Station To Station [Special Edition] (3CD) [Special Edition]

David Bowie | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 28, 2010)
• Original Release Date: 1976
• Number of Discs: 3
• Format: Special Edition
• Label: EMI
• ASIN: B003UTUQ3E
• Also Available in: Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #18,054 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Station To Station

2. Golden Years

3. Word On A Wing

4. TVC15

5. Stay

6. Wild Is The Wind

Disc: 2

1. Station To Station

2. Suffragette City

3. Fame

4. Word On A Wing

5. Stay

6. Waiting For The Man

See all 7 tracks on this disc

Disc: 3

1. Life On Mars?

2. Five Years

3. Panic In Detroit

4. Changes

5. TVC15

6. Diamond Dogs

See all 8 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

The 3CD Special Edition features: Original album, Previously unreleased 'Live Nassau Coliseum '76' concert, lift-off-lid box, 6-page booklet, 3 postcards

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

41 of 41 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Long Time Coming, September 28, 2010

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J. Robertson "francophile" (California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Station To Station [Special Edition] (3CD) (Audio CD)

For fans, this release has been a long time coming. A truncated version of the live Nassau Coliseum show has been available as a bootleg for some 30-odd years. Two of the tracks received an official release in 1992 as part of Rykodisc's Bowie reissue campaign, but finally we have it in its full blown state-of-the-art 2010 remastered glory (and sounding pretty damned good for a 34 year-old recording)!
The packaging is outstanding and the liner notes are generous.
One minor peeve: I had read that there would be a download link to obtain the full 13:08 minute version of Panic in Detroit with the extended drum solo, but so far, I have not been able to locate that. In reality, I can probably live without it...

23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Classic Album with Incredible Live Show, September 29, 2010

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Old T.B. (Cheyenne, Wy USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Station To Station [Special Edition] (3CD) (Audio CD)

I was most intrigued when I found out that Station to Station was receiving a special edition rerelease. It stands as one of my top three favorite Bowie albums, along with Low and Lodger. I owned a vinyl RCA copy, and I have the Rykodisc remaster from the Nineties. Nevertheless, I wanted to hear the new remaster, and I was curious about the Nassau Colisseum show, of which I'd only heard the two tracks released as bonuses on the Ryko cd.

I was by no means disappointed on any counts. The new remaster, from the original analog, of Station to Station sounds great. The Nassau concert was a true revelation to me; no wonder it is considered a legendary Bowie show! The version of "Station to Station" may be the best I've heard; for all of its coolness, there's a certain fire to this performance. The laid back cover of "Waiting for the Man" works well. "Life on Mars?" is short, just up to the first chorus, but it segues neatly into "Five Years," one of Bowie's all-time greatest songs. Concert albums do not always impress me. This one, however, is a monster.

The packaging is good. I particularly like Cameron Crowe's essay and the making of Station to Station timeline. If you already own this classic, go ahead and buy this special edition. You won't be disappointed. If you've never heard it, what are you waiting for?

25 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bowie's Greatest Of All Time Gets The Special Treatment, September 29, 2010

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Michael Donnellan - See all my reviews

This review is from: Station To Station [Special Edition] (3CD) (Audio CD)

Since David Bowie is my favorite artist of all time and this is my favorite album by him I thought I would give my thoughts on it:

The album sounds just as good today as it did upon release. The remastering seems to have given the mix room to breathe so to speak. The Ryko release of Station To Station was light on bass and generally sounded a bit brittle. That's not a problem here. I have yet to get DVD-Audio on this but I am looking forward to what they have done with the 5.1 mix of the record. That being said it's an incredible album and the remaster drives that home.

The Live Album:

After listening to the bootleg of this show a million times there's obviously a change in fidelity (d'uh) and a change in the mix. The audience takes a real backseat in the new mix. They are mixed way down from the original broadcast throughout the tracks, probably to make the individual musicians and Bowie's vocals easier to hear. Where as 'Suffragette City' starts out with Bowie's vocals drowned by crowd noise on the original bootleg you can hear him right out of the gate here. The instruments themselves are much clear throughout. You can really hear George Murry's epic bass work all over the mix.

Bowie hit some pretty high and wacky notes during this performance and on this mix they are now burred in crowd noise, under instruments or just mixed out. Most notably during the end of 'Stay' where his loud screeches of Stttttttttaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyeeeeeeee are now barely audible. Maybe he was embarrassed, which seems a bit ridiculous considering his odd ramblings during 'Five Years' and 'Waiting For The Man' and the fact that this is his most bootlegged show ever and one of the most bootlegged concerts in the history of bootlegs period.

'Panic In Detroit''s nearly 11 minute drum solo is almost completely removed from the track more or less to fit the show onto 2 cd's(?!?!). You'll either miss it or you won't but there was certainly more than enough room to fit it so the decision is once again puzzling. I've read that the full length version of it will be available to download via mp3 but there doesn't seem to be any info in the actual packaging. Maybe there are some instructions or something forthcoming?

So overall it sounds pretty great and it's a great show. The remastering went swimmingly and the additional tracks (Waiting For The Man, Life on Mars?/Five Years and a great Queen Bitch) make it finally a complete show. It's no where near as impressive as the remastered/rebuild from the ground up job they did on 'Stage' that made it one of the greatest live albums you always knew it could be but it's still pretty awesome to finally have.

A major step in the right direction for Bowie's back catalog.