GangstaFam said:

Yum. Seems like a really good introduction to his classic work!

Cheek said:

Thanks!

Where are all the Bowie fans? I thought for sure there'd be more than this. C'mon people...COMPILE!!!

GangstaFam said:

beautiful job i'm working on my Disc 5 right now.... Tin Machine thru Outside

Nearing the home stretch. My partner is going to KILL me, heh. He's been dealing with my current Bowie obsession like a trouper. (I hope he realizes that these 6 CDs are likely to be the primary soundtrack to our upcoming trip to Maine, which will entail alot of driving, hehe.)

A couple notes on this one - -

I don't have the single edit for Heaven's In Here, or else I probably would have worked it on instead of You've Been Around or Baby Universal. I Can't Read (the ice storm version) is out of place chronologically but it has to be there for mix flow purposes Last songs cut: Heaven's In Here and No Control. I even managed to restrain myself and leave off I Have Not Been to Oxford Town, one of my all-time faves. But really I couldn't justify including it, alas I would also have loved to include Dead Against It and The Wedding Song. And Pallas Athena.

17 tracks, fits snugly at 77:15. All album versions. (i'm a slacker at single edits during this period.) Oh and yeah, i had to leave off black tie white noise. I know I'm committing revisionist history on this collection - but is it true that if I pretend Memory of a Free Festival, Day In Day Out and Black Tie White Noise don't exist, then maybe they'll go away??

1.Under the God
2.Prisoner of Love
3.Pretty Pink Rose
4.One Shot
5.You Belong In Rock 'n' Roll
6.Baby Universal
7.Real Cool World
8.Jump They Say
9.Night Flights
10.You've Been Around
11.Miracle Goodnight
12.Buddha of Suburbia
13.I Can't Read
14.The Heart's Filthy Lesson
15.Hallo Spaceboy
16.I'm Deranged
17.Strangers When We Meet

JonSnow said:

I have lots of 'em. Maybe I can hook you up.

JonSnow said:

You're not doin' too bad yourself.

JonSnow said:

I love "Black Tie White Noise"!!!
It has a great beat and a fantastic melody!!!

JonSnow said:

You don't like that song?

TRON said:

that would be excellent beyond belief !

GangstaFam said:

for some reason i have always hated that song... those 3 that i mentioned are by far my least fave bowie singles. well, and add Underground to that list, as well. When doing compilations, i usually pretend they were never released. LOL. I know, i'm bad.

JonSnow said:

That was the first Bowie album I bought and one of the reasons I bought it. What do you hate so much about it?

And the Part 1 of "Memory of a Free Festival" makes it much more tolerable, I find.

JonSnow said:

Do you know how to do that yousendit business?

GangstaFam said:

i don't know... it's totally irrational. it just strikes me as an icky mess. of course, i haven't listened to it probably in 10 years, heh. I tend to refuse to admit that it even exists. maybe i should give it a fresh listen.

GangstaFam said:

I've downloaded stuff that people have posted before, but I don't know how to post stuff....

JonSnow said:

So what do you have and what do you want/need?

These Bowie compilation threads are GREAT ~ I'm learning so much (mainly how much territory I still have to travel through when I start my serious Bowie listening in about a month). Thank you JonSnow and Tron (or is it Gangsta?) and everyone who's been contributing such delicious information!!!!

bratchildsfriend said:

You have a lot of the puzzle pieces. But a good compilation certainly helps you put them together. I might have to hook you up.

TRON said:

That might just be terrific !!!!!

bratchildsfriend said:

yer welcome. Yeah getting a good grasp on Bowie is quite an undertaking, but it's well worth it. he has so many amazing things to discover in his career.

JonSnow said:

I'ma post the results for my next set of 4. That way you can see what edits you might be interested in.

btw, does anyone have the edit for "Never Get Old"?

GangstaFam said:

I don't, but i saw the Never Get Old cd single at tower records the other night, i should have picked it up.

Looking forward to seeing what you come up with for your next set

JonSnow said:

Me too.

Amazing thread to read. I am not a big fan of Bowie, more of an admirer, but sometimes it just takes some Orger's enthousiasm to be intrigued...

Where can I order these discs, LoL

HamsterHuey said:

I still can't believe that with the great taste that you have and all the artists we like in common that you're not a huge fan.

GangstaFam said:

Hehehe
I stil discover and rediscover stuff about many artists every day. Noepie made two amazing MD's for me...

LoL
Again, where can I order these discs?



(I am off to the shower now... how do you do that?)

Okay, outa the shower.
Let's see. Bowie. I grew up with 80's Bowie, which was my main introduction to him, even though the song Sound And Vision was imprinted on my soul earlier, when still a child.That song still has the power to transport me back into time immediately.

Sound And Vision made me purchase Low, an album I took to in extreme ways. It kind of spoiled me in some ways. The album is SUCH a fixture for me, I think lots of his older work, in my ears, often sound manky.

This is why I was urging you to take on Kate Bush from the start, not the middle, it takes some more effort to penetrate their musical journey.

The exact reason I am not a BIG fan is self-protection, I guess. If I have ONE other artist to be completist, I am afraid I might have to change my name to Renner. LoL

My computer, which is my main musical playback instrument, is FILLED with music. I am close to filing away ALL my Prince music and use the space on the drives to get new music to get into... whaddayathink?

HamsterHuey said:

I think the world could use more Renners. Take the plunge.

question: is Bowie the best ever?

I'm working on Disc 6 and it ocurred to me that you can make a REALLY strong case for Bowie being the most important figure in rock. Who else has done what he has over 40 years, in terms of sheer music output, and influence is so many different areas? I think Bowie sometimes gets unfairly overshadowed by Lennon and Dylan. Don't get me wrong, i LOVE both of them, but... is Bowie the best of them all?

JonSnow said:

Yes.