David Bowie - Space Oddity (1969) (2009 SHM cd)

David Bowie - Space Oddity (1969) (2009 SHM cd)

rock | 1cd | xldrip-flac-cue-log-cover | 390MB

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Originally released as Man of Words/Man of Music, Space Oddity was David Bowie's first successful reinvention of himself. Abandoning both the mod and Anthony Newley fascinations that marked his earlier recordings, Bowie delves into a lightly psychedelic folk-rock, exemplified by the album's soaring title track. Bowie actually attempts a variety of styles on Space Oddity, as if he were trying to find the ones that suited him best. As such, the record isn't very cohesive, but it is charming, especially in light of his later records. Nevertheless, only "Wild Eyed Boy from Freecloud" and "Memory of a Free Festival" rank as Bowie classics, and even those lack the hooks or purpose of "Space Oddity."

Tracks:
01. "Space Oddity" – 5:15
02. "Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed" – 6:55
03. "(Don't Sit Down)" * – 0:39
04. "Letter to Hermione" – 2:28
05. "Cygnet Committee" – 9:33
06. "Janine" – 3:18
07. "An Occasional Dream" – 2:51
08. "Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud" – 4:45
09. "God Knows I'm Good" – 3:13
10. "Memory of a Free Festival" – 7:05
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David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust_ (1972) (2009 SHM cd) (XLD-flac-cover)

David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust_  (1972) (2009 SHM cd)

rock | 1cd | xldrip-flac-cue-log-cover | 330MB

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Borrowing heavily from Marc Bolan's glam rock and the future shock of A Clockwork Orange, David Bowie reached back to the heavy rock of The Man Who Sold the World for The Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. Constructed as a loose concept album about an androgynous alien rock star named Ziggy Stardust, the story falls apart quickly, yet Bowie's fractured, paranoid lyrics are evocative of a decadent, decaying future, and the music echoes an apocalyptic, nuclear dread. Fleshing out the off-kilter metallic mix with fatter guitars, genuine pop songs, string sections, keyboards, and a cinematic flourish, Ziggy Stardust is a glitzy array of riffs, hooks, melodrama, and style and the logical culmination of glam. Mick Ronson plays with a maverick flair that invigorates rockers like "Suffragette City," "Moonage Daydream," and "Hang Onto Yourself," while "Lady Stardust," "Five Years," and "Rock 'n' Roll Suicide" have a grand sense of staged drama previously unheard of in rock & roll. And that self-conscious sense of theater is part of the reason why Ziggy Stardust sounds so foreign. Bowie succeeds not in spite of his pretensions but because of them, and Ziggy Stardust — familiar in structure, but alien in performance — is the first time his vision and execution met in such a grand, sweeping fashion.

Tracks:
01 - Five Years
02 - Soul Love
03 - Moonage Daydream
04 - Starman
05 - It Ain't Easy
06 - Lady Stardust
07 - Star
08 - Hang on to Yourself
09 - Ziggy Stardust
10 - Suffragette City
11 - Rock 'n' Roll Suicide

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David Bowie - The Man Who Sold The World (1970) (2009 SHM cd) (XLD-log-cover)

David Bowie - The Man Who Sold The World (1970)

rock | 1cd | eac-flac-cue-log-cover | 350MB

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AMG:
Even though it contained no hits, The Man Who Sold the World, for most intents and purposes, is the beginning of David Bowie's classic period. Working with guitarist Mick Ronson and producer Tony Visconti for the first time, Bowie developed a tight, twisted heavy guitar rock that appears simple on the surface but sounds more gnarled upon each listen. The mix is off-center, with the fuzz-bass dominating the compressed, razor-thin guitars and Bowie's strangled, affected voice. The sound of The Man Who Sold the World is odd, but the music is bizarre itself, with Bowie's bizarre, paranoid futuristic tales melded to Ronson's riffing and the band's relentless attack. Musically, there isn't much innovation on The Man Who Sold the World — it is almost all hard blues-rock or psychedelic folk-rock — but there's an unsettling edge to the band's performance, which makes the record one of Bowie's best albums. [Rykodisc's 1990 CD reissue includes four bonus tracks, including the previously unreleased "Lightning Frightening," and the single "Holy Holy," and both sides of the 1971 "Arnold Corns" single, "Moonage Daydream" and "Hang On to Yourself," which are early and inferior versions of songs that would later appear on Ziggy Stardust.]

Tracks:
01 - The Width Of A Circle
02 - All The Madmen
03 - Black Country Rock
04 - After All
05 - Running Gun Blues
06 - Saviour Machines
07 - She Shook Me Cold
08 - The Man Who Sold The World
09 - The Superman
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David Bowie - Hunky Dory (1971) (2009 SHM cd) (XLD-log-cover)

David Bowie - Hunky Dory (1971) (2009 SHM cd)

rock | 1cd | xld-flac-cue-log-cover | 335MB

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After the freakish hard rock of The Man Who Sold the World, David Bowie returned to singer/songwriter territory on Hunky Dory. Not only did the album boast more folky songs ("Song for Bob Dylan," "The Bewlay Brothers"), but he again flirted with Anthony Newley-esque dancehall music ("Kooks," "Fill Your Heart"), seemingly leaving heavy metal behind. As a result, Hunky Dory is a kaleidoscopic array of pop styles, tied together only by Bowie's sense of vision: a sweeping, cinematic mélange of high and low art, ambiguous sexuality, kitsch, and class. Mick Ronson's guitar is pushed to the back, leaving Rick Wakeman's cabaret piano to dominate the sound of the album. The subdued support accentuates the depth of Bowie's material, whether it's the revamped Tin Pan Alley of "Changes," the Neil Young homage "Quicksand," the soaring "Life on Mars?," the rolling, vaguely homosexual anthem "Oh! You Pretty Things," or the dark acoustic rocker "Andy Warhol." On the surface, such a wide range of styles and sounds would make an album incoherent, but Bowie's improved songwriting and determined sense of style instead made Hunky Dory a touchstone for reinterpreting pop's traditions into fresh, postmodern pop music.

Tracks:
01. "Changes" – 3:37
02. "Oh! You Pretty Things" – 3:12
03. "Eight Line Poem" – 2:55
04. "Life on Mars?" – 3:53
05. "Kooks" – 2:53
06. "Quicksand" – 5:08
07. "Fill Your Heart" (Biff Rose, Paul Williams) – 3:07
08. "Andy Warhol" – 3:56
09. "Song for Bob Dylan" – 4:12
10. "Queen Bitch" – 3:18
11. "The Bewlay Brothers" – 5:22

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David Bowie - Aladdin Sane (1973) (2009 SHM cd) (xld-log-cover)

David Bowie - Aladdin Sane (1973) (2009 SHM cd)

rock | 1cd | xld-flac-cue-log-cover | 400MB

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Ziggy Stardust wrote the blueprint for David Bowie's hard-rocking glam, and Aladdin Sane essentially follows the pattern, for both better and worse. A lighter affair than Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane is actually a stranger album than its predecessor, buoyed by bizarre lounge-jazz flourishes from pianist Mick Garson and a handful of winding, vaguely experimental songs. Bowie abandons his futuristic obsessions to concentrate on the detached cool of New York and London hipsters, as on the compressed rockers "Watch That Man," "Cracked Actor," and "The Jean Genie." Bowie follows the hard stuff with the jazzy, dissonant sprawls of "Lady Grinning Soul," "Aladdin Sane," and "Time," all of which manage to be both campy and avant-garde simultaneously, while the sweepingly cinematic "Drive-In Saturday" is a soaring fusion of sci-fi doo wop and melodramatic teenage glam. He lets his paranoia slip through in the clenched rhythms of "Panic in Detroit," as well as on his oddly clueless cover of "Let's Spend the Night Together." For all the pleasures on Aladdin Sane, there's no distinctive sound or theme to make the album cohesive; it's Bowie riding the wake of Ziggy Stardust, which means there's a wealth of classic material here, but not enough focus to make the album itself a classic.

Tracks:
01. Watch that Man
02. Aladdin Sane (1913-1938-197?)
03. Drive-in Saturday
04. Panic in Detroit
05. Cracked Actor
06. Time
07. The Prettiest Star
08. Let's Spend the Night Together
09. The Jean Genie
10. Lady Grinning Soul
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David Bowie 1973 - Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars (Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2003 Limited Edition)

David Bowie 1973 - Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars (Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2003 Limited Edition)
rock | 2CD | EAC Rip | FLAC+CUE+LOG | cover | 610MB
EMI | 2003 remaster | RAR +5% recovery

Recorded at London's Hammersmith Odeon on 03-07-73. This was the last time we saw Ziggy Stardust.
Reissued in 2003 as a 30th Anniversary Edition (EMI) On the new edition, remixed by Tony Visconti, the original running order was restored, with Changes following Moonage Daydream.
This 2CD set also features the intro and finale music, The Width Of A Circle in its full 15 minute glory, as well as Bowie's complete farewell speech. Songs "The Jean Genie" & "Round And Round" from the concert are still left off the tracklist.
This version is the very limited, red CD special edition boxed set, (EMI 7243 5 82394 2 3) also released as a 2LP red vinyl set.

TRACK LIST
(PART 1)
1. Intro (1:05)
2. Hang On To Yourself (2:55)
3. Ziggy Stardust (3:19)
4. Watch That Man (4:14)
5. Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud (3:15)
6. All The Young Dudes (1:38)
7. Oh! You Pretty Thing (1:46)
8. Moonage Daydream (6:25)
9. Changes (3:36)
10. Space Oddity (5:05)
11. My Death (7:20)

(PART 2)
1. Intro (1:01)
2. Cracked Actor (3:03)
3. Time (5:31)
4. The Width Of A Circle (15:45)
5. Let's Spend The Night Together (3:02)
6. Suffragette City (4:34)
7. White Light / White Heat (4:01)
8. Farewell Speech (0:39)
9. Rock 'n' Roll Suicide (5:17)

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