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Album Review: The fashion police have made one too many stops for our liking here at Slob Central, but we don't hold it against the David Bowie song "Fashion," an homage to fashion cops if there ever was one. Of course, with the ever-so-stylish Mr. Bowie, one can never quite tell what's homage and what's satire, so we prefer just to listen to the cool music. In any event, this double disc best-of collection will give your ears all the great glam and non-glam Bowie you could ever want, with the coverage spanning the most productive years of his career. All the major hits are here, including quirky greats like "Blue Jean," "China Girl" and "Sound and Vision"; straight-up pop hits like "Changes," "Suffragette City," "Let's Dance" and several others; and the unmatchable pair of space classics, "Space Oddity" and its semi-sequel "Ashes to Ashes." But this collection includes some non-hit classics too, like the excellent
"Man Who Sold The World," the groove-laden "Moonage Daydream" and the outrageous "Ziggy Stardust." A couple of collaborative efforts are featured as well—"Under Pressure" (with Queen) and "All the Young Dudes" (from Bowie's days with Mott the Hoople). If you're a die-hard Bowie fan, you'll no doubt want all of the original albums (and bits of material from his costumes too ;-). But for the rest of us, this two-CD set is wham-bam perfect. Thank you, ma'am. Sir.
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