Bowie at Beeb: Best of BBC Radio 68-72

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Bowie at Beeb: Best of BBC Radio 68-72
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Artist: David Bowie
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Format: Live
CD Release Date: 2004-11-16
Music Label: Virgin Records Us
Soundtracks:
Music CD 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
  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
Music CD 2
  1. The Supermen
  2. Eight Line Poem
  3. Hang on to Yourself
  4. Ziggy Stardust
  5. Queen Bitch
  6. I'm Waiting for the Man
  7. Five Years
  8. White Light/White Heat
  9. Moonage Daydream
  10. Hang on to Yourself
  11. Suffragette City
  12. Ziggy Stardust
  13. Starman
  14. Space Oddity
  15. Changes
  16. Oh! You Pretty Things
  17. Andy Warhol
  18. Lady Stardust
  19. Rock & Roll Suicide

Free Music Notes for Bowie at Beeb: Best of BBC Radio 68-72

Free Music Review: CHANGESBEEBOWIE
Hit: 5 Stars

CD2 - The first CD could be a symphony of (flatus) and I'd still give this release 5 stars for the nearly immaculate performances on the second disk. In particular, "Hang Onto Yourself" (track 3), "White Light/White Heat," and "Suffregette City" (featuring Mick Ronson making this totally hot kissing noise with his guitar) crackle with energy. It is truly a thrill to hear these old favorites in such a new (as such) and exciting light. Bowie and Co. burn down the BBC studios. Repeatedly. Any rock fan (but especially an old Bowie fan, of course) is likely to meltdown in ecstacy upon hearing this.

CD1 - Many hardcore fans will surely (sweet milk) over CD1 as well although I'm not personally crazy about all of it. Some of David's early British folk period is represented which can be a bit hippy-dippy at times. The first 4 tracks, recorded in May of '68, fit that description although they do feature brilliant in-studio orchestral accompaniment.

Much of CD1 does in fact rock. "Let Me Sleep Beside You" and "Janine" are very good, easy-going rockers recorded with Junior's Eyes who had a short-lived collaboration with Bowie. The session was never broadcast. Bowie delivers a stunning solo performance of Jacques Brel's "Port of Amsterdam" (vocal and guitar). The same session shows off Mick Ronson just a few days after hooking up with Bowie for the first time. They perform an intriguing, half-written version of "Width of a Circle." Ronson really cuts loose on "Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed" and "Cygnet Committee" is positively intense. Some studio hum can be heard on the session, an atmospheric reminder of the electric nature of these proceedings (that may or may not appeal to the listener). "Memory of a Free Festival" had sadly been edited for time and remains so.

Recorded in June of '71, the last session on CD1 features all of the future Spiders From Mars as well as some friends on vocals. Also along for the ride is guitarist Mark Carr-Pritchard who played for a phantom Bowie project called Arnold Corns. Early embryonic versions of "Moonage Daydream" and "Hang Onto Yourself" were recorded and released under that name. The group stomps through "Bombers," a rare HUNKY DORY-era cut that sounds better (and less cheesy) than the studio version which I have as a bonus cut on the RYCODISK release of HUNKY DORY. "Looking For A Friend" is a country-ish, Stones-y rocker and they also turn in a rousing cover of Chuck Berry's "Almost Grown." And Bowie performs "Kooks" solo on vocal and guitar which he had just written for newborn son Zowie.

Note: Those concerned about excessive voice-overs from BBC radio hosts (like the ones that marred the Jimi Hendrix BBC release) can relax. There's very little talking over the songs and quite a bit of interesting Bowie banter on CD1. CD2 has nothing but back-to-back songs. Thankfully, tracks begin with actual songs, not the preceeding dialogue.
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