Audio CD review:
David Bowie - Bowie at Beeb: Best of BBC Radio 68-72

David Bowie - Bowie at Beeb: Best of BBC Radio 68-72

Band: David Bowie Title: Bowie at Beeb: Best of BBC Radio 68-72 Rating: Release Date: 16 November, 2004 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: In the Heat of the Morning 2: London Bye Ta-Ta 3: Karma Man 4: Silly Boy Blue 5: Let Me Sleep Beside You 6: Janine 7: Amsterdam 8: God Knows I'm Good 9: The Width of a Circle 10: Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed 11: Cygnet Committee 12: Memory of a Free Festival 13: Wild Eyed Boy from Freecloud 14: Bombers 15: Looking for a Friend 16: Almost Grown 17: Kooks 18: It Ain't Easy 19: The Supermen 20: Eight Line Poem 21: Hang on to Yourself 22: Ziggy Stardust 23: Queen Bitch 24: I'm Waiting for the Man 25: Five Years 26: White Light/White Heat 27: Moonage Daydream 28: Hang on to Yourself 29: Suffragette City 30: Ziggy Stardust 31: Starman 32: Space Oddity 33: Changes 34: Oh! You Pretty Things 35: Andy Warhol 36: Lady Stardust 37: Rock & Roll Suicide

Customer Reviews If you're a bowie fan I first heard tracks from this album while I was sitting in a coffee shop. If you're a bowie fan, you're in for a treat. I thought he'd done some new live acoustic recordings, they sounded so fresh. There are a lot of tracks and some clunkers, but the good ones make up for it. Bowie is of course and incredible performer and the necessity of these stripped down BBC recordings lets his performances shine. He rips into the songs in a way that's not possible on a studio album. Magical!!. MISSING THE 3RD LIVE DISC! It contains a fabulous live disc recorded at the BBC London Theatre 06/27/00 that this later edition does not have. If you have any notion of buying this great set, look at the used listings for the earlier, limited edition, now OOP, 3CD set. Check out the tracklist for the live disc: Disc: 3 1. Wild Is The Wind 2. Ashes To Ashes 3. Seven 4. This Is Not America 5. Absolute Beginners 6. Always Crashing In The Same Car 7. Survive 8. Little Wonder 9. Man Who Sold The World 10. Fame 11. Stay 12. Hallo Spaceboy 13. Cracked Actor 14. I'm Afraid Of Americans 15. Let's Dance As of this writing, the OOP 3CD is available here on Amazon for less, used, than this 2-disc set, new. Don't pass up the opportunity to get the live CD. The audio is first rate, and the performance is excellent. Link to the original [[ASIN:B00004Y7WV 3CD BBC set]]. 5 for disc 1 3 for disc 2 One of Bowies best God knows im good- (Brels) Amsterdamn -In the heat of the morning and well pretty much all of the first disc capture David at his early climb to fame. Contrary to the reviews here- i think disc One is the stunner here featuring many of Bowies earliest mod folk and acoustic rockers. The interviews and radio chatter only enhance the uniqueness and rarity for fans. Its all very informative and captures a time and place and the sound is excellent- you can almost sense coming superstardom in the confidence of the material and in the band. Disc two contains most of his Ziggy Stardust material which ofcourse is all good but basically sounds like demos of that album and for the most part is very familiar even to the casual fan. The acoustic versions of Supermen and Andy Warhol would have sat better on disc one as they flow into that material better. This is a great bargain especially used nearly 40 songs of Bowie at his peak. Disc One however finds itself on permanent rotation in my cd player- i could listen to this all day. . You can see a complete list of all David Bowie discography, or go back to the David Bowie tabs