Artist: David Bowie
Title: Who Can I Be Now? [1974-1976]
Genre: Rock
Release Date: 2016
Label: Parlophone UK
Duration: 03:49:57
Quality: FLAC 192kHz/24bit
Source: HDTracks
The boxed set, which is named after a track recorded in 1974 but not officially released until the 1990s, includes a huge set of studio recordings of some of David Bowie’s most memorable tracks. Driven by an entirely deeper dynamic than most pop artists, David Bowie inhabits a very special world of extraordinary sounds and endless vision. Unwilling to stay on the treadmill of rock legend and avoiding the descent into ever demeaning and decreasing circles of clich, Bowie writes and performs what he wants, when he wants. His absence from the endless list of “important events” has just fuelled interest. Constant speculation about what the guy was up to has even led some to wonder if this is his greatest reinvention ever.
Digital Download 192kHz/24bit Boxed Set:
Diamond Dogs (Remastered)
David Live (Original Mix) (Remastered)*
The Gouster*
Young Americans (Remastered)
Station To Station (Remastered)
* Exclusive to WHO CAN I BE NOW? (1974-1976)
Parlophone Records are proud to announce David Bowie — Who Can I Be Now?, the second in a series of box sets spanning his career from 1969. The box set features all of the material officially released by Bowie during the so-called American phase of his career from 1974 to 1976. The boxed set, which is named after a track recorded in 1974 but not officially released until the 1990s, includes a huge set of studio recordings of some of David Bowie’s most memorable tracks.
A sequel to the 2015 box Five Years 1969-1973, 2016’s Who Can I Be Now? (1974-1976) covers just three years but this stretch in the mid-’70s happens to be the peak of David Bowie’s superstardom. That much can be gleaned from the number of albums within the set: three studio albums — Diamond Dogs, Young Americans, Station to Station, each released in a subsequent year — along with the double live album David Live from 1974. Four albums in three years is plenty but to that core canon Who Can I Be Now? add an early version of Young Americans called The Gouster. The latter seems to bend the rules of this extensive Bowie catalog reissue project, which is to preserve the officially released canon and keep unreleased tracks — whether they surfaced on the ’90s Rykodisc reissues or remain unheard — locked up in the vaults. The Gouster contains “Who Can I Be Now?” and “It’s Gonna Be Me,” both originally released on the 1990 Ryko edition of Young Americans, along with alternate versions of “Can You Hear Me?” and “Right,” plus the disco version of “John, I’m Only Dancing,” but otherwise it plays like Young Americans, only not quite as good. Furthermore, its presence calls into question why the unreleased outtake “Shilling the Rubes” is left behind alongside the “Dodo” that showed up on the Ryko CD of Diamond Dogs: if the door is opened for some outtakes, it’s hard not to miss those that are absent. Still, this is quibbling. The Who Can I Be Now? box set remains as beautifully produced as Five Years, and a deep dive into its contents produces many rewards. Perhaps the alternate album mixes are only slightly different, but it’s hard not to be impressed by the rapid development of Bowie’s music during these three years. The distance between Diamond Dogs and Station to Station is vast, and the addition of the live albums accentuates how deeply he cared for strong, deeply etched funk to offset his art. Listening to all this music in a concentrated blast, such progression is a wonder to behold.
Tracklist:
David Bowie — Diamond Dogs (1974/2016)
01 — Future Legend
02 — Diamond Dogs
03 — Sweet Thing
04 — Candidate
05 — Sweet Thing
06 — Rebel Rebel
07 — Rock ‘N’ Roll With Me
08 — We Are The Dead
09 — 1984
10 — Big Brother
11 — Chant Of The Ever Circling Skeletal Family
David Bowie — David Live (1974/2016)
01 — 1984
02 — Rebel Rebel
03 — Moonage Daydream
04 — Sweet Thing/Candidate/Sweet Thing
05 — Changes
06 — Suffragette City
07 — Aladdin Sane
08 — All The Young Dudes
09 — Cracked Actor
10 — Rock ‘N’ Roll With Me
11 — Watch That Man
12 — Knock On Wood
13 — Diamond Dogs
14 — Big Brother
15 — The Width Of A Circle
16 — The Jean Genie
17 — Rock ‘N’ Roll Suicide
David Bowie — The Gouster (Previously Unreleased as Album)
01 — John, I’m Only Dancing (Again)
02 — Somebody Up There Likes Me
03 — It’s Gonna Be Me (Without Strings)
04 — Who Can I Be Now?
05 — Can You Hear Me
06 — Young Americans
07 — Right
David Bowie — Young Americans (1975/2016)
01 — Young Americans
02 — Win
03 — Fascination
04 — Right
05 — Somebody Up There Likes Me
06 — Across The Universe
07 — Can You Hear Me
08 — Fame
David Bowie — Station To Station (1976/2016)
01 — Station To Station
02 — Golden Years
03 — Word On A Wing
04 — TVC15
05 — Stay
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