Young Americans
David Bowie - CD
- Artist: David Bowie
- Format: CD
- Year: 1999
- Number of Discs: 1
- UPC: 724352190508
- Item Number: 35219050
- Release date: 09/28/1999
- 1. Young Americans
- 2. Win
- 3. Fascination
- 4. Right
- 5. Somebody Up There Likes Me
- 6. Across the Universe
- 7. Can You Hear Me
- 8. Fame
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Young Americans by David Bowie on CD
David Bowie had dropped hints during the Diamond Dogs tour that he was moving toward R&B, but the full-blown blue-eyed soul of Young Americans came as a shock. Surrounding himself with first-rate sessionmen, Bowie comes up with a set of songs that approximate the sound of Philly soul and disco, yet remain detached from their inspirations; even at his most passionate, Bowie sounds like a commentator, as if the entire album was a genre exercise. Nevertheless, the distance doesn't hurt the album -- it gives the record its own distinctive flavor, and its plastic, robotic soul helped inform generations of synthetic British soul. What does hurt the record is a lack of strong songwriting. "Young Americans" is a masterpiece, and "Fame" has a beat funky enough that James Brown ripped it off, but only a handful of cuts ("Win," "Fascination," "Somebody up There Likes Me") comes close to matching their quality. As a result, Young Americans is more enjoyable as a stylistic adventure than as a substantive record. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi
- Artist: David Bowie
- Format: CD
- Year: 1999
- Number of Discs: 1
- UPC: 724352190508
- Item Number: 35219050
- Release date: 09/28/1999
- Label: Virgin
- Genre: Pop/Rock, R&B
- Style: Soul, Contemporary Pop/Rock, Blue-Eyed Soul, Experimental Rock, Album Rock, Dance-Rock, Art Rock
- Album Time: 58:13
- A Reality Tour
- Aladdin Sane
- Aladdin Sane
- Aladdin Sane
- Aladdin Sane [30th Anniversary Edition]
- Best of Bowie
- Best of Bowie [Germany/Austria/Switzerland]
- Best of Bowie [Japan]
- Best of Bowie [US/Canada Bonus CD]
- Best of Bowie 1980-87
- Black Tie White Noise [Expanded]
- Bowie at the Beeb: The Best of the BBC Radio Sessions
- Christiane F. Wir Kinder [Original Soundtrack] (Import)
- Club Bowie: Rare & Unreleased 12" Mixes [Enhanced] (Import)
- David Bowie (Import)
- David Bowie Box (Import)
- David Bowie: Glass Spider [DVD/CD]
- David Live [Virgin]
- Diamond Dogs
- Early On (1964-1966)
- Earthling
- Earthling [Japan]
- Heathen
- Heathen (Import)
- Heroes
- Hours [Japan Bonus Track]
- Hours...
- Hours/Earthling
- Hunky Dory
- Hunky Dory
- Hunky Dory
- I Dig Everything: 1966 Pye Singles
- I Dig Everything: 1966 Pye Singles
- Inside Bowie and the Spiders 1972-1974: The Definitive Critical Review
- iSelect (Import)
- Let's Dance
- Let's Dance
- Let's Dance (Shm-CD) (Import)
- Live in Santa Monica '72
- Live in Santa Monica '72
- Lodger
- Lodger
- Low
- Low
- Never Let Me Down
- Never Let Me Down
- Never Let Me Down
- Never Let Me Down (Import)
- Outside
- Outside
- Pin Ups
- Pin Ups
- Pin Ups
- Pin Ups
- Reality
- Reality
- Reality [Bonus Disc]
- Reality [Bonus Disc]
- Reality [Japan]
- Scary Monsters
- Scary Monsters
- Scary Monsters
- Sound + Vision [2003 Box]
- Space Oddity
- Space Oddity
- Space Oddity (Import)
- Space Oddity [40th Anniversary Special Edition]
- Stage [Virgin]
- Stage [Virgin] (Import)
- Station to Station
- Station to Station
- The Best of David Bowie 1969/1974 [Japan Bonus Tracks]
- The Buddha of Suburbia [2007]
- The Collection [EMI]
- The Collection [EMI]
- The Collection [EMI] (Import)
- The Deram Anthology 1966-1968
- The Man Who Sold the World
- The Man Who Sold the World
- The Man Who Sold the World
- The Man Who Sold the World [Japanese Version]
- The Platinum Collection
- The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
- The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
- The Singles Collection [UK]
- Tonight
- Tonight
- Tonight
- Tonight (Import)
- VH1 Storytellers
- Young Americans
- Young Americans [Bonus DVD/Pal]
- Young Americans [CD/DVD]
- Young Americans [Japan Reissue] (Import)
- Ziggy Stardust [Japan]
- Ziggy Stardust [Japan]
- Ziggy Stardust: The Motion Picture [30th Anniversary]
- Interview Picture Disc
- Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf (Import)
- The Deram Anthology 1966-1968 (Import)
- David Bowie : Live Santa Monica '72 [limited]
- I Dig Everything: 1966 Pye Singles
- Changesbowie (Import)
- David Live [Virgin]
- Ziggy Stardust [Japan]
- Best of Bowie 1980-87 (Import)
- Glass Spider (Import)
- DAVID BOWIE : I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR YOU
- Heathen [Japan Bonus Track] (Import)
- Slow Burn
- Never Get Old
- Outside (Import)
- David Bowie : Earthling (Ltd) (Ltd) (Mlps)
- London Boy
- Hunky Dory
- Diamond Dogs
- Space Oddity
- Best of Bowie [Japan] (Import)
- Diamond Dogs [Japan]
- Low
- Ziggy Stardust [Japan]
- Aladdin Sane
- David Bowie : Diamond Dogs (Jpn LP Sleeve)
- Heroes
- Scary Monsters
- Let's Dance (Import)
- Live in Santa Monica '72
- Space Oddity (Import)
- The Man Who Sold the World (Import)
- Hunky Dory (Import)
- Ziggy Stardust
- Pin Ups (Import)
- Diamond Dogs (Import)
- Young Americans (Import)
- Station to Station
- Low
- Heroes (Import)
- Lodger (Import)
- Scary Monsters (Import)
- 1966
- I Dig Everything: 1966 Pye Singles (Import)
- Outside (Import)
- Outside [Import Bonus CD]
- Earthling (Import)
- Earthling
- Hours [Import Bonus CD]
- Golden Years (Import)
- Golden Years [EP]
- Space Oddity [40th Anniversary]
- Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust - 40th Anniversary Edition
- Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust [40th Anniversary] [Remastered] [LP/DVD]
- Starman
- David Bowie : Station to Station
- Station to Station [Deluxe Edition/+DVD/+3LP]
- Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars
- David Bowie [Deluxe Edition]
- David Bowie: Deluxe Edition (Import)
- David Bowie (Import)
- Hunky Dory (Import)
- The Deram Anthology 1966-1968 (Import)
- The Best of David Bowie 1974/1979
- Pin Ups
- Heathen
- All Saints: Collected Instrumentals 1977-1999 (Import)
- Best of Bowie [UK]
- Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars [30th Anniversary Edition]
- Best of Bowie [US] (Import)
- Ziggy Stardust: The Motion Picture [30th Anniversary]
- Let's Dance
- Diamond Dogs [30th Anniversary Edition]
- Aladdin Sane [30th Anniversary Edition]
- Live in Santa Monica '72 (Import)
- The Best of David Bowie 1969-1974 (Import)
- Outside
- Earthling
- Stage [Virgin]
- David Live [Virgin]
- Survive
- David Bowie [PGD Special Markets]
- London Boy (Import)
- Little Wonder + Remixes EP
- BOWIE,DAVID: BLACK TIE WHITE (IMPORT)
- Rarest Live
- Best of Bowie [US]
- Club Bowie: Rare & Unreleased 12" Mixes [Enhanced]
- The Collection [EMI]
- Tonight
- DAVID BOWIE : NEVER LET ME DOWN
- The Document Unauthorized
- David Bowie : Rock Review / (dts)
- Rock Milestones: Ziggy Stardust [DVD]
- Reality
- Reality [DualDisc]
- Reality
- Earthling [Extra Tracks]
- Hours [Remastered]
- Outside [Bonus Track]
- Hours [Collector's Edition]
- DAVID BOWIE : TONIGHT
- Glass Spider Live (Import)
- Glass Spider Live (Import)
- Bowie,David: Birthday Celebration-Live in Nyc 1997
- Birthday Celebration: Live in NYC 1997 (Import)
- Heathen (Import)
- Excerpts from Outside (Import)
- Original Album Classics (Import)
- Outside/Heathen (Import)
- Outside/Heathen (Import)
- The Next Day (2LP)
- The Next Day
- The Next Day - Deluxe Edition
- Starman/Suffragette City (Import)
- Composers:
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Performers:
- Diane Sumler - Vocals (Background)
- Jean Millington - Vocals (Background)
- Larry Washington - Conga, Percussion
- Andy Newmark - Drums
- Anthony Hinton - Vocals (Background), Vocals
- Ava Cherry - Vocals (Background), Vocals
- Carlos Alomar - Guitar
- David Bowie - Vocals, Saxophone, Keyboards, Guitar, Piano
- David Sanborn - Saxophone
- Dennis Davis - Percussion, Drums
- Earl Slick - Guitar
- Emir Kassan - Bass
- G. Diane Sumler - Vocals
- Jeanie Fineberg - Vocals (Background), Vocals
- John Lennon - Guitar, Vocals
- Luther Vandross - Vocals (Background), Vocals
- Mike Garson - Keyboards, Piano
- Pablo Rosario - Percussion
- Ralph MacDonald - Percussion
- Robin Clark - Vocals (Background), Vocals
- Warren Peace - Vocals (Background), Vocals
- Willie Weeks - Guitar (Bass), Bass
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Credits:
- Dr. Toby Mountain - Digital Mastering
- Jonathan Wyner - Mastering Assistant
- David Michael Kennedy - Photography
- David Thoener - Assistant Engineer
- Eric Stephen Jacobs - Photography
- Kevin Cann - Design
- Neal Preston - Photography
- Nigel Reeve - Remastering
- Peter Mew - Remastering
- Steve Shapiro - Photography
- David Bowie - Main Performer, Mixing, Arranger, Producer
- Eddie Kramer - Engineer
- Harry Maslin - Mixing, Producer, Engineer
- Luther Vandross - Arranger
- Tony Visconti - Mixing, Producer, Arranger
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