The Man Who Sold the World is one of the few titles of which I have several copies. This was one of the first Bowie LPs I bought.
It was the Mercury issue with the "cartoon" cover:
The music was weird but I stuck with it. The copy was really a crappy pressing.
Still a kid, I Found the RCA version in a store and was surprised it was the same album because I'd never before seen two entirely different covers for the same title:
I picked it up and discovered how powerful and clear Visconti's bass and playing and production of same were. An original, certainly weird, and certainly holds up upon revisitation.
Rather than scrape my worn vinyl any further I'm playing a CDR I made in part from the Rykodisc version with the original UK cover:
W/ the excellent early single versions of
Moonage Daydream
and
Hold onto Yourself that Jones released under the name
Arnold Corns rather than
David Bowie (which my friends pronounced "buoy").
Now, I'm looking at this Mercury version and trying to decide if this is a bootleg. This web resource:
[
www.illustrated-db-discography.nl]
suggests a way to tell but doesn't work for my copy*.
God Ronson was good.
Fits on one CD:
~The Man Who Sold the World LP
~Holy Holy (1st 7" vinyl version not the version that appears as CD bonus tracks)
~Moonage Daydream (Arnold Corns single version)
~Hang Onto Yourself (Arnold Corns single version)
~Man in the Middle (Arnold Corns b-side)
~The Supermen (version 2) This is a superior version and appeared in 1972 on a compilation called
"Revelations".
np: Bowie - TMWSTW
nr: Danny Goldberg - Bumping into Geniuses
edit::repeated word word
Post Edited (09-18-12 16:30)
