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David Bowie: Loving The Alien (1983 – 1988) 11CD Box Set

PostPosted: Wed Jul 18, 2018 8:05 pm
by omar
Out in October, this 11CD will surely delight many...

CD TRACKLISTING

LET’S DANCE

Modern Love

China Girl

Let’s Dance

Without You

Ricochet

Criminal World

Cat People (Putting Out Fire)

Shake It



SERIOUS MOONLIGHT (LIVE ’83)

CD1

Look Back In Anger

“Heroes”

What In The World

Golden Years

Fashion

Let’s Dance

Breaking Glass

Life On Mars?

Sorrow

Cat People (Putting Out Fire)

China Girl

Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)

Rebel Rebel

CD2

White Light / White Heat

Station To Station

Cracked Actor

Ashes To Ashes

Space Oddity/Band Introduction

Young Americans

Fame

Modern Love



TONIGHT

Loving The Alien

Don’t Look Down

God Only Knows

Tonight

Neighborhood Threat

Blue Jean

Tumble And Twirl

I Keep Forgettin’

Dancing With The Big Boys



NEVER LET ME DOWN

Day-In Day-Out

Time Will Crawl

Beat Of Your Drum

Never Let Me Down

Zeroes

Glass Spider

Shining Star (Makin’ My Love)

New York’s In Love

’87 And Cry

Bang Bang



NEVER LET ME DOWN (2018)

Day-In Day-Out

Time Will Crawl

Beat Of Your Drum

Never Let Me Down

Zeroes

Glass Spider

Shining Star (Makin’ My Love) (ft Laurie Anderson)

New York’s In Love

’87 And Cry

Bang Bang



GLASS SPIDER (LIVE MONTREAL ’87)

CD 1

Up The Hill Backwards

Glass Spider

Day-In Day-Out

Bang Bang

Absolute Beginners

Loving The Alien

China Girl

Rebel Rebel

Fashion

Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)

All The Mad Men

Never Let Me Down

CD 2

Big Brother

‘87 And Cry

“Heroes”

Sons Of The Silent Age

Time Will Crawl / Band Introduction

Young Americans

Beat Of Your Drum

The Jean Genie

Let’s Dance

Fame

Time

Blue Jean

Modern Love



DANCE

1. Shake It (Re-mix aka Long Version)

2. Blue Jean (Extended Dance Mix)

3. Dancing With The Big Boys (Extended Dance Mix)

4. Tonight (Vocal Dance Mix)

5. Don't Look Down (Extended Dance Mix)

6. Loving The Alien (Extended Dub Mix)

7. Tumble And Twirl (Extended Dance Mix)

8. Underground (Extended Dance Mix)

9. Day-In Day-Out (Groucho Mix)

10.Time Will Crawl (Dance Crew Mix)

11.Shining Star (Makin’ My Love) (12” mix)

12.Never Let Me Down (Dub/Acapella)



RE:CALL 4

CD 1

Let's Dance (single version)

China Girl (single version)

Modern Love (single version)

This Is Not America (The theme from ‘The Falcon And The Snowman’) – David Bowie / Pat Metheny Group

Loving The Alien (re-mixed version)

Don't Look Down (re-mixed version)

Dancing In The Street (Clearmountain mix) - David Bowie and Mick Jagger

Absolute Beginners (from Absolute Beginners)

That’s Motivation (from Absolute Beginners)

Volare (from Absolute Beginners)

Labyrinth Opening Titles/Underground (from Labyrinth)

Magic Dance (from Labyrinth)

As The World Falls Down (from Labyrinth)

Within You (from Labyrinth)

Underground (from Labyrinth)

CD 2

When The Wind Blows (single version) (from When The Wind Blows)

Day-In Day-Out (single version)

Julie

Beat Of Your Drum (vinyl album edit)

Glass Spider (vinyl album edit)

Shining Star (Makin’ My Love) (vinyl album edit)

New York’s In Love (vinyl album edit)

‘87 And Cry (vinyl album edit)

Bang Bang (vinyl album edit)

Time Will Crawl (single version)

Girls (extended edit)

Never Let Me Down (7” remix edit)

Bang Bang (live - promotional mix)

Tonight (live) Tina Turner with David Bowie

Let's Dance (live) Tina Turner with David Bowie

Re: David Bowie: Loving The Alien (1983 – 1988) 11CD Box Set

PostPosted: Thu Jul 19, 2018 9:09 am
by ZippY
Black and white cover is awful, but the tracklisting looks good, although a few mixes that I would like to have are missing.

For instance: Dancing With The Big Boys (Extended Dub Mix), Loving The Alien (Extended Dance Mix)*, This Is Not America (Instrumental).

*Maybe they omitted this one because it sounds too much like the album version, but I don't know. Can anybody tell the difference?

Now include a 2nd "Dance"-disc and I will be ... :D

Re: David Bowie: Loving The Alien (1983 – 1988) 11CD Box Set

PostPosted: Thu Jul 19, 2018 9:36 am
by postpunkmonk
Damn, but I hate this period of Bowie music! I am morbidly curious to hear the awful "Never Let Me Down" re-imagined, especially with Reeves Gabrels and David Torn taking over from…Peter Frampton. It's possibly the worst of Bowie's albums, but there are a few that vie with it for that status ["Outside" "Let's Dance" "Tonight"]. But not curious enough to drop $100 and change on it! NLMD was infuriating since Bowie seemed to care about his artistic trajectory at the time, but for every good idea, there were 5-6 bad ones crowding them out! Thank goodness Gabrels saved his bacon!

Re: David Bowie: Loving The Alien (1983 – 1988) 11CD Box Set

PostPosted: Thu Jul 19, 2018 1:44 pm
by omar
Loving The Alien (12” Dance Mix) is sorely missed. It sounds much better than the standard album version.

Re: David Bowie: Loving The Alien (1983 – 1988) 11CD Box Set

PostPosted: Thu Jul 19, 2018 3:22 pm
by moni
postpunkmonk wrote:It's possibly the worst of Bowie's albums, but there are a few that vie with it for that status ["Outside" "Let's Dance" "Tonight"].


Personally i have never been able to get into either Young Americans or Station To Station though the singles from those albums were good. The one Bowie album i do not like is Lodger and i would say that's his worst album.

Re: David Bowie: Loving The Alien (1983 – 1988) 11CD Box Set

PostPosted: Thu Jul 19, 2018 3:24 pm
by moni
omar wrote:Loving The Alien (12” Dance Mix) is sorely missed. It sounds much better than the standard album version.


Funny how we hear things differently i bought the 12 inch picture disc of that i remember listening to the dance mix thinking it just sounded like the album version.

Re: David Bowie: Loving The Alien (1983 – 1988) 11CD Box Set

PostPosted: Thu Jul 19, 2018 3:28 pm
by moni
Pity they have omitted Too Dizzy yet again from Never Let Me Down and i know Bowie didn't like it and asked for it to be removed but the man is dead now and he wouldn't be listening to it anyway even if he was still alive.

Re: David Bowie: Loving The Alien (1983 – 1988) 11CD Box Set

PostPosted: Thu Jul 19, 2018 8:11 pm
by Willbfree
A single edit of the new Zeroes is available on JunoDownload and other online stores. And the cover art for that single - in massive 4000x4000 size - is available via the usual iTunes artwork finder website(s).

Re: David Bowie: Loving The Alien (1983 – 1988) 11CD Box Set

PostPosted: Fri Jul 20, 2018 10:17 am
by postpunkmonk
moni wrote:
postpunkmonk wrote:It's possibly the worst of Bowie's albums, but there are a few that vie with it for that status ["Outside" "Let's Dance" "Tonight"].


Personally i have never been able to get into either Young Americans or Station To Station though the singles from those albums were good. The one Bowie album i do not like is Lodger and i would say that's his worst album.


After nearly 40 years, I am slowly coming to grips with "Young Americans." I used to hate everything but the title track and "Fame" but now I rate about half of it. It helped that the Ryko had bonus tracks [songs removed at the last minute originally to make room for "Fame" and -ech! "Across The Universe"] that were far, far better than much of the album. "stationtostation" was fantastic for me. A perfect pivot from "Young Americans" to the heights of "Low" to come.

Re: David Bowie: Loving The Alien (1983 – 1988) 11CD Box Set

PostPosted: Fri Jul 20, 2018 10:22 am
by postpunkmonk
Willbfree wrote:A single edit of the new Zeroes is available on JunoDownload and other online stores. And the cover art for that single - in massive 4000x4000 size - is available via the usual iTunes artwork finder website(s).

I have to say that I totally appreciate the new NLMD artwork. The original just reeked of desperation and overwork! The worst Bowie cover by my reckoning by a mile. If it reflects what has been done to the music… it could be really nice. But I remember Bowie overstating so much of his performance I'm not sure how its level of hysteria could be dialed down. I can easily imagine Laurie Anderson instead of Mickey Rourke [??!] on "Shining Star [Making My Love"]. One of the better tunes there… almost.

Re: David Bowie: Loving The Alien (1983 – 1988) 11CD Box Set

PostPosted: Tue Oct 09, 2018 4:30 pm
by audiodile
Just wanted to say, if anyone who ends up getting this set is not a fan of remixes, I would be very eager to purchase your Dance CD separately!

Re: David Bowie: Loving The Alien (1983 – 1988) 11CD Box Set

PostPosted: Wed Oct 10, 2018 8:24 am
by chris74
audiodile wrote:Just wanted to say, if anyone who ends up getting this set is not a fan of remixes, I would be very eager to purchase your Dance CD separately!


Maybe this could help you:

https://www.ebay.de/itm/David-Bowie-Dan ... rk:13:pf:0

Re: David Bowie: Loving The Alien (1983 – 1988) 11CD Box Set

PostPosted: Wed Oct 10, 2018 2:28 pm
by moni
I bought the Dance CD from ebay just a pity i couldn't get Never Let Me Down the new version i mean.

Re: David Bowie: Loving The Alien (1983 – 1988) 11CD Box Set

PostPosted: Thu Oct 11, 2018 8:36 am
by omar
you can sample the new remixes of Never Let Me Down now online.

Re: David Bowie: Loving The Alien (1983 – 1988) 11CD Box Set

PostPosted: Sat Oct 13, 2018 7:27 pm
by omar
I got this today. Although it has mostly favorable reviews on Amazon, I wanted to listen for myself and then make a judgement as it contains my favorite Bowie period. Sampled so far Let’s Dance,Tonight, Serious Moonlight (excellent quality) and Never Let Me Down. The studio albums sound richer and slightly bass heavy but not unbearable. The 1999 versions to which I’m comparing these were loud and had the treble tweaked up. Never got the previous Bowie boxsets so this is my first. More to come...