Hansa by the Wall Night!: David Bowie- Low (1977), "Heroes" (1977) and Lodger (1979)- EAC SHM-CD Rip (FLAC)

Here's Low (*sigh*), "Heroes", and the red-headed stepchild of the three, Lodger. All in SHM-CD! All born in Berlin.




"Low was a reaction to having gone through that peculiar... that dull greeny-grey limelight of America and its repercussions; pulling myself out of it and getting to Europe and saying “For God's sake re-evaluate why you wanted to get into this in the first place? Did you really do it just to clown around in LA? Retire. What you need is to look at yourself a bit more accurately. Find some people you don't understand and a place you don't want to be and just put yourself into it. Force yourself to buy your own groceries."
- David Bowie




Low Technical Information:

Artist: David Bowie
Album: Low
Year: 1977

Audio Codec(s): FLAC
Encoding: Lossless
Rip: EAC SHM-CD Rip, split tracks
Avg. bitrate: 835 kb/s
Sample rate: 44100 Hz
Bits per sample: 16
Channels: 2
File size: 231 MB
Length: 0:38:48


Tracklisting:

01. Speed of Life (2:47)
02. Breaking Glass (1:53)
03. What in the World (2:23)
04. Sound and Vision (3:03)
05. Always Crashing in the Same Car (3:34)
06. Be My Wife (2:57)
07. A New Career in a New Town (2:53)
08. Warszawa (6:24)
09. Art Decade (3:47)
10. Weeping Wall (3:28)
11. Subterraneans (5:39)


Low Megaupload Link




"The situation that sparked off the whole thing was - I thought - highly ironic. There's a wall by the studio - the album having been recorded at Hansa by the Wall in West Berlin - about there. It's about twenty or thirty meters away from the studio and the control room looks out onto it. There's a turret on top of the wall where the guards sit and during the course of lunch break every day, a boy and girl would meet out there and carry on. They were obviously having an affair.

And I thought of all the places to meet in Berlin, why pick a bench underneath a guard turret on the wall? They'd come from different directions and always meet there... Oh, they were both from the west, but they had always met right there. And I - using license - presumed that they were feeling somewhat guilty about this affair and so they had imposed this restriction on themselves, thereby giving themselves an excuse for their heroic act. I used this as a basis... therefore it is ironic."
- David Bowie




"Heroes" Technical Information:

Artist: David Bowie
Album: "Heroes"
Year: 1977

Audio Codec(s): FLAC
Encoding: Lossless
Rip: SHM-CD Rip, EAC split tracks
Avg. bitrate: 850 kb/s
Sample rate: 44100 Hz
Bits per sample: 16
Channels: 2
File size: 246 MB
Length: 0:40:36


Tracklisting:

01. Beauty and the Beast (3:36)
02. Joe the Lion (3:07)
03. "Heroes" (6:10)
04. Sons of the Silent Age (3:19)
05. Blackout (3:49)
06. V-2 Schneider (3:11)
07. Sense of Doubt (3:57)
08. Moss Garden (5:05)
09. Neukoln (4:35)
10. The Secret Life of Arabia (3:45)


"Heroes" Megaupload Link




"I think Tony and I would both agree that we didn't take enough care mixing. This had a lot to do with my being distracted by personal events in my life and I think Tony lost heart a little because it never came together as easily as both Low and Heroes had. I would still maintain though that there are a number of really important ideas on Lodger. If I had more e time I would explore them for you…but…you can probably pick them out as easily.

[...]I think it's the lack of instrumentals that give you the impression that our process was different. It really wasn't though. It was a lot more mischievous though. Brian and I did play a number of 'art pranks' on the band. They really didn't go down too well though. Especially with Carlos who tends to be quite 'grand'."
- David Bowie




Lodger Technical Information:

Artist: David Bowie
Album: Lodger
Year: 1979

Audio Codec(s): FLAC
Encoding: Lossless
Rip: SHM-CD Rip, EAC split tracks
Avg. bitrate: 887 kb/s
Sample rate: 44100 Hz
Bits per sample: 16
Channels: 2
File size: 223 MB
Length: 0:35:12


Tracklisting:

01. Fantastic Voyage (2:59)
02. African Night Flight (2:59)
03. Move On (3:21)
04. Yassassin (Turkish for: Long Live) (4:14)
05. Red Sails (3:47)
06. D.J. (4:02)
07. Look Back in Anger (3:10)
08. Boys Keep Swinging (3:20)
09. Repetition (3:01)
10. Red Money (4:18)


Lodger Megaupload Link

Hansa by the Wall Night!: Christian Davies- David Bowie Under Review 1976 to 1979: The Berlin Trilogy (2006)- DVD5 (NTSC Format)

We're on a jag again, so bear with us. We've been working on an epic "Berlin Week" that's going to consist of loads and loads of Fassbinder, rare Nazi UFA films und docs (still needing to find English subs), cool Ich bin Berliner muzak, and Die Brücke und Der Blau Reiter art...that is, if L&S and I don't end up murdering each other over the definition of a "high resolution image". Then something creepy stopped us in our tracks...

The disembodied voice of the Patron Saint of this site (Beck) whispered in my ear "Hansa-By-the-Wall is in Berlin, leclisse. Why don't you post a U2 album. You know...Zootropia!"

Ewwwwwwwwwwww!!! NEVER! Here's the beginning of Hansa by the Wall Night! It's a lead-up to Berlin Week. Enjoy!




From Matt Fink at Paste Magazine:

As he’s now over 25 years removed from his artistic peak, it’s easy to forget just how much of a commercial and creative powerhouse David Bowie was in the ’70s—and just how daring and unprecedented his self-imposed exile to Berlin was. Using that premise as a starting point, The Berlin Trilogy calls on a series of music journalists and Bowie contemporaries to explore the mythology surrounding his most experimental period, one that inspired a full flowering of his flirtation with ambient minimalism and the German avant-garde over the course of three albums. Along the way, we’re reminded that 1977’s now-classic Low was once regarded as commercial poison by his record label, a disaster by critics, and hardly music at all by some fans. The DVD exposes common myths—that Brian Eno presided over and produced the albums—but the film largely maintains a scholarly tone, tracing Bowie’s influences through Phillip Glass and Kraftwerk and spotting his fingerprints on world music that emerged in the ’80s. Those wondering why Bowie is regarded as a visionary need look no further.




Technical Information:

Title: David Bowie Under Review 1976 to 1979: The Berlin Trilogy
Year: 2006
Country: U.K.
Director: Christian Davies

Source: DVD5 Retail
DVD Format: NTSC
Container: VIDEO_TS
Size: 4.19 Gb
Length: 1:25:16
Programs used: Unknown

Resolution: 720x480
Aspect Ratio: 4:3
Video: MPEG-2 @ ~5800 kb/s
Frame Rate: 29.97 fps

Audio: English- Dolby AC3 Stereo @ 192 KB/S
Subtitles: None

Menu: Yes
Video: Untouched
DVD Extras: None on source




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David Bowie Under Review Megaupload Links

David Bowie- Station to Station Extravaganza: Analogue Master (1976) and Singles Versions EP (1976)- CD Rip (FLAC)

Station to Station needs to be looked at with some historical perspective. It had been over three years since Aladdin Sane, and Bowie's drug use was literally killing him (I'll post the BBC doc Cracked Actor in the near future to show how bad it was), and to top it off, what little life in him was completely spent in the making of The Man Who Fell to Earth.

But, like most great artists, rock bottom became a recipe for a masterpiece. And in a self-induced haze of Lou Reed-ic (?) proportions, Bowie donned the mask of The Thin White Duke and produced Station to Station.

The only way I can describe the beauty of this album properly is to recount a surreal event: About six years ago I was shopping in my local ghetto-of-a-99-Cent-Store. As I walked down the aisle looking for bargains, Golden Years began to be piped through the ghetto 99 Cent Store sound system, and as I looked around, everywhere I looked, and whatever age or color of people I looked at, everyone seemed to forget what they were doing, and got completely lost in the song.

That's Station to Station. This is from the analogue master tapes. Enjoy! And Happy Holidays!




From Benjamin Aspray at PopMatters:

In Nicholas Roeg’s The Man Who Fell to Earth, David Bowie plays a reticent, eccentric billionaire who happens to be an alien from outer space. A still from the film provides the cover art for Bowie’s 1976 Station to Station, which EMI just re-released as a 3-CD Special Edition and 5-CD/DVD plus 3-LP Deluxe Edition. The still comes from a scene where the alien leads Rip Torn into a spaceship he’s developed. Torn, playing the top scientist of Bowie’s World Enterprises Corporation, immediately dismisses the vessel’s capacity for cosmic travel. Bowie is taken aback, but presses on. “Do you trust me?,” he asks, as the two approach a glowing orb, presumably the ship’s power source. Torn responds frankly, “I want to.” It reads as Torn being unsettled and defensive, but onscreen, it’s Bowie who’s more vulnerable. Torn quips jokingly, “Per ardua ad astra,” which Bowie doesn’t recognize as the Royal Air Force’s Latin motto—after claiming to have been born in Britain.

It’s a poignant moment, not only for Bowie’s fish-out-of-water character, but also for the fish-out-of-water artist himself. His rise to prominence came only after rolling through a mini-Rolodex of alter-egos in the late sixties and early seventies, and even when he found one that suited him—an extraterrestrial rock star, gaining a name on Ziggy Stardust then another on Aladdin Sane—it was an identity in crisis. Besides being a prototype for the Man Who Fell to Earth character, right down to his carrot-top mop, this role embodied a sort of psychedelic unease. He filled glam rock shoes without feeling comfortable in them, lacking the cocksure virility of similar personas like Mick Jagger and Marc Bolan. Perhaps he was simply restless, but neither costume nor genre remained static very long for Bowie.

No album in his repertoire embodies this unrest more than Station to Station. Preceding the beloved pop art of his so-called Berlin Trilogy and following the spotty “plastic soul” experiment of Young Americans (which itself was an escape from a glam rock well run dry), it is Bowie’s Revolver: a show of versatility that seized his best songwriting before his style became turned from composite to cohesive. It’s no mere transitional refuse, the way throwaway tracks from Space Oddity and Diamond Dogs are. After assembling an almost miraculously talented ensemble of studio rockers, the former Ziggy Stardust—now the fascist-chic Thin White Duke—snorted a boatload of cocaine and made a modern masterpiece.




If Station to Station boils a career down to an album, then “Station to Station” boils an album down to a song. Starting from a spare, foreboding two-note piano dirge, it builds to rapturous R&B as the Duke attempts to fill an emotional void with stimulants. The change of tempo halfway through is one of the great moments of rock history. Who didn’t lose their shit when they first heard the kit kick in right before the lament, “Once there were mountains on mountains / And once there were sunbirds to soar with / And once I could never be down”? It was every bit as devastating as “Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide”, only it chose catharsis over forlorn abandon. It also prophesied the future: By roping in the spookiness of dub and the dissonance of Krautrock, and streamlining them for maximum theater, he basically invented post-punk before punk was even over.

Then there were “Golden Years” and “Stay”, Bowie’s final attempts at straight-up black music. The former begs an imagined lover to join him—on the dancefloor, or in bed, it’s unclear—for fear that if she doesn’t, his transient high spirits will run out. Hi-hats tap away as the refrain of “Golden years” desperately denies that these years are anything but. “Stay”, meanwhile, is more Funkadelic than outright funk, poised as it is between melodrama and space jam. “Stay / That’s what I meant to say or do something,” the Duke insists. “But what I never say is stay this time.” His brittle croon is a battered shell of “Golden Years”’ silky-smoothness, as if the charade has finally given away to despair. That Bowie could, within the mode of soul, represent two connected but distinct psychic states, reflects something too often overlooked by the cliché of Bowie-as-musical-chameleon: his formidable artistic depth.




“Golden Years” was a top ten single on both sides of the Atlantic, and continues to get radio play. Bowie’s ballads, meanwhile, were and continue to be polarizing. Young Americans was nimble enough, and had enough flagrant nods to the Beatles for rockists to overlook its tawdry LA sound. “Words on a Wing” and “Wild Is the Wind”, though, were irreconcilable. Their loss. While Hunky Dory, especially “Life on Mars?” and “Changes”, proved Bowie could do camp, “Words on a Wing” is camp in the truest sense of the word, as defined by Susan Sontag: it’s so androgynous, so maudlin and triumphant, so passionately earnest, that it rises above fulsomeness and achieves genuine beauty. “Wild Is the Wind” does the same, silencing all doubts that this scrawny, wan Brit could really sing, by covering the Nina Simone version, not the Johnny Mathis.

But nothing tops “TVC15”. Like the melodica at the start of “Golden Years”, the saloon piano leading into “TVC15” promises yet another genre exercise, but it isn’t long before classification is futile. (Although I do like Robert Christgau’s noble attempt when he claimed it combined “Lou Reed, disco, and Huey Smith.”) Squealing guitars pulsate behind Bowie at his most delightfully affected, as he yelps the nightmarish tale of a carnivorous television. Structurally, the track—which, at five-and-a-half minutes, is modest for the album—sashays from Motown to spaghetti Western gallop, ends at musical theater and starts over again without the slightest fragmentation. It all converges as a sort of post-Phil Spector Wall of Sound, prefiguring the three albums that followed: Low, “Heroes”, and Lodger, otherwise known as the Berlin trilogy.




Analogue Master Technical Information:

Artist: David Bowie
Album: Station to Station (Analogue Master)
Year: 1976

Audio Codec(s): FLAC
Encoding: Lossless
Rip: split tracks
Avg. bitrate: 865 kb/s
Sample rate: 44100 Hz
Bits per sample: 16
Channels: 2
File size: 236 MB
Length: 0:38:15


Personnel:

David Bowie: vocals, guitar, tenor and alto saxophone, Moog synthesizer, Mellotron
Carlos Alomar: guitar
Roy Bittan: piano
Dennis Davis: drums
George Murray: bass
Warren Peace: backing vocals
Earl Slick: guitar


Tracklisting:

01. Station to Station (10:14)
02. Golden Years (4:03)
03. Word on a Wing (6:04)
04. TVC15 (5:34)
05. Stay (6:16)
06. Wild is the Wind (6:05)


Station to Station (Analogue Master) Megaupload Link




Singles Versions EP Technical Information:

Artist: David Bowie
Album: Station to Station (Singles Versions EP)
Year: 1976

Audio Codec(s): FLAC
Encoding: Lossless
Rip: split tracks
Avg. bitrate: 932 kb/s
Sample rate: 44100 Hz
Bits per sample: 16
Channels: 2
File size: 115 MB
Length: 0:17:21


Tracklisting:

01. Golden Years (Single Version) (3:30)
02. TVC15 (Single Edit) (3:34)
03. Stay (Single Edit) (3:23)
04. Word on a Wing (Single Edit) (3:14)
05. Station to Station (Single Edit) (3:41)


Station to Station (Singles Versions EP) Megaupload Link

David Bowie- Vampires of Human Flesh: Scary Monsters Demos (1980)- CD Rip (FLAC)

So much Bowie and such little time...

Here's another excellent Bowie bootleg of demos that chronicle the progression of tracks from Scary Monsters. Keep in mind that this album has the sickest lineup an artist could ever want: Dennis Davis, George Murray, Carlos Alomar, Adrian Belew...and even Roy Bittan on keyboards. I want to say the "F" word right about now, but I won't. All I'm saying is that it's one fucking sick lineup. Enjoy!




From the liner notes:

"Scary Monsters and Super Creeps" was recorded in two sessions at the Power Station N.Y.C. in less than six weeks and was produced by Tony Visconti. All tracks were already in David's mind, only the lyrics were changed at the last moment. 'Fashion' was originally called 'Jamaica', 'It's No Game' us derived from 'Tired of My Life', a song written when he was sixteen years of age! 'Ashes to Ashes' was 'People Are Turning to Gold', 'Teenage Wildlife' used to be 'It Happens Every Day'.

'Up the Hill Backwards' was originally entitled 'Cameras In Brooklyn', 'Scream Like a Baby' was 'Laser', a song written at the time he was working with the 'Astronettes'.

Another track recorded during these sessions was The Cream's 'I Feel Free'. This track was often performed in the early 70ties, recorded for this album, but ultimately dropped (this unreleased version remains unheard, when Ryko released all David's albums on CD, this track was promised for release again, but dropped at the last minute for obvious reasons. David recorded a new version for the 'Black Tie White Noise' album). 'Fuje San Moto' became 'Crystal Japan', an instrumental track used for a Japanese commercial. Finally there's: 'Is There Life After Marriage', yet another instrumental track you can hear on this CD for the first time ever!




Technical Information:

Artist: David Bowie
Album: Vampires of Human Flesh (Scary Monsters Demos)
Year: 1980

Audio Codec(s): FLAC
Encoding: Lossless
Rip: split tracks
Avg. bitrate: 900 kb/s
Sample rate: 44100 Hz
Bits per sample: 16
Channels: 2
File size: 282 MBLength: 0:43:51


Personnel:

David Bowie: vocals and keyboards
Pete Townshend: guitar
Michi Hirota: Japanese narrator
Carlos Alomar: guitar
Robert Fripp: guitar
George Murray: bass
Dennis Davis: drums and percussion
Roy Bittan: piano
Tony Visconti: guitar and backing vocals
Andy Clark: synthesizer


Tracklisting:

01.Scream Like A Baby (3:21)
02.Because You're Young (4:55)
03.Kingdom Come (4:00)
04.Up The Hill Backwards (3:24)
05.It's No Game (3:56)
06.Is There Life After Marriage? (4:38)
07.Up The Hill Backwards (3:18)
08.Teenage Wildlife (7:10)
09.Kingdom Come (3:59)
10.Scary Monsters (5:11)





Vampires of Human Flesh Megaupload Link

David Bowie- The Essential David Bowie Extravaganza: Volumes 1 thru 3 (1967-1972)- EAC CD Rip (FLAC)

I haven't even had a chance to sit down and listen to this (what looks to be amazing) bootleg, and since this is extravaganza territory, and any Bowie is good Bowie, I've decided to post it first, and do a proper blurb later. Wayyyyyyyyy later. Enjoy some early Bowie!




From the original uploader:

For anyone who thinks that the "Shout To The Top" 4CD set of "The Rise And Rise of Ziggy Stardust" is the shit when it comes to Bowie's BBC-sessions, think again. These three silver disc bootlegs have been produced directly from the master tapes compiled in preparation for the aborted "Bowie at the BEEB" 3CD-set set to be released on the NMC-label in the mid-nineties. The STTP-discs simply took these recordings, replete with all clicks, pops and sector boundary errors, and then boosted them by 5db... In this torrent you can find the original recordings, with most clicks & pops and all SBE's carefully removed and with no unnecessary "hard limiting". As a bonus, the discs contain a set of demo & studio recordings from 1967-1969 which have been doing the rounds on numberous bootleg CD compilations but nowhere sound as clean as they do here (they are seemingly taken directly from the master tape also used for the vinyl bootleg album, "Little Toy Soldier").

This comes with full scans of the artwork.
Enjoy!




Volume 1 Technical Information:

Artist: David Bowie
Album: The Essential David Bowie- Volume 1- Emerged From Shadows
Year: 1967-1972

Audio Codec(s): FLAC
Encoding: Lossless
Rip: EAC split tracks + md5
Avg. bitrate: 641 kb/s
Sample rate: 44100 Hz
Bits per sample: 16
Channels: 2
File size: 273 MB
Length: 0:59:39


Tracklisting:

1967-12-18: Top Gear (Broadcast 1967-12-24 and 1968-01-28):

 01. Love You 'till Tuesday (3:01)
02. When I Live My Dream (3:38)
03. Little Bombardier (3:30)
04. Silly Boy Blue (3:28)
05. In The Heat Of The Morning (2:40)

1968-05-13: Top Gear (Broadcast 1968-05-26 and 1968-06-20):

06. When I'm Five (3:05)

1967-1969: various home demo & studio recordings:

07. Right On Mother (1968 demo) (2:43)
08. He Was Alright (a song for Marc) (full length 1968 demo) (3:56)
09. Waiting For The Man (1967 studio recording) (4:07)
10. Little Toy Soldier (1967 studio recording) (3:19)
11. Space Oddity (1969 demo) (4:50)
12. The Supermen (1969 demo) (3:03)

1972-05-16: Sound Of The Seventies: John Peel (Broadcast 1972-05-23):

13. White Light/White Heat (3:46)
14. Moonage Daydream (4:56)
15. Hang Onto Yourself (2:45)
16. Suffragette City (3:26)
17. Ziggy Stardust (3:19)

Thanks to the great people at MindWarpPavilion for the original upload!


Volume 1 Megaupload Link




Volume 2 Technical Information:

Artist: David Bowie
Album: The Essential David Bowie- Volume 2- Kiss the Viper's Fang
Year: 1969-1972

Audio Codec(s): FLAC
Encoding: Lossless
Rip: EAC split tracks + md5
Avg. bitrate: 398 kb/s
Sample rate: 44100 Hz
Bits per sample: 16
Channels: 2
File size: 211 MB
Length: 1:14:26


Tracklisting:

1969-10-20: Dave Lee Travis Show (Broadcast 1969-10-20):

01. Unwashed & Somewhat Slightly Dazed (3:54)
02. Let Me Sleep Beside You (3:19)
03. Janine (3:02)

1970-03-25: Sound Of The Seventies: Andy Ferris (Broadcast 70-04-06; repeat 70-05-11 on the David Symonds Show):

04. Waiting For The Man (5:43)
05. The Width Of A Circle (5:37)
06. The Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud (4:45)

1971-06-03: The Sunday Concert: John Peel (Broadcast 71-06-20):

07. Queen Bitch (4:37)
08. Bombers (3:22)
09. The Supermen (3:10)
10. Looking For A Friend (3:38)
11. Almost Grown (2:44)
12. Kooks (3:35)
13. Song For Bob Dylan (5:25)
14. Andy Warhol (3:49)
15. It Ain't Easy (2:57)

1972-05-22: Johnny Walker Lunchtime Show:

16. Starman (Broadcast 1972-06-06/07/08/09) (4:04)
17. Space Oddity (4:15)
18. Changes (3:28)
19. Oh! You Pretty Things (Broadcast 1972-06-05) (2:56)

Thanks to the great people at MindWarpPavilion for the original upload!


Volume 2 Megaupload Link




Volume 3 Technical Information:

Artist: David Bowie
Album: The Essential David Bowie- Volume 3- Nobody's Children
Year: 1971-1972

Audio Codec(s): FLAC
Encoding: Lossless
Rip: EAC split tracks + md5
Avg. bitrate: 598 kb/s
Sample rate: 44100 Hz
Bits per sample: 16
Channels: 2
File size: 290 MB
Length: 1:07:54


Tracklisting:

1972-05-23: Sound Of The Seventies: Bob Harris (Broadcast 1972-06-19):

01. Andy Warhol (3:12)
02. Lady Stardust (3:19)
03. White Light/White Heat (3:56)
04. Rock'n'Roll Suicide (3:08)

1971-09-21: Sound Of The Seventies: Bob Harris (Broadcast 1971-10-04):

05. The Supermen (2:50)
06. Oh! You Pretty Things/Eight Line Poem (6:08)
07. Kooks (3:23)
08. Fill Your Heart (2:52)
09. Amsterdam (3:07)
10. Andy Warhol (2:56)

1972-01-18: Sound Of The Seventies: Bob Harris (Broadcast 1972-02-07):

11. Hang Onto Yourself (2:49)
12. Ziggy Stardust (3:20)
13. Waiting For The Man (5:08)
14. Queen Bitch (2:57)
15. Five Years (3:38)

1972-01-11: Sounds Of The Seventies: John Peel (Broadcast 1972-01-28):

16. Ziggy Stardust (3:19)
17. Queen Bitch (3:00)
18. Waiting For The Man (5:27)
19. Lady Stardust (3:17)

Thanks to the great people at MindWarpPavilion for the original upload!


Volume 3 Megaupload Link