david bowie - sound + vision box set

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the vinyl looks quite stupendous and is nice to have even though i dont think i ever play the thing which is why i might be selling it soon. classic i suppose though.

― zowie, Monday, 23 May 2005 08:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Low should get remixed by The Egyptian Lover.

― Nic de Teardrop (Nicholas), Monday, 23 May 2005 08:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Mostly dud - Bowie recorded very few extra tracks, only two of which ("Bombers" and "Crystal Japan") worth your time. As rob Sheffield once wrote, Bowie wasn't enough of a vanguard artist to let great songs gather dust in a vault.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 23 May 2005 09:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I've got it on CD, and I got it for 0, so classick, obv!!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 23 May 2005 10:09 (twenty-one years ago)

...that said I haven't listened to it for ages and ages and ages.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 23 May 2005 10:09 (twenty-one years ago)

** Bowie wasn't enough of a vanguard artist to let great songs gather dust in a vault**

What does this mean? Guess I'm not enough of a vanguard reader.

As box sets go, S+V is better than most in terms of providing an overview. Some of the bonus cuts are pretty good if not "great."

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Monday, 23 May 2005 11:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm thinking "vanguard" = "prolific and consistanly brilliant".

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 23 May 2005 11:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah. Sheffield was being ironic.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 23 May 2005 11:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I think vanguard = "forefront of an action or movement." Never seen the word used the way David R defines it. I still don't get the point, but then I may be too earnest to appreciate subtle irony.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Monday, 23 May 2005 12:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I think it's classic, if only for the German version of "Heroes" and the alternatie take on "Wild Eyed Boy from Freecloud" (refreshingly stripped of the orchestration that blights the version on...is it Space Oddity?)

Anyway, it's great.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 23 May 2005 12:21 (twenty-one years ago)

dude, he's trying to say that Bowie doesn't deserve a box set!

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 23 May 2005 12:21 (twenty-one years ago)

then he's just plain WRONG. Besides "Helden" you also get "Round & Round" and "WhiteLight/WhiteHeat" by the Spiders From Mars and the superior version of "John I'm Only Dancing" left off Alladin Sane.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Monday, 23 May 2005 12:26 (twenty-one years ago)

don'tk now what's on the box, but the extra tracks on the Ryko cd reissues that are left off the new reissues are all totally brilliant. Velvet Goldmine and Sweet Head off Ziggy, Holy Holy and Lightning Frightening off Man Who Sold the World for instance.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 23 May 2005 13:28 (twenty-one years ago)

"Holy Holy" IS holy! Alas those cuts aren't on the box set.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Monday, 23 May 2005 13:31 (twenty-one years ago)

This is one reason I'm never giving up my Ryko reissues.

For the time, the box set was immensely great and important for me -- when it first came out in 1989, it was actually the first I'd heard of any of Bowie's pre-Let's Dance stuff. So for me it came in as a big huge heap of music that pretty well screwed with my brain (in the best possible way).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 23 May 2005 13:41 (twenty-one years ago)

"This is one reason I'm never giving up my Ryko reissues"

Agreed! And why "Too Dizzy" was left off the Never Let Me Down reissue has troubled my sleep to this day.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 23 May 2005 13:43 (twenty-one years ago)

the fact that you miss Too Dizzy is goig to trouble mine!

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 23 May 2005 13:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't get why they cut the bonus tracks off the other reissues. Why limit their audience that way?

sound + vision is OOP now, isn't it? I haven't seen it in ages, and I never bought it because it was so expensive. Did anyone ever watch the video CD?

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 23 May 2005 13:49 (twenty-one years ago)

sound + vision is OOP now, isn't it?

The original version is, but it got rereleased a couple of years back with tracks that took everything up to the late nineties or so. It's now four discs.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 23 May 2005 13:50 (twenty-one years ago)

But "Too Dizzy" still wasn't included?

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 23 May 2005 13:54 (twenty-one years ago)

No. But I have to say (AMG bad review aside), the added tracks are actually a good distillation of this period:

Loving the Alien Bowie 7:07
Dancing With the Boys Alomar, Bowie, Pop 3:36
Blue Jean Bowie, Gabrels 3:12
Time Will Crawl Bowie 4:19
Baby Can Dance Bowie 4:58
Amazing Bowie, Gabrels 3:04
I Can't Read Bowie, Gabrels 4:57
Shopping for Girls Bowie, Gabrels 3:45
Goodbye Mr. Ed Bowie, Sales, Sales 3:24
Amlapura Bowie, Gabrels 3:49
You've Been Around Bowie, Gabrels 4:44
Nite Flights [#] Engel 4:37
Pallas Athena [#] Bowie
Jump They Say Bowie 4:25
Buddha of Suburbia Bowie 4:27
Dead Against It Bowie
South Horizon Bowie 5:25
Pallas Athenas [live] Bowie 8:19
Releas

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 23 May 2005 14:18 (twenty-one years ago)

It's maybe been supplanted by more deluxe packages, but at the time of release, Sound & Vision set the standard for a hits-n-rarities boxed comp. Maybe the Eric Clapton Crossroads thing came first, but since I cared not for Slowhand, it was the Bowie box that really seemed to pave the way. And that beautiful Ryko vinyl! Forever classic.

― brianiac (briania), Monday, 23 May 2005 14:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Reeves Gabrels co-wrote Blue Jean?

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Monday, 23 May 2005 14:58 (twenty-one years ago)

in his rêves

― willem (willem), Monday, 23 May 2005 15:02 (twenty-one years ago)

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