Who will love Aladdin Sane…
The Aladdin Sane double disc 30th anniversary edition has started to appear in the press, including, among other things, the two full-page adverts above, (UK and France) and an eight out of ten review in the current NME… We all know the album deserves a ten out of ten, but believe me, that’s an uncharacteristically generous rating for NME! To put it into perspective, no other album (new or reissue) had a higher rating this week. Here’s a bit of that review:
How much of a roll was David Bowie on by 1973? The kind that saw him giving away songs of the calibre of ‘All The Young Dudes’ to Mott The Hoople (who took it to Number One) and releasing this, the wired hangover to ‘Ziggy Stardust…”s superstar excess.
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Ian McCulloch and The Matrix.
While we’re flipping through the NME, this week’s Burn It guest is Ian McCulloch. Ian has been featured on this site a few times over the years, and he’s made his love of DB’s music very clear. But do you think he chose a Bowie song? Well, he did choose The Velvet Underground, Iggy and The Stooges and The Dandy Warhols among others, but he didn’t think of including a Bowie tune! That’s because his daughter selected John I’m Only Dancing for him:
My eight-year-old daughter mentioned this. So I’m choosing this because I’ve got a really cool daughter who’s a right little rock ‘n’ roller.
As if Ian wouldn’t have chosen a Bowie track without encouragement from his daughter! Ian’s cover of The Prettiest Star that he recorded for the UNCUT Ziggy special (01/09/03 NEWS: UNCUT ZIGGY SPECIAL CD TRACKLISTING) will be one of the B-sides on his next single, Love In Veins, due on July 7th. Love In Veins is the second single to be taken from his latest album, Slideling. Coincidentally, an original working title for Aladdin Sane was Love Aladdin Vein.
Elsewhere the NME’s news section has a half-page about The Matrix production team fulfilling a long-held dream with the possibility that they may mix some of David’s new songs. We’ll obviously let you know if anything comes of that.
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Aladdin Sane competition update and pre-order site.
Don’t forget the Aladdin Sane competition that we set a couple of days ago (05/20/03 NEWS: WIN ONE OF TEN ALADDIN SANE ANNIVERSARY CDs) ends tomorrow night. It seems most of you have managed to work out the right answers, certainly a few hundred more of you than the ten BowieNetters who’ll be winners.
Aladdin Sane is due on Monday here in the UK, and EMI international have assured me that the world-wide release date should be the same, except for the one-day delay in the USA. But I have had conflicting information on this, with some listing the US date as far away as June 24th. However, if your local record emporium is not giving you a satisfactory guarantee that they’ll be stocking it quickly enough for you, you may want to pre-order from the BowieNet store instead.
You can reach the Aladdin Sane pre-order page by clicking on the image above.
If you’ve not been keeping an eye on the recent news items about this release, you can find out all you want to know about it by checking out the press release