{"id":5306,"date":"2016-12-15T13:19:57","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T18:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/?p=5306"},"modified":"2017-01-20T15:17:10","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T20:17:10","slug":"david-bowie-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/david-bowie-legacy\/","title":{"rendered":"David Bowie <br>Legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/bowie-legacy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5307\" src=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/bowie-legacy.jpg\" alt=\"David Bowie, Legacy\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/bowie-legacy.jpg 250w, https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/bowie-legacy-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>After David Bowie passed away in January, <i>Nothing Has Changed<\/i> jumped to number five on the U.K. charts and number 57 on <i>Billboard\u2019s<\/i> Top 200. Believe it or not, some people didn\u2019t own much, if any, of Bowie\u2019s music. Maybe they were just exercising nostalgia, or maybe they were under the age of 35 and the moment of his death was the most exposure they\u2019d had to Bowie in their lives. Either way, this brings us to <i>Legacy<\/i> (Sony Legacy Recordings), a sort of definitive, budget-priced, final summation of his career.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no way a two-CD compilation could comprehensively or satisfactorily celebrate the 50-year career of the world\u2019s greatest, art-rock superstar. Even <i>Nothing Has Changed<\/i>, a three-CD set issued just more than a year before his death, was unable to take into account all of his hits and best work. <i>Legacy<\/i> has 19 fewer tracks with which to work, so there\u2019s no trace of <i>Never Let Me Down<\/i> (considered by many the artistic low point of his career) or <i>The Buddha of Suburbia<\/i> (the soundtrack he did for a 1993 BBC television serial), while the majority of his records are represented by only one track each. On the other hand, you have to respect the set\u2019s dedication to showing all sides of the artist. One could easily argue for leaving out \u201cSorrow\u201d in favor of \u201cSuffragette City\u201d or \u201cJohn, I\u2019m Only Dancing,\u201d but even <i>Pin-Ups<\/i> gets its moment in the sun. Let\u2019s put it this way: if you\u2019re a Bowie devotee, one of your top five favorites has been left out. That\u2019s okay, though. If you\u2019re a Bowie devotee, this set isn\u2019t meant for you.<\/p>\n<p>When I was 15 years old, all I had was <i>Changes<\/i>, and that was enough to rearrange my brain. For the next 25 years, I collected everything Bowie released as he continued to change my mind. I wonder how a young person will approach these 40 tracks. Will they treat the songs from <i>Heathen<\/i> with as much reverence as the ones from <i>Aladdin Sane<\/i>? I can only hope that they\u2019ll find \u201cGolden Years\u201d compelling enough to lead them to the rest of <i>Station to Station<\/i>. I\u2019m sad that my journey with Bowie is over, but it\u2019s thrilling to imagine the surprises in store for any curious newcomer who presses play on \u201cSpace Oddity\u201d and listens closely all the way to the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After David Bowie passed away in January, <i>Nothing Has Changed<\/i> jumped to number five on the U.K. charts and number 57 on <i>Billboard\u2019s<\/i> Top 200<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[245,1444,1853],"class_list":["post-5306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-past-perfect","tag-david-bowie","tag-past-perfect","tag-sony-legacy-recordings"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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