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~ David Bowie
3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)

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Product details

  • Audio CD (4 Aug 2003)
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Format: CD+DVD, Enhanced, Import
  • Label: EMI
  • ASIN: B00009Z4I7
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 111,307 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

Disc: 1
1. The Wedding
2. You've Been Around
3. I Feel Free
4. Black Tie White Noise
5. Jump They Say
6. Nite Flights
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Disc: 2
1. Real Cool World
2. Lucy Can't Dance
3. Jump They Say (Rock Mix)
4. Black Tie White Noise (3rd Floor US Radio Mix)
5. Miracle Goodnight (Make Believe Mix)
6. Don't Let Me Down And Down (Jangan Susahkan Hatiku) (Indonesian Vocal Version)
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Disc: 3
1. The WeddingJump They Say
2. With Lester Bowie/Looking For Lester
3. On Reeves Gabrels
4. You've Been Around
5. Expanding And Experimenting
6. Nite Flights
See all 17 tracks on this disc

Product Description

CD Description
Expanded version of Bowie's 1993 album. Includes David teaming up with namesake Lester Bowie on the single 'Jump They Say' as well as covers of Morrissey's 'I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday' and Cream's 'I Feel Free'. This box set includesseveral rare remixes as well as footage of Bowie in performance with Reeves Gabrels and Lester Bowie in Hollywood. Alsoincludes interviews with Bowie and promo videos for 3 tracks.

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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Re-issue For Bowie's Career Re, 19 Aug 2003
By Mr. R. Rogers - See all my reviews
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By 1993, David Bowie was considered washed up, a has-been, a complete irrelevance. Since his greatest commercially selling album, "Lets Dance" in 1983, he had produced two criminally dire albums in "Tonight" and "Never Let Me Down" and three albums with rock dirge group "Tin Machine". Who would have guessed that his marriage to Somalian model Iman Abdul-Majid would have helped kickstart a creative process that would produce his best album in over ten years?

Although the album was said by Bowie to have been inspired by his marriage to Iman, only two of the tracks featured appear to have any reference to the event. "The Wedding" features wedding bells as the an album opener, and "The Wedding Song" is a gushing, swooning and deeply romantic paen to his new bride. The rest of the album however is classic Bowie; full of darkness, paranoia and more importantly - killer tunes.

Lead-off single "Jump They Say" is a stunning breakneck hard-edged dance track packed with gorgeous sax work from Bowie and excellent trumpet work from Lester Bowie (no relation). Second single the title track is a laid back funk/soul duet with Detroit singer Al B Sure! (Yes, that is his real name) that surely deserved higher than it's number 39 chart placing. And third and final single "Miracle Goodnight" is possibly the catchiest song Bowie, if indeed, anyone has ever written. But aside from the trio of excellent singles, there is much more listening pleasure to still be had. The whole album is filled with funky and soulful dance percussion, Bowie's voice is on the finest form that it has ever been in, and the lead sax and trumpet playing from the two Bowies is dynamism perfection. Four cover versions also make up the album; Cream's "I Feel Free" is given a radical funk makeover with a poignant guitar solo from Mick Ronson (he died from liver cancer days after its recording), Scott Walker's "Nite Flights" becomes a dark and brooding dance track that was to sweep to nightclubs throughout the nineties, Morrissey's "I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday" is given a hugely overwrought and thouroughly over dramatic rendition. It would however have made a great single. The only weak link on the album is "Don't Let Me Down And Down", a little known french love song sung quite weakly against an insipid backing track.

The album was given was given a hugely warm reception when it was first released, and that praise is still deserved. This reissue comes with a bonus cd of extra tracks and remixes which vary from the essential ("Lucy Can't Dance", Leftfield's rocking remix of "Jump They Say") to plain filler ("Real Cool World"). This cd does however compile much wanted hard-to-find tracks and some thrilling, if dated, remixes. Also, this set comes with a DVD of interview footage, some concert footage, and three promo videos. The interview is dull, the performances are good but not essential, but the three promos are among the best that Bowie has ever produced.

All in all, this set is an absolute must for any self-respecting Bowie fan, and at this price this is fantastic collection worth taking a look at if you are interested in taking a look at Bowie's recording history, but don't want anything quite as dark and experimental as say "Low", "Outside" or "Station To Station".

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars The Beginnings of a Bowie Revival, 2 Sep 2003
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This album marks a creative revival of David Bowie that would continue throughout the 1990s, extending to "Heathen" and maybe even beyond. Growing with every listen, it seems more jazz-infused than any other Bowie album with its liberal sprinkling of saxophone and trumpet. Added to this are many highlights which diversify an already-diverse Bowie back-catalogue.

"The Wedding" is a good opener, an instrumental with a slow build up. It attempts to unite east and west, reflecting the nature of Bowie's marriage, and does so successfully with its sound that harks to the Middle East but keeps to Western conventions with its infectious piano and bass-line.

"You've Been Around" hints to the more experimental sound that would permeate the "Outside" album with its menacing synths at the start. Such an allusion is continued later via the brooding instrumental "Pallas Athena" with David Bowie's sax echoing the melody of "A Small Plot of Land" at times.

"Black Tie White Noise" seems to be Bowie's answer to Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On?", not only in its cry for racial unity but also within its melody which closely echoes Gaye's at times.

"Jump They Say" is a fairly unsettling track based upon the suicide of one of Bowie's colleagues and perfectly reflects, in both lyrics and music, the intense pressures of the modern world and the state of manic depression that can result.

"Nite Flights" is an interesting cover of Scott Walker's 1977 track which is fairly faithful to the original yet somewhat darker with its harder rhythm and sinister synths permeating in the background.

"Miracle Goodnight" is fairly infectious, if a little light-headed, and an obvious single, being the most commercial track on the album. Another to rival it, "Lucy Can't Dance" was surprisingly left off the original album but appears on disc 2, proving just as catchy if not repetitive.

"I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday" is an over-exuberant, at times comical, Morrisey cover which works fairly well and is one of the main highlights on a pretty solid album which casts Bowie back into some sort of creative credibility after a fairly sobering period in the 1980s.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A great re-release, 4 Oct 2003
By Neil Tyrer (United Arab Emirates) - See all my reviews
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This special re-issue of BTWN with all the additional remixes, rare tracks and great DVD footage is a really good buy. Another of Bowie's albums that wasn't fully appreciated when it was originally released, it sounds really fresh ten years on, and I've really enjoyed rediscovering it. If you missed out on this first time around, this special edition is well worth adding to your collection.
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