Bowie yeah yeah yeah yeah!

simply - best of bowie up to 1990...from late 60's to late 80's....all of Bowie's best songs ("Sound and vision","tvc 15","ziggy stardust","let's dance","fashion") on two discs.enjoyable and great mix of what is best in his career...it is good colelction because after 1990 he started to play Industrial-metal stuff (check out "earthlings" too) and that style would not fit into this album.
A must have double album!

Dang... it's hard to put all of Bowie's best stuff on 2 cd's

Lots of great songs here (37 in all). "The Singles Collection" from 1993 covers most of his major radio hits from the 1970's thru the early 90's (tho he really didn't do much in the early 90's). Bowie has so many albums to draw material from... that it's almost not fair to put his career 'only' on 2 cd's. There are many Bowie compilations... the most easily found are probably "ChangesBowie" from 1990, or 2002's "Best Of Bowie". Every song on "ChangesBowie" you will find on this "Singles Collection", so you won't need both. While "ChangesBowie" has only the major hits, the "Singles Collection" gives you the major hits plus another 19 songs - some major, some not. "Singles" grabs 2-3 songs each from his classic albums - "Rise & Fall Of Ziggy Stardust", "Aladdin Sane", "Young Americans", "Heroes", "Station To Station", etc. How do you classify Bowie - he's touched on so many genres of music... from rock & pop, to glam, folk, new wave, electronica & dance, R&B, etc. Like every 'greatest hits' package, there will be hits & misses. There are a few Bowie tunes here that are subpar in my book ("Knock On Wood", "Beauty & The Beast", "Boys Keep Swinging", "Alabama Song" and "Wild Is The Wind")... and I feel there are several tunes that could have easily taken their place ("The Man Who Sold The World", "Moonage Daydream", "Cat People (Putting Out Fire)". "All The Young Dudes", Aladdin Sane's "Panic In Detroit" or "Watch That Man", "Time Will Crawl", Low's "Speed Of Life" or "Breaking Glass"). Bowie teamed up with Brian Eno on 3 albums and the one I really felt was unequalled was "Low"... and this "Singles Collection" only features one tune from "Low" ("Sound & Vision")... too bad. In the liner notes there are some nice pictures of David Bowie - past & present. The liner notes contain all the song lyrics and the producer of each song. It would have been great to know which albums these songs were taken from, the year they were recorded, and/or maybe some history or personal thoughts for each. While Bowie for me has always been an album experience, this collection serves as a wonderful place to start if you're just getting into the artist; or you just want some of his better stuff on 2 cd's. If you want to try any of his studio albums first, any of the above mentioned albums would work, especially the remastered versions of "Ziggy Stardust", "Aladdin Sane", or "Station To Station". ** Also - note that his friend Peter Gabriel took the cover photo.

Very Worthwhile!

For a Bowie collection, this was pretty complete for its time (which was everything prior to the "Never Let me Down" album). As a point of fact, there are some songs here that make this a better set the "Best Of Bowie" double set from 2002! For instance, "John I'm Only Dancing" is here. And to make it even more attractive, many of the songs that got trimmed down to their single size are here in their full album splendor. The cover booklet also has excellent pictures and complete song lyrics. If you don't mind the sound quality of a 1993 issued CD, this is worth the purchase.