and also available as a picture disc for its 50th anniversary in March.
Yours for only £43….er, thanks but no thanks!
Not an album I was ever really that fond of other than the title track…..thoughts?
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I love the album but this is just unnecessary – and a major missed opportunity; release the ‘Gouster’ version from the Who Can I Be Now box set, I’d happily shell out for that
Also some alternative versions on here
Sigma Sound Sessions https://amzn.eu/d/5pkGwxR
Ridiculous price, but an excellent album (apart from Across the Universe). Win, Right, Somebody Up There Likes Me etc.
May contain Bowie’s best ever singing.
Coincidently, an interesting piece in yesterdays Telegraph:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/artists/david-bowie-lost-recording-found-young-americans/
I mostly love the album. Some great songs and outstanding performances as said above, but I have to say – and this might be sacreligious – I’m not a great lover of the Sanborn saxophone…indeed it gets on my wick after a while (and even more so on David Live).
With you on that Sanborn Sax Sound. A perfectly good player but a horribly over-processed sound.
One of the downsides of ’80s production was that attitude “We can process the sound of anything we like. Let’s do it!”
I like Young Americans. Even “Across The Universe”, though it is the weakest track.
Won’t be buying this remaster. Superfluous to my requirements.
I hoped there’d be a deluxe Young Americans with all the Visconti strings, plus I Am A Lazer, Shilling The Rubes and After Today. How about I’m Divine? I was sorely disappointed in The Gouster on Who Can I Be Now? It’s very conservative and its mix sounds awful. Very tinny.
It’s a pity Bowie was awestruck by Lennon in New York while Visconti was busy adding the orchestrations in London. Fame has different personnel, introducing Dennis Davis on drums and Earl Slick on guitar. It fits better with Stationtostation but, with Universe as the B side, it could have been a stand alone single.
The album and Fame were smashes in America. Fame was a massive number one. It made him a superstar.
I find Fame a little underwhelming. I have no idea why it was such a huge hit in the US.
Try slotting it onto Stationtostation just after TVC15 on side two. Perfect fit.
To clarify, while the picture disc is £43, the half-speed master is “only” £33.
I have all of the half-speed masters, they all sound fab, and I’ve not paid more than twenty quid for any of them. My advice: wait.
Not my favourite Bowie album by a fair distance. I like the title track but the rest of it is, by his standards (or, actually by anybody’s) distinctly meh.
Not just me then …
I think it is a cracker and unlike Dai I like Across The universe.
The cocaine and milk period is my favourite Bowie period.
For me up there with the worst things he ever did. God Only Knows is worse though
I would find this a bit slow…
More mogadon and marmite than cocaine and milk
I recall reading how cocaine, especially taken in industrial quantities affects one’s perception of sound significantly. This was a contributory factor in so many records sounding metallic and awful.
When artists, recording engineers, producers and all of them are coked-up, that’s when you get that metallic sound, with everything up at 11.
Nasty.
There’s a six-page article in yesterday’s Telegraph* magazine on the recovery of a tape from the YA sessions. Too much to post here, if anyone needs ‘help’ with reading it, PM me.
*no, I am not a subscriber, but the feature caught my eye.