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David Bowie A New Career In A New Town

David Bowie’s Final RCA Albums Collected For Third Box Set

by Roger Wink, VVN Music on July 13, 2017

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Between 1977 and 1982, David Bowie found himself experimenting more and more with his music.

Starting with Low, the influence of Bowie’s new home in Germany could be heard throughout his Berlin Trilogy which also included Heroes and Lodger. He followed with his final RCA album, Scary Monsters and Super Creeps which was recognized as one of his few albums that received critical acclaim and commercial success.

Those four albums, plus the live set, Stage (1978), are being collected in the third box set spanning Bowie’s career, A New Career in a New Town (1977-1982), out on September 29 via Rhino/Parlophone.

The 11-CD or 13-LP box sets not only include the five albums, but a wealth of bonus material:
An EP saluting the 40th anniversary of Heroes which includes four different versions of the song.
The original and a reworked version of Stage that returns the show to its original running order along with unreleased bonus versions of two songs.
The original version of Lodger along with the 2017 Tony Visconti mix of the album.
A nineteen-song rarities album, Re:Call 3 with rarities from the era.
The vinyl version of the album will see the original version of Stage pressed in yellow vinyl.

A book is also included with rare photos and notes and discographical information from Tony Visconti.

The track list:

Disc 1 (Low)
Speed of Life
Breaking Glass
What in the World
Sound and Vision
Always Crashing in the Same Car
Be My Wife
A New Career in a New Town
Warszawa
Art Decade
Weeping Well
Subterraneans

Disc 2 (“Heroes”)
Beauty and the Beast
Joe the Lion
“Heroes”
Sons of the Silent Age
Blackout
V-2 Schneider
Sense of Doubt
Moss Garden
Neuköln
The Secret Life of Arabia

Disc 3 (“Heroes” EP)
“Heroes”/”Helden” (German Album Version – from RCA PL 42372 (DE), 1977)
“Helden” (Single Version – from RCA PB 9168 (DE), 1977)
“Heroes”/”Héros” (French Album Version – from RCA PL 42373 (FR), 1977)
“Héros” (Single Version – from RCA PB 9167 (FR), 1977)

Disc 4 (Stage – Original)
Hang On to Yourself
Ziggy Stardust
Five Years
Soul Love
Star
Station to Station
Fame
TVC 15

Disc 5 (Stage – Original)
Warszawa
Speed of Life
Art Decade
Sense of Doubt
Breaking Glass
“Heroes”
What in the World
Blackout
Beauty and the Beast

Disc 6 (Stage – 2017 reconfiguring)
Warszawa
“Heroes”
What in the World
Be My Wife
The Jean Genie
Blackout
Sense of Doubt
Speed of Life
Breaking Glass
Beauty and the Beast
Fame

Disc 7 (Stage – 2017 reconfiguring)
Five Years
Soul Love
Star
Hang On to Yourself
Ziggy Stardust
Suffragette City
Art Decade
Alabama Song
Station to Station
Stay
TVC 15

Disc 8 (Lodger – Original)
Fantastic Voyage
African Night Flight
Move On
Yassassin
Red Sails
D.J.
Look Back in Anger
Boys Keep Swinging
Repetition
Red Money

Disc 9 (Lodger – Tony Visconti Mix)
Fantastic Voyage
African Night Flight
Move On
Yassassin
Red Sails
D.J.
Look Back in Anger
Boys Keep Swinging
Repetition
Red Money

Disc 10 (Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps))
It’s No Game (Part 1)
Up the Hill Backwards
Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)
Ashes to Ashes
Fashion
Teenage Wildlife
Scream Like a Baby
Kingdom Come
Because You’re Young
It’s No Game (Part 2)

Disc 11 (Re:Call 3)
“Heroes” (Single Version)
Beauty and the Beast (Extended Version) (12″ promo A-side)
Breaking Glass (Australian Single Version)
Yassassin (Single Version)
D.J. (Single Version)
Alabama Song (single A-side)
Space Oddity (1979 Version)
Ashes to Ashes (Single Version)
Fashion (Single Version)
Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) (Single Version)
Crystal Japan (single A-side)
Under Pressure (Single Version) – Queen + David Bowie
Baal’s Hymn (from David Bowie in Bertolt Brecht’s Baal)
Remembering Maria A (from David Bowie in Bertolt Brecht’s Baal)
Ballad of the Adventurers (from David Bowie in Bertolt Brecht’s Baal)
The Drowned Girl (from David Bowie in Bertolt Brecht’s Baal)
The Dirty Song (from David Bowie in Bertolt Brecht’s Baal)
Cat People (Putting Out Fire) (single A-side)
Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy (mono) – David Bowie & Bing Crosby (single A-side)

Vinyl Configuration (13-LPs)
LP 1 – Low
LP 2 – “Heroes”
LP 3 – “Heroes” EP
LP 4 – Stage – Original
LP 5 – Stage – Original
LP 6 – Stage – 2017 Reconfiguration
LP 7 – Stage – 2017 Reconfiguration
LP 8 – Stage – 2017 Reconfiguration
LP 9 – Lodger – Original
LP 10 – Lodger – 2017 Tony Visconti Mix
LP 11 – Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)
LP 12 – Re:Call 3
LP 13 – Re:Call 3

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