Wednesday, July 18, 2018

David Bowie boxset 'Loving The Alien (1983 - 1988)' due in October

The fourth installment in the series celebrating David Bowie's incredible musical career will be released October 12th. David Bowie Loving The Alien (1983 - 1988) focuses on Bowie's most commercially successful era and will be available as an 11 CD boxset, 15 piece 180 gm vinyl set, and digital download.

Included are newly remastered versions of Let's Dance and Tonight; two versions of Never Let Me Down (remastered edition of the original 1987 release, plus 2018 edition featuring new production and instrumentation), live album Glass Spider, previously unreleased Serious Moonlight live album (captured in 1983), Dance (a collection of original remixes), and RE:CALL 4 which compiles non-album tracks, b-sides, alt versions, and more.

The CD and vinyl sets have the same audio content and both come with a book filled with previously unpublished photos, extensive liner notes, press reviews, commentary, and more. The book with the CD set is 128 pages; vinyl edition 84 pages.

Stream the 2018 version of "Zeroes" from the collection and view the tracklisting for David Bowie Loving The Alien (1983 - 1988) below. The full press release for the boxset is available to view here.



Let's Dance

Side 1

Modern Love
China Girl
Let’s Dance
Without You

Side 2

Ricochet
Criminal World
Cat People (Putting Out Fire)
Shake It

Serious Moonlight (Live, 1983)

Side 1

Look Back In Anger
“Heroes”
What In The World
Golden Years
Fashion
Let’s Dance

Side 2

Breaking Glass
Life On Mars?
Sorrow
Cat People (Putting Out Fire)
China Girl
Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)
Rebel Rebel

Side 3

White Light/White Heat
Station To Station
Cracked Actor
Ashes To Ashes

Side 4

Space Oddity/Band Introduction
Young Americans
Fame
Modern Love

Tonight

Side 1

Loving The Alien
Don’t Look Down
God Only Knows
Tonight

Side 2

Neighborhood Threat
Blue Jean
Tumble And Twirl
I Keep Forgettin’
Dancing With The Big Boys

Never Let Me Down

Side 1

Day-In Day-Out
Time Will Crawl
Beat Of Your Drum
Never Let Me Down
Zeroes

Side 2

Glass Spider
Shining Star (Makin’ My Love)
New York’s In Love
’87 And Cry
Bang

Never Let Me Down (2018)

Side 1

Day-In Day-Out
Time Will Crawl
Beat Of Your Drum

Side 2

Never Let Me Down
Zeroes
Glass Spider

Side 3

Shining Star (Makin’ My Love) (ft Laurie Anderson)
New York’s In Love
87 & Cry
Bang Bang

Side 4

David Bowie 1987 logo etching

Glass Spider (Live, Montreal 1987)

Side 1

Up The Hill Backwards
Glass Spider
Day-In Day-Out
Bang Bang

Side 2

Absolute Beginners
Loving The Alien
China Girl
Rebel Rebel

Side 3

Fashion
Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)
All The Mad Men
Never Let Me Down

Side 4

Big Brother
‘87 And Cry
“Heroes”
Sons Of The Silent Age
Time Will Crawl / Band Introduction

Side 5

Young Americans
Beat Of Your Drum
The Jean Genie
Let’s Dance

Side 6

Fame
Time
Blue Jean
Modern Love

DANCE

Side 1

1. Shake It (Re-mix aka Long Version)
2. Blue Jean (Extended Dance Mix)
3. Dancing With The Big Boys (Extended Dance Mix)

Side 2

1. Tonight (Vocal Dance Mix)
2. Don't Look Down (Extended Dance Mix)
3. Loving The Alien (Extended Dub Mix)

Side 3

1. Tumble And Twirl (Extended Dance Mix)
2. Underground (Extended Dance Mix)
3. Day-In Day-Out (Groucho Mix)

Side 4

1. Time Will Crawl (Dance Crew Mix)
2. Shining Star (Makin’ My Love) (12” mix)
3. Never Let Me Down (Dub/Acapella)

RE:CALL 4

Side 1

1. Let's Dance (single version)
2. China Girl (single version)
3. Modern Love (single version)
4. This Is Not America (The theme from ‘The Falcon And The Snowman’) - David Bowie / Pat Metheny Group
5. Loving The Alien (re-mixed version)

Side 2

1. Don't Look Down (re-mixed version)
2. Dancing In The Street (Clearmountain mix) - David Bowie and Mick Jagger
3. Absolute Beginners (from Absolute Beginners)
4. That’s Motivation (from Absolute Beginners)
5. Volare (from Absolute Beginners)

Side 3

1. Labyrinth Opening Titles/Underground (from Labyrinth)
2. Magic Dance (from Labyrinth)
3. As The World Falls Down (from Labyrinth)
4. Within You (from Labyrinth)
5. Underground (from Labyrinth)

Side 4

1. When The Wind Blows (single version) (from When The Wind Blows)
2. Day-In Day-Out (single version)
3. Julie
4. Beat Of Your Drum (vinyl album edit)
5. Glass Spider (vinyl album edit)

Side 5

1. Shining Star (Makin’ My Love) (vinyl album edit)
2. New York’s In Love (vinyl album edit)
3. ‘87 And Cry (vinyl album edit)
4. Bang Bang (vinyl album edit)
5. Time Will Crawl (single version)

Side 6

1. Girls (extended edit)
2. Never Let Me Down (7” remix edit)
3. Bang Bang (live - promotional mix)
4. Tonight (live) Tina Turner with David Bowie
5. Let's Dance (live) Tina Turner with David Bowie

Published July 17th, 2018