Music : Aladdin Sane: Remastered

Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0724352190201
Label: EMI
Manufacturer: EMI
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: EMI
Release Date: September 06, 1999
Studio: EMI
Sales Rank: 1383
21902

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Disc 1:

1. Watch That Man
2. Aladdin Sane
3. Drive In Saturday
4. Panic In Detroit
5. Cracked Actor
6. Time
7. Prettiest Star
8. Let's Spend The Night Together
9. Jean Genie
10. Lady Grinning Soul

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.co.uk Review:
The second most important moment in Bowie's glam period, Aladdin Sane is full of smart, cutting-edge songs that hold up decades later as classic moments in rock. Standout tracks include "Panic in Detroit", with Mick Ronson's screaming guitars and Mick Woodmansey's urgent drumming; "Watch that Man", a piano-driven, rollicking number perfect for the Bowie strut; the lascivious and sweaty "Cracked Actor"; the punky "Jean Genie"; and a perfectly raucous cover of "Let's Spend the Night Together". "Time" hearkens back to the theatrics of The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust, while "Drive in Saturday", "The Prettiest Star", and "Lady Grinning Soul" serve as precursors to Bowie's "plastic soul" sounds that came later in the 1970s. Aladdin Sane is even more impressive when considering that the same year this album was made, Bowie was also working with artists like Iggy Pop and Lou Reed, producing some of their most heralded works (the Stooges' Raw Power and Reed's Transformer). --Lorry Fleming




Rating: - Overrated
This is my least favourite 70's Bowie album. I'm not saying it's bad exactly, I just find it a lot weaker than his other offerings from the 70's. Coming straight after his masterpiece, Ziggy Stardust, it does seem inferior and the subsequent Diamond Dogs is one of my favourites. Opening song Watch That Man is very unremarkable, and the title track contains a very self-indulgent piano solo that I just find irritating. The final song, Lady Grinning Soul just doesn't do it for me, and the other tracks ... Read More

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Rating: - Watch that man
The big album of 1973, Bowie (or at least his Mainman production team) was coining it in. No surprise; he embraced the guitar driven rock of the glam era and lead from the front, possibly for the only time in his career.
In pure visual terms, the Bowie "look" was becoming more bizarre. This was glam at the dirty edge, and the album reeks of decadence and too many one night stands. The sounds too, Stones influenced rock, jazz influenced pop, were quite new to those attuned to the Englishness of ... Read More

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Rating: - Bowie at the peak of his creativity
This is the raunchy glam-rock era of Bowie's music I much prefer, and although as a youth I wanted to have Brian Eno's babies artistically speaking, I thought Bowie lost it a little after Heroes and Low hit the scene. They were really great and innovative LPs though, and as I have all Eno's albums [now as CDs] I can forgive his collaboration on Low changing Bowie's musical path. Besides Bowie's creativity over the years has been little short of startling. Perhaps I prefer album's Ziggy Stardust, Hunky ... Read More

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Rating: - A novelistic montage of kaleidoscopic imagery and Bowie's masterpeice.
Although 'Hunky Dory' has always just shaded this as my favourite Bowie album, listening to 'Aladdin Sane' again thirty-five years later, I'm convinced beyond reasonable doubt that this is his masterpiece. It almost doesn't quite hang together as an album but by its sheer brilliance and breadth it just does. Your other reviewers are very perceptive and there have been some very informed comments, recognising the qualities that seem to grow with every listen, however many times you hear it. It is as rewarding ... Read More

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Rating: - a crashcourse for the ravers
Has Richard "Rich" Nobody actually ever listened to this? Please excuse me, i'm feeling really quite indignant at his review. "Let's spend the night together. No thanks" I regard that track almost as musical perfection borne out of the (deliberate!) chaos of its opening, and reckon the Stones must have been staggered as well.

Watch that Man has always been a favourite, and check out Aladin Sane's exquisite piano(!!) join with the next bit.......

For some balance, i was never too keen ... Read More

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