’hours…’ (1999), HEATHEN (2002), AND REALITY (2004)
EACH TITLE IS EXPANDED EDITION TWO-CD VINYL REPLICA DIGIPAK WITH BONUS DISC OF MIXES, REMIXES, EDITS, SPECIAL VERSIONS, ALTERNATE TAKES, OUTTAKES, RARITIES AND MORE
Total of more than 60 bonus tracks on five albums – for collectors and fans
Imported box set arrives in stores December 4, 2007, on ISO/Columbia
Few musicians possess such a formidable catalog of work as David Bowie, that exists independently of genres and trends, and travels freely across all dimensions of time, inhabiting present, past, and future with equal regard. Four decades after he made his debut recordings of 1967, he remains one of the most valued barometers of cultural change that popular music has produced. At every stage of his career he has defined and refined the state of the art, in the process becoming the art itself, an impossibly influential singer, songwriter, story-teller, producer, arranger, conductor, multi-instrumentalist, charismatic video, film and stage presence, and much more.
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Two and a half years after the release of Black Tie, White Noise, Bowie emerged with OUTSIDE (subtitled The Nathan Adler Diaries: A Hyper Cycle), based on one of the many short stories he’d written. It was intended to be the first in a series of five non-sequential futuristic narratives based on the exploits of a police investigator who specializes in crimes of art and cyberspace, in this case, the death of 14-year-old Baby Grace Blue. As reported in Billboard Monitor, “Bowie inhabits no less than seven characters throughout the set.” As he told the publication upon the album’s release, "We've gotten to a point where people are exhibiting pieces of body and stuff in pickle jars. We have to get to a point where murder itself is going to become an art form. Why is this? What is promoting this? And I kind of put it down to certain paganism and a tacit agreement that we should appease the gods by some kind of virtual sacrifice so we can get into the next millennium unscathed.”
Disc Two – Selections: 1. The Heart’s Filthy Lesson (Trent Reznor Alternative Mix) • 2. The Heart’s Filthy Lesson (Rubber Mix) • 3. The Heart’s Filthy Lesson (Simple Test Mix) • 4. The Heart’s Filthy Lesson (Filthy Mix) • 5. The Heart’s Filthy Lesson (Good Karma Mix by Tim Simenon) • 6. A Small Plot Of Land (Basquiat OST Version) • 7. Hallo Spaceboy (12” Remix) • 8. Hallo Spaceboy (Double Click Mix) • 9. Hallo Spaceboy (Instrumental) • 10. Hallo Spaceboy (Lost In Space Mix) • 11. I Am With Name • 12. I’m Deranged (Jungle Mix) • 13. Get Real • 14. Nothing To Be Desired. (Bonus disc issued 2004, for Sony International two-CD version.)
EARTHLING
Disc Two – Selections: 1. Little Wonder (Censored Video Edit) • 2. Little Wonder (Junior Vasquez Club Mix) • 3. Little Wonder (Danny Saber Dance Mix) • 4. Seven Years In Tibet (Mandarin Version) • 5. Dead Man Walking (Moby Mix 1) • 6. Dead Man Walking (Moby Mix 2 US Promo 12”) • 7. Telling Lies (Feelgood Mix) • 8. Telling Lies (Paradox Mix) • 9. I’m Afraid Of Americans (Show Girls OST version) • 10. I’m Afraid Of Americans (Nine Inch Nails V1 Mix) • 11. I’m Afraid Of Americans (Nine Inch Nails V1 Clean Edit) • 12. V-2 Schneider (Tao Jones Index) • 13. Pallas Athena (Tao Jones Index). (Bonus disc issued 2004, for Sony International two-CD version.)
This transitional album, recorded in Bermuda, found Bowie returning to live instruments in the studio after previously working in the electronica format. After the back-to-back anschluss of the last two albums, Bowie’s final statement of the century was as passionate and introspective as the greatest of his early recordings, especially Hunky Dory, to which ’HOURS has often been compared. The seeds of this album were sown in early ’99 when Bowie was commissioned to create music for “Omikron: The Nomad Soul,” a computer game in which he and his wife Iman were characters. At least two of those tracks, the international hit single “Thursday’s Child” and “Survive,” turned up (re-recorded) for this album. Bowie’s emotional resonance also poured out on the glam-bombastic anthem, “All The Pretty Things Are Going To Hell.” Significantly, this marked Bowie’s final album with guitarist Reeves Gabrels, his musical partner for a decade, since the Tin Machine phase. This album also turned out to be his third and final studio album for Virgin Records as he moved to Columbia.
Disc Two – Selections: 1. Thursday’s Child (Rock Mix) • 2. Thursday’s Child (Omikron: The Nomad Soul slower version) • 3. Something In The Air (American Psycho Remix) • 4. Survive (Marius DeVries UK CD Single) • 5. Seven (Demo) • 6. Seven (Maurius DeVries Mix) • 7. Seven (Beck Mix #1) • 8. Seven (Beck Mix #2) • 9. The Pretty Things Are Going To Hell (Edit) • 10. The Pretty Things Are Going To Hell (Stigmata film version) • 11. The Pretty Things Are Going To Hell (Stigmata film only version) • 12. New Angels Of Promise (Omikron:The Nomad Soul version) • 13. The Dreamers (Omikron: The Nomad Soul longer version) • 14. 1917 • 15. We Shall Go To Town • 16. We All Go Through • 17. No-one Calls. (Bonus disc issued 2004, for Sony International two-CD version.)
HEATHEN
Disc Two – Selections: 1. Sunday (Moby Remix) • 2. A Better Future (Remix by Air) • 3. Conversation Piece (2002 re-record) • 4. Panic In Detroit (1979 Outtake) • 5. Wood Jackson • 6. When The Boys Come Marching Home • 7. Baby Loves That Way • 8. You’ve Got A Habit Of Leaving • 9. Safe • 10. Shadow Man. (Bonus disc issued 2007, for limited edition Sony Japan two-CD version.)
REALITY
Disc Two – Selections: 1. Waterloo Sunset • 2. Fly • 3. Queen Of All The Tarts (Overture) • 4. Rebel Rebel • 5. Love Missile F1 Eleven • 6. Rebel Never Gets Old (Radio Mix) • 7. Rebel Never Gets Old (7th Heaven Edit) • 8. Rebel Never Gets Old (7th heaven Mix). (Bonus disc issued 2007, for limited edition Sony Japan two-CD version.)
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THE DAVID BOWIE BOX LIMITED EDITION BOX SET ENCASES FIVE MOST RECENT STUDIO ALBUMS: OUTSIDE (1995), EARTHLING (1997), ’hours…’ (1999), HEATHEN (2002), AND REALITY (2004) EACH TITLE IS EXPANDED EDITION TWO-CD VINYL REPLICA DIGIPAK WITH BONUS DISC OF MIXES, REMIXES, EDITS, SPECIAL VERSIONS, ALTERNATE TAKES, OUTTAKES, RARITIES AND MORE. Total of more than 60 bonus tracks on five albums – for collectors and fans. Imported box set arrives in stores December 4, 2007, on ISO/Columbia