David Bowie Readies Five Years 1969–1973 Box Set

[Trane]

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David Bowie is about to release a series of box sets that span his entire career. First up is Five Years 1969–1973, which is out September 25 via Parlophone. The box—12 CDs or 13 LPs—includes six remastered studio albums, two live albums, and a compilation called Re:Call 1. Re:Call features non-album tracks and previously unreleased material from that period. Find the comp's tracklist below.

The six newly remastered albums include David Bowie AKA Space Oddity, The Man Who Sold the World, Hunky Dory, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars, Aladdin Sane, and PinUps. The live albums are Live Santa Monica '72 and Ziggy Stardust: The Motion Picture Soundtrack. It also includes the 2003 stereo mix of Rise and Fall.
The box also comes with a book featuring rarely seen photos and technical notes about each album. There's also a foreword by the Kinks' Ray Davies. Both Re:Call 1 and the 2003 Ziggy mix feature new artwork featuring archival photographs.
Re:Call 1:
CD1:
01 Space Oddity (original UK mono single edit)
02 Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud (original UK mono single version)
03 Ragazzo Solo, Ragazza Sola
04 The Prettiest Star (original mono single version)
05 Conversation Piece
06 Memory of a Free Festival (Part 1)
07 Memory of a Free Festival (Part 2)
08 All the Madmen (mono single edit) *
09 Janine
10 Holy Holy (original mono single version) #
11 Moonage Daydream (The Arnold Corns single version)
12 Hang on to Yourself (The Arnold Corns single version)
CD 2:
01 Changes (mono single version)
02 Andy Warhol (mono single version)
03 Starman (original single mix)
04 John, I’m Only Dancing (original single version)
05 The Jean Genie (original single mix)
06 Drive-In Saturday (German single edit)
07 Round and Round
08 John, I’m Only Dancing (sax version)
09 Time (U.S. single edit)
10 Amsterdam
11 Holy Holy (Spiders version)
12 Velvet Goldmine
* previously unreleased
# only issued on original ‘71 Mercury single

 

[Zomby_Woof]

Hvor mange eksemplarer av samme utgivelse før det bikker over og blir tøysete?

Må innrømme at jeg er rammet av en fullstendig irrasjonell kjøpelyst....

 

[Zomby_Woof]

David Bowie Five Years 1969-1973 (13LP Box) - bigdipper

Ikke noe å si på prisen. Tenker jeg ender med en sånn boks likevel.

 

[The Gunner]

Sikle, sikle....

 

[Trane]

Litt mer info å finne på SuperDeluxeEdition:

The vinyl version of Five Years has exactly the same content as the CD edition and is pressed on 180g ‘audiophile’ vinyl. Both CD and vinyl boxes come with an accompanying book (128 pages in the CD box and 84 in the vinyl set) which feature rare photos and technical notes about each album from producers Tony Visconti and Ken Scott.
Update 19:00 23/6: The label has confirmed to SDE that as far as the vinyl is concerned “everything is remastered from analogue except for a couple of tracks on Re:Call where we had no analogue source available.”

De analoge mastertapene ?

Nå kan jo "180g audiophile vinyl" bety så mangt har jeg hørt, men det øker i det minste forventningene. Hvor de presses hadde vært interessant å vite.

SDE has been in touch with the label who have confirmed that these are high quality ‘Japanese-style’ packaging not simply card sleeves with CDs in them. To quote “a great deal of care, love and attention to detail has been taken on getting them right and looking beautiful.”

Dersom CD-boksen blir av "mono-Beatles-kvalitet" kan det jo bli riktig hyggelig. Men lyden da ? Tilsynelatende ny remastering, men er også CD-boksen remasteret fra analoge kilder ? Og i tilfellet hvilke ?