LOVING THE ALIEN (1983 - 1988)

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Boxset/Compilation, released in 2018

Songs / Tracks Listing

Disc 1: Let's Dance (Remaster):

1. Modern Love (4:48)
2. China Girl (5:33)
3. Let's Dance (7:37)
4. Without You (3:09)
5. Ricochet (5:13)
6. Criminal World (4:25)
7. Cat People (Putting Out Fire) (5:09)
8. Shake It (3:52)

Disc 2: Serious Moonlight (Live '83):

1. Look Back in Anger
2. "Heroes"
3. What in the World
4. Golden Years
5. Fashion
6. Let's Dance
7. Breaking Glass
8. Life on Mars?
9. Sorrow
10. Cat People (Putting Out Fire)
11. China Girl
12. Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)
13. Rebel Rebel

Disc 3: Serious Moonlight (Live '83) (pt. 2):

1. White LIght/White Heat
2. Station to Station
3. Cracked Actor
4. Ashes to Ashes
5. Space Oddity / Band Introduction
6. Young Americans
7. Fame
8. Modern Love

Disc 4: Tonight:

1. Loving the Alien (7:12)
2. Don't Look Down (4:11)
3. God Only Knows (3:09)
4. Tonight (w/ Tina Turner) (3:45)
5. Neighborhood Threat (3:12)
6. Blue Jean (3:11)
7. Tumble and Twirl (4:58)
8. I Keep Forgettin' (2:35)
9. Dancing with the Big Boys (w/Iggy Pop) (3:34)

Disc 5: Never Let Me Down:

1. Day-In Day-Out (5:39)
2. Time Will Crawl (4:20)
3. Beat of Your Drum (4:05)
4. Never Let Me Down (4:05)
5. Zeroes (5:47)
6. Glass Spider (5:34)
7. Shining Star (Makin' My Love) (w/Mickey Rourke) (5:06)
8. New York's in Love (4:34)
9. '87 and Cry (4:21)
10. Bang Bang (4:30)

Disc 6: Never Let Me Down (2018):

1. Day-In Day-Out
2. Time Will Crawl
3. Beat of Your Drum
4. Never Let Me Down
5. Zeroes
6. Glass Spider
7. Shining Star (Makin' My Love) (w/Laurie Anderson)
8. New York's in Love
9. '87 and Cry
10. Bang Bang

Disc 7: Glass Spider (Live Montreal '87):

1. Up the Hill Backwards
2. Glass spider
3. Day-in Day-out
4. Bang Bang
5. Absolute Beginners
6. Loving the Alien
7. China Girl
8. Rebel Rebel

Disc 8: Glass Spider (Live Montreal 87) (Part 2):

1. Fashion
2. Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)
3. All the Mad Men
4. Never Let Me Down
5. Big Brother
6. '87 and Cry
7. "Heroes"
8. Sons of the Silent Age
9. Time will Crawl / Band Introduction

Disc 9: Glass Spider (Live in Montreal '87) (Part 3):

1. Young Americans
2. Beat of Your Drum
3. The Jean Genie
4. Let's Dance
5. Fame
6. Time
7. Blue Jean
8. Modern Love

Disc 10: Dance (pt. 1):

1. Shake It (Re-mix AKA Long Version) (5:22)
2. Blue Jean (Extended Dance Mix) (5:18)
3. Dancing With the Big Boys (Extended Dance Mix) (7:29)
4. Tonight (Vocal Dance Mix) (4:29)
5. Don't Look Down (Extended Dance Mix) (4:50)
6. Loving the Alien (Extended Dub Mix) (7:13)

Disc 11: Dance (pt. 2):

1. Tumble and Twirl (Extended Dance Mix) (5:03)
2. Underground (Extended Dance Mix) (7:53)
3. Day-in Day-Out (Groucho Mix) (6:30)
4. Time Will Crawl (Dance Crew Mix) (5:39)
5. Shining Star (Makin' My Love) (12" Mix) (6:27)
6. Never Let Me Down (Dub / Acapella) (5:58)

Disc 12: Re:Call 4 (pt. 1):

1. Let's Dance (Single Version)
2. China Girl (Single Version)
3. Modern Love (Single Version)
4. This is Not America (The Theme from "The Falcon and the Snowman") (w/The Pat Metheny Group)
5. Loving the Alien (Re-mixed Version)
6. Don't Look Down (Re-mixed Version)
7. Dancing in the Street (Clearmountain Mix) (w/Mick Jagger)
8. Absolute Beginners
9. That's Motivation
10. Volare

Disc 13: Re:Call 4 (pt. 2):

1. Labyrinth Opening Titles / Underground
2. Magic Dance
3. As the World Falls Down
4. Within You
5. Underground
6. When the Wind Blows (single Version)
7. Day-In Day-Out (Single Version)
8. Julie
9. Beat of Your Drum (vinyl album edit)
10. Glass Spider (vinyl album edit)

Disc 14: ReCall 4 (pt. 3):
11. Shining Star (vinyl album edit)
12. New York's in Love (vinyl album edit)
13, '87 and Cry (vinyl album edit)
14. Bang Bang (vinyl album edit)
15. Time Will Creawl (Single Version)
16. Girls (Extended Edit)
17. Never Let Me Down (7" Remix Edit)
18. Bang Bang (Live - Promotional Mix)
19. Tonight (Live w/Tina Turner)
20. Let's Dance (Live w/Tina Turner)

Line-up / Musicians

- Band line-ups could not all be verified for this collection

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Parlophone (DBXL 4, 019025693527)
14x vinyl, cd, MP3

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Review by Warthur
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If you are going to get into Bowie's 1980s pop period - after Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) brought a majestic end to his art rock era, before he recharged his creative juices with Tin Machine - this boxed set is as good a way to do it as any. The latest in the series that includes Five Years, Who Can I Be Now, and A New Career In a New Town, Loving the Alien is named after Bowie's most artistically interesting composition from this period, and out of all four boxed sets this is the one where the original studio albums from the era are almost the least relevant.

There's only three of 'em, for one thing - the pop perfection of Let's Dance, the mixed bag (with some absolute gems mixed in with some rather pedestrian numbers) Tonight, and the godawful Never Let Me Down. They're actually overshadowed by the material that's debuting on (or exclusive to) this box. As well as yet another installment in the Re:Call series - highlights of this one include Bowie's contributions to the soundtracks for Labyrinth and Absolute Beginners - you have Dance, a mooted but shelved collection of 12" mixes of Bowie's most danceable songs of the era. The 1980s were, after all, the absolute peak era for 12" mixes, and in some respects Dance may be the perfect dilution of Bowie's essence of the era.

But wait, there's more - as we've come to expect from these boxes, you have some juicy live sets here, and this time around they really help tease out the most interesting and entertaining aspects of this phase of Bowie's career - representing, as they do, the Montreal stops of his two major touring shows of the period. The famed Serious Moonlight incorporates a surprising amount of late-1970s art rock material from Station to Station and Berlin eras whilst packaging everything in a slick, energetic performance that makes all the material sound like it belongs together; conversely, Glass Spider is revealed as the rather intriguing prospect it actually is, a veering back towards art rock and theatrical presentation which weaves its various components into an unexpected new mosaic.

Let's keep perspective; this box doesn't focus on one of Bowie's stronger periods, like the Five Years, Who Can I Be Now?, or A New Career In a New Town boxes did. Instead, it begins on a high and ends with him in a creative slump. But if nothing else, Glass Spider and the welcome 2018 remix, rerecording, and overall re-jigging of Never Let Me Down, conducted according to Bowie's intentions for how such a project should be approached, go a long way towards framing that as one of the most fascinating and worthwhile creative slumps you could explore.

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