Out This Week / on 4 January 2019

Bad reviews for the coloured Hours. I will wait one ro two years for the box set. https://www.amazon.com/Translucent-Orange-Audiophile-Limited-Tri-Fold/dp/B07HSR2L69/?tag=sdepcwus-20#customerReviews

Thank goodness I am not a Bowie completist. I think I’ll wait for the boxes to get these albums on vinyl. It does seem like a rip-off to have multiple coloured vinyl of exactly the same album, but it seems that any technique to separate fans from their money is OK these days.

Why not just plain black vinyl? I’m getting tired of coloured and multi-coloured stuff.

I’m tempted by Hours. It’s one that passed me by on first release. But how can Amazon justify £47 in UK? PLUS, both the UK and US Amazon sites listings of Hours are showing the Outside image! Tsk, Tsk.

The Amazon track listing for the Rushmore vinyl doesn’t include anything by Lennon, although the inclusion of such a track is mentioned in the product description.

I just ordered both from Amazon Australia and as i’m a prime member i get free shipping. Cost me $112 AUD which converts to 62 GBP. Makes a change to get something cheaper in OZ!

The Bowie vinyl is cheaper to buy from amazon USA (with postage and import charges) than it is to buy it from the U.K. site.

Hey Paul, can you do the 2019 reissues preview, please?
All the very best in the New 2019 too!
Thanks!
Nancy :-)

I am wondering what Bowie’s label/estate will do once the box sets hit the 90s and after. Just about every album had a whack of B’sides, mixes and other stuff. I think “1 outside” has a full CD of extras [most are remixes]. Heathen had quite a bit as well. And so on.

I’ve seen Bowie on every tour since 1983 and the Outside tour was my favourite by far! The infamous Morrissey supported shows at Wembley Arena! It was so good! Loud as hell!! The tabloids were reporting that the audience were leaving halfway through because he wouldn’t play “the hits” He did play Teenage Wildlife, though, my favourite Bowie song and I’ve never been happier!

My new year’s resolutions list now reads: 1. Eat healthier 2. Exercise more 3. Finally get into “Outside”. (I feel I have a chance with 3…) Happy 2019!
PS. Paul, did you do a “Favourite Albums of 2018” list?

It won’t be long until every song David Bowie ever recorded is issued on 7″ coloured vinyl, with the same track repeated on the B-Side. With a tenner price tag, the usual suspects will still be queueing around the (virtual) block!

So I can order from the US, and have it shipped to New Zealand for under $US 7! No import duties at that price.

If you have not already, check out the Tony Visconti interview in 2 parts on BBC6 music. Available on BBC music app and iplayer I guess. Very entertaining and informative, if you love his Bowie input or not.

1.Outside on vinyl just kills me. An album intended to exploit the capacity of a CD (and Bowie had enough material for a second CD come to that) but fair enough.
These Japanese SACD’s frustrate my tight budget. It was bad enough with the Miles Davies Bitches Brew Japan only release last year. Hybrid SACD AND Blu Spec CD is a peculiar box ticking exercise for collectors.

buy a Friday release is very expensive outside of USA!!!

I love “Outside”, one of my top 3 Bowie albums & I waited years for the much talked about sequel done with Eno but alas nothing so far. Maybe in years to come after the boxsets issues have been completed & someone somewhere releases each album individually, we will hopefully get all the recorded stuff from the time. I’m not losing any sleep over it even though I’d sell my dog for it!

Although it starts off rather oddly with Thursday’s Child, I’m rather fond of Hours myself. *shrug*

I bought the 2015 double LP reissue of Outside (white vinyl) in Amsterdam 2 years ago for €69. It was obviously an import, hence the price, but it was worth it. Didn’t really care about the color (white) but always wanted the full length version of Outside on vinyl. It’s long out of print now and worth more than €200 on Discogs!

They should just reissue a standard black version now.

I have always felt let down by the quality of Friday Music’s products, so much so that I’m not going to buy anything from them again. They are not a patch on what Music on Vinyl, or Vinyl180, produces.

I’m fumming!! I LOVE 1. Outside, it’s possibly my fave Bowie album. Before you all collectively “tutt” at me. I Really got into Bowie through the release of this album, as I was only a nipper when he released his classics.
I’ve been trying to get this on vinyl for years. But always shyed off by the hefty price tag.
So at first I was delighted at this news. But when you factor in possibly being stung for import fees.
I think I’ll wait it it’s reissued within the vinyl Boxset format. Not sure if it will be included in the next one or the one after that lol
Not too bothrred about it being on coloured vinyl , I just want an excellent pressing of the full album on vinyl.
As a side note , I picked up the Coloured Japanese vinyl reissues of Heathen, Reality , The Next Day and the 2003 Reality Tour vinyl Boxset. They were issued to coincide with the Japanese Bowie……..IS exhibition.

I was hoping that 1.Outside would have been included , but sadly no

Hours is the Bowie album I like the least.
Given Reeves Gabrels was hugely involved in the writing and producing of this album, I was expecting a rock album with huge guitars in it. Instead we have a mainstream boring album with uninspired tunes.
But remember the release of this album more or less did coincide with the launch of both his 1999 remaster campaign and the Bowie Bank.
Bowie could not take the risk of launching a non-mainstream avant-garde LP at the same time.
So that is Hours.

Is the longer haired Bowie on the cover of Hours a lookalike? Looks suspiciously like the actor from the Evian advert – the video for Thursday Child.

Anyone?

The reason for the colored vinyl is to make it a more desirable offering. I got off the Bowie bus with Black Tie and have never listened to this period until Heathen. They figure this is the only way to make it attractive to collectors
J

Some really good b sides from the hours sessions!

I was a teenager in the 90s and became a fan in the late 90s, so I got ‘Earthling’ then worked backwards. ‘Hours’ was the first new Bowie album during my time as a fan, and I remember excitedly going to the CD shop the day of its release to pick it up. I made myself like it at the time, but now it sounds dreadfully thin and boring. Even Bowie seemed to bore of it quickly, since he only played two or three tracks even in the promotional tour from the album, then skipped the album entirely on the 2002 and 2004 tours.

Its David Bowie ,some of his output is better than others
anaemic and boring ? Never .

Hours is probably my worst Bowie album. Even moreso than Tonight and Never Let Me Down. Have never heard DB sounding so bored. Nearly all his other albums feel like they are complete and that all the songs on them belong together. The stuff on Hours sounds like a load of unloved B sides that have been burnt onto a CD then forgotten about almost immediately. Shame, especially after the return to form of the previous few albums.

The Bowie re-issues.

Friday Music taking advantage of Bowie completists, sadly its an affliction many of us have.

Reality is due next, mid January.

Past November they issued 4 x different coloured versions of Heathen. Serious problems with the sleeves meant many many dissatisfied customers.

As for Outside, they are the only place to get the full album, 2 x LP, their all white version is superb quality and fetches big money on the 2nd hand market.

F*”‘ me!
How much extra do amazon uk want for the bowie albums???

Would love the Billy Joel. Going to see Elio Pace with David Brown perform the stranger in it’s entirety later this year.

But I can’t play SACD so I will have to pass :(

Let’s have a heated debate:
Is it called “1.Outside” or “Outside”?

The Coltrane set is a bit cheeky; basically repackaging “Both Directions At Once” with the rest of his 1963 recordings. Great stuff, of course but not necessary.

The 3rd of the Bowie Outside releases you have listed (Blue/Gold Swirl) is actually a 2nd version of Hours. So there is 2 versions of each release. Amazon just has the wrong picture.

Hours is one of my favourite Bowls albums. It’s actually the album that got me into Bowie. I’n contrast, I can’t make it through Outside. Maybe i’ll try again!