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Old 01-25-2010, 04:29 PM   #546 (permalink)
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Another one no-one asked for, but I was bored, so...

A Beginner's Guide To David Bowie

As a few us may know, this guy's been responsible for a lot of great music down the years, and has quite a large and mind-bogglingly stylistically-varied discography as well. It goes without saying that a fella like Bowie requires quite a large compilation when it comes to something good enough for this thread then. So, three of the mixes compile two songs from each of his albums, while the fourth one's made from a bunch of my favourite rarities, and may or may not be interesting to any of us who already have plenty of his official albums. Best to re-arrange the first three mixes in chronological order as they have been below should you wanna download any of them. Anyway, without further ado...


1964-73

1. Louie, Louie Go Home Early On, 1964-66
2. I Dig Everything Early On, 1964-66
3. Love You 'til Tuesday Deram Anthology, 1966-68
4. Come and Buy My Toys Deram Anthology, 1966-68
5. Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed Space Oddity
6. Cygnet Committee Space Oddity
7. The Width Of a Circle The Man Who Sold the World
8. All the Madmen The Man Who Sold the World
9. Eight Line Poem Hunky Dory
10. Fill Your Heart Hunky Dory
11. Lady Stardust Ziggy Stardust
12. Star Ziggy Stardust
13. The Prettiest Star Aladdin Sane
14. Lady Grinning Soul Aladdin Sane
15. Everything's Alright Pin Ups
16. I Can't Explain Pin Ups


1974-83

1. Diamond Dogs Diamond Dogs
2. We Are the Dead Diamond Dogs
3. Right Young Americans
4. Can You Hear Me? Young Americans
5. Golden Years Station To Station
6. Wild Is the Wind Station To Station
7. Always Crashing In the Same Car Low
8. Weeping Wall Low
9. Joe the Lion "Heroes"
10. V-2 Schneider "Heroes"
11. Move On Lodger
12. DJ Lodger
13. It's No Game 1 Scary Monsters
14. Kingdom Come Scary Monsters
15. Remembering Marie A. Baal
16. The Drowned Girl Baal
17. Modern Love Let's Dance
18. Without You Let's Dance


1984-2003

1. Don't Look Down Tonight
2. Tumble and Twirl Tonight
3. Never Let Me Down Never Let Me Down
4. Zeroes Never Let Me Down
5. Jump, They Say Black Tie, White Noise
6. Nite Flights Black Tie, White Noise
7. The Mysteries The Buddha Of Suburbia
8. Dead Against It The Buddha Of Suburbia
9. Outside 1. Outside
10. I'm Deranged 1. Outside
11. Dead Man Walking Earthling
12. Telling Lies Earthling
13. Thursday's Child Hours
14. If I'm Dreaming My Life Hours
15. Afraid Heathen
16. I Would Be Your Slave Heathen
17. Pablo Picasso Reality
18. She'll Drive the Big Car Reality


A Treat For the Subscribers

1. We'll Creep Together [1. Outside outtake]
2. Like a Rolling Stone [1988 studio outtake]
3. Looking For a Friend [Ziggy Stardust outtake]
4. The Wild-Eyed Boy From Freecloud [acoustic version]
5. Word On a Wing [live, 1976]
6. That's Motivation [Absolute Beginners soundtrack]
7. This Is Not America [1984 stand-alone single]
8. "Heroes" [live, 1983]
9. Conversation Piece [2001 re-recording]
10. Let Me Sleep Beside You [2001 re-recording]
11. Pretty Pink Rose [live, 1990]
12. Shadow Man [2001 re-recording]
13. New York's In Love [1987 tour rehearsal]
14. I Pray, Ole [Lodger outtake]
15. Seven [live, 1999]
16. Lady Stardust [live acoustic version, 1996]
17. Footstompin' [live, 1974]
18. It's Gonna Be Me [Young Americans outtake]

So, yeah, there you are. Again, pics=links.
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