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- Label: Msi
- ASIN: B00005NVLT
- Other Editions: Audio CD | MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format: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
Format: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
Format: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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Nothing to Whistle here- Move along Now
After all the years this still stays with me. I don't listen to Hunky Dory, MWSTW, AladdinSane, DD or Ziggy anymore. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Dr. Delvis Memphistopheles
All Saints
I have been a long-time fan of Bowie's dark instrumentals so this CD was a delight. I would recommend to any fan of Bowies' more ambient moments!
Published on 22 May 2009 by Skye Blue
Great stuff
All Saints seems like a fairly comprehensive album of Bowie's instrumental work. All the tracks have been remastered and sound very clean, the sequencing is great, and the last... Read more
Published on 26 Nov 2003
A Mysterious Inviting Collection
This is Bowie's only instrumental collection and some may argue that there is a reason. However, most of these cuts are from "Low" and "Heroes" with a smattering of new material... Read more
Published on 9 Jan 2003 by Martin A Hogan
Pure Bowie. Pure Brilliance.
As others have noted, a way overdue collection of Bowie's more obscure music, the ones which his 80's mainstream audience wouldn't have a clue about. Read more
Published on 17 Oct 2001
some of Bowie's most beautiful and influential work
This is a long overdue collection of some of Bowie's most beautiful and influential work...and it becomes apparent that Radiohead's wonderful new direction has a lot to thank DB... Read more
Published on 24 July 2001 by simsal20@aol.com
An emotional experience you can really get lost in...
Just the mention of David Bowie conjurs up for many people images of spacemen, spiders from Mars, and ch-ch-changes. Read more
Published on 23 July 2001 by John (Johnb67@hotmail)
Hits repackaged...Now for the ones you haven't heard!
Bowie has had his hits repackaged on more occasion than he even knows himself and now attention is turned to the more obscure tracks from his past. Read more
Published on 6 Jun 2001
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