David Bowie "The Essential David Bowie" EDB 001-EDB 003

David Bowie
"The Essential David Bowie" 3CD-set

For anyone who thinks that the "Shout To The Top" 4CD set of "The Rise And Rise of Ziggy Stardust" is the shit when it comes to Bowie's BBC-sessions, think again. These three silver disc bootlegs have been produced directly from the master tapes compiled in preparation for the aborted "Bowie at the BEEB" 3CD-set set to be released on the NMC-label in the mid-nineties. The STTP-discs simply took these recordings, replete with all clicks, pops and sector boundary errors, and then boosted them by 5db... In this torrent you can find the original recordings, with most clicks & pops and all SBE's carefully removed and with no unnecessary "hard limiting". As a bonus, the discs contain a set of demo & studio recordings from 1967-1969 which have been doing the rounds on numberous bootleg CD compilations but nowhere sound as clean as they do here (they are seemingly taken directly from the master tape also used for the vinyl bootleg album, "Little Toy Soldier").

This torrent comes with full scans of the artwork.
Enjoy!

recording information (the liner notes on the artwork aren't entirely accurate; these notes hopefully are)


Disc 1: EMERGED FROM SHADOWS (EDB 001)

1967-12-18: Top Gear (TX 1967-12-24 and 1968-01-28)
    01. Love You 'till Tuesday
    02. When I Live My Dream
    03. Little Bombardier
    04. Silly Boy Blue
    05. In The Heat Of The Morning

1968-05-13: Top Gear (TX 1968-05-26 and 1968-06-20)
    06. When I'm Five

1967-1969: various home demo & studio recordings
    07. Right On Mother (1968 demo)
    08. He Was Alright (a song for Marc)(full length 1968 demo)
    09. Waiting For The Man (1967 studio recording)
    10. Little Toy Soldier (1967 studio recording)
    11. Space Oddity (1969 demo)
    12. The Supermen (1969 demo)

1972-05-16: Sound Of The Seventies: John Peel (TX 1972-05-23)
    13. White Light/White Heat
    14. Moonage Daydream
    15. Hang Onto Yourself
    16. Suffragette City
    17. Ziggy Stardust


Disc 2: KISS THE VIPER'S FANG (EDB 002)

1969-10-20: Dave Lee Travis Show (TX 1969-10-20)
    01. Unwashed & Somewhat Slightly Dazed
    02. Let Me Sleep Beside You
    03. Janine

1970-03-25: Sound Of The Seventies: Andy Ferris (TX 70-04-06; repeat 70-05-11 on the David Symonds Show)
    04. Waiting For The Man
    05. The Width Of A Circle
    06. The Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud

1971-06-03: The Sunday Concert: John Peel (TX 71-06-20)
    07. Queen Bitch
    08. Bombers
    09. The Supermen
    10. Looking For A Friend
    11. Almost Grown
    12. Kooks
    13. Song For Bob Dylan
    14. Andy Warhol
    15. It Ain't Easy

1972-05-22: Johnny Walker Lunchtime Show
    16. Starman (TX 1972-06-06/07/08/09)
    17. Space Oddity
    18. Changes
    19. Oh! You Pretty Things (TX 1972-06-05)


Disc 3: NOBODY'S CHILDREN (EDB 003)

1972-05-23: Sound Of The Seventies: Bob Harris (TX 1972-06-19)
    01. Andy Warhol
    02. Lady Stardust
    03. White Light/White Heat
    04. Rock'n'Roll Suicide

1971-09-21: Sound Of The Seventies: Bob Harris (TX 1971-10-04)
    05. The Supermen
    06. Oh! You Pretty Things/Eight Line Poem
    07. Kooks
    08. Fill Your Heart
    09. Amsterdam
    10. Andy Warhol

1972-01-18: Sound Of The Seventies: Bob Harris (TX 1972-02-07)
    11. Hang Onto Yourself
    12. Ziggy Stardust
    13. Waiting For The Man
    14. Queen Bitch
    15. Five Years

1972-01-11: Sounds Of The Seventies: John Peel (TX 1972-01-28)
    16. Ziggy Stardust
    17. Queen Bitch
    18. Waiting For The Man
    19. Lady Stardust


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