David Bowie / The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars [40th Anniversary Edition]
Artist David Bowie
Album Title: The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars [40th Anniversary Edition]
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Primary Genre Rock: Hard Rock
Format CD
Released 06/06/1972
Reissue Date 06/04/2012
Label EMI Records Ltd.
Catalog No DBZS 40
Bar Code No 5 099946 361325
Reissue Yes
Remastered Yes
Packaging Cardboard Sleeve
Tracks
1. Five Years (4:43)
2. Soul Love (3:34)
3. Moonage Daydream (4:40)
4. Starman (4:14)
5. It Ain't Easy (2:57)
6. Lady Stardust (3:21)
7. Star (2:47)
8. Hang On To Yourself (2:39)
9. Ziggy Stardust (3:13)
10. Suffragette City (3:25)
11. Rock & Roll Suicide (2:58)
Date Acquired 06/12/2012
Personal Rating
Acquired from Amazon
Purchase Price 10.00

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Notes

On front cover of CD:
"40th Anniversary Edition 2012 Remaster"

CD is released as vinyl LP replica style in cardboard gatefold.

Although this CD is 40th Anniversary Edition, it is NOT part of 40th Anniversary Series (no series logo on CD or artwork)

40th Anniversary Series consists only of 7" Vinyl Picture Discs Singles playable on 45 RPM and 33 1/3 RPM.

Details of real 40th Anniversary Series are available on www.davidbowie.com

foobar2000 1.3.8 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
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Analyzed: David Bowie / The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
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DR         Peak         RMS     Duration Track
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DR9       -0.36 dB   -13.06 dB      4:44 01-Five Years
DR11      -0.19 dB   -14.93 dB      3:34 02-Soul Love
DR11      -0.65 dB   -13.45 dB      4:41 03-Moonage Daydream
DR9       -0.49 dB   -12.40 dB      4:14 04-Starman
DR11      -0.54 dB   -15.90 dB      2:58 05-It Ain't Easy
DR14      -0.68 dB   -17.01 dB      3:21 06-Lady Stardust
DR10      -0.39 dB   -12.00 dB      2:48 07-Star
DR10      -0.62 dB   -12.09 dB      2:40 08-Hang On to Yourself
DR11      -0.46 dB   -13.98 dB      3:14 09-Ziggy Stardust
DR10      -0.15 dB   -11.35 dB      3:26 10-Suffragette City
DR10      -0.63 dB   -15.49 dB      2:58 11-Rock 'n' Roll Suicide
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Number of tracks:  11
Official DR value: DR11

Samplerate:        44100 Hz
Channels:          2
Bits per sample:   16
Bitrate:           790 kbps
Codec:             FLAC
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Reviews
All Music Guide Review:


Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Borrowing heavily from Marc Bolan's glam rock and the future shock of A Clockwork Orange, David Bowie reached back to the heavy rock of The Man Who Sold the World for The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. Constructed as a loose concept album about an androgynous alien rock star named Ziggy Stardust, the story falls apart quickly, yet Bowie's fractured, paranoid lyrics are evocative of a decadent, decaying future, and the music echoes an apocalyptic, nuclear dread. Fleshing out the off-kilter metallic mix with fatter guitars, genuine pop songs, string sections, keyboards, and a cinematic flourish, Ziggy Stardust is a glitzy array of riffs, hooks, melodrama, and style and the logical culmination of glam. Mick Ronson plays with a maverick flair that invigorates rockers like "Suffragette City," "Moonage Daydream," and "Hang Onto Yourself," while "Lady Stardust," "Five Years," and "Rock 'n' Roll Suicide" have a grand sense of staged drama previously unheard of in rock & roll. And that self-conscious sense of theater is part of the reason why Ziggy Stardust sounds so foreign. Bowie succeeds not in spite of his pretensions but because of them, and Ziggy Stardust -- familiar in structure, but alien in performance -- is the first time his vision and execution met in such a grand, sweeping fashion.
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