David Bowie - A Reality Tour
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Artist: David BowieEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Live
CD Release Date: 2010-01-26
Music Label: Sony Legacy
Product features:
- BOWIE DAVID A REALITY TOUR (2CD)
Music CD 1
- Rebel, Rebel
- New Killer Star
- Reality
- Fame
- Cactus
- Sister Midnight
- Afraid
- All The Young Dudes
- Be My Wife
- The Loneliest Guy
- The Man Who Sold The World
- Fantastic Voyage
- Hallo Spaceboy
- Sunday
- Under Pressure
- Life On Mars
- Battle For Britain (The Letter)
- Ashes To Ashes
- The Motel
- Loving The Alien
- Never Get Old
- Changes
- I'm Afraid Of Americans
- Heroes
- Bring Me The Disco King
- Slip Away
- Heaven (The Rays)
- Five Years
- Hang On To Yourself
- Ziggy Stardust
- Fall Dog Bombs The Moon
- Breaking Glass
- China Girl
Music reviews of A Reality Tour
Music Review: Excellent overview of Bowie with a fantastic band
Rating: 4 Stars
First of all, the album is a bargain: 33 songs on the double CD, none of which are really filler, and the selection bridges Bowie's career from around 1970 until the 2003 "Reality" album. Indeed, if I were suggesting a Bowie primer to a new listener, I think I'd start here. This is a nice, tight, varied selection, and the sound quality is excellent.
Second of all, it's not REALLY a live greatest hits--there's some stuff on here that wasn't that popular when released as a studio version, but the versions here make you wonder why they weren't. The selections from the "Reality" album, especially, sound incredible, and "Bring Me the Disco King" is one of those songs I thought I'd never hear again in a different form, but it works--it's actually quite nice. The "Ashes to Ashes" version here almost sounds like a run-through for the song to be included on "Aladdin Sane", and "Hallo Spaceboy" is rescued from oblivion by a version that sounds almost like Sonic Youth. These are not complaints.
Third, the band, Bowie's delivery, and even his between-song banter make this one of the better live albums I've listened to in years. You can hear individual audience members reacting (and singing) in certain sections, but there's really no ambient audience roar to drown out anything. In fact, the versions of "Rebel Rebel", "The Man Who Sold the World", and "All the Young Dudes" are almost anthemic here, and the audience is as much a part of the recording as the people on stage. In several places, Bowie solicits audience participation to help him out: he didn't really need the help, but I think the result is quite nice. Maybe the album represents what the audience experienced, and maybe not: there's a credit for "Pro Tools and 5.1" in the booklet. Then again, I wasn't there, so I'm happy with what I can get.
One thing I think is underappreciated on many of Bowie's later albums (especially the live ones) is the fantastic band behind him. The sound and musicianship here is very good--no prima donna leads, no deviation from the program, but everyone hits the song just right. Band members credited are Gerry Leonard ("band leader", guitar, vocals), Sterling Campbell (drums, vocals), Earl Slick (guitar, and quite nice as usual), Gail Ann Dorsey on bass, and Catherine Russell and Mike Garson on keyboards and other. Excellent ensemble, but I have to say, I'd buy a record of "Chopsticks" recorded by Slick and Dorsey.
I dock it one star for the versions of "Heroes" and "Ziggy". They aren't bad, by any means, but some things just shouldn't be done again when they're perfect the first time.
Description of A Reality Tour
Bowie fans can rejoice over the news that A REALITY TOUR is finally being released as a double-CD, an audio remastering of his hugely successful 2004 tour including three previously unreleased tracks from the concert: China Girl, Breaking Glass and Fall Dog Bombs The Moon.Caught at the very apex of his storied career, fronting a crack band that spotlights guitarist Earl Slick, Bowie cuts loose with "Fame" (co-written with John Lennon); a thrilling audience sing-along version of "All The Young Dudes" (a huge hit Bowie penned for Mott The Hoople); "Under Pressure" (co-written by Bowie and members of Queen, including Freddie Mercury); and "Changes," the Bowie song that all but defines the man's career in a single word. With few exceptions, no other singer in the history of pop music has been around for this long and sounds as exciting now as he ever did!
The album features over 30 classic Bowie songs spanning from The Man Who Sold the World album (1970), all the way to Reality album (2003), along with collaborations such as Sister Midnight (with Iggy Pop) and "Under Pressure" (with Queen), and snippets and teasers of Bowie classics such as "Space Oddity" and "Golden Years" - this is essentially a Greatest Hits Live package!
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