Young Americans

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With 1975's Young Americans, David Bowie chose to head in yet another "new direction," this time extrapolating on the slick disco-soul vibe that characterized 1974's David Live. Surrounded by an army of backup singers (including Luther Vandross) and smooth session players, Bowie actually makes the stylistic affectation work on three of the songs--"Fame," "Young Americans," and "Can You Hear Me." The rest of the record suffers from a dearth of quality songwriting; all the tasty licks in the world can't disguise the fact that "Fascination," "Win," "Somebody Up There Likes Me," and "Right" are basically empty-headed disco vamps. (And the less said about the overwrought cover of the Beatles' "Across the Universe," the better.) A necessary transitional step to Station to Station, perhaps, but not a great record. --Dan Epstein --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Young Americans
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mastering issues?

It's not THAT bad

5.1 channels of gross

Young Americans
David Bowie
Manufacturer: Virgin Records Us
ProductGroup: Music
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ASIN: B000NA2348
Release Date: 2007-06-05

Tracks:

Young Americans (5.11)
Win (4.44)
Fascination (5.44)
Right (4.15)
Somebody Up There Likes Me (6.30)
Across The Universe (4.50)
Can You Hear Me (5.03)
Fame (4.15)
John, I'm Only Dancing (Again) (7.00) (Bonus Track)
Who Can I Be Now? (4.36) (Bonus Track)
It's Gonna Be Me (with strings) (6.26) (Bonus Track)

Tracks:

Young Americans (5.11) (5.1 mix)
Win (4.44)(5.1 mix)
Fascination (5.44)(5.1 mix)
Right (4.15) (5.1 mix)
Somebody Up There Likes Me (6.30) (5.1 mix)
Across The Universe (4.50)(5.1 mix)
Can You Hear Me (5.03) (5.1 mix)
Fame (4.15) (5.1 mix)
John, I'm Only Dancing (Again) (7.00) (Bonus Track) (5.1 mix)
Who Can I Be Now? (4.36) (Bonus Track) (5.1 mix)
It's Gonna Be Me (with strings) (6.26) (Bonus Track) (5.1 mix)
1984 (live performance on Dick Cavett Show, 1974)
Young Americans (live performance on Dick Cavett Show, 1974)
Dick Cavett interviews David Bowie, 1974

Customer Reviews:

mastering issues?.......2007-07-05

young americans as an album is great - my reason for this review is to find out if i'm just hearing things or if there are a couple mistakes on the standard cd of this album (not the 5.1 mix)

at 3:45 in the song young americans, the background singers seem to drop completely out of the mix for a full second in the right speaker. also, maybe 5 to 10 seconds or so before this, there is a click that kind of sounds like skip in the cd but its not - these aren't huge things but for an audiophile, they're distracting at the least, esp. with headphones - can anyone else verify that this is on all of the copies of the special edition album? its not just mine, right?

It's not THAT bad.......2007-06-27

I honestly think the Dolby mix listening experience depends on the type of fidelity system one has. I do agree with the previous poster that certain instruments really are much too loud on several of the songs, but I found the backup singers coming out of the rear channels to be really something else. The songs featuring string arrangements are especially compelling with Bowies' vocals centered, background singers in the rear and the orchestration lushly swirling around seemingly from everywhere. I don't know if Dolby DTS makes this sound better, but that's the scheme that I use to listen to just about everything, including this (I just prefer DTS over 5.1). Aside from the occasionally loud bass drum or percussion instrument, I just haven't found any deal breaking faults like the prior reviewer has. No disrespect to his opinions, but I guess people just hear things differently.

The five star rating is for the total package of this latest re-issue. The CD version of the mixes is outstanding, the Dolby disc while not drop dead essential, is nice enough to have. The Dick Cavett interview and the musical performances are both really very interesting archival things. Yeah they've been floating around forever as bootlegs, but now's your chance to get it legitimately. The liner notes are also excellent, tracing the path of the album itself and the Bowie timeline of events that surrounded this recording (like found on the Ziggy, Aladin and Diamond Dogs reissues).

So in short, no don't buy this if you're happy with whatever version of YA you have. But if you do have the cash to burn then by all means indulge yourself.

Young Americans was and still is, a great great album.

5.1 channels of gross.......2007-06-10

I love this album. The original stereo mix is great. Great songs, great performances, great sound. I'm not even going to get into that. My review is for those of you strictly curious about the 5.1 mix.

The 5.1 mix, in short, is awful. If you've ever thought to yourself, "Boy, I wish that bongo drum was loud as hell" or "Why can't those backup singers sound like they're singing in a garage down the road?" then maybe you'll like this. The strut and soul of these songs is lost in the obnoxious frills of this surround mix. There are constant issues with the reverb on both lead and backup vocals. I'm sure the original tracks are hard to deal with, but the effects that make this album sound like a classic piece of coked-out 70's soul only sound awkward when shifting around in the stereo field at any instant. The only track that I find even interesting to hear in 5.1 is "Win". The worst tragedy of this remix is "Fame". It sounds so dry and brittle that I can't even handle it. This isn't "Fame". This is something else... Then again "Fascination" sucks pretty bad too. Man, what a waste of money.

The Dick Cavette show stuff is great though. Bowie just can't quit fidgeting with that cane.

(...)

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Funkin' on the Soul Train
A 5-star Record if Ever There Was One
One of Bowie's Finest cd's.
Who Can He Be Now (and will they pay him for it)?
You Need To check The Meat When Your Pieces of Bread Are Stale

Young Americans [ECD]
David Bowie
Manufacturer: Virgin Records Us
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00001OH7T
Release Date: 1999-09-28

Tracks:

Young Americans
Win
Facination
Right
Somebody Up There Likes Me
Across The Universe
Can You Hear Me
Fame

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With 1975's Young Americans, David Bowie chose to head in yet another "new direction," this time extrapolating on the slick disco-soul vibe that characterized 1974's David Live. Surrounded by an army of backup singers (including Luther Vandross) and smooth session players, Bowie actually makes the stylistic affectation work on three of the songs--"Fame," "Young Americans," and "Can You Hear Me." The rest of the record suffers from a dearth of quality songwriting; all the tasty licks in the world can't disguise the fact that "Fascination," "Win," "Somebody Up There Likes Me," and "Right" are basically empty-headed disco vamps. (And the less said about the overwrought cover of the Beatles' "Across the Universe," the better.) A necessary transitional step to Station to Station, perhaps, but not a great record. --Dan Epstein

Customer Reviews:

Funkin' on the Soul Train.......2007-07-15

I don't think this was one of Bowie's most critically acclaimed albums, but it is one of my favorites, right up there with "Ziggy", "Aladdin Sane" and "Diamond Dogs". While it doesn't have much in common with those classics technically, the "spirit" is the same: musical moods and lyrics that hint at darker, alternate worlds, vocals and arrangements that sound like no one else's. This time around, Bowie is singing soul, complete with "soulful" back-up singers. Most of the tracks are dance-oriented, but that's not surprising since the album was released right at the dawn of Disco. "Win" and "Somebody Up There Likes Me" are both positive and inspirational to a degree, and I like that. "Right" is a smooth-as-silk dance track that takes you on quite a ride. It contains an intricate vocal "debate" between Bowie and the back-up singers that is so tricky and precise, they must have needed about 100 takes to get it down, or else inspiration struck and they were lucky enough to improvise it. The first and last tracks, "Young Americans" and "Fame", have similarities. Both are strong, dynamic tracks, especially if you crank them up, with interesting lyrics. And both have a John Lennon connection. In fact, John Lennon is all over this album. In "Young Americans" we hear the back-ups sing "I heard the news today oh boy", an allusion to Lennon's "A Day In The Life", and "Fame" was co-written and co-sung by Lennon. There's more: "Across The Universe" is one of Lennon's songs from "Let It Be", and Lennon contributes guitar to this cut as well as to "Fame". Most reviewers don't like Bowie's version of "Across The Universe", and I admit it took me time to get used to it, but now I like it. Moving on, "Fascination" is another good dance track, and "Can You Hear Me" is a slower soul ballad, very effectively conveying the singer's desire to rekindle a relationship that was once meaningful and real.

Although I admit that the transformation seemed rather abrupt (Ziggy one day, Thin White Duke the next), still the songs on "Young Americans" strike me as genuine. We all go through changes (no pun intended), and this was a big one for David Bowie. I guess his huge success in America pointed him in this direction. All I know is, I never get tired of listening to this album.

By the way, I've seen this album compared unfavorably to "Station To Station", and I've heard it called just a transition to "S 2 S", but I like "Young Americans" MUCH better. Go figure.

A 5-star Record if Ever There Was One.......2007-05-19

I honestly can't believe that some self-professed Bowie fans are giving this CD fewer than four stars. Even if you're not a fan of soul music, just the "firsts" and the personnel on this album make it an essential record for all music fans, let alone Bowiephiles.

Bowie's 1975 reinvention as a blue-and-green-eyed soul singer was brilliant on a number of scores-- he went to Philadelphia to take advantage of the Sound of Philadelphia session musicians. There, he enlisted Luther Vandross, still in his late teens, to sing, arrange the background vocals, and co-write "Fascination." Vandross had studied music in New York with Bowie guitar player Carlos Alomar. The sax, featured prominently on "Young Americans" and "Somebody Up There Likes Me" was the debut of a young David Sanborn, and also his first recording. Add John Lennon playing, singing, and writing "Fame" and you've got a classic record before you've pressed the "play" button.

As for the songs themselves, "Young Americans" and "Fame" are flat-out classic hits. "Right" and "Win" are moody soul tunes, "Can You Hear Me," "Fascination," and "Somebody Up There" are more inspirational and traditional soul songs, very much influenced by the Philly recording environment.

Yeah, I could also do without the ill-advised remake of "Across the Universe," but I assume it was Lennon's presence that demanded its inclusion. Even 5-star albums can have a bumpy track.

One of Bowie's Finest cd's........2007-01-26

I know all the words to all of the songs on this cd. Beside's "Fame," and "Young Americans," this cd has awesome heavy sax and great grooves like "Somebody Up There Likes Me," that will have you dancin. Mr. Bowie I salute you!

Who Can He Be Now (and will they pay him for it)?.......2007-01-10

I listened to Young Americans today. I only listen to it about once a year, and that's only to try and convince myself that I am not overlooking something golden. I find it hard to believe that smack dab in the middle of Bowie's wonderful 70's catalog, a library of songs I simply cannot live without, there could be a release that I find so bland, lifeless and dull. It's hard to pinpoint what ingredient is missing here. I am unmoved by almost all the songs on this record, and that is strange. Maybe he rushed the songwriting process. Maybe he's just going through th motions, cashing in on a then current style. I don't know. I won't go as far as to say I hate it, but I do find it mostly dispensable. It's not all bad, though. It's just mostly bad....to me.

1. Young Americans - I won't lie, I cranked this mother up to 11 and found myself busting a move on the living room floor. Fantastic song. Infectious is the word.Highlight of the record. If he could have maintained this level throughout this record would have been a monster.

2. Win - My other favorite cut, mostly due to the Diamond Dog's residue that seems to be sticking to it. A little bit on the sinister side. This is the only reason I put the album on when I do.

3. Fascination - Good enough cut. I don't mind it that much. Pretty good. Memorable.

4. Right - Starts off promisingly but after a minute you realize the thing is going nowhere and if you can make it through the full 6 minutes you're a superstar. A riff being passed off as a song. A very long song.

5. Somebody Up There Likes Me - Pretty forgettable. Lacks any emotional impact.

6. Across The Universe - Ill advised remake of Beatle classic. Avoid at all costs.

7. Can You Hear Me - This cut is actually pretty decent. I don't mind this one.

8. Fame - I've heard it so many times through my life it's hard to be objective. I could probably live out the rest of my years without a hunger to hear it again.

Strangely, the best cuts are the ones he left off. The Ryko bonus cut "Who Can I Be Now" is better than almost anything on the finished record. He made a crucial mistake leaving it off. Maybe he felt the lyrics were too direct. These non-album cuts will be included on the upcoming "30th Anniversary" CD/DVD package, yet another re-re-re-release of the same old Bowie album.

I'm not very close to this record, but maybe that's a good thing. When I've had my fill of all my other more loveable Bowie albums I can turn to this and try to sniff out something new. I won't call it a bad record. More like a failed experiment. He perked back up for Station to Station.

You Need To check The Meat When Your Pieces of Bread Are Stale.......2006-09-14

I like that metaphor. Who says that custodians can't come up with a good metaphor? Well anyway I look at the two pieces of bread, and I've heard them time and time again. The title cut is pretty much a horrific sounding song that seemed to try, and pick up some girls, and I guess that problem was it was saying goodbye to Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane, and the Diamond Dogs which were cornerstones in glitter rock. I know that "Diamond Dogs" it's so beautiful...meaning the song. Then there was "Fame" which was a stupid attempt at funk music especially the speeded up singing of the word "Fame", and then slowing it down which I'm glad happened because when I first heard it speeded up I was like "Yuuch". So as you can tell I hate both songs, and I guess it's fortunate that after the title track they had a stretch of 2 good songs with "Win" and "Fascination". Also look at "Somebody Up There Likes Me" is honorably mentioned. The only other bad song on here was the cover of the George Harrison song "Across The Universe". It was an interesting path Bowie took for himself, and it did pay off, but I still enjoy Bowie in his glitter days.

The War That Made America: The Story Of The French And Indian War

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OK music
Worth your time

The War That Made America: The Story Of The French And Indian War
Brian Keane
Manufacturer: Valley
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000CEV4UE
Release Date: 2006-01-10

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Early Americans (Keane)
Washingtonâs Blunder in the woods (Keane)
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Round Dance (Trad Six Nations)
Young Washingtonâs Theme (Keane)
French Tavern (Trad 18th Century French Folk Arr. Keane)
War Breaks Out (Keane)
Braddockâs March (G.F. Handel arr. Keane)
Battle at the Monongahela (Keane)
Dâune Nouvelle Terre (18th Century French Arr. Keane)
Vanishing World (Keane)
Bloody Morning Scout (Keane)
Jemison Farmhouse (Keane)
Deportation From Nova Scotia (18th Century French Arr. Keane)
Battle Of Lake George (Keane)
William Pittâs Deal(G. F. Handel Arr. Keane)
Louisburg Falls (Keane)
Versailles (Jean Baptiste Lully)
Easton Treaty(Trad Six Nations)
Washington Goes Home (Keane)
Guyasuta Tries (Keane)Trouble Comes to Fort Michilimackinac (Keane)
Smallpox (Traditional six nations)
Conestoga/Revolution (Keane)
Declaration Of Independence (Keane)

Product Description

1. For One Moment
2. Straws
3. Find Yourself
4. Show Me
5. Jump; Friends Along the Way
6. Oh My
7. I'll Be There
8. The Heart of Saturday Night (feat. Matthew Ryan)
9. Stupid or Something
10. Burgeoning Road
11. Sixteen
12. Stay Forever

Format: CD

Customer Reviews:

OK music.......2006-04-13

This CD is listenable and has some nice music, but has nothing memorable. There is no rousing main theme that I expect from a soundtrack and many of the songs are not particularly good. If you are interested in music from this period, get the soundtracks to "Last of the Mohicans, The Patriot, and A&E's Revolution" (if you can find and afford that last one). Pass on this one.

Worth your time.......2006-01-31

A surprisingly "listenable" and quality work that rises above the documentary/drama series that it was created for.

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Funkin' on the Soul Train
A 5-star Record if Ever There Was One
One of Bowie's Finest cd's.
Who Can He Be Now (and will they pay him for it)?
You Need To check The Meat When Your Pieces of Bread Are Stale

Young Americans
David Bowie
Manufacturer: Rykodisc
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000009NN

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Customer Reviews:

Funkin' on the Soul Train.......2007-07-15

A 5-star Record if Ever There Was One.......2007-05-19

One of Bowie's Finest cd's........2007-01-26

Who Can He Be Now (and will they pay him for it)?.......2007-01-10

You Need To check The Meat When Your Pieces of Bread Are Stale.......2006-09-14

Average customer rating:

Very Interesting Experiment

Young Americans
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Young Americans

ASIN: B000LW9PY4
Release Date: 2007-03-20

Tracks:

Young Americans
Win
Fascination
Right
Somebody Up There Likes Me
Across the Universe
Can You Hear Me
Fame
John, I'm Only Dancing (Again)
Who Can I Be Now?
It's Gonna Be Me [With Strings]

Tracks:

Young Americans [DVD]
Win [DVD]
Fascination [DVD]
Right [DVD]
Somebody Up There Likes Me [DVD]
Across the Universe [DVD]
Can You Hear Me [DVD]
Fame [DVD]
John, I'm Only Dancing (Again) [DVD]
Who Can I Be Now? [DVD]
It's Gonna Be Me [DVD][Version]
1984 (Live on the Dick Cavett Show) [DVD]
Young Americans [DVD]
Dick Cavett Interviews David Bowie [DVD]

Album Description

2-disc set comprising a 11-track CD album which [originally released in 1975] is an indirect product of many factors; soul music; politics, both personal and public; of downtown New York and uptown Philadelphia, and includes 3 Bonus Recordings 'John, I'm Only Dancing [Again]', 'Who Can I Be Now?' & It's Gonna Be Me [With Strings].' Also included is a bonus DVD (PAL/Region 0) featuring the entire album [remastered in 5.1 surround sound by Tony Visconti] and two live performances & interview on the Dick Cavett TV Show. EMI. 2007. * Please note you will need an All Code DVD player to view.

Customer Reviews:

Very Interesting Experiment.......2007-04-09

I can now reflct upon the unfolding of Young Americans in 5.1.

I must say it's not the same experience as the hearing the 5.1 mixes of Talking Heads material, since Young Americans wasn't recorded as expensively - and doesn't have as many overdubs as much of the Heads works. In other words, don't expect a total revelation here.

On the other hand, there are new things to be found, especially when you get to side two and such tracks as Across the Universe and Somebody Up There Likes me. Putting the backing vocalists into the rear is a master stroke. Sitting the center of my setup is like sitting in the room while the album was recorded, surrounded by Bowie in front, and the singers behind.

Some of the new seperation does allow you to fully realize the depth to some of the songs - the use of handdrums on Young Americans is a stand out, and you can really enjoy them now like never before.

The DVD also includes a show Bowie did at the time with Dick Cavert. Dick was a bit, erm, straight for Bowie, but it's interesting none-the-less. You get to hear Bowie do two tracks (annoyingly the note say he did three, but they didn't inlcude the third). He starts with 1984, and ends with Young Americans. 1984 is simply superb, and it's fascinating to hear such a song played in a mainstream show. Young Americans wasn't fully gelled yet, so it has slightly different lyrics, which is always fun.

Bowie was at the height of White Soul image, and he's clearly thin and well on his way to next persona - the Thin White Duke. Sadly, it's also clear he'd been snorting some chemicals before the show was aired. All the usual signs - fidgetting, jerky movements, lack of concentration, and a perpetual sniff, are evident. Despite that the longish (20 minutes or so) interview is interesting in that Cavert keeps trying to paint Bowie as an elite artist with fantastical ideas, while Bowie keeps his feet well on the ground and is quite dismissive of airs and graces. It's a good watch.

Now for the negatives. As with the Talking Heads 5.1 mixes, in all honesty they can be a bit hit and miss. Sometimes a certain song just... well falls apart. It loses its balance, its drive, and sounds like something deflated, and/or, completely different. With Young Americans it's Fascination that just, well, goes to pieces. Perhaps I wil come to terms with the new mix, but first time around it sounded fractured and messy, as though the4 band are no longer playing together. The familiar melody has been lost as the indivudal sounds of the band playing go in seemingly different directions. It's the only true mistep here, and I'm not sure what to make of it. The rest sound great.

The worse thing though, the heinous thing, is EMI's assinine decision to make the default playback on the DVD a PCM Stereo mix! Wtf?!?!?

Let me explain - the disc ships with two discs - one a CD including the new stereo mix, the other a DVD with the 5.1 mix. You get three mixes on the DVD, PCM Stereo, 5.1 Dolby, and 5.1 DTS. With the Talking Heads discs (packaged the same way), you could put the DVD in the player, and simply press PLAY. What you get is the 5.1 mix. This makes perfect sense, because if you wanted the damn stereo mix, you'd put in the CD, surely?!?

With Young Americans you get the stereo mix from the DVD by default. To switch to the DTS track, you have to circumvent the menus. Which is crap, because the player I use for DTS is hooked up to my projector, and I'm not going to start that up just so I can listen to Young Americans!

And no - the damn AUDIO button does not change tracks on the fly. What a poor decision! Yes, you have to simply learn the remote sequence to get what you want: UP - SELECT - UP- UP - SELECT - PLAY. But really, it's completely stupid and I don't know what they were thinking.

All in all, this is a very good release of the classic album, and is definately worth picking up. It has a couple of annoyances, but I can live with those. They've slowly been given the ultra-deluxe treatments to classic Bowie (ziggy, Aladin Sane, Diamond Dogs, and now this), so I suppose Station to Station is next. I hope so.

If you're a fan of Bowie and this album, this is a no brainer.

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Young Americans
Tina & the B-Side Movement
Manufacturer: Tinderbox
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Release Date: 2001-05-22

Tracks:

Beginning
Young Americans
There Was a Time
Pretty Young Ones
Oh Jesus
Blue Sky
Curve of a Women
Satisfy
You Let Me Down
Long Way Home
Ballad of Sonny and Cher
Demons
Shine Your Light
Politics Polka
End

The Young Americans - Motion Picture Soundtrack

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The Young Americans - Motion Picture Soundtrack
Stereo MC's, Björk , Sheep On Drugs Nine Inch Nails
Manufacturer: Island Records Great Britain
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000J2ETII

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Island Records CID 8019/518 472-2 ----1. Cathode Ray (00:27) Performed by Sheep On Drugs 2. Gave Up (03:51) Performed by Nine Inch Nails 3. Opening Titles (03:59) 4. Don't Let Up (04:31) Performed by Stereo MC's 5. Explosion (00:46) 6. Uberman (05:43) Performed by Sheep On Drugs 7. He's Watching Me (03:01) 8. Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury (04:36) Performed by The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy 9. Christian's Requiem (05:24) 10. Stop The Confusion - Music Mix (03:06) Performed by Keith LeBlanc, Tim Simenon & Bernie Worrell 11. 15 Minutes Of Fame (03:54) Performed by Sheep On Drugs 12. Leaving London (01:17) 13. Play Dead (03:44) Performed by Björk

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i don't know what the low-ranking reviewer is talking about...
Clearly Not His Best

Young Americans
David Bowie
Manufacturer: Virgin Records Us
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000MM0L4Q
Release Date: 2007-02-20

Tracks:

Young Americans
Win
Fascination
Right
Somebody Up There Likes Me
Across The Universe
Can You Hear Me
Fame

Album Description

Manufactured in Japan. CD sits within an exact replica of the original vinyl packaging including the inside sleeve. Packaging includes the Japanese spine sleeve.

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i don't know what the low-ranking reviewer is talking about..........2007-05-23

This album is stellar. It's tbe best album ever. It's not the best album ever...it was the best album of 1975. It was the best album of 1975 that wasn't Black Sabbath's Sabotage. It's at least on par with '75 alumns Led Zaeppelin (Physical Graffiti), Neil Young (Tonight's the Night, recorded 2 years earlier), and Bob Dylan (Blood on the Tracks). It's definitely better than Patti Smith's Horses (which i think is overrated). It was easily the most credible thing that John Lennon was involved with that was released in 1975, counting his album Rock N' Roll and his son Sean (who, despite releasing an album that I really liked last year, isn't as awesome as Young Americans). If nothing else, Young Americans was the COOLEST album to be released in 1975 and probably ever. It has a self-awareness of being somewhat fake and in doing so is actually really heartfelt and sincere. The songwriting is great (times great), but its presence is unprecedented. If I had to take only one album with me to outer space, it'd probably be Black Sabbath's Sabotage. If I somehow lost all my copies of it, I'd take Young Americans. It'd probably make more sense there, being an album about alienation and the need for love in a foreign and hostile environment, in a setting that you've never expressed yourself in before and perhaps one you would not be able to express yourself in at all. It's not even my favorite Bowie album. Station to Station is. But if I have to go to space, Young Americans is coming with me...after Sabotage.

Clearly Not His Best.......2007-05-10

David Bowie-Young Americans **

Young Americans is clearly not one of David Bowies strongest or best albums. I commend him in his willingness to try new things but this, this clearly did not work, now dont get me wrong Bowie can be plenty soulful when he wants to but this album is just generaly weak all around. Most of the songs come across as sad wannabe disco numbers, or left over demos from a Beegee's album. Clearly the songwriting genius that is David Bowie was not present on the making of this album. Even though a few of the songs went down as classics that doesnt even come close to making up for a entire album full of lackluster efferts.

The album opens up with the title track 'Young Americans' and while that song became a pretty big hit for David Bowie in 1975 it is not concedered a classic Bowie song and it most certaintly does not still get radio play. The song becomes tierd and old by the end of the second listen. While 'Win' is a decent ballad it's not a song you can listen to very often because like the song before it this one does get old quickly. 'Fascination' is a souless atempt at a soul song that every time I hear it, it makes me think it is a left over Beegee's tune that he snagged. 'Right' is a just downright boring disco song that like most of the other songs on this album gets old very very fast! 'Somebody Up There Likes Me' is a religious disco song if there is such a thing, its gosphol dance music, which is done very poorly, had this been on any other album, a glam or new wave Bowie album he would have made the lyrics work perfectly bu insted they go to waste on this porr excuse for a Disco track, if only he had held off on it for one more album and put it on Station To Station. It is very hard to mess up a song so good and classic as The Beatles (John Lennon penned), 'Across The Universe' and Bowie, while he doesnt do it as good or better then The beatles did he does do it very well. This is his second best cover song of his carear. It's not as bad as people make it out to be. 'Can You Hear Me' is a decent little soul number that I can actually say I do enjoy. The only good soul song on the album and he actually has soul when he sings it to which is always good, when your singing a soul song anyway. The next song is a classic among classics, one of David Bowies all time best songs. 'Fame' took the world by storm and earned David Bowie the privlage of being the first white person to perform on Soul Train, which is a really big deal even to this day. Not only that it was David Bowies first number one song in America and maybe in the UK as well. But whats more is the song is actually performed with John Lennon, how cool is that. 'Fame' was most deffinatley the right choice for how to end the album! To bad such a gem got lost on a lackluster of an album like Young Americans. I guess you could call it a diamond in the ruff.

Young Americans is a bad David Bowie album theres is no other way to put it. But I will say it is worth it for the last three songs because its got two classics so still pick it up.

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Young Americans
David Bowie
Manufacturer: Rykodisc
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00008FPY4
Release Date: 1991-05-09

Tracks:

Young Americans
Win
Fascination
Right
Somebody Up There Likes Me
Across the Universe
Can You Hear Me
Fame
Who Can I Be Now? [#][*]
It's Gonna Be Me [#][*]
John, I'm Only Dancing Again [*]

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Young Americans-Special Edition

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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000NDFIUQ
Release Date: 2007-04-10

Album Description

2007 special two disc (CD + NTSC/Region 2 DVD pressing of David Bowie's original 1975 classic which found him influenced by American Soul Music from downtown New York and uptown Philadelphia plus politics, both personal and public.. The CD features three bonus tracks: 'John, I'm Only Dancing [Again]', 'Who Can I Be Now?' and 'It's Gonna Be Me [With Strings].' Also included is a bonus DVD featuring the entire album remastered in 5.1 surround sound by Tony Visconti plus two live performances and an interview on the Dick Cavett TV Show. Tracks include 'Fame', 'Across The Universe' and 'Fascination'. EMI. 2007. * Please note you will need an All Region Code player to view DVD content.

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