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Station To Station [Special Edition, Box set, Original recording remastered]

David Bowie Audio CD
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  • Audio CD (27 Sep 2010)
  • Number of Discs: 3
  • Format: Special Edition, Box set, Original recording remastered
  • Label: EMI Records
  • ASIN: B003UTUQ3E
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (88 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 47,707 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Disc: 1
1. Station to Station
2. Golden Years
3. Word On a Wing
4. TVC 15
5. Stay
6. Wild Is the Wind
Disc: 2
1. Station to Station
2. Suffragette City
3. Fame
4. Word On a Wing
5. Stay
6. Waiting for the Man
See all 7 tracks on this disc
Disc: 3
1. Life On Mars?
2. Five Years
3. Panic in Detroit
4. Changes
5. TVC 15
6. Diamond Dogs
See all 8 tracks on this disc

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BBC Review

After what Bowie labelled “plastic soul,” on Young Americans, it was more a case of lost soul for 1976’s Station to Station. The desperately thin, paranoid Bowie was still living in America but casting anxious, glassy-eyed looks across the Atlantic to European salvation – principally the musical and spiritual regeneration of Berlin.

Conflicting reports claim the album was either recorded before or after filming The Man Who Fell to Earth in New Mexico, but either way both album and film feature heavy themes of alienation, loss of control, madness and addiction (in his alien character’s case, alcohol; in Bowie’s, cocaine). Musically, it’s similarly intense, even more so because Bowie claims he can’t remember making it. It’s also one of his greatest records, bridging the stations of US R&B and krautrock – a sound bleached of blues but rooted in the motorik rhythm of Neu! and Kraftwerk – and of its six track, four are certified tour de forces.

The ten-minute title-track is first. A train gathering speed whizzes from speaker to speaker before a slow, clanking instrumental incline toward Bowie’s (ever-deeper) vocal intro, and his most dramatic lyrical entrance: “The return of the thin white duke / throwing darts in lover’s eyes.” The Duke – Bowie’s last distinct character – resembles a Nietzsche superman obsessed with belief – Judaism, Christianity, the occult – and totally off the rails: “It’s not the side effect of the cocaine, I’m thinking that it must be love.” The second section is a gallop, Earl Slick’s snarling solo unfurling over Roy Bittan’s barrelhouse piano.

The elegiac aftermath Golden Years distils and bakes Young Americans’ finger-snapping soul-funk canon; TVC15 is the other pop nugget, a more jovial saga of (according to Bowie) a girl in love with her TV. In between, Word on a Wing is a simmering plea for help to an angel but it’s outdone for gorgeous, fearless melodrama by Wild is the Wind (the title-track of a 1957 film, made famous by Nina Simone) as the Duke/Bowie hits an emotional all-time low. Stay is equally desperate, but the music is an all-time Bowie high, watertight rock-funk behind more naked confessionals from the man usually behind a mask.

The five-CD Super Deluxe Edition features additional album mixes and single versions, but the three-disc Special Edition is the essential purchase, involving the twofer Nassau Coliseum concert, aka the Thin White Duke bootleg, where Station cuts come to life and old classics are either invigorated (a rampant The Jean Genie, an awesome Five Years) or badly clobbered (especially Suffragette City and Queen Bitch). The band couldn’t truly rock, but then Bowie wasn’t interested in rock; he was rolling toward another sound and vision, the Berlin trilogy.

--Martin Aston

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56 of 59 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Such is the stuff from where dreams are woven 27 Sep 2010
By Supertzar TOP 1000 REVIEWER
Format:Audio CD
OK, here's a review from someone who's actually heard the release.

CD1 is the original album remastered. And what an excellent job has been done. I have the original 1991 Rykodisc era Sound+Vision release and this tops even that. Not only are all the instruments clear as a bell, the bass is more prominent, which really brings the music alive.

CD2 and 3 are Bowie's March 1976 Nassau Coliseum concert. Long term fans have long cherished bootlegs of this night - the band is far less cabaret than Bowie's 1974 outing and less cold and brittle than the instrumental-dominated 1978 Stage incarnation.

The concert has a good mix of Station to Station tracks - of which the title track, Stay and Word on a Wing are masterful - and older hits. Some of the recordings are a little ropey - Life on Mars and Five Years are (superior) bootleg quality and the mix on the 2nd half of the concert is somewhat unbalanced - cymbals dominate, you can only hear one guitar for a lot of the time, the piano is very quiet and the bass just a low rumbling. Whilst Jean Genie and TVC15 suffer most from this - both sound thin and even weedy during choruses and solos - Changes, Diamond Dogs and Queen Bitch are by contrast hugely entertaining - and Panic in Detroit is positively furious.

The packaging is great. A Cameron Crewe essay puts the album in context, followed by a detailed chronology of the preparation and execution of the album. Three CD sized postcards complete the box.

Station to Station has always been a masterpiece - a satisfying and consistent yet diverse collection of powerfully realised signature tunes. This set puts Bowie's mid-70s journey into context, gives us his most satisfying live album to date and reinforces his mastery of both art and entertainment.
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24 of 25 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Cold Genius 27 Sep 2010
By A. Hogg
Format:Audio CD
Most people who purchase this (expensive) box set are going to be hard core long term Bowie fanatics of which there are undoubtably millions around the planet. What can be said about the original album? not a lot really that hasnt been said time and time again and i cant imagine many people will be buying this boxset that doesnt already own at least one copy of STS. The remastering and remixing on the DVD disc is superb and although there is very little happening in the rear channels the overall effect is simply stunning. The clarity took my breath away. The packaging is very well done and the extras that are included took me back to my youth when id collect anything and everything from newspaper cuttings to huge posters on my bedroom wall of the man. The cds are inserted inside the respective vinyl album sleeves of both the Original album and the live show from the tour of 76. This isnt something id expected and wouldve much prefered the cds to have their own case or even cardboard sleeve as it means constantly manhandling both album covers and pulling the cds out of their tight little pockets inside the gatefold cover which will over time cause wear and tear on the card. I wont be getting my Turntable out of the loft to play the vinyl either and wouldve preffered a box set that didnt include them at a cheaper price but as a long term collector i can understand many oldies will want a vinyl copy included.
Station to Station was Bowie at his best. Coke addled with delusions of superpower he embraced his demons and came out as the Cold Genius that became the Thin White Duke. The tour that is included here literally changed my idea of what a rockstar could be when i saw him perform in London in 76 and to have a crystal clear full recording of the show albeit a different performance had me dancing around my living room as if i was back at Wembley, Its a fantastic recording of a fantastic tour.
Memories come in expensive packages nowadays,just how much anyone is prepared to pay is a hard one to guess and i wouldnt have payed out this amount for some of the albums Mr Bowie has released over the years no matter how shiny and sparkly they tried to make the boxes look....Station to Station Ultimate fan boxset? yeah on reflection its worth paying out.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Stunning Re-mixes 27 Sep 2010
Format:Audio CD
Anybody that had any doubts about the 'new' 5.1 and stereo mixes included with this set, you can rest in peace. They are brilliant. The vocals are a lot more to the fore and the 5.1 mix is less gimmicky than TV's 'Young Americans' mix, with the mix being mostly to the front and apart from an occasional handclap and bit of percussion, the rear speakers are mainly giving an ambience akin to a 'live" gig sound. There are definitely more vocals to be heard, especially on 'TVC15' and this track in particular has benefited from a remix, sounding less cluttered than before. I think the main bone of contention though in both the 5.1 and stereo mixes will be where Dave sings "your Life Itself" on 'Wild Is The Wind". The emotional silence is filled with a rising bass and drum line ! The 'new' stereo mix is very very powerful and overall the vocals on both mixes seem to my ears to be a bit 'dryer' than the original, but as Dave has been know to say that he wished he had mixed them with less Reverb, perhaps he has got his wish this time around. I assume he has given the thumbs up to these mixes, and so he should do, they are brilliant. The packaging is a work of art itself and anybody who has forked out for this set will not be disappointed. I hope 'Low' gets the same treatment with the bonus material including the original 'Man Who Fell To Earth' soundtrack. Now THAT will be heaven.
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