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List Price: $9.93 | | Label: Virgin Records Us
Salesrank: 2186
Released: October 22, 2002 |
| Our Price: $7.22 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Best of David Bowie Track Listing:
1. Space Oddity
2. Changes
3. Suffragette City
4. Ziggy Stardust
5. The Jean Genie
6. Rebel, Rebel
7. Young Americans
8. Fame
9. Golden Years
10. Heroes
11. Ashes To Ashes
12. Fashion
13. Under Pressure
14. Let's Dance
15. China Girl
16. Modern Love
17. Blue Jean
18. Dancing In The Street
19. This Is Not America
20. I'm Afraid of Americans
Editorial Review:
Though one of rock's most influential figures, David Bowie's accomplishments are pocked by some distinct ironies. His willful efforts at being a musical and visual chameleon spurred triumphs in genres as diverse as folk, glam, new wave, and electronica. Given the dizzying range and success of his '70s incarnations--from Ziggy to the Thin White Duke to the gaunt, goth-cypher of Low and Heroes--he seemed the artist most well-equipped to weather the changing tides of taste and trend, yet saw his career essentially shrink to cult status after scoring his biggest triumphs when he reshaped the soulless, dance-oriented club music of the early '80s into his own image. This 20-track compilation does little to address the Chinese puzzle that has been Bowie's post-'85 career, but it does deliver an artistically dizzying slate of hits as it skips from one early peak to the next, from evocative cabaret ("Space Oddity," "Changes") through muscular glam-rock ("Suffragette City," "The Jean Genie") to R&B ("Young Americans," "Fame") and post-punk flirtations ("Ashes to Ashes," "Fashion") to the dance-club hits ("Let's Dance," "China Girl," "Modern Love") and '80s one-off duets ("Under Pressure" with Queen, "Dancing in the Streets" with Mick Jagger) that essentially marked the end of his superstar reign. Whole eras and at least one classic '70s album (Low) go completely unaddressed, but all of Bowie's signature hits are here, as well as Earthling's powerful, underappreciated "I'm Afraid of Americans." --Jerry McCulley
Best of David Bowie Reviews:
Replacement for multiple vinyl LP's by Bowie 
2009-08-05 - I was an early Bowie fan and this greatest hits CD is a good replacement for multiple vinyl albums I had of Bowie's.
Great Sound
2009-04-22 - I'm happy as a kid in a candy store browsing and sampling the MP3's here at Amazon, and satisfied after many, many purchases. No more hard copies of CD's for me, I'm done with them.
"Best of Bowie": Not wanting to get heavily into a Bowie accumulation, I downloaded the MP3 of this album (and nine other chosen tracks from two other Bowie albums "Earthling" and "Sound and Vision"). The remastering and the sound quality on all 3 of these albums are excellent.
Good Collection; Start here 
2009-02-10 - Bowie is a phenomenon. His influence is massive, wether people acknoledge it or not, many musicians have had some influence from David Bowie's huge canon of work. Some directly, as in Frampton who lived nearby, or Bowie's influence on songs like those by Gary Numan ( with the occasional almost verbatim quote from Bowie's work).With so much to choose from, you could easily skip a manic song like BOYS that has such a great bass and drum work, which is so wild but still under control; however, its not on this collection.
Its a great collection. I can understand the edits to a certain extent, since in Young Americans, the missing bit actually in the song is with a guitar that is massivly out of tune, and since this collection is more of a controlled collection, its presented as it is in its more neater form. If you want to see how wildly out of control and off beat Bowie can get, get Hunky Dory and check out ANDY WARHOL, where the song starts to get into "syncopation" ( to be polite) at one point, but its a pretty fun album.
Like the CD cover seems to suggest, Bowie may be more than the sum of his parts... or not. Thats the fun of Bowie, the Artist who can create a Alice Cooper like tune in 1966 ( Please Mr Gravedigger) and then later become HEROES to the generation that wants MODERN LOVE.
Greatest hits without Diamond Dogs? 
2009-01-06 - Overall this is a decent collection of Bowie hits, but how can it be called "Greatest Hits" without the inclusion of one of his true masterpieces Diamond Dogs? Unfortunately I overlooked this glaring omission too late, after I made my purchase.
A Bowie Sampler
2008-06-30 - The single-disc "Best of Bowie" is a greatest-hits package for absolute beginners. If you don't mind the edited versions of "Young Americans," "Heroes," "Ashes to Ashes" and "Let's Dance," by all means give this a listen. Otherwise, track down "Changesonebowie" or the revised "Sound + Vision" box set.
