Anniversary Edition)

Worth the money just to have all tracks spread across the two discs. To have this in beautiful white vinyl just tops what is a good Bowie album off. The Cover could be of thicker quality,but then you can't have everything.

Delighted with this!

At last, the complete Album on vinyl. A creative melting pot of ideas and art. An overlooked masterpiece from the Bowie cannon.Hopefully "Buddha" will get the same treatment before too long.

Bowie is so HUGE, he attracts all sorts of different listeners, all with different favourites. Some fans prefer easy listening and others like the more experimental or ideas-based music. There was a period when people seemed to stop listening to Bowie (luckily he kept on producing ground-breaking music). And then The Next Day came out and people (many of the easy listeners) were all over him saying he'd made a brilliant album, the V&A formed a major exhibit around him, books and art programs discussed his work . . . in a world where media hype interferes with sound judgement, it seems that Bowie was back.[Obviously for many, Bowie never left.]Of the latter albums, Heathen and Outside are my favourite. They encompass interesting ideas and progressive music, and yes fun to listen to. Outside is possibly my favourite, and of course it has to be complete with the Nathan Adler monologues interspersing tracks like I'm Deranged, Strangers When We Meet and the perfect pop song Hallo Spaceboy.The Nathan Adler sketches about body modification artists are on the 'outside' of Art. I don't know if that is the relevance of the title. I'm not even sure what Bowie's intentions of including the Nathan Adler diaries is, though musically they punctuate, then idealistically . . . the result is that the album is timely, says something about the odd world we live in today, it's madness in seeking out such extremeties, 'outsideness' - all part of being alien. And how alieneity then redefines the norm - yikes, even becoming pOpular, or FAMEous. Everybody knows these are Major Tom themes. We accept some bits, reject others, and the world CHANGES.With Bowie's new, up-coming album Blackstar, the eponymous Blackstar is being released as a single. It's said the radio stations won't play anything longer than 10 minutes - so Bowie had to cut the piece because he wanted it playing and wanted to compromise the piece as little as possible. It's interesting how the system DOES compromise Art, possibly not trusting it enough. Similarly, many didn't like the Nathan Adler sketches in the Outisde album due to their oddness, unmusical nature, whatever. Or then they grew to like it, that's more to the point - sometimes it's not readily evident what is good, relevant or interesting; and you have to give it a chance, some times it grows on you. Again, the odd or the alien, what is 'outside' can take a while to accept and hit the pulse.Finally, fantastic to have the proper version on vinyl. Very strange it took so long?

Took me a while to get into this album but once I accepted it was pushing my boundaries musically I finally heard the amazing album it is