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RollingFreak
The Pretty Things Are Going To Hell is kick ass. If I'm Dreaming My Life and Something In The Air are very good too, as is What's Really Happening.

You are right.

Something in the air is especially fantastic.

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NME 19th January 2013 "Bowie Back To Berlin".

Hours was the album where Reeves and him had their major disagreement. Reeves made the fatal flaw that many a side man has made with Bowie. It is Bowie's show, and he has a definite vision of what it will sound, feel, and look like. And he was the main writer, singer, and charisma of any band he is in. Reeves in an interesting interview, later lamented that he forgot that, and that was why he had to move on. You can almost sense the regret in the interview. I like Reeves, but his style of guitar got to be a big of a one trick pony, with the over reliance of sound tricks that tended to wail away without any anchor to the original idea, or melody. Which can be quite exciting when done well, but did seem to overstay its welcome. And Reeves was undoubtably bored with Bowie's return to being a more melodic writer with more straight forward guitar.

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I think Santa Monica 72 is far superior to the Ziggy Motion Picture disc. As was the show. They did a fantastic job remastering it, and the deluxe set is wonderful. The sound and rawness of the show is cacophony of grit, glitter, and raw rock n' roll.

Unfortunately the sound on 2008 reissue was compressed at the final stage.
There was a promo CDR available with an uncompressed mix which is said to sound much better

Here's a report on the promo CDR : [www.illustrated-db-discography.nl]



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Yup I knew about that CDR, seems strange each track is seperated by a few seconds of silence. I don't really notice the compression on the official release. I really think it sounds fantastic and the performance is also better than the Ziggy Motion Picture performance.

Going on a road trip this weekend and made a mix of songs from Black Tie White Noise to Reality. What ya think?

1. Little Wonder
2. Reality
3. The Pretty Things Are Going To Hell
4. Cactus
5. Never Get Old
6. I Took A Trip On A Gemini Spaceship
7. I'm Afraid Of Americans
8. The Loneliest Guy
9. Strangers When We Meet
10. Lucy Can't Dance
11. Miracle Goodnight
12. I Have Not Been To Oxford Town
13. The Hearts Filthy Lesson
14. Outside
15. Thru These Architect's Eyes
16. Looking For Satellites
17. I've Been Waiting For You
18. Baby Loves That Way
19. I Dig Everything
20. Let Me Sleep Beside You
21. Hole In The Ground
22. New Killer Star
23. Law (Earthlings On Fire)
24. Black Tie White Noise
25. Toy (Your Turn To Drive)

When The Loneliest Guy goes into Strangers When We Meet is just...wow

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JohnnyBGoode
Going on a road trip this weekend and made a mix of songs from Black Tie White Noise to Reality. What ya think?

check tires, oil and fluids before you leave.

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JohnnyBGoode
Going on a road trip this weekend and made a mix of songs from Black Tie White Noise to Reality. What ya think?

1. Little Wonder
2. Reality
3. The Pretty Things Are Going To Hell
4. Cactus
5. Never Get Old
6. I Took A Trip On A Gemini Spaceship
7. I'm Afraid Of Americans
8. The Loneliest Guy
9. Strangers When We Meet
10. Lucy Can't Dance
11. Miracle Goodnight
12. I Have Not Been To Oxford Town
13. The Hearts Filthy Lesson
14. Outside
15. Thru These Architect's Eyes
16. Looking For Satellites
17. I've Been Waiting For You
18. Baby Loves That Way
19. I Dig Everything
20. Let Me Sleep Beside You
21. Hole In The Ground
22. New Killer Star
23. Law (Earthlings On Fire)
24. Black Tie White Noise
25. Toy (Your Turn To Drive)

When The Loneliest Guy goes into Strangers When We Meet is just...wow

Not many tracks from Hours? There's a nice remix of Thursday's Child called "Rock Mix" that could fit somewhere (maybe after PTGTH?).



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Anyone got the dualdisc Reality? I've ordered it because it wasn't much dearer then the standard version.

JohnnyBGoode,

You didn't include the album version of "Hallo Spaceboy".

Possibly the noisiest record he ever made. Not recommended if you have a hangover.

I love it.

It's so confusing these days.



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Don't you like haello spaceboy???????????? I played it with my band and in was quite enjoyable

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Braincapers
Anyone got the dualdisc Reality? I've ordered it because it wasn't much dearer then the standard version.

If it's the version with a live show included on DVD it's a really nice one to own. Some songs from Reality sound better in their live version than on the actual studio recordings.

Great.

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Braincapers
Anyone got the dualdisc Reality? I've ordered it because it wasn't much dearer then the standard version.

If it's the version with a live show included on DVD it's a really nice one to own. Some songs from Reality sound better in their live version than on the actual studio recordings.

Sadly not. CD on one side, DVD with surround sound version + video on the other.

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JohnnyBGoode
Going on a road trip this weekend and made a mix of songs from Black Tie White Noise to Reality. What ya think?

1. Little Wonder
2. Reality
3. The Pretty Things Are Going To Hell
4. Cactus
5. Never Get Old
6. I Took A Trip On A Gemini Spaceship
7. I'm Afraid Of Americans
8. The Loneliest Guy
9. Strangers When We Meet
10. Lucy Can't Dance
11. Miracle Goodnight
12. I Have Not Been To Oxford Town
13. The Hearts Filthy Lesson
14. Outside
15. Thru These Architect's Eyes
16. Looking For Satellites
17. I've Been Waiting For You
18. Baby Loves That Way
19. I Dig Everything
20. Let Me Sleep Beside You
21. Hole In The Ground
22. New Killer Star
23. Law (Earthlings On Fire)
24. Black Tie White Noise
25. Toy (Your Turn To Drive)

When The Loneliest Guy goes into Strangers When We Meet is just...wow

Not The Wedding ?

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JohnnyBGoode,

You didn't include the album version of "Hallo Spaceboy".

Possibly the noisiest record he ever made. Not recommended if you have a hangover.

I love it.

It's so confusing these days.

Adding it now...

Good man! Hallo Spaceboy is a classic Bowie song. Serial Killer Ziggy for the 90's. Glad you put LAW on it as well. Man that song just rocks, and has a killer Keyboard riff.

Another one.

Telling Lies!

[www.rollingstone.com]

I hate rumours but here goes.

Someone I know was at NAMM and Earl was talking about Amp mods to a guitar tech and Earl was playing a lot of Bowie guitar licks and said they will be playing a lot of the old Bowie favorites.

So maybe a tour, but it is only a rumour.

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[www.rollingstone.com]

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Two of the songs sounded a little Stones-y in the same way the title track from Diamond Dogs had a very Stones-y sound, especially when we played it live. It's not a great secret that I'm a big lover of Keith Richards, so I do have a lot of that in my playing.

Good news!

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RollingFreak
[www.rollingstone.com]

Some songs sounding KEITH style !! wow !!

"we know it's a bit late but we hope you don't mind if we stay"

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RollingFreak
[www.rollingstone.com]

Some songs sounding KEITH style !! wow !!

Gets my hopes up really high. Looking forward to more news of the album. Disappointed there hasn't continued to be new information each day.

1. The Next Day
2. Dirty Boys
3. The Stars (Are Out Tonight)
4. Love Is Lost
5. Where Are We Now?
6. Valentine's Day
7. If You Can See Me
8. I'd Rather Be High
9. Boss Of Me
10. Dancing Out In Space
11. How Does The Grass Grow?
12. (You Will) Set The World On Fire
13. You Feel So Lonely You Could Die
14. Heat
15. So She (Delux Edition)
16. Plan (Delux Edition)
17. I'll Take You There (Delux Edition)
18. God Bless The Girl (Japanese Bonus Track)


Bowie in Sumo Wrestler's costume in Japan in 1973

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DEmerson
The woman is Tony Oursler's (sp) wife - he did the video.
Worked with Bowie during his Earthling tour - he does the 'video puppets.'

Sorry if I missed a previous posting of this article about the video:
[www.independent.co.uk]

New song, "The Stars (Are Out Tonight)" is coming out soon!

fantastic articles in ROLLING STONE french edition

"we know it's a bit late but we hope you don't mind if we stay"

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RollingFreak
New song, "The Stars (Are Out Tonight)" is coming out soon!

On Feb. 26.