Hunky Dory: Remastered | 
| Artist: David Bowie
Label: EMI Catalogue
Category: Music
List Price: £13.99
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Rating:  40 reviews
Sales Rank: 465
Format: Enhanced, Original recording reissued
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 21899
UPC: 724352189908
EAN: 0724352189908
ASIN: B00001OH7O
Release Date: September 6, 1999
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Changes | | • | Oh! You Pretty Things | | • | Eight Line Poem | | • | Life on Mars? | | • | Kooks | | • | Quicksand | | • | Fill Your Heart | | • | Andy Warhol | | • | Song for Bob Dylan | | • | Queen Bitch | | • | The Bewlay Brothers |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.co.uk Review
The precursor to Bowie's masterpiece, IThe Rise And Fall of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars/i, IHunky Dory/i points in many of the same musical directions as Ziggy, with Bowie camping it up outrageously through a mixture of cabaret piano, coquettish lyrics and soaring vocals. After the hard rock "The Man Who Sold The World", Mick Ronson's guitar is turned down in favour of plenty of piano and acoustic guitar, as Bowie proves his mettle as a masterful singer-songwriter. Not a dull note is struck on the whole album, which flits from opener "Changes" to the vampy "Oh! You Pretty Thing" to the heart-wrenching "Life On Mars" with a seemingly impeccable ear for a tune. Flirty, sexy and irresistibly seductive. --IAmber Cowan/i
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| Customer Reviews:
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 Still shines brightly... May 29, 2007
DSR (out beyond the sticks)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
br /This is a truly superb collection of tracks - delicate, heartfelt and almost personal. To me, this epitomises an artist stretching himself a little just before the big push into the big time.
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br /Like many here, I came to this wonderful album some years after it was released (after the intial "Glam" thing had faded in fact). In some ways, I wish he'd continued with this style for another album but things were moving so very quickly during this period and "pop" music was fragmenting rapidly - the commercial "Glam acts" like Slade, Mud, The Sweet T Rex on the one hand and harder edged "Prog Rock" on the other from Soft Machine and Van Der Graaf generator to Yes, Pink Floyd, ELP, Led Zep Genesis etc. etc. on the other.
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br /In the company of the above bands, Bowie could have been overshadowed, but it's thanks to the rockier "Ziggy Stardust" that he didn't and this album can still be enjoyed, getting on for forty years later, as the charming, beautiful, thoughtful classic that it is...
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br /The 1990 remastering was done very well indeed and adds a few extra tracks. I'm not sure why it had to be released again in 1999 without these bonus tracks (when everyone else is raiding the vaults for undiscovered gems to put on a new re-mastering but there you go), but since the prices are so reasonable for either it doesn't matter quite so much in my opinion.
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br /Whichever version you go for - a LOVELY album and one to treasure and savour for the next forty years.....
bowie at his best. March 2, 2000
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Everyone`s said it..HunkyDory is accessible, tuneful, varied but people don`t mention the production which to me is unique giving it a vibe that virtually is lush 70s sound...Queen came from this album, Roxy Music would have sounded like this if they decded to have a heart...all the hippydippy hippies that came before this are both worshipped and lambasted on it...it goes from camp melodrama to Velvet dirt...New Romantics,Marc Almond.Pet Shop Boys,Prefab Sprout,Beautiful South Morrissey...most of English...yes,English rock of the eighties and nineties came from this one artist and particularly this one album. And remember that the very English combination of gay `camp` and rocking out came from this album and that virtually is the unique contribution Britian has made to world music. Er,why hasn`t he been knighted yet?
What's the story - Hunky Dory March 6, 2001
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
The most influential musician of his generation, and probably the next, at his native best.pThis is Bowie without stardom, and without having had time to experiment with another's sound. Raw Bowie, with nods to his own heroes and demons. This album is the reason the rock/pop anthem survived post-Beatles. From the hippy-trippy lullaby 'Kooks' thru quazi-religious 'Bewley Brothers' to the sweeping melodrama that is 'Quicksand', this pre-cursor to Ziggy is a rare beast indeed - it never seems to age. pNot only a classic album of the seventies, but a true generation spanning classic for every listener.
The best album by anyone, anywhere, anytime February 20, 2007
Moz (Birmingham England)
15 out of 17 found this review helpful
I bought Ziggy Stardust when it was released, took it round to my mate's to play and he'd already bought a copy, so I took mine back swapped it for Hunky Dory. Did I get the better of that deal? This is the last of the great hippy albums, before everything went glam rock. It's thoughtful, introspective, brilliantly lyricised, truly romantic and beautiful in spades.
br /For me this is the best album ever, quite an accolade when you look at the contenders. It's populated by sensitively textured characters - spectral Bewlay brothers, scratchy\clawing Robert Zimmermans, cement fixed Andy Warhols and Clara puts her head between her paws (and more). Twice as good as Ziggy, Three times better than Diamond Dogs, Alladin Sane or Man Who Sold the World (or the oft overlooked Pin-ups)and ten times better than Heroes or Let's Dance or Young Americans. I know Bowie's chameleon, comedian, corinthian and caricature but this is an intimate facet rarely seen, before the fame kicked in, and is truly a flawless collection of fine vintage songs. Drink them in and enjoy
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Bowie's best April 5, 2007
S J Buck (Kent, UK)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This classic album from 1971 is one of Bowie's very best albums. It was largely forgotten with the success of Ziggy Stardust, but unlike that later fantasy themed album, this album references some of Bowie's idols and contains as many classic tracks as Ziggy.
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br /Take three out of the first four tracks: 'Changes', 'Oh! You Pretty Things' and 'Life on Mars'. Has there been a stronger start to album than that? There is brilliant song-writing both lyrically and musically on little known songs like 'Song for Bob Dylan'. Bowie describes Dylan as "with a voice like sand and glue" then later that he "put the fear in a whole lot more".
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br /Musically this is basically the Ziggy Stardust band but with the oddball extra of Rick Wakeman on Piano. This album was recorded a year or two before Rick Wakeman started his own successful career, and if you've been listening to this album as long as I have you can't imagine it without the Piano. Wakeman's Piano is most prominent on 'Fill your Heart" which is the only song Bowie didn't write.
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br /As with most Bowie albums this is a marvellously perverse mixture. Take 'Quicksand' for example, this has a wonderfully catchy chorus but the lyrics are all about getting closer to death - "knowledge comes with deaths release".
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br /The remaster is excellent and the album sounds as good as I've ever heard it. A must have for any serious rock music collection.
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