Release Date: 7/16/2002
Recording Date: 7/2002
Tracks: 23
Length: 00:19:21 Hrs
Label: Virgin
Type: CD
- Genre/Styles
- Singer/Songwriter, Hard Rock, Prog-Rock/Art Rock, Glam Rock, Pop/Rock, Proto-Punk, Album Rock
Album Tracks (23)
Currently 0.0 / 5.0 Stars
To share this media with a friend, you must have AIM installed. Click the "Download AIM" button to install AIM. If you already have AIM, click the "Send Instant Message"
What the Critics Say
It's beautifully packaged, designed as a hardcover book, filled with full-color photos (many by Mick Rock, whose limited-edition book with Bowie, Moonage Daydream: The Life and Times of Ziggy Stardust, is sold with an insert), nice liner notes, and two individual sleeves for each disc in the collection. It's beautifully remastered, sounding perhaps even better than the Virgin reissue of 2000, while all the bonus material on the second disc sounds the best it ever has been (since it has still be only available on CD as bonus tracks on the Rykodisc editions). It's beautiful music, whether it's the seminal proper album, or the assortment of demos, early versions, B-sides, and outtakes on the B-sides, nearly all as good as what was on the album. In other words, the 30th Anniversary Edition of The Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars is a lovely collectors piece, something that will surely please the legions of dedicated fans of Bowie and Ziggy who will easily pay for a lavish reissue like this. Those on a tighter budget, however, shouldn't despair, since even though this is an excellent reissue, all the essential music was already available on the initial Ryko edition of Ziggy, or other reissues they released, and if that's already part of your collection, you'll be as satisfied with that as you would be with this. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide
5/28/2008 9:02 PM
The "Classic Rock Album of the Decade", Bowie was coming into his own in the great, great album. Harder Rock was to come, and experiemental later on. I highly suggest this CD should be on every "Classic Rock" fans collection. This album spawned an army of Punk Bands, and more. a lad insane...