David Bowie - The Best Of David Bowie 1980/1987 (2007) {CD & DVD Box}
BAND/ARTIST: David Bowie
- Title: The Best Of David Bowie 1980/1987
- Year Of Release: 2007
- Label: EMI #00946 3 86478 2 9
- Genre: Art Rock, Pop Rock, Classic Rock
- Quality: FLAC (Img+Cue,Log) / DVD5 (MPEG 2, PAL 4:3 (720x576), VBR; LPCM 2.0, 48.0 kHz/16 bits, 1536 kb/s)
- Total Time: 01:17:12 + 01:07:16
- Total Size: 571 Mb / 3,7 Gb (Full Scans)
- WebSite: Album Preview
The Best of David Bowie 1980/1987 is a compilation album by David Bowie. The CD was originally released by EMI as part of The Platinum Collection in 2005/2006. The 2007 release is part of EMI's two-disc Sight & Sound series, each of which features a CD and DVD of material from the same artist. The DVD portion of the collection features two videos previously unreleased on DVD - "When the Wind Blows" and "The Drowned Girl".
The '80s were a curious time for David Bowie. Never had he sold more records, had bigger hits, his influence was everywhere, and yet, the music he made often fell a little flat, especially after his commercial high-water mark of 1983's Let's Dance. The 2007 compilation Best of David Bowie 1980/1987 deals with that drop-off in quality in an admirable fashion, perhaps the only appropriate fashion: it ignores it. There are two tracks from 1984's Tonight, and two from its 1987 sequel Never Let Me Down, while there are four apiece from Let's Dance and Scary Monsters -- a skewed ratio that is nevertheless an accurate barometer of the worth of the albums. It also makes for a better listen as a compilation, since the hit singles from these records are surrounded by non-LP cuts and soundtrack contributions like "This Is Not America" and "Absolute Beginners," a move that's not only helpful as a clearinghouse of relative oddities, but also helps make this Best of David Bowie 1980/1987 a truly representative collection of the best music of some patchy years, which is a more worthwhile endeavor than having this be truly representative of the decade as a whole. For some Bowie fans, this may be all they need from that decade (although they'd be well-advised not to ignore the truly masterful Scary Monsters, and use that as a supplement to this excellent disc).
The '80s were a curious time for David Bowie. Never had he sold more records, had bigger hits, his influence was everywhere, and yet, the music he made often fell a little flat, especially after his commercial high-water mark of 1983's Let's Dance. The 2007 compilation Best of David Bowie 1980/1987 deals with that drop-off in quality in an admirable fashion, perhaps the only appropriate fashion: it ignores it. There are two tracks from 1984's Tonight, and two from its 1987 sequel Never Let Me Down, while there are four apiece from Let's Dance and Scary Monsters -- a skewed ratio that is nevertheless an accurate barometer of the worth of the albums. It also makes for a better listen as a compilation, since the hit singles from these records are surrounded by non-LP cuts and soundtrack contributions like "This Is Not America" and "Absolute Beginners," a move that's not only helpful as a clearinghouse of relative oddities, but also helps make this Best of David Bowie 1980/1987 a truly representative collection of the best music of some patchy years, which is a more worthwhile endeavor than having this be truly representative of the decade as a whole. For some Bowie fans, this may be all they need from that decade (although they'd be well-advised not to ignore the truly masterful Scary Monsters, and use that as a supplement to this excellent disc).
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Track List CD:
01. Let's Dance [4:08]
02. Ashes To Ashes [3:37]
03. Under Pressure [4:06]
04. Fashion [3:26]
05. Modern Love [3:59]
06. China Girl [4:17]
07. Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) [3:32]
08. Up The Hill Backwards [3:16]
09. Alabama Song [3:52]
10. Drowned Girl [2:27]
11. Cat People [4:12]
12. This Is Not Amercia [3:51]
13. Loving The Alien [7:09]
14. Absolute Beginners [5:38]
15. When The Wind Blows [3:35]
16. Blue Jean [3:12]
17. Day-In Day-Out [4:11]
18. Time Will Crawl [4:19]
19. Underground [4:27]
Track List DVD:
01. Ashes To Ashes
02. Fashion
03. Under Pressure - Queen With David Bowie
04. Drowned Girl
05. Let's Dance
06. China Girl
07. Modern Love
08. Cat People (Live)
09. Blue Jean
10. Loving The Alien
11. Absolute Beginners
12. Underground
13. When The Wind Blows
14. Day-In Day-Out
15. Time Will Crawl
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