Dark Side of David Bowie

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 20, 2000)
• Original Release Date: June 20, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Spv U.S.
• ASIN: B00004TDP5
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #871,953 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Space Oddity

2. The Motel

3. Outside

4. Blue Jean

5. Time Will Crawl

6. Scary Monsters

7. Big Brother

8. Be My Wife

9. Five Years

10. Girls

11. Holy Holy

12. Look Back in Anger

13. Station to Station

14. Ziggy Stardust

15. Moonage Daydream

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars not dismally bad, but approaching., July 28, 2000

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Ronald P LuBovich (Nashville, TN United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dark Side of David Bowie (Audio CD)

I have to first say I respect the composition skill an playing of the musicians on this tribute album and their selection of material. Among the songs on this disc are some of my favorites of DB's more contemporary work. The overwhelming odor of death that permeates this disc overshadows the beauty of it. On tracks like the Motel the playing is pompous and overbearing as an insufficiently talented guitar player attempts to usurp the song's strength with the raw uncontrolled flutter of an overeffected accoustic guitar. Only buy this disc if you feel so compelled that you have no option.

4.0 out of 5 stars Strange Mixture of Goth and Bowie-but it works., December 12, 2009

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W. Mallick (I don't know where I am, but there's Waldo.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dark Side of David Bowie (Audio CD)

Those listening to this album expecting pristine, or at least "normal" rock and roll covers will be disappointed. These songs have been rearranged in the goth style, and if you don't like dark, melancholy music, you will not like this album.

That being said, for fans of the genre this is a great collection. Some attempts work well, others not so much. But exploring this material from the concepts of a different genre is what this album is all about.

1 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars David Bowie's Dark Side, June 24, 2000

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Darren Foster (Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dark Side of David Bowie (Audio CD)

Although it is dark, I can see the light at the end of the tunnel.