David Bowie : Sound & Vision (Box Set)

David Bowie : Sound & Vision (Box Set)
Released September 19, 1989 (1989-09-19) (original) / December 2, 2003 (2003-12-02) (reissue)
Recorded 1969-1980 (original) / 1969-1993 (reissue)
Genre Rock, Glam, Art rock
Length 196:38 (original) /298:03 (reissue)
Label Rykodisc/EMI/Virgin Records
Producer David Bowie, Ken Scott, Tony Visconti, Harry Maslin (original and reissue)
Giorgio Moroder, Nile Rodgers, Derek Bramble, Hugh Padgham, David Richards, Tin Machine, Tim Palmer (reissue)

Sound + Vision is David Bowie’s box set compilation originally released on Rykodisc in 1989.

This is the third version, issued by Virgin/EMI in 2003, included all of the audio tracks from the original set and added a fourth audio CD.

Sound + Vision is an anomaly among box sets in that it contains few of Bowie’s greatest hits in their original form, instead frequently opting for demos, live versions and even a German vocal version of “Heroes” (“Helden”).

The reason for the quixotic tracklisting is that it was originally conceived in 1989 as less of a comprehensive career retrospective than as a “teaser” for the then-upcoming Rykodisc CD reissue campaign covering Bowie’s output from 1969 to 1980.

As a result of this commercial logic, none of the “rarities” originally included on the 1989 edition of Sound + Vision (e.g. the rare single versions of “Wild-Eyed Boy From Freecloud” and “Rebel Rebel,” or the previously unreleased studio outtakes “London Bye Ta-Ta,” “1984/Dodo,” “After Today,” or “It’s Hard To Be A Saint In The City”) were included as bonus tracks on the Rykodisc editions of Bowie’s albums.

Conversely, given this boxed set’s initial conception as an “extended sampler,” the compilers felt little need to include all of Bowie’s hits, choosing instead to give every album equal coverage. Nor did they feel compelled to include other sought-after rarities on the set, since they could be found on the Rykodisc CDs.

The set won the 1990 Grammy Award for Best Album Package, including Album Cover, Graphic Arts, with photography by Roger Gorman.

Tracklistings

CD one

1. “Space Oddity” (Demo version)
2. “The Wild Eyed Boy from Freecloud” (includes spoken intro)
3. “The Prettiest Star” (Single version)
4. “London Bye Ta-Ta” (previously unreleased stereo mix)
5. “Black Country Rock”
6. “The Man Who Sold the World”
7. “The Bewlay Brothers”
8. “Changes”
9. “Round and Round” (alternate vocal)
10. “Moonage Daydream”
11. “John, I’m Only Dancing”
12. “Drive-In Saturday”
13. “Panic in Detroit”
14. “Ziggy Stardust” (Live)
15. “White Light White Heat” (Live)
16. “Rock ‘N’ Roll Suicide” (Live)
17. “Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere”
18. “Sorrow”
19. “Don’t Bring Me Down”

CD two

1. “1984/Dodo”
2. “Big Brother”
3. “Rebel Rebel”
4. “Suffragette City” (Live)
5. “Watch That Man” (Live)
6. “Cracked Actor” (Live)
7. “Young Americans”
8. “Fascination”
9. “After Today”
10. “It’s Hard to Be a Saint in the City”
11. “TVC 15″
12. “Wild Is the Wind”
13. “Sound and Vision”
14. “Be My Wife”
15. “Speed of Life”
16. “Helden”
17. “Joe the Lion”
18. “Sons of the Silent Age”

CD three

1. “Station to Station” (Live)
2. “Warszawa” (Live)
3. “Breaking Glass” (Live)
4. “Red Sails”
5. “Look Back in Anger”
6. “Boys Keep Swinging”
7. “Up the Hill Backwards”
8. “Kingdom Come”
9. “Ashes to Ashes”
10. “Baal’s Hymn” (Kurt Weill) (from Baal, 1982) (previously unreleased on CD) – 4:00
11. “The Drowned Girl” (Bertolt Brecht, Weill) (from Baal, 1982) (previously unreleased on CD) – 2:24
12. “Cat People (Putting Out Fire)” (Bowie, Giorgio Moroder) (from Cat People Original Soundtrack, 1982) – 6:41
13. “China Girl” (Bowie, Iggy Pop) (from Let’s Dance, 1983) – 5:32
14. “Ricochet” (from Let’s Dance, 1983) – 5:14
15. “Modern Love” (Live) (from “Modern Love” b-side, 1983) (previously unreleased on CD) – 4:47
16. “Loving the Alien” (from Tonight, 1984) – 7:10
17. “Dancing with the Big Boys” (Bowie, Pop, Alomar) (from Tonight, 1984) – 3:34

CD four

1. “Blue Jean” (from Tonight, 1984) – 3:10
2. “Time Will Crawl” (from Never Let Me Down, 1987) – 4:18
3. Tin Machine: “Baby Can Dance” (from Tin Machine, 1989) – 4:57
4. Tin Machine: “Amazing” (Bowie, Reeves Gabrels) (from Tin Machine, 1989) – 3:04
5. Tin Machine: “I Can’t Read” (Bowie, Gabrels) (from Tin Machine, 1989) – 4:54
6. Tin Machine: “Shopping for Girls” (Bowie, Gabrels) (from Tin Machine II, 1991) – 3:44
7. Tin Machine: “Goodbye Mr. Ed” (Bowie, Tony Sales, Hunt Sales) (from Tin Machine II, 1991) – 3:24
8. Tin Machine: “Amlapura” (Bowie, Gabrels) (from Tin Machine II, 1991) – 3:46
9. “You’ve Been Around” (Bowie, Gabrels) (from Black Tie White Noise, 1993) – 4:45
10. “Nite Flights” (Moodswings Back to Basics remix radio edit) (N. Scott Engels) (previously unreleased, original version from Black Tie White Noise, 1993) – 4:35
11. “Pallas Athena” (from Black Tie White Noise, 1993) – 4:21
12. “Jump They Say” (from Black Tie White Noise, 1993) – 4:22
13. “The Buddha of Suburbia” (from The Buddha of Suburbia, 1993) – 4:28
14. “Dead Against It” (from The Buddha of Suburbia, 1993) – 5:48
15. “South Horizon” (from The Buddha of Suburbia, 1993) – 5:26
16. “Pallas Athena” (Live) (from “Seven Years in Tibet” B-side, 1997) – 8:18

All songs written by David Bowie unless otherwise indicated.

Sound + Vision [2003 Box] Disc 1
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Sound + Vision [2003 Box] Disc 2
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Sound + Vision [2003 Box] Disc 3
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Sound + Vision [2003 Box] Disc 4
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David Bowie – Sound and vision – live

An amazing performance!!!

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