Music : The Man Who Sold the World: Remastered

Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0724352190102
Format: Enhanced
Label: EMI
Manufacturer: EMI
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: EMI
Release Date: September 06, 1999
Studio: EMI
Sales Rank: 1084
21901

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Disc 1:

1. Width Of A Circle
2. All The Madmen
3. Black Country Rock
4. After All
5. Running Gun Blues
6. Saviour Machine
7. She Shook Me Cold
8. Man Who Sold The World
9. Supermen

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.co.uk Review:
With 1970's The Man Who Sold the World, David Bowie set aside his pop and singer-songwriter aspirations and headed in a harder-rocking direction. Producer Tony Visconti provided a thick, dense setting with guitarist Mick Ronson playing the role of guitar hero to Bowie's megalomaniac frontman; think Keith Richards and Mick Jagger sprinkled with fairy dust. The new approach flowered on Hunky Dory, but the outline for the master plan is here. The title track, "The Width of a Circle," and "All the Madmen" are essential Bowie, as he slips from cryptic to straightforward, celebratory wordplay. --Rob O'Connor




Rating: - After All - not quite a superman yet
This sounds like a great big jamming session. It is very much an album to showcase Mick Ronson's playing talent, but, from what I understand, Visconti has commented that Bowie himself was not very "present" for much of the work on the album. It shows. It is a brilliantly crafted and engineered piece of rock (as you'd expect from Visconti); but the sensibilities of the mainman himself seem very much in the background except on the beautiful "After All" and "All the Madmen".
"Width of a Circle" ... Read More

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Rating: - The Man Who Sold The World: What Ed thinks
Now fully restored with the original 'Dress' cover- if you remember this with a black sleeve and Bowie/Ziggy performing a high kick, it is the same album. And what an album it is. You won't find any of this on the greaters hits CDs, as it contained....no hits. What you do get is one of those classic 'track 1 side 1s' in Width of a Circle, an 8+ minute piece of classic early '70s rock. There is a good balance here between rock (Black Country Rock, Running Gun Blues, Saviour Machine) and the quieter tracks ... Read More

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Rating: - Finding His Style But Too Much Filla
It feels bad to be a Bowie fan giving the lad a 3-star rating, but after just listening to this again, the minutes do drag somewhat.
The whole album feels like Bowie trying out "rock" in a Deep Purple stylie, but Bowie is pop to his very core & it is really a Ronson/Visconti album acoustically, while the lyrics feel throwaway.
"Width O A C" is certainly a great opener and a huge change in style from the last album. But it smells a bit prog to me - a welding of different song bits together ... Read More

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Rating: - I ran across a monster!
So goes the lyric in the Width of a Circle, and this is a monster album. Not easy listening, but a deep, dark monster of a recording to really get you into another world. The intro to Width of a Circle is superb, but the highlight of the song is the thudding 'heavy metal' section towards the end where Bowie screams, 'His nebulous body swayed above - his tongue swollen with devil's love.' The best track on the album is 'All the Mad Men', Bowie's reaction to his half brother Terry's mental illness and admittance ... Read More

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Rating: - Bowie parodies Heavy Metal - even though it had barely been invented
It was obvious that Bowie had been listening to the Heavy Metal of Led Zeppelin and the Acid Rock of Pink Floyd when he recorded this. And I don't know if it was the drugs he was taking at the time (must have been acid judging by the hilarious lyrics) or whether he was sending up Heavy Metal, what with all that 'Dungeons & Dragons' type stuff that was so popular at the time, but nonetheless this is still a genuine bonafide Heavy Rock album. It isn't just down to the lyrics but also Mick Ronson's guitar riffs and ... Read More

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