Changesonebowie

Changesonebowie
Compilation album by David Bowie
Released 20 May 1976 (1976-05-20)
Recorded 1969–1976
Genre Rock, glam rock, art rock
Length 44:14
Label RCA Records
David Bowie chronology
Station to Station
(1976)		 Changesonebowie
(1976)		 Low
(1977)
David Bowie Compilation chronology
Images 1966–1967
(1973)		 Changesonebowie
(1976)		 The Best of Bowie
(1980)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
Robert ChristgauA[2]
Rolling Stone(?)[3]

Changesonebowie was David Bowie's first widely selling compilation album, issued by RCA Records in 1976. It collected songs from the 1969–1976 period, including the first LP appearance of "John, I'm Only Dancing." A 'sax version' of this song, cut during the Aladdin Sane sessions in 1973, appeared on the first 1000 copies of the UK pressing (these can be identified by the lack of the RCA logo in the upper-right corner of the cover). Later pressings of Changesonebowie featured the original version of the single that had been recorded and released in 1972. The U.S. LP contains this original version as well.

Two of the tracks, "Ziggy Stardust" and "Suffragette City," had never been released as singles when Changesonebowie was issued, though the former had been the B-side of "The Jean Genie" in November 1972 and the latter would be released as an A-side in July 1976 to help promote the compilation.

The cover shot was taken by Tom Kelley, who took the famous nude calendar photographs of Marilyn Monroe on red velvet in 1949.

In 2003, the album was ranked number 425 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.[3]

RCA released Changesonebowie on CD in 1985, but it was withdrawn within a year along with the rest of the Bowie RCA catalogue, due to a conflict between Bowie and RCA. The RCA CD contains the original single version of "John, I’m Only Dancing".

When Bowie's catalogue was reissued by Rykodisc beginning in 1990, Changesonebowie was replaced by a new compilation, Changesbowie, on which "Fame" was superseded by the "Fame 90" Gass Mix, and "'Heroes'", "Ashes to Ashes", "Fashion", "Let's Dance", "China Girl", "Modern Love", and "Blue Jean" were added. In addition to the above, Rykodisc added the songs "Starman" (following "Space Oddity"), "Life on Mars?" (following "The Jean Genie"), and "Sound and Vision" (following "Golden Years") to the cassette and double-LP editions of the album.

A remastered edition of Changesonebowie will be released on its 40th anniversary, 20 May 2016, both on vinyl and CD.

The cover provided the inspiration for a re-issue of the Morrissey album, Southpaw Grammar.

Track listing

All songs written by David Bowie unless otherwise noted.

Side one
  1. "Space Oddity" (from Space Oddity, 1969) – 5:14
  2. "John, I’m Only Dancing (Sax version) (from the non-album single of the same name, 1972) – 2:43
  3. "Changes" (from Hunky Dory, 1971) – 3:33
  4. "Ziggy Stardust" (from The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, 1972) – 3:13
  5. "Suffragette City" (from Ziggy Stardust) – 3:25
  6. "The Jean Genie" (from Aladdin Sane, 1973) – 4:03
Side two
  1. "Diamond Dogs" (from Diamond Dogs, 1974) – 5:56
  2. "Rebel Rebel" (from Diamond Dogs) – 4:30
  3. "Young Americans" (from Young Americans, 1975) – 5:10
  4. "Fame" (Bowie, Carlos Alomar, John Lennon) (from Young Americans) – 4:12
  5. "Golden Years" (from Station to Station, 1976) – 3:59

Personnel

Charts

Album

Year Chart Position
1976 UK Albums Chart 2
Billboard Pop Albums 10

Certifications

Organization Level Date
RIAA – USA Gold 2 August 1976
Platinum 15 September 1981

References

  1. ↑ Dave Thompson. "Changesonebowie". Allmusic. Retrieved 10 January 2012.
  2. ↑ "CG: bowie". Robert Christgau. Retrieved 10 January 2012.
  3. 1 2 "News". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 10 January 2012.
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