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- Original Release Date: 21 Aug 2006
- Format - Music: MP3
- Compatible with MP3 Players (including with iPod®), iTunes, Windows Media Player
- Also available in CD Format
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| Song Title | Time | Price | |||
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| Play | 1. Beauty And The Beast (1999 Digital Remaster) | 3:35 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 2. Joe The Lion (1999 Digital Remaster) | 3:06 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 3. Heroes (1999 Digital Remaster) | 6:08 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 4. Sons Of The Silent Age (1999 Digital Remaster) | 3:17 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 5. Black Out (1999 Digital Remaster) | 3:48 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 6. V-2 Schneider (1999 Digital Remaster) | 3:10 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 7. Sense Of Doubt (1999 Digital Remaster) | 3:57 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 8. Moss Garden (1999 Digital Remaster) | 5:05 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 9. Neukoln (1999 Digital Remaster) | 4:31 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 10. The Secret Life Of Arabia (1999 Digital Remaster) | 3:45 | £0.89 |
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This really is a seminal album. Almost thirty years later it still may be too heavy and uncomfortable for pop-pickers. Like Low, the B-side/second half is predominantly instrumental, but darken the room, dig out the head-phones and you will be rewarded.
The first half is a bunch of hugely powerful songs, in a strange way it is almost punky, infact ,at times, it is probably a bit harsher/rawer than most punk. I've just finished reading a book (Coming Out As A Bowie Fan In Leeds, Yorkshire, England) by a guy called Mick McCann, a wonderful, vibrant romp through the time in which this album was released. It is very a funny book about being a cross-dressing teenager in a hard place, it's strangely philosophical and very `gritty', it made me see the world slightly differently. Anyway he makes a few references to this album and in one, when talking about the title track, he says that listening to Heroes through a PA brings out a physical reaction, `Like wading through nettles in short pants.' I can't argue with that. `Sons Of The Silent Age' also does that for me, it gets me right in the chest.
This is a special album but it may, like that book, offend sensitive ears - Get me to the Doctor...
The first half is a bunch of hugely powerful songs, in a strange way it is almost punky, infact ,at times, it is probably a bit harsher/rawer than most punk. I've just finished reading a book (Coming Out As A Bowie Fan In Leeds, Yorkshire, England) by a guy called Mick McCann, a wonderful, vibrant romp through the time in which this album was released. It is very a funny book about being a cross-dressing teenager in a hard place, it's strangely philosophical and very `gritty', it made me see the world slightly differently. Anyway he makes a few references to this album and in one, when talking about the title track, he says that listening to Heroes through a PA brings out a physical reaction, `Like wading through nettles in short pants.' I can't argue with that. `Sons Of The Silent Age' also does that for me, it gets me right in the chest.
This is a special album but it may, like that book, offend sensitive ears - Get me to the Doctor...
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
As a whole this is a very strong album. It starts with the rather mediocre "Beauty & the Beast". Just when you think your in for a rather uninspired album, it kicks off with the second track, the storming (and quite batty) "Joe the Lion", things get even better with the classic "Heroes". Things get even better than that though, with "Sons of the Silent Age", one of my all time favourite Bowie songs (WHAT a chorus:). A few tracks later and we're into an ambient/instrumental section of tracks, which bleed one into another. The mood is slightly haunting. This was certainly extrememly progressive during its day (the late 70's) and the surprising thing is that it sounds fresh and not at all embarrasing today. The final track, "Secret Life of Arabia" is very enjoyable, and leads on logicaly to the next album "Lodger". All in all this is great stuff, strong throughout, and really grows on you with repeated listening!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
What a long way from Ziggy to this in 5 years. Indeed, 5 years - that's all we've got. It's worth the extra effort to get the version where the Dame barks Heroes in German.
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experimental genius
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Published 17 days ago by markr
Knee deep in anguish.
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Published 13 months ago by Paul O' Brien
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I'm mystified as to why Caitlin Moran has been chosen to review this record for Amazon. Obviously she's welcome to her view but she might just as well be anyone else off the... Read more
Published 16 months ago by J
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I remember feeling a little disappointed with the Heroes album when I first bought it as a teenager, it was the first Bowie album I didnt automatically fall in love with. Read more
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Published on 13 Aug 2009 by Paul Taylor
One mamoth song and an instrumental triumph on side 2.
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In honesty, this is just a copy of the much better `Low' released earlier the same year, with songs in the first half and `sound-pieces' in the second. Read more
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