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Track Listings
| Disc: 1 | |||
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| 1. 1984 (Live) | |||
| 2. Rebel Rebel (Live) | |||
| 3. Moonage Daydream (Live) | |||
| 4. Sweet Thing/Candidate/Sweet Thing (Reprise) | |||
| 5. Changes (Live) | |||
| 6. Suffragette City (Live) | |||
| 7. Aladdin Sane (Live) (2005 Digital Remaster) | |||
| 8. All The Young Dudes (Live) | |||
| 9. Cracked Actor (Live) | |||
| 10. Rock 'N' Roll With Me (Live) | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. Knock On Wood (Live) | |||
| 2. Here Today Gone Tomorrow (Live) | |||
| 3. Space Oddity (Live) | |||
| 4. Diamond Dogs (Live) | |||
| 5. Panic In Detroit (Live) | |||
| 6. Big Brother (Live) | |||
| 7. Time (Live) | |||
| 8. The Width Of A Circle (Live) | |||
| 9. The Jean Genie (Live) | |||
| 10. Rock 'N' Roll Suicide (Live) | |||
Product Description
Remastered 2CD. Entire Concert in orig order with a new stereo mix by Tony Visconti PLUS 2 BONUS tracks
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I bought the vinyl double set as a 15 year old on its release in 1974.
This is one of my all time favourite live albums. This is a marvellous re-issue, with the running order in the correct sequence that the concert was originally performed at the Tower Theatre in Philadelphia.
A highly recommended purchase - it is beautifally packaged as well, in my opinion this is the better of his two official live releases, although Stage is recommended as well. A brilliant re-issue!
This is one of my all time favourite live albums. This is a marvellous re-issue, with the running order in the correct sequence that the concert was originally performed at the Tower Theatre in Philadelphia.
A highly recommended purchase - it is beautifally packaged as well, in my opinion this is the better of his two official live releases, although Stage is recommended as well. A brilliant re-issue!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
For some unknown reason (to me at least), this album tends to get overlooked when punters - pro or anti - review Bowie's extensive career. It might have come at a transitional time, between Diamond Dogs and the new soul direction of Young Americans, but it definitely deserves far more attention, and respect, than it has gathered to date. Featuring a selection of classics from the main man's (then) back catalogue, David Live is characterised by vibrant new arrangements by Michael Kamen and some great musicianship. But the album stands out for some very specific reasons: Bowie's vocal performance - tortured, emotional, engaging; the rich horn section - step forward, sax player David Sanborn; and, most of all in my view, the scintillating rock guitar of the previously unheralded Earl Slick, who rips out some blistering solos. I'm a big fan of the great Mick Ronson, but Earl lays down his own special mark here, notably on Width of a Circle, Sweet Thing, Jean Genie and Cracked Actor. A minority of tracks are forgettable - Watch That Man, Knock on Wood, Here Today and Space Oddity - but Bowie is canny enough to know that ending with a mesmeric Rock n Roll Suicide hits exactly the right mark after the pyrotechnics that have gone before. There's no doubt that this set is a superb offering and a landmark in Bowie's epic career. Buy with confidence...
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
What is remarkable about this live album is that Bowie reinvented himself before our very eyes for the first time. Not just his appearance (from bizarre outfits to formal suits) but also his music (from rock to soul) and most importantly of all, his voice. Prior to this album Bowie was known only to the British public as a sci-fi rocker with half a dozen rock'n'roll albums under his belt from Space Oddity to Diamond Dogs. No one would have suggested that Bowie was a remarkable vocalist, save a few stand out performances on Diamond Dogs (such as "When You Rock'n'Roll with Me"). However, on this record, Bowie finds an entirely new voice altogether: husky, soulful with an astonishing emotional range. This fact, coupled with radical rearrangements of all his classics, creates a completely new sound which he would later give full expression to on the Young Americans album released the following year. The opening tracks reveal his new funky Motown sound with saxophones, cow bells and lots of bass. "1984" betrays its Shaft soundtrack origins and Moonage Daydream becomes a heartfelt soulful plea. The medley of "Sweet Thing", "Candidate" and "Changes" however is truly monumental and is the best recording of these tracks available, for my money. Many of his songs fit surprisingly well into this new soul review such as "Aladdin Sane" and "All the Young Dudes" although others like "Cracked Actor" are less successful. Bowie also treats us to a few otherwise unavailable covers showing his influences openly with the Motown standard "Knock On Wood" and the Ohio Player's excellent "Here Today Gone Tomorrow". The second half also has many highlights, for me the best of them being "Panic In Detroit", "Big Brother" and "Rock 'n' Roll Suicide". The only frustrating thing about this album and tour is the absence of any video footage from of his ambitious stage show, surely the most inventive in the history of popular music at that point. As an audio testimony however, it is truly indispensible. This new direction may have alienated many of his rock'n'roll fans but who could have guessed that so many reinventions were still to follow? For example, after listening to this record consider this: only 2 years later (December 1976), Bowie had finished recording an album of German influenced electronic instrumentals called "Low".
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Back to the seventies
It was in the mid seventies that I first purchased David live, and it is possible its up in my loft with hundreds of other records, just gathering dust, unloved and unplayed. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Gamava
Brilliant
A phenomenal LIVE album from the glam rocker God.
Bowie has reworked the massive tracks on this album, giving them a chilling theatrical sound that is truly... Read more
Bowie has reworked the massive tracks on this album, giving them a chilling theatrical sound that is truly... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Bella
shoot the keyboard player!!!
the best bowie live set any bowie fan would die for but the keyboards are embarrasing reminds of rolf harris !!remember??the best track? Read more
Published 9 months ago by john bower
Bowies Best Live Album.
I first purchased this album back in '78, Punk was in full flight, Bowie was having something of a Renaissance, life doesn't get any better. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Mild Dill Hotpot
Plastic Soul indeed.....
Though the tracklisting seems a dream for most Bowie fans the reality was somewhat less thrilling for me. Read more
Published 20 months ago by N. Green
Bowie, a man of contrasts.
Although Bowie was at a personal low, he pulls off a great show. Granted it had to be slightly "fixed" in the studio, you can feel his emotion in the whole album, his voice is... Read more
Published on 7 April 2010 by Mark Flynn
A genuine artist at the peak of his powers.
This live set is not a recording of one concert, but a compilation of 5 sets which took place on succesive nights at the Tower Theatre Philadelphia in 1974, over 35 years ago as I... Read more
Published on 6 Feb 2010 by A. E. Hardman
Apparently Fantastic
I bought this item for my father at Christmas. He is a fan of David Bowie but not "fanatical". I bought it in the knowledge he doesn't have the album and according to him "It's the... Read more
Published on 3 Jan 2010 by Todd Bevan
Completes the picture
Stage is usually seen as the definitive polished live version of Bowie's work and the Santa Monica recording as the rougher 'official bootleg'. Read more
Published on 1 Dec 2009 by J. Bee
Splitting the atom
Criticisms of the sound and playing on this album are totally misplaced. Apart from anything else, it beats me how anyone could ever think that "music" could result from overlaying... Read more
Published on 18 Nov 2008 by J. Patterson
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