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Artist: David Bowie
Label: Virgin Records Us
Category: Music

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

83 reviews
Sales Rank: 9160

Format: Enhanced, Original recording reissued
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.8 x 0.4

UPC: 724352190201
EAN: 0724352190201
ASIN: B00001OH7Q

Release Date: September 28, 1999
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Tracks:

	Watch That Man
	Aladdin Sane
	Drive-in Saturday
	Panic in Detroit
	Cracked Actor
	Time
	The Prettiest Star
	Let's Spend the Night Together
	The Jean Genie
	Lady Grinning Soul

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Editorial Reviews:

Amazon.com essential recording
The second most important moment in Bowie's glam period, Aladdin Sane is full of smart, cutting-edge songs that hold up decades later as classic moments in rock. Standout tracks include "Panic in Detroit," with Mick Ronson's screaming guitars and Mick Woodmansey's urgent drumming; "Watch that Man," a piano-driven, rollicking number perfect for the Bowie strut; the lascivious and sweaty "Cracked Actor"; the punky "Jean Genie"; and a perfectly raucous cover of "Let's Spend the Night Together." "Time" hearkens back to the theatrics of The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust, while "Drive in Saturday," "The Prettiest Star," and "Lady Grinning Soul" serve as precursors to Bowie's "plastic soul" sounds that came later in the '70s. Aladdin Sane is even more impressive when considering that the same year this album was made, Bowie was also working with artists like Iggy Pop and Lou Reed, producing some of their most heralded works (the Stooges' Raw Power and Reed's Transformer). --Lorry Fleming

Customer Reviews:

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Best of Bowie's glam rock years December 1, 2001
P. Nicholas Keppler (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania United States)
33 out of 33 found this review helpful

His earlier albums, Hunky Dory and the Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust, inexplicably receive more acclaimed, but Aladdin Sane is the peak of David Bowie's heavily influential glam rock phase. With a fantastic back-up band, a keen knowledge of many pop structures (doo-wop, jazz, blues and rock all play integral parts in the album) and a sleek, sexy sound, the androgynous, charismatic, make-up clad singer struts through the glam rock's world of raucous partying ("Watch That Man" "Drive-In Saturday"), trashy decadence ("Cracked Actor," "Time") and champagne-scented romance ("Lady Grinning Soul," the title track) as if he owned it all. The album is one of Bowie's best, as well as a practical bible for all the young dudes whom would follow him into the weird, wonderful world of glitzy artrock.

5 out of 5 stars

Classic Bowie album November 20, 1999
Wayne Klein (My Little Blue Window, USA)
18 out of 18 found this review helpful

The differences between this version of AS and the earlier issue on Rykodisc are mostly cosmetic. The use of the Sonic Solutions No Noise program and 24 bit mastering has sweeted the sound giving it a bit more depth and warmth. Since this one of the few reissues that didn't have bonus tracks to begin with little is lost in the transition to EMI.

I'd much rather have commentary from Bowie about the making of the album (much as Elvis Costello did with his reissued catalog)to give the listener a sense of what went on during the recording of this classic album. Always regarded as a poor cousin to Ziggy by most critics, what this album lacks in "concept" it more than makes up for in ambitious song writing and lyrical depth. In many respects, this is a step forward from that classic album showing further development in Bowie's songwriting.

5 out of 5 stars One Of Bowie's Best   March 26, 2006
Ashley C. Copley (Charleston WV USA)
10 out of 10 found this review helpful

I have listened to this album and liked it since I was a teen. It is a world class effort with some wicked guitar and sexy nasty vocals. My favorite tracks are "Panic In Detroit" and "Cracked Actor". All of the songs are good and a must for anyone into Bowie.

5 out of 5 stars Definitely 5 Stars   March 24, 2000
little (Alcatraz Island)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful

Well, being a Bowie fan for the past twenty years, I just had to review one of his albums here at Amazon. And deciding which one was no easy task considering his career, believe me! The main reason I decided to review Aladdin Sane was...... well, it's the album of his I find myself listening to the most. I'm not sure exactly what makes this one stand out from the others. Is it the smooth saxophone in "The Prettiest Star"? The power chords of "Cracked Actor"? (which makes it on my top ten list of Bowie songs.)Or the Rolling Stones influenced "Watch that Man"?I think maybe it's the fact that it hasn't really aged since it's release, something I can't say about any other Bowie album until the "Low" album was released. (sorry Ziggy fans.) Definitely recommended for thenew Bowie fan!

5 out of 5 stars One of the greatest rock albums of all time!!!   March 23, 2001
David (Nashua, NH United States)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful

Simply put, this is one of the greatest albums ever recorded. It is the benchmark by which other other albums are judged... as any Beatle album is used as a benchmark. The production, the songs, the performances (especially by guitarist Mick Ronson, who was way ahead of his time, and pianist Mike Garson), make this a classic. From the straight ahead rock of "Watch That Man" and "Cracked Actor", to the avant-gard jazz stylings of "Aladdin Sane", the chugging drive of "Panic In Detroit", to the Broadway meets Glam Rock stylings of "Time", to his classic interpretation of "Let's Spend the Night Together" (which would be a precursor to his "Pin-Ups" album) - this is David Bowie at the peak of his creativity. This is one album I have listened to non-stop since the day I first bought it in the early 70's, and I still hear something new and exciting each time I put it on.

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