regular edition, except it probably has an Obi strip on the box, I guess. Oh well. I was curious if they would have anything else.

 

The previous boxes all had two additional photo booklets. I'm sure this one will be no exception and details will be revealed soon.

 

I will keep an eye out then to see if they announce more content. Thanks.

 

Qobuz pre-order does NOT have a 24-bit version of BA available. Everything Has Changed.

 

Looks like a great cash machine

 

There wasn’t a 24 bit version of Loving the Alien either. It was only when they started putting the albums out individually that they did 24 bit versions

 

Thanks. I was looking forward to "Outside" and "Buddha" in 24-bit. I can roll my own ReCall based on all the odd things I acquired in those years. Qobuz wants $90 for the 16-bit box, which I'd be getting tor BBC and ReCall, so $90 for basically a rip of 5 CDs (I don't want super-squished 16-bit "Outside", thank you.) didn't seem like a good proposition to me.

 

That’s the same situation I’m in as well

 

BTWN is, IMO, lyrically appalling. The title song is excruciating heavy handed. It makes Tin Opener's 'Under The God' read like "Life on Mars'.

 

If you're going to rehash the London phone box as a Bowie gimmick, the classic K9 design from Heddon Street, at least do it properly. "Oh let's stick an American pay phone in there ... cool!". Nope, lame. You can pick up a K2 dial and receiver unit for a couple of hundred quid. I saw one at the weekend for 75 quid, complete with old London area code.

 

Dead Man Walking also received a video upgrade!
Not as impressive as the I am afraid of Americans 4K video but still nice to see!

 

I liked the straightforward nature of UtG: "You're dead. You just ain't buried yet."

 

I'll give you that is better than "Getting my facts from a Benetton ad' / Lookin' through African eyes / Lit by the glare of an L.A. fire".

 

With all these upgraded 90s vids coming out, it was a missed opportunity for the Bowie camp to throw together an official edit of the unreleased “Pretty Things Are Going To Hell” video, but I’m not gonna lose sleep over it. Hopefully someday when they rerelease all his videos into a new, upgraded blu ray set similar to the incredible Best of Bowie 2DVD set. It’s always intriguing to me to hear of unreleased music videos and the like. The edit on YouTube of the “Pretty Things...” vid in VHS quality leaves a lot to be desired but interesting concept nonetheless. He must’ve felt somewhat strongly about the video given he kept the puppets that were made specifically for it.

 

... and one of the better songs on the tepid 'Hours'.