David Bowie - BBC Sessions

David Bowie - BBC Sessions
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Album Details

Title: BBC Sessions
Artist: David Bowie
Release Date: 11/28/2000
Label: EMI
Album Type(s): Greatest Hits, lyrics/libretto, Contains explicit content
UPCs: 4988006785212, 4988006786080, 766486351325
Genre: Rock
Styles: Singer/Songwriter, Hard Rock, Prog-Rock/Art Rock, Glam Rock, Pop/Rock, Proto-Punk, Blue-Eyed Soul, Experimental Rock, Album Rock, Dance-Rock
Moods: Brooding, Clinical, Eccentric, Eerie, Stylish, Bravado, Cerebral, Complex, Detached, Dramatic, Elegant, Enigmatic, Exciting, Literate, Lush, Nocturnal, Playful, Provocative, Quirky, Rebellious, Sophisticated, Swaggering, Tense/Anxious, Theatrical, Urgent, Wry, Campy, Hypnotic, Intense, Ironic, Sexy, Yearning, Outrageous, Austere, Elaborate, Refined/Mannered
Total Copies: 0
Members Wishing: 4
Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 3

Track Listings Disc 1

  1. In the Heat of the Morning
  2. London Bye Ta Ta
  3. Karma Man
  4. Silly Boy Blue
  5. Let Me Sleep Beside You
  6. Janine
  7. Amsterdam
  8. God Knows I'm Good
  9. The Width of a Circle [Demo Version][Version]
  10. Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed
  11. Cygnet Committee
  12. Memory of a Free Festival
  13. Wild Eyed Boy from Freecloud
  14. Bombers
  15. Looking for a Friend
  16. Almost Grown
  17. Kooks
  18. It Ain't Easy

Track Listings Disc 2

  1. The Supermen
  2. Oh! You Pretty Things
  3. Eight Line Poem
  4. Hang On to Yourself
  5. Ziggy Stardust
  6. Queen Bitch
  7. I'm Waiting for the Man
  8. Five Years
  9. White Light/White Heat
  10. Moonage Daydream
  11. Hang On to Yourself
  12. Suffragette City
  13. Ziggy Stardust
  14. Starman
  15. Space Oddity
  16. Changes
  17. Oh! You Pretty Things
  18. Andy Warhol
  19. Lady Stardust
  20. Rock & Roll Suicide

Track Listings Disc 3

  1. Wild Is the Wind
  2. Ashes to Ashes
  3. Seven
  4. This Is Not America
  5. Absolute Beginners
  6. Always Crashing in the Same Car
  7. Survive
  8. Little Wonder
  9. The Man Who Sold the World
  10. Fame
  11. Stay
  12. Hallo Spaceboy
  13. Cracked Actor
  14. I'm Afraid of Americans
  15. Let's Dance

Additional Releases

YearTypeLabelCatalog #
2000CDEMI5212

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Album Review

After a couple of false starts earlier in the decade, a full-scale roundup of David Bowie's late-'60s/early-'70s sessions for the BBC finally emerged, to both thrill and disappoint the army of collectors who'd been waiting impatiently for its arrival. The thrill was delivered by the one-stop ability to pick up material that had hitherto been available only spread across a plethora of bootlegs and unauthorized releases, laboring beneath a host of misdirected sleeve notes and attributions. Radically more exciting takes of most of the Ziggy Stardust album are included here, together with swathes of the albums that came before it, and a pair of Velvet Underground covers that have never seen release in any other forum: "Waiting for the Man" and "White Light/White Heat." For those reasons alone, BBC Sessions ranks among the most important and enjoyable Bowie archival releases ever. The disappointment, meanwhile, lies in the fact that the sessions are spread across just two of the collection's three discs, meaning that a host of further performances are sacrificed. Several of these simply repeat songs performed elsewhere, of course, but there are a number of unique renditions that, again, the bootleg world long ago got its hands on. In their stead, listeners receive a bonus disc recounting what was then Bowie's most recent BBC performance, an hourlong excerpt from a June 2000 concert that brought the story up to date with some of his most impassioned performances since, indeed, the golden age spread across the first pair of discs. One point for completist collectors: early pressings of the U.K. disc inadvertently included two identical performances of "Ziggy Stardust," from January 1972, instead of an additional version taped in May. Rushing to correct the error, a one-song CD of the missing song was produced for any purchaser who asked for one; subsequent pressings restored the intended track. ~ Dave Thompson, All Music Guide

Credits

NameCredits
Alan HarrisProducer
Alan HawkshawKeyboards
Barry MorganDrums
Bernie AndrewsProducer
Chris LycettAssistant, Sound Balancer
Dana GillespieVocals
David BowieMain Performer, Guitar, Vocals, Keyboards
Earl SlickGuitar
Emm GrynerKeyboards, Vocals (Background)
Gail Ann DorseyGuitar, Bass, Vocals
Geoffrey AlexanderVocals
George UnderwoodVocals
Herbie FlowersBass
Holly PalmerVocals (Background), Percussion
Jeff GriffinProducer
John CambridgeDrums
John EtchellsAssistant
John LodgeBass
John McLaughlinGuitar
Mark PlatiMixing, Guitar, Musical Director, Bass
Mick "Woody" WoodmanseyDrums
Mick RonsonBass, Vocals, Guitar
Mick WayneGuitar
Mike GarsonKeyboards, Piano
Nick GommProducer, Engineer
Pete RitzemaEngineer, Producer
Rex RayDesign
Roger PuseyProducer
Sterling CampbellDrums
The HypePerformer
The Tony Visconti TrioPerformer
Tim RenwickGuitar (Rhythm)
Tony ViscontiBass, Musician, Vocals (Background)
Trevor BolderBass