David Bowie - Station To Station [Special Edition] (3CD)
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Artist: David BowieEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Special Edition
CD Release Date: 2010-09-28
Music Label: EMI
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Station To Station
- Golden Years
- Word On A Wing
- TVC15
- Stay
- Wild Is The Wind
- Station To Station
- Suffragette City
- Fame
- Word On A Wing
- Stay
- Waiting For The Man
- Queen Bitch
- Life On Mars?
- Five Years
- Panic In Detroit
- Changes
- TVC15
- Diamond Dogs
- Rebel Rebel
- The Jean Genie
Music reviews of Station To Station [Special Edition] (3CD)
Music Review: Featuring the best live album of all time...,
Rating: 5 Stars
Is Nassau 76, the concert included here, the best live album? - in my opinion, it is, yes.
Has the official CD of it got the odd defect, as some have alleged? I won't disagree with all the negative points I've read here and there about this set.
However myriad software, the easy availability of facilities to write reviews online has turned a lot of us into armchair critics...
Dig deep, or simply give any album - even a classic one - a cursory listen and there will be "imperfections" we can fuss over.
The bigger picture here is that this release features one of the best concerts ever, and it has a lot to offer compared to any prior (bootleg) release. As noted elsewhere, there are minor differences in the sound - for instance that of the guitars - on this mix compared to other versions fans will have heard. Both the rhythm guitar and lead guitar can be heard the most vividly yet...you can hear practically every note clearly, and yet the recording still retains the atmosphere of this very exciting gig, which is no mean feat.
For those unsure of whether to take the plunge on this CD set, focussing on the live album, these are some of the positive points and clearest / most obvious differences between this release and earlier recordings of the Nassau '76 gig -
Starting with Station To Station, it's been claimed this is one of the most exciting songs in Bowie's catalogue once it gets going, and I won't disagree. On the live version here, with the first thud of the bass drum - the presence is so clear! You could imagine being onstage amongst the musicians. Also the backing vocals are much clearer too, and while much has been made of a little too much focus on the drums elsewhere, on here it's just right...the skipping drumming is amazing!
Moving on to the next track, Suffragette City, the rhythm guitar sounds clearer and much less compressed and less 'countrified' than on prior versions of this concert. Very clear drumming, again, which is a good thing here. There's also a nice pre Michaal Jackson-esque "ooh!!" at the end of the track, followed by a laugh, both of which had been edited out of the familiar FM broadcast version.
On Stay in particular, once more the funky rhythm guitar part, care of Carlos, here is much more audible, and this is a good thing...
Waiting For The Man
This is where this set really starts to come into its own...this track, along with Life On Mars / Five Years, had only been heard via the Bowienet site before, and both this track and the latter medley had cuts due to tape errors.
Thankfully a complete dub has been found of both.
This is great news, as these songs are no outtakes, and fortify an already wonderful concert!
This version of the Velvet Underground song also includes this poem
"No hill's too steep
No mountain's too tall
...With hope and Faith
You can conquer them all"
paraphrasing Helen Steiner Rice's inspirational piece...high drama in the last 'feeling so good, feeling so fine..." chorus too!
Next up is Queen Bitch. This song did get a brief release on the RarestOneBowie CD, albeit in a different mix here - ie keyboard centre, guitars left and right channel as per the rest of this release, as opposed to the keyboard in one channel, lead guitar in the other, rhythm guitar central on the Rarest CD, and the rather clinically mixed extras on the earlier Station to Station CD.
Life on Mars / Five Years
This medley is mesmerising...I've waited so long to hear this complete and in excellent quality.
As noted above, this was incomplete on an earlier 'broadcast' on Bowienet, due to a tape fault. Thankfully a complete tape has been found - quite possibly not first generation, as some have alleged - but the songs sound simply beautiful here. Relax and enjoy.
Panic in Detroit - the backing vocals are clearer, and this edit works well!
A minor detail but it's nice to have the extended crowd, anticipating / cheering for an encore, in between Diamond Dogs and Rebel Rebel too.
On The Jean Genie the blistering guitar solo here sounds cleared and better than ever, and again, the extended croud cheering outro helps with the atmosphere of the gig.
So...for every negative comment about the presentation of the gig / whole box here, I believe there is a positive to counter it.
Whether you have a recording of the Nassau gig or not, you either gain a fantastic album and gig that you have not got, or at the very least one with some bonuses you didn't have, so what's there to lose?
Take the plunge and enjoy it!
Description of Station To Station [Special Edition] (3CD)
The 3CD Special Edition features: Original album, Previously unreleased 'Live Nassau Coliseum '76' concert, lift-off-lid box, 6-page booklet, 3 postcardsPop CDs
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