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Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust [40th Anniversary] [Remastered] [LP/DVD]

David Bowie - LP

  • Artist: David Bowie
  • Format: LP
  • Year: 2012
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • UPC: 5099946361417
  • Item Number: 246206X
  • Release date: 06/05/2012
  • 1. Five Years
  • 2. Soul Love
  • 3. Moonage Daydream
  • 4. Starman
  • 5. It Ain't Easy
  • 6. Lady Stardust
  • 7. Star
  • 8. Hang On to Yourself
  • 9. Ziggy Stardust
  • 10. Suffragette City
  • 11. Rock 'N' Roll Suicide
  • 1. Five Years (DVD)
  • 2. Soul Love (DVD)
  • 3. Moonage Daydream (DVD)
  • 4. Starman (DVD)
  • 5. It Ain't Easy (DVD)
  • 6. Lady Stardust (DVD)
  • 7. Star (DVD)
  • 8. Hang On to Yourself (DVD)
  • 9. Ziggy Stardust (DVD)
  • 10. Suffragette City (DVD)
  • 11. Rock 'N' Roll Suicide (DVD)
  • 12. Five Years (DVD)
  • 13. Soul Love (DVD)
  • 14. Moonage Daydream (DVD)
  • 15. Starman (DVD)
  • 16. It Ain't Easy (DVD)
  • 17. Lady Stardust (DVD)
  • 18. Star (DVD)
  • 19. Hang On To Yourself (DVD)
  • 20. Ziggy Stardust (DVD)
  • 21. Suffragette City (DVD)
  • 22. Rock 'N' Roll Suicide (DVD)
  • 23. Moonage Daydream (Instrumental) (DVD)
  • 24. The Superman (DVD)
  • 25. Velvet Goldmine (DVD)
  • 26. Sweet Head (DVD)
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Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust [40th Anniversary] [Remastered] [LP/DVD] by David Bowie on LP


Borrowing heavily from Marc Bolan's glam rock and the future shock of A Clockwork Orange, David Bowie reached back to the heavy rock of The Man Who Sold the World for The Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust & the Spiders from Mars. Constructed as a loose concept album about an androgynous alien rock star named Ziggy Stardust, the story falls apart quickly, yet Bowie's fractured, paranoid lyrics are evocative of a decadent, decaying future, and the music echoes an apocalyptic, nuclear dread. Fleshing out the off-kilter metallic mix with fatter guitars, genuine pop songs, string sections, keyboards, and a cinematic flourish, Ziggy Stardust is a glitzy array of riffs, hooks, melodrama, and style, and the logical culmination of glam. Mick Ronson plays with a maverick flair that invigorates rockers like "Suffragette City," "Moonage Daydream," and "Hang Onto Yourself," while "Lady Stardust," "Five Years," and "Rock 'n' Roll Suicide" have a grand sense of staged drama previously unheard of in rock & roll. And that self-conscious sense of theater is part of the reason why Ziggy Stardust sounds so foreign. Bowie succeeds not in spite of his pretensions but because of them, and Ziggy Stardust -- familiar in structure, but alien in performance -- is the first time his vision and execution met in such a grand, sweeping fashion. [Unlike the 30th Anniversary edition of The Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust & the Spiders from Mars, which contained a full bonus disc consisting of 12 rarities, there are no bonus cuts on the 40th Anniversary edition of David Bowie's classic -- just a new remaster. On the deluxe 40th Anniversary edition, there is this bare-bones CD along with a heavy-grade vinyl replicating the original album, and then a DVD-Audio that contains the 2012 remaster and the 2003 5.1 remix...plus four bonus tracks of an instrumental "Moonage Daydream," "The Superman," "Velvet Goldmine," and "Sweet Head." Whether this warrants an upgrade is due entirely to the fan: they'll either be completists or will be quite satiated by the other deluxe and anniversary editions in their library.] ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi
  • Artist: David Bowie
  • Format: LP
  • Year: 2012
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • UPC: 5099946361417
  • Item Number: 246206X
  • Release date: 06/05/2012
  • Label: Virgin
  • Genre: Pop/Rock
  • Style: Singer/Songwriter, Hard Rock, Glam Rock, Contemporary Pop/Rock, Proto-Punk, Experimental Rock, Album Rock, Art Rock
  • Album Time: 131:26

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  • Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust David Bowie LP
Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust David Bowie LP