Live Santa Monica '72

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Product Details

Artist : David Bowie
Format : Live
Binding : Audio CD
EAN : 0724358322125
Label : EMI
Number of Discs : 1
Product Group : Music
Release Date : 2008-06-30
UPC : 724358322125

ASIN : B00166QJRU

Track Listings for

Disc-1
1. Introduction (Live)
2. Hang On To Yourself (Live)
3. Ziggy Stardust (Live)
4. Changes (Live)
5. The Supermen (Live)
6. Life On Mars? (Live)
7. Five Years (Live)
8. Space Oddity (Live)
9. Andy Warhol (Live)
10. My Death (Live)
11. The Width Of A Circle (Live)
12. Queen Bitch (Live)
13. Moonage Daydream (Live)
14. John, I'm Only Dancing (Live)
15. Waiting For The Man (Live)
16. The Jean Genie (Live)
17. Suffragette City (Live)
18. Rock 'N' Roll Suicide (Live)

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Editorial Reviews

Description

Captured in the height of his Ziggy Stardust period, this pristine live document shows David Bowie at the peak of his creative powers performing such hits as 'Life On Mars', 'Changes' and 'Suffragette City'. Despite being recorded during on of his most creative phases, Bowie found the time to include a version of a song penned by Jacques Brel ('My Death'), the French music hall legend to whom Bowie's emotive and theatrical performance style owed a great deal. Bootlegged manytimes, 'Live In Santa Monica 1972' is the first official release of this legendary performance.

Customer Reviews

Top class (2008-08-20)

Suprise I only have one Bowie album ( its true) Hunky Dory and to be honest I cant even say when the last time was that I played it, yea I have records and CD`s. so an old friend lent this to me to see if he could fire up my interest ,We have known each other for at least 30 years and use to have a good idea of what each other liked and listened to. I always thought that Bowie was a pop star who`s singles sold well and maybe a lot of his fans were teens ( and he acted ). secondly I knew his guitarist Mick Ronson had a solo album out `Slaughter on 5th avenue` Which I have never heard but know it is good,so me not to bothered with the David Bowie thing was seriously suprised and delighted by this 72 Live recording. I have found the Bowie band I always wished would exsist they do, (or did ) this is a real rock band playing their hearts out, cracking America..I will now have to liasie with friend and see what else could I be tempted with ( thanks Shaun) I now owe you one.!!

Great performance of iconic songs. (2008-07-18)

I've not listened to Bowie for many years, but when I saw this had been released I decided to get it straight away. This was my favourite era, and I'm a big fan of live albums, seeing how well a small group can reproduce the songs on stage - and they certainly don't disappoint. The band wend their way through a brilliant 18-song set, ranging from the full-on rock of Suffragette City to a wonderful version of Space Oddity - just 2 vocals and a 12-string acoustic guitar. There are only one or two tracks which don't quite match up to the quality of the studio versions; but this is live music and you would expect that. The one thing that stops me giving this five stars is the sound quality and mix. Mostly it is very good, but frequently there are problems: Bowie's guitar is nearly always too quiet (almost inaudible, in fact) and his vocals are occasionally a bit lost in the mix, but my biggest complaint is that various sounds seem to wander over from one side of the stereo mix to the other during the songs, for no apparent reason - Ronson's guitar frequently does this, as do some of the vocals, which is really annoying. I've no idea of the sound source, but surely in this digital age something could have been done to fix it? The CD is nicely packaged in a small box, great artwork and lots of little goodies inside: postcards, booklet, etc. - a lot of effort has gone into this project - it's well worth the money.

Disappointingly inferior to Hammersmith Odean (2008-07-16)

The album may be much hyped but when I bought it I was deeply disappointed. Frankly I felt that none of the songs were performed any better than the farewell concert at Hammersmith Odean the following year, and some of them were considerably worse. Released as Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars: the Motion Picture Soundtrack, the Hammersmith Odean CD offers 20 tracks and they give a much better flavour of David Bowie and Mick Ronson at their very best. Buy that CD instead, or even better the DVD of the concert.

ZIGGY!!!!! (2008-07-13)

Brill cd,would recomend. i whish i could have been old enough to go and see Bowie as Ziggy but 72 was the year i was born!!Get this cd up at full volume and if you have it ,through surround sound it sounds as if you are actually there.

Ziggy: warts and all (2008-07-13)

A bit of a holy grail for Bowie fans, this is identical to the earlier CD release back in the 90's so if you already have then that don't buy this. That said any self-respecting Bowiephile should have a copy of this in their collection.It's not perfect: what you get here comes complete with technical hiccups, Mick Ronson's flat backing vocals and bum guitar notes, and Bowie's attempt to recreate the 'lift off' section from Space Oddity ranks alongside The Laughing Gnome as a truly cringe-worthy moment. But what you also get is the definitive historical record of Ziggy in his most formative and creative period. When Bowie introduces one number with "This song was written by Ziggy" he's not kidding. At the time he recorded this he was living and breathing his most famous creation.And there are some very special moments, too. Acoustic versions of My Death and Andy Warhol stand out, the latter adopting an eerie quality lacking in the Ken Scott studio production. All in all this is THE definitive Ziggy live album, rivalled only by the original bootleg versions of 'last' show at Hammersmith Odeon the following year.

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