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David Bowie - Best of David Bowie Audio CD

A fair review of the David Bowie "Best of David Bowie" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all David Bowie reviews here, or go back to the David Bowie tabs.

David Bowie Band: David Bowie
Title: Best of David Bowie
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Release Date: 2002-10-22
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Space Oddity 2: Changes 3: Suffragette City 4: Ziggy Stardust 5: The Jean Genie 6: Rebel, Rebel 7: Young Americans 8: Fame 9: Golden Years 10: Heroes 11: Ashes To Ashes 12: Fashion 13: Under Pressure 14: Let's Dance 15: China Girl 16: Modern Love 17: Blue Jean 18: Dancing In The Street 19: This Is Not America 20: I'm Afraid of Americans

Replacement for multiple vinyl LP's by Bowie
I was an early Bowie fan and this greatest hits CD is a good replacement for multiple vinyl albums I had of Bowie's.


Great Sound
No more hard copies of CD's for me, I'm done with them. I'm happy as a kid in a candy store browsing and sampling the MP3's here at Amazon, and satisfied after many, many purchases.

"Best of Bowie": Not wanting to get heavily into a Bowie accumulation, I downloaded the MP3 of this album (and nine other chosen tracks from two other Bowie albums "Earthling" and "Sound and Vision"). The remastering and the sound quality on all 3 of these albums are excellent. .


Good Collection; Start here
His influence is massive, wether people acknoledge it or not, many musicians have had some influence from David Bowie's huge canon of work. Bowie is a phenomenon. Some directly, as in Frampton who lived nearby, or Bowie's influence on songs like those by Gary Numan ( with the occasional almost verbatim quote from Bowie's work). With so much to choose from, you could easily skip a manic song like BOYS that has such a great bass and drum work, which is so wild but still under control; however, its not on this collection.
Its a great collection. I can understand the edits to a certain extent, since in Young Americans, the missing bit actually in the song is with a guitar that is massivly out of tune, and since this collection is more of a controlled collection, its presented as it is in its more neater form. If you want to see how wildly out of control and off beat Bowie can get, get Hunky Dory and check out ANDY WARHOL, where the song starts to get into "syncopation" ( to be polite) at one point, but its a pretty fun album.
Like the CD cover seems to suggest, Bowie may be more than the sum of his parts. . . or not. Thats the fun of Bowie, the Artist who can create a Alice Cooper like tune in 1966 ( Please Mr Gravedigger) and then later become HEROES to the generation that wants MODERN LOVE.


Greatest hits without Diamond Dogs?
. Overall this is a decent collection of Bowie hits, but how can it be called "Greatest Hits" without the inclusion of one of his true masterpieces Diamond Dogs? Unfortunately I overlooked this glaring omission too late, after I made my purchase.


A Bowie Sampler
If you don't mind the edited versions of "Young Americans," "Heroes," "Ashes to Ashes" and "Let's Dance," by all means give this a listen. The single-disc "Best of Bowie" is a greatest-hits package for absolute beginners. Otherwise, track down "Changesonebowie" or the revised "Sound + Vision" box set.


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