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Space Oddity 40th Anniversary Edition - Limited Edition

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Artist: David Bowie
Label: EMI
Category: Music

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

7 reviews
Sales Rank: 741

Format: Original recording remastered, Extra tracks, Limited Edition
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.6

EAN: 5099930752221
ASIN: B002LVUG3C

Release Date: October 12, 2009
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days

Tracks:

Disc 1

•	Space Oddity
•	Unwashed And Somewhat Slightly Dazed
•	Letter To Hermione
•	Cygnet Committee
•	Janine
•	Occasional Dream, An
•	Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud
•	God Knows I'm Good
•	Memory Of A Free Festival

Disc 2

•	Space Oddity
•	Occasional Dream, An
•	Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud
•	Let Me Sleep Beside You
•	Unwashed And Somewhat Slightly Dazed
•	Janine
•	London Bye Ta Ta
•	Prettiest Star
•	Conversation Piece
•	Memory Of A Free Festival
•	Memory Of A Free Festival
•	Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud
•	Memory Of A Free Festival
•	London Bye Ta Ta
•	Ragazzo Solo Ragazza Sola

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Editorial Reviews:

Amazon.co.uk Review
David Bowiersquo;s iSpace Oddity/i, produced by Tony Visconti (bar the track "Space Oddity" itself which was produced by the late Gus Dudgeon), was a giant leap forward in terms of songwriting for Bowie compared to his eponymous debut, and can be considered as the first truly essential David Bowie album. Noted for a list of collaborators, including session players Herbie Flowers, Tim Renwick, Terry Cox and Rick Wakeman, the album delves into psychedelic folk-rock, as well as prog, with its genre-defying template creating a blueprint of what would become over the next decade and more, one of the most inimitable British artists.p The two-CD digipak contains an extensive booklet featuring rare photographs, memorabilia, sleeve notes and a chronology by Kevin Cann. CD one features the original album remastered from the original analogue masters tapes, whilst CD two features 15 bonus tracks of which eight are previously unreleased, including two ultra-rare demos.

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I loved her! Bye Ta Ta... October 15, 2009
Adriano (Berkshire, England)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful

br / br /Bye bye love, hello superstardom. This chapter of Bowie's music career is so pivotal. br /Kenneth Pitt's influence is cast aside and David's intense love affair with Hermoine sadly ends... lonely boy becomes the nucleus of Ziggy - isolation and artistic rediscovery and the future. Not just the future of 1970s pop, but a snapshot of another strange universe or, at least the beginning of what would become an alien meets superstar phenomenon. br / br /Yes, the record companies do cash in on these re-releases. br /And yes, you may be thinking I already have Space Oddity on vinyl, CD, and/or the BBC Sessions. br /If so, sell your old copies and keep this definitive version. br / br /Not only is the original album (disc one) beautifully remastered, but also disc two is worth owning for: br / br /The Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud in all its orchestral glory (as described by Tony Visconti in Nicholas Pegg's book) sounds amazing, as if a 50-piece ensemble in the studio surrounds you. Why this wasn't used as the selected take originally may have been down to technical/quality reasons. It sounds perfect to me now, convincing me that some real dedication has gone into this release. br / br /Memory Of A free Festival - there really is a party. This sounds like a spaceship landing at Woodstock! Okay, more like Lou Reed's `Kicks' with the background chatter/celebrations going on before take-off. The original version has these sounds electronically treated. This works well and runs in at 9min, 25secs about the same as Cygnet Committee. br / br /Regazzo... beautiful full version on CD at last. br / br /London Bye Ta Ta - this second take is an upbeat contender follow-up to the Space Oddity single. If only. Again the echo on Bowie's vocals made me think of what might have been. Thank God for Starman. br / br /Only time will tell how many times I replay this second disc, its easy to get excited over newly unearthed material. But I reckon the alternate takes will replace the originals on my playlist. br / br /For this price, to listen to David and Visconti's original vision is worth every penny. br / br /Great new remastering takes you there to 1969 to experience this album just as it should have been. br / br /A final note on the booklet included with this release. If your eyes are up to it - I needed a magnifier to read it. br /There's an interesting diary of events covering the era around the recording - with pictures, facts and figures for anyone who, like me, can never get enough Bowie trivia. br / br /This was an interesting period of transition (Mick Ronson makes his Bowie debut on the Memory parts 1 2), though it gives no real hint as to the direction this band would take next with TMWSTW br / br /The sun machine is coming down again after 40 years. And the party continues...

5 out of 5 stars

Best Yet October 22, 2009
Vaughan (UK)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful

There is no point in reviewing the album. It is of its time. br / br /It's only worth talking about this reissue. br / br /This has had a couple of CD issues - the Ryko, and the original EMI. br / br /The Ryko had some extra tracks, the EMI was bare bones. (Ryko extra tracks were Conservation Piece, and two of the Memories of a Free Festival tracks. Also note, the short "Don't Sit Down" was also on the Ryko, it runs for all of 39 seconds). br / br /So I'll only talk about this disc in the context of those two previous releases. br / br /Basically, it's very very simple. THIS version is worth a tear or two. Tears of joy. The bonus disc is full of glorious early Bowie, and the original album has never - ever - sounded this good. Yes, a couple of the bonus tracks were already included in the original Ryko disc - but even they sound better. br / br /And then you have the booklet - which is pure magic. br / br /Downsides? No lyrics. So hold on to your Ryko (why do they omit the lyrics?!?!?!) br / br /Look - this is an ESSENTIAL buy. I don't care that it's been reissued twice on CD. It doesn't matter. For better or worse - this is the best yet. And if you can accept this era Bowie, you have to have it. Why? Because it sounds wonderful. And the package is terrific. br / br /I could apologize (who wants to buy this yet again?!?!?!?) But I don't make these things, I only buy them. br / br /Worth getting? For a Bowie fan yes. A resounding yet. If you don't own it yet.... well now is the time. br / br /I am as cynical as the rest. I'd love to slate this release as more gouging. But now is not the time. This is a wonderful release. br / br /Game over.

5 out of 5 stars

a big improvement on recent reissues October 14, 2009
T. Bucknall
7 out of 8 found this review helpful

I'm very happy with the mastering on this, especially after how bad the ziggy 2cd was br /i heard hiss on at least one of the tracks on disc 2 so its not been butchered with no-noise yay! br / br /the italian space oddity has a diff vocal take than the version on the "rare" LP br /the S.O. demo is indeed diff to the Sound and vision box set, Hutch sings the 1st verse alone and theres other small differences br / br /the thing i'm most happy about is the quality of P-Star, London Bye Ta Ta and the b-side version of freecloud br /they totally wipe the floor with my horrible Tinny Ryko 6LP sound and vision box br / br /the one remaining hole in my collection now is a decent sounding MWSTW, i was going to spring for an old LP but , i guess its now possible that they'll give us a nice CD version like space oddity at some point

5 out of 5 stars

At Last - Released as it should be. October 19, 2009
davidp (manchester uk)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful

This is all about the cover - the music you know so well already. br / br /As a thirteen year old Bowie fan back in 1973 I (like many others) purchased the RCA 'Space Oddity' vinyl lp. with its Ziggy style cover which I never thought was a great Bowie image (prefered the back cover photo really). I knew it was a reissue of a previous release - it says so on the cover, but search as I tried in the mid-seventies I never knew what the original Philips cover looked like. br /Eventually, in 1978, after 6 years a Bowie fan, the Rare record stall in Manchester Underground Market (both stall and Market now long gone) had a copy on the back wall - it became like a holy grail to me, but was way out of my league price wise - I often used to walk past the stall just to gawp at the cover of this (and the other holy grail - the dress cover MWSTW on mercury) and dreamt of one day winning enough money to buy these out of reach luxury items. br /Many years later (about 1990 I think)I was in the right place at the right time with the right cash and finally managed to purchase a copy of the Philips 'David Bowie' album for a bargain £75 at Piccadilly Record Fair (ahh - happy days...)- the reason the cover is so important is it shows the Bowie who wrote and recorded these songs - slightly hippy; slightly pre-fame Bolan; a lot Scott Walker; the songs make more sense without the Ziggy pictures - Bowie was not that character yet - and the back cover by George Underwood (who had incidently previously designed Tyranasaurus Rex's 'My People Were Fair' cover) was so important to help the imagery of the songs / lyrics. br / br /Cut a long story short - this is a great vinyl reissue at last - titled as it should be 'David Bowie'- not 'Space Oddity' and packaged in the gatefold sleeve - Compared to the original Philips cover it has been very well done - typography in the right place; inner gatefold lyrics and credits identical; no barcode to spoil the images - my only gripe is the back cover is slightly enlarged and some details from round the edge have been lost - but a very minor gripe that is. I like the 'Bowie/Philips' style record label too - br / br /.....If only they'd reissued this like this in November 1972 it would have saved me so much time and money !.....but with an artist who's image is so important to their output it's great to finally have this record looking like it should. The reissue Cd is nice too but this is the real deal

5 out of 5 stars

At last EMI back on track.... November 19, 2009
David Newman (Brisbane, Australia)
I have to say when news came about that this record was going to get the E(very) M(istake) I(maginable) remastering with bonus tracks I was thinking about the past few years of balls ups by EMI and Bowie re-issues. To my suprise this time around they actually got pretty much as good as one could have expected. br / br /My only complaint would be that there could have been some more vaired demo versions of songs instead of a few repeats of the same song bar the mixes. br / br /All in all defnly worth picking up a copy of this re-issue.

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