Waiting for the gift of sound and vision…
EMI have come up with a novel new way of introducing that difficult-to-please niece or nephew to the joys of some of their artists via a limited Giftpack promotion available over the holiday period.
Artists such as Coldplay, Chemical Brothers and Simple Minds will have Giftpacks produced, as will David Bowie.
The David Bowie Giftpack will include the 2CD Best of Bowie and Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars – The Motion Picture DVD, which, I think you’ll agree is a pretty good introduction to David Bowie.
The CD is the two disc UK version which has 39 tracks, 28 of which were Top 20 UK hits. The remaining 11 tracks are equally deserving of a place on a Best Of, but, either they weren’t released as singles, such as The Man Who Sold The World, Oh! You Pretty Things and Ziggy Stardust, or they were, but failed to reach the top twenty, such as “Heroes” (Incredibly, it only reached #24) and TVC 15 (#33).
Obviously this collection includes Bowie’s five UK #1 hits. It also has his US #1 hits including Fame which only managed to get to #17 in the UK.
Here’s the Best of Bowie tracklisting:
CD1
01 Space Oddity
02 The Man Who Sold The World
03 Oh! You Pretty Things
04 Changes
05 Life On Mars?
06 Starman
07 Ziggy Stardust
08 Suffragette City
09 John, I’m Only Dancing
10 The Jean Genie
11 Drive-In Saturday
12 Sorrow
13 Diamond Dogs
14 Rebel Rebel
15 Young Americans
16 Fame
17 Golden Years
18 TVC15
19 Wild Is The Wind
CD2
01 Sound And Vision
02 “Heroes”
03 Boys Keep Swinging
04 Under Pressure {w/Queen}
05 Ashes To Ashes
06 Fashion
07 Scary Monsters (& Super Creeps)
08 Let’s Dance
09 China Girl
10 Modern Love
11 Blue Jean
12 This Is Not America {w/The Pat Metheny Group}
13 Loving The Alien
14 Dancing In The Street {w/Mick Jagger}
15 Absolute Beginners
16 Jump They Say
17 Hallo Spaceboy (PSB remix)
18 Little Wonder
19 I?m Afraid Of Americans (V1)
20 Slow Burn (radio edit)
As if that wasn’t enough to tempt s Bowie virgin into the water, the Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars – The Motion Picture DVD includes the classic 1973 show filmed at the Hammersmith Odeon, London in Stereo and 5.1 Surround Sound mixes.
It also has a commentary by director D.A. Pennebaker and producer Tony Visconti and a DVD ROM section which has a calendar, a screen saver and more.
Here’s the tracklisting for Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars – The Motion Picture DVD
01 Opening Credits / Intro
02 Hang On To Yourself
03 Ziggy Stardust
04 Watch That Man
05 Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud
06 All The Young Dudes
07 Oh! You Pretty Things
08 Moonage Daydream
09 Changes
10 Space Oddity
11 My Death
12 Cracked Actor
13 Time
14 The Width Of A Circle
15 Band Introduction
16 Let s Spend The Night Together
17 Suffragette City
18 White Light / White Heat
19 Farewell Speech
20 Rock n Roll Suicide
21 End Credits
The David Bowie Giftpack comes in a slipcase and it is released on October 27th, 2008. Demand a better future for the musically needy in your life with The David Bowie Giftpack!