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| 1. A New Career In A New Town (1999 Digital Remaster) |
| 2. V-2 Schneider (1999 Digital Remaster) |
| 3. Abdulmajid (2001 Digital Remaster) |
| 4. Weeping Wall (Instrumental) (1999 Digital Remaster) |
| 5. All Saints (2001 Digital Remaster) |
| 6. Art Decade (1999 Digital Remaster) |
| 7. Crystal Japan (2001 Digital Remaster) |
| 8. Brilliant Adventure |
| 9. Sense Of Doubt (1999 Digital Remaster) |
| 10. Moss Garden (1999 Digital Remaster) |
| 11. Neukoln (1999 Digital Remaster) |
| 12. The Mysteries (2001 Digital Remaster) |
| 13. Ian Fish UK Heir (2001 Digital Remaster) |
| 14. Subterraneans (1999 Digital Remaster) |
| 15. Warszawa (1999 Digital Remaster) |
| 16. Some Are (The Low Symphony) |
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All Saints collects some of David Bowie's best instrumental work from his previous albums. And his timing couldn't be better: Embarrassing drum & bass excursions, a dalliance with pantomime Goths Placebo, stock-market flotations, Tin Machine--all have meant that loving the alien has not been easy during the last 17 years or so. Which helps explain why this collection of instrumentals verges on an epiphany, offering a stark reminder of the sheer mind-boggling scope of Bowie's sound and vision. Most of these 16 brooding soundscapes are plucked from Bowie's hugely influential 1977 albums Low and Heroes. Taking his cue from Kraftwerk, Bowie enlisted Brian Eno--ex-Roxy Music boffin and ambient pioneer--and decamped to Berlin. It's no exaggeration to say that the resulting albums were integral in defining the future path of modern music. Throughout, there's a palpable sense of foreboding, perhaps best exemplified by "Sense of Doubt", a truly unsettling mesh of booming piano and spookily spiralling synths. That the Thin White Duke's Berlin material still dazzles is no surprise. However, it's the remarkable revelation--provided by a clutch of slightly more recent tracks--that he can still cut it--that'll hearten disillusioned Bowie fans everywhere. --Chris King
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DAVID BOWIE All Saints - Collected Instrumentals 1977-1999 (2001 16-track compilation CD album featuring some of Bowies more obscure instrumental offerings from 1977 to 1999 picture sleeve)
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
SUPERB COLLECTION - INSTRUMENTAL BOWIE - NOT FOR BEGINNERS!,
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This review is from: All Saints: Collected Instrumentals 1977-1999 (Audio CD)
First, a brief warning. If you are new to Bowie, don't start here. Try a Greatest Hits collection instead or Ziggy Stardust. This is an astonishing compilation. It is an instrumental-driven collection lifted heavily from Bowie's late Seventies Berlin period. The tracks are often dark, explorative and thought provoking but also uplifting. Songs for the soul.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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A good ol composer,
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This review is from: All Saints: Collected Instrumentals 1977-1999 (Audio CD)
This CD would seem rather redundant to most people with the Berlin trilogy in their collection, but it also includes tracks only available on certain (now deleted) versions of those albums! Not to mention the difficulty that may be experienced by those on the hunt for the "buddha of suburbia" soundtrack... so this collection is warranted I feel and is a chilling, hauntingly beatiful peice of art in its own right!
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Music FromThe Cold War,
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This review is from: All Saints: Collected Instrumentals 1977-1999 (Audio CD)
Never has a rock musician been able to reflect the division of East/West Berlin as Bowie did on his great albums Low and Heroes. This instrumental collection includes all of the instrumentals from the aforementioned albums(pity Speed Of Life has been omitted) plus later tracks from Buddha Of Suburbia and other bonus tracks from the early 90s remasters. The standout on here are the three instrumentals from Heroes, which flow into one another creating an amazing ambient soundscape of mid 70s Berlin. Sense Of Doubt is exactly that, a hesitant 4 note synth descent, the track unsure of where it's going with seemingly random synth sounds which follow. Moss Garden goes further into avant garde territory, an endless industrial synth drone backs an improvised plucking of the Japanese stringed instrument the Koto which merges into the manic Neukoln, a deranged saxophone plays on top of minimal distorted guitar and plumbing sounds. Truly excellent pieces as are the four mood pieces from Low, the astonishing Warszawa, Philip Glass influenced Weeping Wall, the slow, jazz inflected ambience of Subterraneans plus Art Decade. More melodic than the Heroes cuts but just as menacing. Worth the price of this album alone and definitely one of the great compilations of all time. Excellent.
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