News 09 Sep 2014

David Bowie / New single + new 3CD set, “Nothing Has Changed”

By Paul Sinclair

Parlophone Label Group will issue Nothing Has Changed, a three-CD David Bowie compilation that really is truly career-spanning, since it starts back in 1964 with Liza Jane and brings the story right up to date with James Murphy’s ‘Hello Steve Reich Mix’ of Love Is Lost from last year. Even better, Nothing Has Changed will feature a brand new song especially recorded for the collection by Tony Visconti.

The 59-track three-CD deluxe set starts with the new song called Sue (or In A Season of Crime), and works backwards with disc one ending with the single version of Strangers When We Meet (taken from 1995’s Outside). Fans will probably be pleased to note that an effort has been made to include single and radio edits throughout this compilation (with the compilers keeping half an eye on running times).

Disc two starts in the early nineties with perhaps Bowie’s most underrated single The Buddha Of Suburbia and – ignoring Tin Machine – works back through the eighties. The ‘MM remix’ of Time Will Crawl (first issued on 2008 freebie iSelect) is preferred over the album version, and all the singles from Let’s Dance are included along with three out of the four 45s from 1980’s Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps).

The so-called ‘Berlin Trilogy’ (Low, Heroes and Lodger) are represented by a only a trilogy of tracks, but as we move into the final disc there’s a reasonable gathering of songs from Bowie’s early ’70s period and the set ends in the sixties with Silly Boy Blue (from 1967’s David Bowie album), You’ve Got A Habit Of Leaving (a single from 1965 under the name Davy Jones (& The Lower Third)) and the aforementioned Liza Jane, recorded by a 17 year old David Bowie (released as Davie Jones with the King Bees).

Rarities along the way include the previously unreleased Let Me Sleep Beside You from the ‘TOY’ sessions, the download only Your Turn To Drive making it’s debut on CD and the 2001 re-recording of the 1971 outtake Shadow Man (from the Slow Burn CD single).

There is a two-CD version of Nothing Has Been Changed, which ignores all the really early stuff and has a more conventional chronological running order. This cut down version still features the brand new song. A 2LP double vinyl set seemingly abandons any attempt at a logical song order and randomly scatters the decades around, presumably to make the timings work.

Nothing Has Been Changed will be issued on 17 November and on the same day in the UK, the new song, Sue (or In A Season of Crime), will be released as a limited edition 10-inch vinyl single. The USA get the physical single as a Black Friday 2014 exclusive 10-inch on November 28th. Both the UK and US versions of the 10-inch will feature another exclusive 2014 recording on the B-side: ‘Tis A Pity She’s A Whore.

Please note: There is no official artwork issued yet for Nothing Has Been Changed.

Update 8/10/14: New artwork and links below.

Nothing Has Changed / 3CD Deluxe Edition

Nothing Has Changed / 2CD Edition

Nothing Has Changed / 2LP Double vinyl

Limited 10-inch vinyl / “Sue (or In A Season of Crime)”

Track Listings

3CD Deluxe Edition

CD 1:

Sue (or In A Season Of Crime) (7.40)
Where Are We Now? (4.09)
Love Is Lost (Hello Steve Reich Mix by James Murphy for the DFA Edit) (4.07)
The Stars (Are Out Tonight) (3.57)
New Killer Star (radio edit) (3.42)
Everyone Says ‘Hi’ (edit) (3.29)
Slow Burn (radio edit) (3.55)
Let Me Sleep Beside You (3.14)
Your Turn To Drive (4.44)
Shadow Man (4.48)
Seven (Marius De Vries mix) (4.12)
Survive (Marius De Vries mix) (4.18)
Thursday’s Child (radio edit) (4.25)
I’m Afraid Of Americans (V1) (clean edit) (4.30)
Little Wonder (edit) (3.40)
Hallo Spaceboy (PSB Remix) (with The Pet Shop Boys) (4.23)
Heart’s Filthy Lesson (radio edit) (3.32)
Strangers When We Meet (single version) (4.21)

CD 2:

Buddha Of Suburbia (4.24)
Jump They Say (radio edit) (3.53)
Time Will Crawl (MM remix) (4.18)
Absolute Beginners (single version) (5.35)
Dancing In The Street (with Mick Jagger) (3.20)
Loving The Alien (single remix) (4.45)
This Is Not America (with The Pat Metheny Group) (3.51)
Blue Jean (3.11)
Modern Love (single version) (3.56)
China Girl (single version) (4.15)
Let’s Dance (single version) (4.08)
Fashion (single version) (3.25)
Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) (single version) (3.32)
Ashes To Ashes (single version) (3.35)
Under Pressure (with Queen) (3.56)
Boys Keep Swinging (3.17)
‘Heroes’ (single version) (3.35)
Sound And Vision (3.03)
Golden Years (single version) (3.27)
Wild Is The Wind (2010 Harry Maslin Mix) (5.58)

CD 3:

Fame (4.14)
Young Americans (2007 Tony Visconti mix single edit) (3.13)
Diamond Dogs (5.56)
Rebel Rebel (4.28)
Sorrow (2.53)
Drive-In Saturday (4.29)
All The Young Dudes (3.08)
The Jean Genie (original single mix) (4.05)
Moonage Daydream (4.40)
Ziggy Stardust (3.12)
Starman (original single mix) (4.10)
Life On Mars? (2003 Ken Scott Mix) (3.49)
Oh! You Pretty Things (3.11)
Changes (3.33)
The Man Who Sold The World (3.56)
Space Oddity (5.12)
In The Heat Of The Morning (3.00)
Silly Boy Blue (3.54)
Can’t Help Thinking About Me (2.46)
You’ve Got A Habit Of Leaving (2.32)
Liza Jane (2.18)

2CD Edition

CD 1:
Space Oddity (5.12)
The Man Who Sold The World (3.56)
Changes (3.33)
Oh! You Pretty Things (3.11)
Life On Mars? (3.49)
Starman (original single mix) (4.10)
Ziggy Stardust (3.12)
Moonage Daydream (4.40)
The Jean Genie (original single mix) (4.05)
All The Young Dudes (3.08)
Drive-In Saturday (4.29)
Sorrow (2.53)
Rebel Rebel (4.28)
Young Americans (original single edit) (3.13)
Fame (4.14)
Golden Years (single version) (3.27)
Sound And Vision (3.03)
‘Heroes’ (single version) (3.35)
Boys Keep Swinging (3.17)
Fashion (single version) (3.25)
Ashes To Ashes (single version) (3.35)

CD 2:
Under Pressure (with Queen) (3.56)
Let’s Dance (single version) (4.08)
China Girl (single version) (4.15)
Modern Love (single version) (3.56)
Blue Jean (3.11)
This Is Not America (with The Pat Metheny Group) (3.51)
Dancing In The Street (with Mick Jagger) (3.20)
Absolute Beginners (edit) (4.46)
Jump They Say (radio edit) (3.53)
Hallo Spaceboy (Pet Shop Boys remix) (with The Pet Shop Boys) (4.23)
Little Wonder (edit) (3.40)
I’m Afraid Of Americans V1 (clean edit) (4.30)
Thursday’s Child (radio edit) (4.25)
Everyone Says ‘Hi’ (3.29)
New Killer Star (radio edit) (3.42)
Love Is Lost (Hello Steve Reich Mix by James Murphy for the DFA Edit) (4.07)
Where Are We Now? (4.09)
Sue (or In A Season Of Crime) (7.40)

2LP Double Vinyl

SIDE 1:
Let’s Dance (single version) (4.08)
Ashes To Ashes (single version) (3.35)
‘Heroes’’ (single version) (3.35)
Changes (3.33)
Life On Mars? (3.49)

SIDE 2:
Space Oddity (5.12)
Starman (original single mix) (4.10)
Ziggy Stardust (3.12)
The Jean Genie (original single mix) (4.05)
Rebel Rebel (4.28)

SIDE 3:
Golden Years (single version) (3.27)
Fame (4.14)
Sound And Vision (3.03)
Under Pressure (3.56) – Queen & David Bowie
Sue (or In A Season Of Crime) (7.40)

SIDE 4:
Hallo Spaceboy (Pet Shop Boys remix) – with The Pet Shop Boys (4.23)
China Girl (single version) (4.15)
Modern Love (single version) (3.56)
Absolute Beginners (single version) (5.35)
Where Are We Now? (4.09)

Nothing Has Changed / 3CD Deluxe Edition

Nothing Has Changed / 2CD Edition

Nothing Has Changed / 2LP Double vinyl

Limited 10-inch vinyl / “Sue (or In A Season of Crime)”

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