LOVING THE ALIEN - ATHENS GEORGIA SALUTES DAVID BOWIE

Being a lifetime Bowie fanatic, I'm forever a sucker for Bowie tribute albums! I purchased this some years back when there seemed to be a whole load of Bowie tribute albums coming out at once (I bought them all, of course!). This one is definitely one of the better ones featuring as it does a great batch of unknown bands/artists all hailing from the great Athens, Georgia. Featuring 10 tracks and not one of them actually being "Loving The Alien"(!), Loving The Alien flows very nicely from start to finish. The decidedly REM-ish Robert Lurie Collective do a brilliant cover of Bowie's obscure classic "I Can't Read", The Quiet Men superbly rendition "Big Brother" (although sadly don't end it with "Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family" so the song feels a bit sudden when it reaches the end), Mime has a refreshingly unique take (which might not be everyone's cup of tea!) on one of my all time fave Bowie songs - the Bowie standard "John, I'm Only Dancing", Ceiling Fan do a superb, grungy and ever-so-faithful version of "Hang Onto Yourself" (one of my favourite tracks on this abum) and the same goes for Slackdaddy's excellent version of "Starman". Don't Analyse really does something (I'm not sure what but I like it!) to the Low instrumental "A New Career In A New Town". Ultimate fave track on here though is Simultaneous Discs' unique, epic, downbeat take on Bowie's upbeat pop classic "Modern Love". What makes Loving The Alien a winner is the way each artist has covered the song with an obvious passion for the material but injecting it with something fresh/different without taking away what made the original what it was in the first place. In other words, they haven't ruined a good song - they've just added another flavour to it. A must own for Bowie fans.

LOVING THE ALIEN - ATHENS GEORGIA SALUTES DAVID BOWIE

1999

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DAVID BOWIE - LONDON BYE TA-TA

Excellent early boot of a Bowie performance recorded - not really in Paris (don't be fooled by the title!) - but for The Sunday Show at Paris Cinema Studios, London, February 5th 1970. A lot of people seem to complain about the sound quality. In my opinion, the quality is entirely listenable given the archive nature and rarity of this particular performance. Capturing Bowie mid-phase between his folky Space Oddity era and the far heavier, darker and rockier The Man Who Sold The World era, Paris Bye Ta-Ta is a total must-own. The 13-track playlist is a great mix of mid-late 60s Deram-era gems and early 70s Bowie classics and obscurities that include "London Bye Ta-Ta", "Fill Your Heart" (later recorded for Hunky Dory), "Karma Man", "The Prettiest Star" (originally released as a single in 1970 but magnificently flopped then re-recorded for 1973's glam rock classic Aladdin Sane), "Buzz The Fuzz", "Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud", "Unwashed And Somewhat Slightly Dazed" and the roaring rocker "Width Of A Circle", amongst others.


DAVID BOWIE - LONDON BYE TA-TA
1990
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DARKNESS AND DISGRACE - DES DE MOOR & RUSSELL CHURNEY PERFORM THE SONGS OF DAVID BOWIE

Superb and uniquely different approach to the songs of David Bowie from cabaret theatre artists Des De Moor and Russell Churney. Beautiful stuff and way beyond the constant and ever lacklustre compilations of Bowie cover versions by bands who usually lack imagination, it has been appraised by the "Thin White Duke" himself. Adapted from their critically acclaimed theatre show of the same name, Darkness And Disgrace is no Stars In Their Eyes tribute show (as someone quite rightly put it) and beams new and refreshing light into the legendary Bowie's back catalogue. Thankfully, many of the song choices are the more obscure and exceptionally brilliant and classic songs that Bowie fanatics like myself know inside out and non-Bowie fans should really hear such as "All The Madmen", "The Bewlay Brothers", "Look Back In Anger", "Always Crashing In The Same Car", "Station To Station" and "I Have Not Been To Oxford Town".


DARKNESS AND DISGRACE - DES DE MOOR & RUSSELL CHURNEY PERFORM THE SONGS OF DAVID BOWIE
2003
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AN EVENING WITH DAVID BOWIE

Superb bootleg release of a BBC Radio broadcast from 2002 featuring Bowie at his best with a stunning selection of tracks including "Look Back In Anger", "Alabama Song" and "Survive", amongst others. Bowie's Hunky Dory surreal masterpiece "The Bewlay Brothers" gets it's first ever live performance. A must-own for Bowie fans. Bonus tracks including "Life On Mars", "Fashion" and "Ziggy Stardust" taken from the British tv shows The Michael Parkinson Show and Friday Night With Jonathan Ross.


AN EVENING WITH DAVID BOWIE
2002
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