Artist: David Bowie
Title: David Live (2005 Remix and Remastered Edition)
Year Of Release: 2017
Label: Parlophone UK
Genre: Rock, Classic Rock, Glam Rock, Blue-Eyed Soul
Quality: FLAC (tracks+log+cue)
Total Time: 01:42:50
Total Size: 616 mb
Tracklist:
CD1
01. 1984 (Live) [2005 Mix] [2016 Remastered Version]
02. Rebel Rebel (Live) [2005 Mix] [2016 Remastered Version]
03. Moonage Daydream (Live) [2005 Mix] [2016 Remastered Version]
04. Sweet Thing (Live) [2005 Mix] [2016 Remastered Version]
05. Changes (Live) [2005 Mix] [2016 Remastered Version]
06. Suffragette City (Live) [2005 Mix] [2016 Remastered Version]
07. Aladdin Sane (Live) [2005 Mix] [2016 Remastered Version]
08. All The Young Dudes (Live) [2005 Mix] [2016 Remastered Version]
09. Cracked Actor (Live) [2005 Mix] [2016 Remastered Version]
10. Rock 'N' Roll With Me (Live) [2005 Mix] [2016 Remastered Version]
11. Watch That Man (Live) [2005 Mix] [2016 Remastered Version]
CD2
01. Knock On Wood (Live) [2005 Mix] [2016 Remastered Version]
02. Here Today Gone Tomorrow (Live) [2005 Mix] [2016 Remastered Version]
03. Space Oddity (Live) [2005 Mix] [2016 Remastered Version]
04. Diamond Dogs (Live) [2005 Mix] [2016 Remastered Version]
05. Panic In Detroit (Live) [2005 Mix] [2016 Remastered Version]
06. Big Brother (Live) [2005 Mix] [2016 Remastered Version]
07. Time (Live) [2005 Mix] [2016 Remastered Version]
08. The Width Of A Circle (Live) [2005 Mix] [2016 Remastered Version]
09. The Jean Genie (Live) [2005 Mix] [2016 Remastered Version]
10. Rock 'N' Roll Suicide (Live) [2005 Mix] [2016 Remastered Version]
David Bowie is not a man one would expect to revel in the accidental. It is as much of a cliché to divine cold strategy in his every move as it is to pretend that strategy didn't exist for, say, Janis Joplin. For those preferring to see Bowie as a contortionist auto-Svengali, the main revelation of the reissued live albums David Live and Stage will be how unafraid of imperfections he could be. These panoramic snapshots of 1970s Bowie (David Live came out in 1974, with Stage following mere four years later) mostly sound-- surprise-- like a good rock band at work, not a collection of virtuoso day laborers supplicating at the feet of the Artiste.
For one thing, the singing remains gloriously unsweetened, not by studio overdubs for the original release nor by digital trickery-- save a spit polish of the highs and fattening of the lows-- this time. Bowie's is not exactly a golden throat, but by the mid-70s he could will his untrained voice into a soulful squeal, a come-hither lounge croon, and so on; he misses some notes but never the dramatic pitch of the line. He also used to be one of those singers who need half a set to get entirely comfortable on stage, and, as a result, Disc Two of both David Live and Stage is the stronger one by far. If by the beginning of each concert, Bowie simply performs the songs, by the end he is twisting them into entirely new creatures. David Live contains arguably the all-time greatest display of Bowie's voice as he lets loose on an r&b; version of "Rock'n'Roll Suicide", festooned with James Brownian stops, croaks, pregnant pauses, and beat-chasing rephrasings, as well as a completely sudden detonation of a very, very high falsetto.