The Guardian has details this morning of unreleased 1974 soul and funk lp The Gouster that became Young Americans coming in the next box set of reissues:
A previously unreleased David Bowie album is set to be released. The Gouster, recorded in 1974, was Bowie’s experiment in soul and funk, which later morphed into Young Americans, released in 1975. It will appear later this year in a box set, Who Can I Be Now? (1974-1976).
Below the line is an entertaining commentary on cash-ins/its not unreleased/was on the 1991 CD reissues/there’s real unreleased stuff not included still
Bit of a rum title for the box thou-everyone assumed ‘Golden Years’
@dr_j came up with ‘It Is The Side Effects Of The Cocaine’ and I chose ‘A Fly in The Milk Carton’
I think The Gouster is the title for the lp rather than the box set. Agree Golden Years is the hot favourite. Though I’d quite like Throwing Darts in Lovers Eyes.
I think DFB was referring to the box set title, which is Who Can I Be Now?
Yes I was.
And everyone thinks that the Low / Heroes/ Lodger / Scary box will be called ‘A New Career In A New Town’
I’d like ‘Oblique Strategies’ or ‘Don’t Normalize It’
I’d go for Eventide Harmonizer.
Hmm, this confirms that “Five Years (1969 – 1973)” will not stand alone. I guess could have found that out a long time ago but I just never got round to investigating.
For me, as a Bowie appreciator rather than a utterly devoted fan, “Who shall I Be Now” has a bit more panache than “Golden Years” and seems to refer to the man’s drive to reinvent himself at that time, though that had probably started before the time span of the new box.
Also if they went with “Golden Years” it would (unfairly?) apply connotations of “being on the downward curve” to any subsequent issues which could be a marketing drag.
Whatever it’s called I’m now looking forward to the new box set.
The full tracklisting for the new album is:
Side 1
1. John, I’m Only Dancing (Again)
2. Somebody Up There Likes Me
3. It’s Gonna Be Me
Side 2
1. Who Can I Be Now?
2. Can You Hear Me
3. Young Americans
4. Right
Hardly setting my pulse racing but, of course, I’ll buy it.
Bargepole is currently part way through Paul Morley’s new book ‘The Age of Bowie’ – review coming soonish.
I’d rather eat my own eyelids than read a Morley book on Bowie and I’ve read tons of shit Bowie books,
Nicholas Pegg’s updated Complete Bowie due later his year
Radio 4 book of the week for those who are interested.
And I enjoyed Morley’s piece on Bowie and surrealism in the Guardian today
So where’s The Gouster or Shilling the Rubes? That’s what we want!
Did you not read the OP?
Yep, I read the “OP” … I was just expressing dissatisfaction with what appears to be a missed opportunity to provide us with something we haven’t already got.
Nope still haven’t read it then
I know what you mean. Last year, I hoped there’d be a deluxe Young Americans with all the Viconti strings, the tracks mentioned above, plus I Am A Lazer, Shilling The Rubes and After Today. How about I’m Divine?
Sadly, this release seems quite different.
Heard a trailer today for a Bowie Prom next Friday. Will be live on BBC4 apparently.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/events/e63p6q
A bunch of toffs trying to do pop music. Hmm, this is NEVER a good idea.
Leave it to those who do it best – the middle class.
Personally, I can take or leave the dame, but what I don’t get is why didn’t the Proms do all this when he was in his pomp?
Already a firmly established artist, on the back of ‘Ashes to Ashes,’ say, they could have celebrated his music in the Proms of 1980 or 1981 AND got the guy himself on board.
That would have been a statement, now it just feels like a testimonial match.
I am a big fan of Young Americans as an album. I am not a big fan of revisions and extended re-releases. Preferring the it is what it is line of thought. Having said that, had this appeared on the album instead of Across The Universe, I would have been more than happy.
David Bowie
Who Can I Be Now
Or this:
It’s Gonna Be Me with strings.
Interesting article on the album in the new issue of Mojo.
Am I the only person who finds the whole “klaxon” thing annoying?
No, I hate it with a passion, too. I can barely put into words how toe-curlingly naff I find it.
Yes.
New descriptive intro. required. Something a little less strident.
Perhaps along the lines of
“I Say Chaps (and Chapesses), Cop a Load of This: [insert name of artist/teenage combo]…”
Not bad, but it’s a bit word-heavy, Mike.
Where did that “klaxon” thing originate anyway? Probably the Word mag.
And I’ll tell you something else that’s well past its use-by date, using “ver” in place of “the”. It’s just stupid. Is it another Word mag innovation?
Smash Hits. Or, ‘Ver Hits’ 🙂
There you go, a kids magazine
toe curlingly – really JC ?
can take it or leave it
it serves a purpose – it is an alternative for saying alert
An overreaction on my part, possibly, but it’s definitely become overused to the point of annoyance. And that’s nothing personal against any persons living or dead.
It’s an exaggeration. When a klaxon goes off, you stop everything and pay attention. The use of the term here implies that this impending release is the most important thing in the world when it isn’t really. Except to nutters like us. Maybe.
Full contents of the box are here
https://www.spincds.com/coming-soon/ian-gillan-50131