David Bowie - Fifty Two Years ~ The Complete Singles (12 CD, 2016)

 

Unofficial release covering the whole career of David Bowie

David Bowie - A New Career in a New Town (1977–1982) [8 CD, 2017]

A New Career in a New Town (1977–1982) is a box set by English singer-songwriter David Bowie, released on 29 September 2017. A follow-up to the compilations Five Years (1969–1973) and Who Can I Be Now? (1974–1976), the set covers Bowie's career from 1977 to 1982.

1977 - Low (00:39:04)

1977 - ’Heroes’ (00:40:25)

1977 - ’Heroes’ E.P. (00:19:25)

1978 - Stage 2CD (01:13:43)

1978 - Stage 2CD (2017 Edition) (01:37:08)

1979 - Lodger (00:34:58)

1979 - Lodger (2017 Tony Visconti Mix) (00:35:06)

1980 - Scary Monsters (00:45:48)

David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972/2012) [24-192]

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (often shortened to Ziggy Stardust) is the fifth studio album by English musician David Bowie, released on 16 June 1972 in the United Kingdom through RCA Records. It was co-produced by Bowie and Ken Scott and features Bowie's backing band the Spiders from Mars, composed of Mick Ronson, Trevor Bolder, and Mick Woodmansey. Most of the songs were written about the same time that Bowie's previous album Hunky Dory (1971) was written. After Hunky Dory was completed, recording for Ziggy Stardust began in November 1971 at Trident Studios in London; further sessions were held in early February 1972. 

David Bowie - Who Can I Be Now? (1974-1976) [12 CD, 2016] (FLAC + 320)

 

A sequel to the 2015 box Five Years 1969-1973, 2016's Who Can I Be Now? (1974-1976) covers just three years but this stretch in the mid-'70s happens to be the peak of David Bowie's superstardom. That much can be gleaned from the number of albums within the set: three studio albums -- Diamond Dogs, Young Americans, Station to Station, each released in a subsequent year -- along with the double live album David Live from 1974. Four albums in three years is plenty but to that core canon Who Can I Be Now? adds five additional alternate albums, each with varying degrees of rarities. 

David Bowie - Five Years 1969-1973 [12 CD, 2015] (FLAC + 320)

 Five Years (1969–1973) is a box set by English singer-songwriter David Bowie, released in September 2015. The period of Bowie's career from 1969 to 1973 is summarised over twelve discs and thirteen LPs. Exclusive to the box sets is Re:Call 1, a new compilation of non-album singles, single versions and B-sides.

It includes the albums David Bowie (more commonly known as Space Oddity), The Man Who Sold the World, Hunky Dory, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, Aladdin Sane and the last Spiders album with Bowie Pin Ups. The albums cover the 5 years of Bowie's rise to stardom, with the box set also including Live Santa Monica '72, the soundtrack album of the last Ziggy Stardust show at the Hammersmith Odeon, and a 2003 Ken Scott stereo remix of Ziggy Stardust (previously available on the 2003 SACD edition and 2012 vinyl-and-DVD-Audio edition of the album). 

David Bowie- Transmission Impossible [3 CD, 2018] (FLAC + 320)

 

 

David Bowie s output from the late 1980s and 1990s has been reassessed in all the right quarters since the great man s tragic passing in 2016, and has rightfully now been awarded plaudits often denied the releases and concerts from this era at the time they took place. This triple disc set goes some way to contributing to this effort by bringing together broadcast recordings form 1990 and 1992. The first of these was recorded at Bowie s gig in Buenos Aires in August of 90, while the second is from Tin Machine s legendary tour of Japan in the early part of 92, with the show presented here being the group s performance at the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo on 17th February. The set is completed with a disc of television appearances recorded between 1975 and 1995, which features some of Bowie s best ever live TV spots.

David Bowie - Brilliant Adventure (1992 - 2001) [11 CD, 2021/FLAC]

 

The latest in an award-winning and critically acclaimed series of David Bowie box sets is an eleven CD box, eighteen-piece vinyl set and standard digital download box set. The collection is named after the Koto led instrumental penultimate track from the ‘hours...’ album. The box sets include newly remastered versions, with input from the original producers and collaborators, of some of Bowie’s most underrated and experimental material: BLACK TIE WHITE NOISE, THE BUDDHA OF SUBURBIA (available on vinyl for the first time in nearly 30 years), 1.OUTSIDE, EARTHLING and ‘hours…’ along with the expanded live album BBC RADIO THEATRE, LONDON, JUNE 27, 2000, the non-album / alternative version / B-sides and soundtrack music compilation RE:CALL 5 and the legendary previously unreleased TOY.

TOY was recorded following David's triumphant Glastonbury 2000 performance. Bowie entered the studio with his band, Mark Plati, Sterling Campbell, Gail Ann Dorsey, Earl Slick, Mike Garson, Holly Palmer and Emm Gryner, to record new interpretations of songs he’d first recorded from 1964-1971. David planned to record the album ‘old school’ with the band playing live, choose the best takes and then release it as soon as humanly possible in a remarkably prescient manner. Unfortunately, in 2001 the concept of the ‘surprise drop’ album release and the technology to support it were still quite a few years off, making it impossible to release TOY, as the album was now named, out to fans as instantly as David wanted. In the interim, David did what he did best; he moved on to something new, which began with a handful of new songs from the same sessions and ultimately became the album HEATHEN, released in 2002 and now acknowledged as one of his finest moments.

Disc 01: Black Tie White Noise (Remaster)

Disc 02: The Buddha of Suburbia (Remaster)

Disc 03: Outside (Remaster)

Disc 04: Earthling (Remaster)

Disc 05: ‘…hours’ (Remaster)

Disc 06: BBC Radio Theatre, London June 2000 [Box Set Exclusive] (Remaster)

Disc 07: BBC Radio Theatre, London June 2000 [Box Set Exclusive] (Remaster)

Disc 08: Toy

Disc 09: Re:Call 5 part 1 [Box Set Exclusive] (Remaster)

Disc 10: Re:Call 5 part 2 [Box Set Exclusive] (Remaster)

Disc 11: Re:Call 5 part 3 [Box Set Exclusive] (Remaster)

VA - Many Faces of David Bowie (3 CD, 2016/FLAC)

David Bowie was an icon. A legend. A musical chameleon. Some even say that he was a genius. Like Lennon and Elvis before him, when Bowie passed away on January 10th, 2016, it was the end of an era. The rock 'n' roll landscape that he helped create is now vastly different now that he is gone. However, it is time to celebrate his life and the music he left behind.

 On this special three CD set, his legacy is celebrated in performances by his former bandmates, collaborators and even the man himself. This release features songs written or covered by Bowie played by many of the artists he called friends: Iggy Pop, Tony Visconti, Ian Hunter, Mick Ronson, Reeves Gabrels, Mike Garson, Angie Bowie, Woody Woodmansey and many others. There are even some tracks performed by his former band The Spiders From Mars. To top it all off, David himself is featured as guest vocalist or producer on a handful of these recordings. So, raise a toast to the Starman and enjoy this triple disc dosage of David! 

 

David Bowie - Original Album Classics (3 CD, 2012/FLAC)

 

CD1: Outside (1995)

CD2: Earthling (1997)

CD3: Hours... (1999)

David Bowie - Hello Birmingham [Limited Edition] (4 CD, 2016/FLAC)

 

David Bowie live at The NEC Birmingham, UK

19-20 November 2003

David Bowie - The Width Of A Circle (2 CD, 2021/FLAC)

New Parlophone release is what they are calling a ‘companion piece’ to Metrobolist, last year’s Tony Visconti remix of David Bowie‘s 1970 album The Man Who Sold The World. The new collection is a two-CD set called The Width of a Circle and features a combination of Ryko-era bonus tracks, BBC live recordings and new mixes, all from 1970.

The first CD features 14 tracks performed by David Bowie and The Tony Visconti Trio (a.k.a. The Hype) for John Peel’s The Sunday Show in February 1970 (the label are claiming that six of these are unreleased) while the second disc is very much an ‘odds and sods’ collection of material. It includes some bonus material first heard on CD back in 1989/1990 when Rykodisc began their Bowie reissue campaign.

Such tracks include 1970 single A-side ‘Holy Holy’, the single mix of ‘The Prettiest Star’ (although it’s included here in unreleased alternate mix form – “created for promotion in the US market”), both mono and stereo mixes of ‘London Bye Ta-Ta’ and the A and B-side mixes of ‘Memory of A Free Festival’.

In addition, this CD offers five tracks from a play (“The Looking Glass Murders aka Pierrot in Turquoise”) and five 2020 stereo mixes of some of the non-album material remixed by Tony Visconti. Four of those five are also available on a special 10-inch single (also called The Width of a Circle).

David Bowie – Looking at the Moon! (Live Phoenix Festival 97) [2 CD, 2021/FLAC]

 

Completely unreleased until now, Looking at the Moon! Is the fourth in the Brilliant Live Adventures series of 90s live albums.

Recorded live at The Phoenix Festival, Long Marston, England on 20th July, 1997, Looking at the Moon! features such previously unreleased rarities as a cover of Laurie Anderson’s ‘O Superman’, which the band had also played at their secret show as ‘The Tao Jones Index’ show at the festival the previous day.

David Bowie- Conversation Piece [5CD, 2019)

David Bowie - Conversation Piece contains twelve previously unreleased tracks/demos from the period as well as a brand new mix of the Space Oddity (aka David Bowie) album by long-time Bowie producer/collaborator Tony Visconti. The new mix of the album now features the title track of the boxset Conversation Piece restored to the tracklisting in its initially intended position, before it was originally dropped due to time constraints of vinyl. Of the 2019 Space Oddity album mix Visconti says It was so much fun to find hidden gems of musicianship with more time to mix the second time around, a guitar twiddle here, a trombone blast there, Marc Bolans voice in a group choir and more detail in general that we overlooked all those years ago when the label gave us a week at the most to mix this album. And in the details you will find 22 year old David Bowie, who would soon take the world by storm." The 120 page hardback book accompanying the box features exclusive memorabilia from the personal collection of Davids former manager, the late Ken Pitt, as well as from the David Bowie Archive, and includes photos by Ray Stevenson, Vernon Dewhurst, David Bebbington, Ken Pitt, Alec Byrne, Tony Visconti and Jojanneke Claasen. The sleeve notes have been written for the release by Bowie experts Mark Adams, Tris Penna and Kevin Cann along with contributions from Davids lifelong friend George Underwood, Tony Visconti, Vernon Dewhurst, Dana Gillespie and John Hutch Hutchinson. The 2019 mix of the Space Oddity album will also be released separately and individually on CD, standard digital, 96/24 digital and vinyl. The various vinyl configurations will be randomly distributed worldwide with a mixture of hand-numbered labels; numbers 1 to 1969 on silver vinyl numbers and 1970 to 2019 on gold vinyl, with the remainder being black vinyl.


Disc 1: Home Demos

01. April’s Tooth Of Gold
02. The Reverend Raymond Brown (Attends The Garden Fete On Thatchwick Green)
03. When I’m Five
04. Mother Grey
05. In The Heat Of The Morning
06. Goodbye 3d (Threepenny) Joe
07. Love All Around
08. London Bye, Ta-Ta
09. Angel Angel Grubby Face (Version 1)
10. Angel Angel Grubby Face (Version 2)
11. Animal Farm
12. Space Oddity (Solo Demo Fragment)
13. Space Oddity (Version 1 with John ‘Hutch’ Hutchinson)
14. Space Oddity (Version 2 with John ‘Hutch’ Hutchinson)
15. Space Oddity (Version 3 with John ‘Hutch’ Hutchinson)
16. Lover To The Dawn (with John ‘Hutch’ Hutchinson)
17. Ching-A-Ling (with John ‘Hutch’ Hutchinson)
18. An Occasional Dream (with John ‘Hutch’ Hutchinson)
19. Let Me Sleep Beside You (with John ‘Hutch’ Hutchinson)
20. Life Is A Circus (with John ‘Hutch’ Hutchinson)
21. Conversation Piece
22. Jerusalem
23. Hole In The Ground (with George Underwood)

Disc 2: The ‘Mercury’ Demos

01. Space Oddity
02. Janine
03. An Occasional Dream
04. Conversation Piece
05. Ching-A-Ling
06. I’m Not Quite (aka Letter To Hermione)
07. Lover To The Dawn
08. Love Song
09. When I’m Five
10. Life Is A Circus

Disc 3: Conversation Pieces

01. In The Heat Of The Morning (Decca Mono Version)
02. London Bye, Ta-Ta (Decca Alternative Version)
BBC Top Gear Radio Session
with The Tony Visconti Orchestra, Recorded 13th May, 1968
03. In The Heat Of The Morning
04. London Bye, Ta-Ta
05. Karma Man
06. When I’m Five
07. Silly Boy Blue

08. Ching-A-Ling
09. Space Oddity (Morgan Studios Version / AlternativeTake with John ‘Hutch’ Hutchinson)
10. Space Oddity (U.K. Single Edit)
11. Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud (Single B-Side / Mono Mix)
12. Janine (Mono Mix)
13. Conversation Piece
BBC Dave Lee Travis Show Radio Session,
Recorded 20th October, 1969
14. Let Me Sleep Beside You
15. Unwashed And Somewhat Slightly Dazed
16. Janine

Disc 4: The David Bowie (aka Space Oddity) Album

01. Space Oddity
02. Unwashed And Somewhat Slightly Dazed (inc. Don’t Sit Down)
03. Letter To Hermione
04. Cygnet Committee
05. Janine
06. An Occasional Dream
07. Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud
08. God Knows I’m Good
09. Memory Of A Free Festival
The Extras:
10. Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud (Single B-Side Stereo Mix)
11. Letter To Hermione (Early Mix)
12. Janine (Early Mix)
13. An Occasional Dream (Early Mix)
14. Ragazzo Solo, Ragazza Sola (Full Length Version)

Disc 5: The Space Oddity Album

01. Space Oddity
02. Unwashed And Somewhat Slightly Dazed
03. Letter To Hermione
04. Cygnet Committee
05. Janine
06. An Occasional Dream
07. Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud
08. God Knows I’m Good
09. Memory Of A Free Festival
The Extras:
10. Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud (Single Version)
11. Ragazzo Solo, Ragazza Sola

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