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Sound + Vision [Box set] [Extra tracks] [Original recording reissued] [Original recording remastered]

~ David Bowie
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  • Audio CD (1 Dec 2003)
  • Number of Discs: 4
  • Format: Box set, Extra tracks, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
  • Label: EMI
  • ASIN: B0000DB56S
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 106,308 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Disc: 1
1. Space Oddity
2. Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud (Rare B Side Version)
3. The Prettiest Star (Single Version)
4. London Bye Ta Ta
5. Black Country Rock
See all 19 tracks on this disc
Disc: 2
1. 1984
2. Dodo
3. Big Brother
4. Rebel Rebel (US Single Version)
5. Suffragette City (Live)
See all 19 tracks on this disc
Disc: 3
1. Station To Station (Live)
2. Warszawa (Live)
3. Breaking Glass (Live)
4. Red Sails
5. Look Back In Anger
See all 17 tracks on this disc
Disc: 4
1. Blue Jean
2. Time Will Crawl
3. Baby Can Dance
4. Amazing
5. I Can't Read
See all 16 tracks on this disc

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Rare is the artist who is more deserving of a box set than David Bowie. A true renaissance man in modern popular culture, Bowie has effortlessly hopped between the worlds of theatre, film, art and music and had a fair amount of success in all of these creative pursuits. But it is in music where he's made his greatest mark and the 4-CD SOUND + VISION collection does a fine job documenting the heard and unheard musical phases that this talented artist has gone through in the '70s, right up until the release of 1980's SCARY MONSTERS.
Beautifully designed and meticulously annotated, this collection provides detailed information about backing musicians and recording dates. Starting with a previously unreleased demo version of "Space Oddity", SOUND + VISION chronologically traces all the different personas Bowie adapted and cast aside, coming full circle by ending with "Ashes To Ashes" thesequel to Bowie's first hit. Space alien ("Ziggy Stardust",) paranoid futurist ("Big Brother",) blue-eyed soulster ("Young Americans") and new wave nihilist ("Kingdom Come") are all characters that Bowie played at one time or another, changing the face of pop.

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27 of 29 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Splendid, better than any Greatest Hits Compilation, 13 Oct 2003
THIS IS NOT THE CANADIAN BOX SET THAT THE PREVIOUS REVIEWER STATES. That being the 1990 Ryko-disc set. Similar but not the same!!!!. This box set incorporates Bowie's work up to Buddah Of Suburbia and Black Tie White Noise. There are even Tin Machine songs on here!!!!!!!

It has strayed away from the well known hits, though there are still many here, such as "Ashes to Ashes", "Changes" and "Blue Jean". Instead it concentrates on the best album cuts from Bowie's phenomenal 70's 80's and early 90's work.

For CD completists, this is the only place you will find "After Today" "Baals Hymn", "The Drowned Girl" and "Modern Love" (live). There are also a handful of mixes and different out-takes of songs. The real highlights here is the original "The Prettiest Star". This is NOT the Aladdin Sane cut but the 1970 single with Marc Bolan on guitar. And "Pallas Athena". This is the live version performed by The Tao Jones Index, which was a secret gig Bowie did at The Phoenix Festival.

This is a must for any Bowie fan and an excellent starting point for any musical youth wishing to know what all the fuss was about when Bowie hit the scene.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Sound & Vision MK2, 10 Dec 2003
By G. P. Stowe "garystowe" (UK) - See all my reviews
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Great package , but you may want to know whats missing and whats new
What's new to this MK2 box set is from CD3 track 10 Baal's Hymn (and about time too)
Everything past this track is new compared to the Old MK1 4 Disc set
What's missing the whole of Disc 4 from MK1
As Follows
John I'm only Dancing
Changes
The Supermen
All recorded live at Boston 10/01/72
Also the Video to Ashes to Ashes
But the extra content of 4 post cards and 1 great Bio is worth your pennies
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17 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars What are box sets for?, 29 Dec 2003
By D. Wright "davewright29" - See all my reviews
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Buying Sound and Vision does not mean I can dispense with the Singles Collection because it does not have classics such as Let's Dance, Fame and Absolute Beginners which I wouldn't otherwise have, nor does it contain other classics such as Jean Genie, Starman, Diamond Dogs, Golden Years and unforgivably Life On Mars - one of Bowie's greatest songs. I would have preferred the full length album version of 'Heroes' too rather than the German 'Helden' if we were going to get that classic in something other than it's single format.
I suppose what I really purchased this set for was for the last disc and a half which rounds up much of Bowie's stuff that I have never had the inclination to seek out. Unfortunately, having listened to this I can understand why I never bothered with it. I'm afraid, Cat People, Buddha of Suburbia and Loving The Alien apart, most of it's fairly forgettable. Tin Machine were reviled in their time, then have undergone a partial critical renaissance, but hearing the six tracks included here from their two albums, it's true they really weren't anything special at all.
And why include two versions of the instrumental Pallas Athena? The second one, and the last track on the box set is simply a dreadful noise and it goes on too long. I would have preferred to hear Bowie's version of All The Young Dudes, Amsterdam or My Death, or even the brilliant Width of A Circle from Man Who Sold The World, even though I already have these songs in one form or another.
What of the rarities? Well the demo version of Space Oddity is excellent and different enough to the regular version to be worthy of inclusion as is 1984/Dodo. It's Hard to Be A Saint In The City is one of my favourite Springsteen songs and is always worth hearing, tho I prefer Bruce's own version from his first album.
David's two seventies live albums 'David Live' and 'Stage' are presently unavailable, so unless you already have them (and I don't), this is the only place you can presently hear samples of them. Doubtless they will certainly be re-issued at some point though. They were criticised at the time, but I was pleasantly suprised at what I heard on here. Again the live versions are sufficiently different, although not superior, from the studio versions to make them worthwhile, and they are strong enough songs to survive rearrangement.
Finally, the packaging is a bit bizarre and not particularly engaging. Why not go for the common fold out book which would be easier to access than all the crappy plastic stuff? The book is attractive but didn't reveal anything new. While I could have done without the poster and the postcards, which might have reduced the price a bit. What's to bet this will be reissued in a different format in a couple of years?
So all in all, this is worth getting if you're a fan, but if you've got the singles or best of collections and/or a few of the major albums, far from essential.

And as we know David had produced work since that puts disc four of this set to shame!

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