Changes [Original recording reissued]

David Bowie | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 12, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording reissued
• Label: Rykodisc
• ASIN: B0000009UI
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #28,069 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #32 in Music > Indie Music > Rock > Classic Rock

Track Listings

1. Space Oddity

2. John, I'm Only Dancing

3. Changes

4. Ziggy Stardust

5. Suffragette City

6. Jean Genie

7. Diamond Dogs

8. Rebel Rebel

9. Young Americans [Remix]

10. Fame '90 [Mix]

11. Golden Years

12. Heroes

13. Ashes to Ashes

14. Fashion

15. Let's Dance

16. China Girl

17. Modern Love

18. Blue Jean

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

The 1976 best-of Changesonebowie (slyly named for a Charles Mingus disc issued the previous year) was the Thin White Duke's last major commercial hit of the decade. Collecting famed singles and album cuts from an amazingly fertile period, it clicked both with those who got into Bowie through his mainstream popularity and with the crowd who loved him for his challenge to it. This expanded edition goes forward from "Golden Years," the original closer, with a hopscotch through later radio favorites like "Let's Dance." Flaws? A remixed "Fame '90" that already sounded dated when it was new, and the disc's omission of almost all of Bowie's collaborations with Brian Eno. The upside? A generally smart update of a key compilation. --Rickey Wright

Product Description

Bowie's 1990 hits compilation, deleted in the U.S. Contains 18 of the Thin White Duke's finest from 1969-1990, all digitally remastered. Includes 'Space Oddity', 'Changes', 'Suffragette City', 'Rebel Rebel', 'Young Americans', 'Golden Years', 'Ashes To Ashes', 'Let's Dance' and 'Blue Jean'. 1990 release.

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Can't live without it!, September 7, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Changes (Audio CD)

This was my first Bowie album. This man is a genius, and that's really all there is to say. Every song is a masterpiece, and he just keeps comming out with new ones. All I'd like to say is that he's great, and damn good looking for 52!

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bowie's carrier at a glance, September 30, 2001

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Tracher (Skopje, Macedonia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Changes (Audio CD)

Bowie's carrier has to be one of the most varied and most interesting in rock history. With so many album and so many different songs, making a compilation is not the easiest thing to do. But this 1990 edition called "Changesbowie" is done fairly good.

All the better and most important songs in Bowie's carrier are here, chronologically listed. There are all - time greats in the likes of "Space Oddity", "Rebel Rebel", "Golden Years" and the unforgettable "Heroes" and "Ashes to Ashes". Dance hits "Let's Dance", "China Girl" and "Blue Jean" round up this compilation (it's a shame "The Man Who Sold The World" is not in here).

If you're not planing on collecting all of David Bowie's albums, then this is a good choice for you. However, it's just a tip of the iceberg in Bowie's carrier. Even if you do plan on getting all of his albums, get this one first. It'll be a good starting point and it'll show the way Bowie changed his sound through out the years.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Still the best introduction to David Bowie's music, May 13, 2003

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Daniel Jolley "darkgenius" (Shelby, North Carolina USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Changes (Audio CD)

When I found myself nursing a desire to really get to know David Bowie's music a good many years ago, Changesbowie was an obviously natural choice for me - one CD filled to the brim with 16 songs encompassing his entire career up to the point of the compilation album's release. Rather quickly after giving this disc a spin, I became a Bowie fan. Bowie has always gone his own way, evolving through some really quite weird metamorphoses over the years, but his music has always been consistently good. While I'm not that fond of the track John, I'm Only Dancing, I can honestly say that I enjoy the other 15 tracks almost equally. Space Oddity and Ziggy Stardust are as much fun to listen to as Bluejean and China Girl, and the consistency of the appeal of one man's music over such a long period of time strikes me as quite extraordinary. One should note that these songs cover a period of time between 1969 and the mid-1980s, although the version of the song Fame included here is a 1990 remix. This album offered the best of both worlds to me as a neophyte Bowie fan, combining the songs I was already familiar with from the 1980s (Fashion, Let's Dance, China Girl, Modern Love, Bluejean) with some of Bowie's powerful early material. While I hear some of these older classics on the radio from time to time these days, I was completely unfamiliar with them when I purchased this CD. I have yet to explore Bowie's early days in any great detail, so I cannot even speculate as to other songs that might have deserved a place on this album. All I know is that Changesbowie gave me a limited yet broadly impressive introduction to the work of a unique musical legend and will lead directly to my eventual purchases of albums from throughout Bowie's distinguished career. This compilation album remains the best introduction to the body of work Bowie produced in the first decade and a half of his still vibrant career.