{"id":25033,"date":"2024-07-22T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=25033"},"modified":"2024-07-20T20:59:13","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T20:59:13","slug":"david-bowie-self-titled-deram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=25033","title":{"rendered":"David Bowie – ‘Self Titled’ (Deram)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bowie\u2019s debut album gets a vibrant revival on\u00a0Deram<\/strong>\u00a0with a reissue on both CD and coloured vinyl, boasting exclusive tracklists and keeping with the reissued Bowie records as of late this comes with a wonderful tri gatefold CD and equally nice gatefold LP. This version is Presented with the single B-sides for the very first time on vinyl, including a rare version of\u00a0‘Space Oddity’<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Originally released on 1st<\/sup>\u00a0June 1966\u00a0Bowie was an artist bursting with ideas that would later prove to be the work of something of a genius, very much the epicentre of uber cool and Swinging London.\u00a0sure Critics of the time commented; with the NME praising Bowie\u2019s fresh sound as \u201call very refreshing\u201d and hailing him as \u201ca very promising talent.\u201d Melody Maker lauds the album as \u201ca singularly rewarding collection\u201d with \u201cexcellent\u201d production while expressing surprise that Bowie hadn\u2019t yet made a bigger impact on the pop scene. Meanwhile, Disc & Music Echo raves about the album, describing it as \u201ca remarkable, creative debut album by a 19-year-old Londoner\u201d and declaring Bowie as \u201ca new talent that deserves attention.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This re-issue features the original stereo album, produced by Mike Vernon, with a further fourteen tracks, including the first fruits of Bowie\u2019s long relationship with producer Tony Visconti; \u2018Let Me Sleep Beside You\u2019, \u2018Karma Man\u2019 \u2018In The Heat Of The Morning\u2019 and \u2018London Bye Ta-Ta\u2019, the last making its vinyl debut in this collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looking back on his debut album many years later with characteristic self-deprecation, Bowie<\/strong> mused: \u201cLyrically I guess it was striving to be something \u2013 the short story teller. Musically it\u2019s quite bizarre. I don\u2019t know where I was at. It seemed to have its roots all over the place, in rock and vaudeville and music hall and I don\u2019t know what. I didn\u2019t know if I was Max Miller or Elvis Presley.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These early recordings reveal an earnest young artist at the dawn of his career, working hard on material in which he passionately believed. David Bowie poured his young heart into this music \u2013 and it shows. Looking back it often sounds foppish like the opening track and Bowies own comments about Max Miller or Elvis showed the sound wasn’t lost on him either and he never lost sight of who he was and never took himself too seriously (ok Glass Spider apart) It’s great to have this album in pristine condition and its integral part in Bowies story that an essential part of how he evolved and where he came from. My collection is now complete and so should yours. This might not be as accomplished as his recent record store day release but the Bowie archive has to be almost drained. Buy it if only for ‘Space Oddity’ that closes off this window in time. Awesome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Author: Dom Daley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bowie\u2019s debut album gets a vibrant revival on\u00a0Deram\u00a0with a reissue on both CD and coloured vinyl, boasting exclusive tracklists and keeping with the reissued Bowie records as of late this comes with a wonderful tri gatefold CD and equally nice gatefold LP. This version is Presented with the single B-sides for the very first time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25034,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[251,1787,1818,1681,1680,3761,1701,2052],"class_list":["post-25033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-david-bowie","tag-its-a-revolution","tag-new-album","tag-rpmnews1","tag-rpmonline","tag-savage-gringo","tag-tcb","tag-vinyl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25033"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25036,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25033\/revisions\/25036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}