Five Years 1969–1973

Compilation by David Bowie

Released 25 September 2015

Tracklist

  • CD 1: David Bowie a.k.a. Space Oddity
  • 1
    Space Oddity
    4.2 ★
  • 2
    Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed
    3.6 ★
  • 3
    Letter to Hermione
    3.5 ★
  • 4
    Cygnet Committee
    4.0 ★
  • 5
    Janine
    2.8 ★
  • 6
    An Occasional Dream
    3.6 ★
  • 7
    The Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud
    3.6 ★
  • 8
    God Knows I’m Good
    3.2 ★
  • 9
    Memory of a Free Festival
    4.0 ★
  • CD 2: The Man Who Sold the World
  • 1
    The Width of a Circle
    3.6 ★
  • 2
    All the Madmen
    3.6 ★
  • 3
    Black Country Rock
    3.2 ★
  • 4
    After All
    3.4 ★
  • 5
    Running Gun Blues
    3.2 ★
  • 6
    Saviour Machine
    3.6 ★
  • 7
    She Shook Me Cold
    2.8 ★
  • 8
    The Man Who Sold the World
    4.4 ★
  • 9
    The Supermen
    3.5 ★
  • CD 3: Hunky Dory
  • 1
    Changes
    4.5 ★
  • 2
    Oh! You Pretty Things
    4.2 ★
  • 3
    Eight Line Poem
    3.3 ★
  • 4
    Life on Mars?
    4.4 ★
  • 5
    Kooks
    3.7 ★
  • 6
    Quicksand
    3.8 ★
  • 7
    Fill Your Heart
    3.1 ★
  • 8
    Andy Warhol
    2.9 ★
  • 9
    Song for Bob Dylan
    3.9 ★
  • 10
    Queen Bitch
    3.8 ★
  • 11
    The Bewlay Brothers
    4.3 ★
  • CD 4: The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
  • 1
    Five Years
    4.6 ★
  • 2
    Soul Love
    4.0 ★
  • 3
    Moonage Daydream
    4.1 ★
  • 4
    Starman
    4.4 ★
  • 5
    It Ain’t Easy
    4.3 ★
  • 6
    Lady Stardust
    4.5 ★
  • 7
    Star
    4.0 ★
  • 8
    Hang On to Yourself
    4.1 ★
  • 9
    Ziggy Stardust
    4.5 ★
  • 10
    Suffragette City
    4.2 ★
  • 11
    Rock ’n’ Roll Suicide
    3.9 ★
  • CD 5: Aladdin Sane
  • 1
    Watch That Man
    3.8 ★
  • 2
    Aladdin Sane (1913–1938–197?)
    3.6 ★
  • 3
    Drive‐In Saturday
    3.9 ★
  • 4
    Panic in Detroit
    3.5 ★
  • 5
    Cracked Actor
    3.9 ★
  • 6
    Time
    4.1 ★
  • 7
    The Prettiest Star
    3.4 ★
  • 8
    Let’s Spend the Night Together
    3.9 ★
  • 9
    The Jean Genie
    4.1 ★
  • 10
    Lady Grinning Soul
    4.0 ★
  • CD 6: Pinups
  • 1
    Rosalyn
    3.5 ★
  • 2
    Here Comes the Night
    3.5 ★
  • 3
    I Wish You Would
    3.2 ★
  • 4
    See Emily Play
    3.6 ★
  • 5
    Everything’s All Right
    3.2 ★
  • 6
    I Can’t Explain
    3.4 ★
  • 7
    Friday on My Mind
    3.9 ★
  • 8
    Sorrow
    3.9 ★
  • 9
    Don’t Bring Me Down
    3.2 ★
  • 10
    Shapes of Things
    3.5 ★
  • 11
    Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere
    3.5 ★
  • 12
    Where Have All the Good Times Gone
    3.0 ★
  • CD 7: Live Santa Monica ’72
  • 1
    Introduction
    1.7 ★
  • 2
    Hang On to Yourself
    3.0 ★
  • 3
    Ziggy Stardust
    3.6 ★
  • 4
    Changes
    3.4 ★
  • 5
    The Supermen
    2.6 ★
  • 6
    Life on Mars?
    3.4 ★
  • 7
    Five Years
    5.0 ★
  • 8
    Space Oddity
    3.6 ★
  • 9
    Andy Warhol
    2.4 ★
  • 10
    My Death
    3.4 ★
  • 11
    The Width of a Circle
    3.0 ★
  • 12
    Queen Bitch
    3.4 ★
  • 13
    Moonage Daydream
    3.0 ★
  • 14
    John, I’m Only Dancing
    3.4 ★
  • 15
    Waiting for the Man
    3.4 ★
  • 16
    The Jean Genie
    3.0 ★
  • 17
    Suffragette City
    3.0 ★
  • 18
    Rock ’n’ Roll Suicide
    2.6 ★
  • CD 8: Ziggy Stardust: The Motion Picture Soundtrack
  • 1
    Introduction
    2.0 ★
  • 2
    Hang On to Yourself
    4.0 ★
  • 3
    Ziggy Stardust
    4.0 ★
  • 4
    Watch That Man
    3.6 ★
  • 5
    Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud
    3.4 ★
  • 6
    All the Young Dudes
    3.4 ★
  • 7
    Oh! You Pretty Things
    3.0 ★
  • 8
    Moonage Daydream
    3.4 ★
  • 9
    Changes
    3.6 ★
  • 10
    Space Oddity
    3.6 ★
  • 11
    My Death
    5.0 ★
  • CD 9: Ziggy Stardust: The Motion Picture Soundtrack
  • 1
    Introduction
    2.0 ★
  • 2
    Cracked Actor
    3.4 ★
  • 3
    Time
    3.6 ★
  • 4
    Width of a Circle
    3.5 ★
  • 5
    Let’s Spend the Night Together
    4.0 ★
  • 6
    Suffragette City
    3.4 ★
  • 7
    White Light/White Heat
    4.0 ★
  • 8
    Farewell Speech
    2.4 ★
  • 9
    Rock ’n’ Roll Suicide
    2.6 ★
  • CD 10: The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars (2003 mix)
  • 1
    Five Years
    4:43
    3.5 ★
  • 2
    Soul Love
    3:33
    3.0 ★
  • 3
    Moonage Daydream
    4:39
    3.5 ★
  • 4
    Starman
    4:10
    4.0 ★
  • 5
    It Ain’t Easy
    2:59
    4.0 ★
  • 6
    Lady Stardust
    3:21
    4.0 ★
  • 7
    Star
    2:46
    3.5 ★
  • 8
    Hang On to Yourself
    2:38
    3.5 ★
  • 9
    Ziggy Stardust
    3:13
    4.0 ★
  • 10
    Suffragette City
    3:25
    3.5 ★
  • 11
    Rock ’n’ Roll Suicide
    2:58
    4.0 ★
  • CD 11: Re:Call 1
  • 1
    Space Oddity (original UK mono single edit)
    4:42
    4.5 ★
  • 2
    Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud (original UK mono single version)
    4:52
    4.0 ★
  • 3
    Ragazzo solo, ragazza sola
    5:06
    3.5 ★
  • 4
    The Prettiest Star (original mono single version)
    3:13
    4.5 ★
  • 5
    Conversation Piece (mono version)
    3:07
    4.5 ★
  • 6
    Memory of a Free Festival, Part 1
    4:03
    3.5 ★
  • 7
    Memory of a Free Festival, Part 2
    3:34
    4.0 ★
  • 8
    All the Madmen (mono single edit)
    3:15
    4.0 ★
  • 9
    Janine (mono version)
    3:23
    3.0 ★
  • 10
    Holy Holy (original mono single version)
    3:13
    3.0 ★
  • 11
    Moonage Daydream (single version)
    The Arnold Corns
    3:53
    4.0 ★
  • 12
    Hang On to Yourself (single version)
    The Arnold Corns
    2:52
    3.4 ★
  • CD 12: Re:Call 1
  • 1
    Changes (mono single version)
    3:39
    5.0 ★
  • 2
    Andy Warhol (mono single version)
    3:07
    3.0 ★
  • 3
    Starman (original single mix)
    4:17
    4.6 ★
  • 4
    John, I’m Only Dancing (original single version)
    2:47
    5.0 ★
  • 5
    The Jean Genie (original single mix)
    4:08
    3.5 ★
  • 6
    Drive‐In Saturday (German single edit)
    4:03
    4.0 ★
  • 7
    Round and Round
    2:42
    3.0 ★
  • 8
    John, I’m Only Dancing (sax version)
    2:45
    5.0 ★
  • 9
    Time (U.S. single edit)
    3:43
    3.6 ★
  • 10
    Amsterdam
    3:27
    3.0 ★
  • 11
    Holy Holy (Spiders version)
    2:18
    3.0 ★
  • 12
    Velvet Goldmine
    3:10
    4.1 ★

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Release credits

  • electric guitar [10]
  • spoken vocals [1, 17]
  • performing orchestra [1, 4-7]
  • drums (drum set) [10]
  • engineer [1.2-9, 11.1, 11.5]
  • engineer [1-18]
  • engineer [1-18]
  • background vocals [11.6-7, 1.9]
  • producer [3]
  • background vocals [5]
  • 12 string guitar [3.5-6, 3.8-11, 2.1, 2.3-6, 2.8-9, 11.6-7, 4.1-6, 4.8-10, 1.1, 1.7], Dubreq Stylophone [1], acoustic guitar [10.11, 5.6], arranger [6.8, 5.1-10, 4.1-11, 1.1-9, 10.11, 11.1-3, 11.5, 11.9, 12.3, 12.5-7, 12.9, 12.12], assistant [12.1-2, 3.2, 3.4, 3.11], background vocals [2.2, 2.8, 3.1, 3.6, 4.2-3, 4.6-10, 11.6-7, 1.1, 1.9], guitar [5.9, 11.2, 11.4-5, 11.10-12, 12.4-5, 12.7-8, 12.11-12], handclaps [1.1, 4.2, 4.4, 4.8, 3.2, 3.8], harmonica [12.5, 5.5, 2.5], lead vocals [4.1-11, 12.4-5, 12.7-8, 12.10-12, 1.1-3, 1.5-6, 10.11, 3.1-11, 11.2, 11.6-7, 11.10-12, 5.5-6, 5.9, 2.1-9, 7.2-6, 7.8-18], organ [6-7], piano [2-3, 11], producer [6.1-12, 12.3-12, 8.1-11, 4.1-11, 11.11-12, 3.1, 3.3, 3.5-10, 9.1-9, 10.11, 5.1-10], recorder [3], saxophone [10.11, 2.4, 12.4, 12.12, 3.1, 3.7, 4.2-3], spoken vocals [2.2, 3.8, 7.14], vocal [11.4-5, 11.11-12, 1.4, 1.7-9]
  • engineer [1-12]
  • recording [8], sound [1-11]
  • sound [1-9]
  • engineer [8], sound [1-9]
  • drums (drum set) [4]
  • mix [1-18]
  • producer [11.1-3, 1.1]
  • bass [1.1, 11.10], producer [10]
  • drums (drum set) [1.4, 1.7, 11.5-7], percussion [7]
  • bass [5], bass guitar [4]
  • background vocals [1, 4, 10]
  • 12 string guitar [4]
  • saxophone [5.9, 12.8]
  • engineer [11.8, 5.1-10, 8.5-7, 12.5-12], mix [10.1-11, 3.2, 2.8, 5.1-10, 12.1-2, 12.5-12], producer [3.1-11, 4.1-11, 12.1-3, 12.5-12, 6.1-12, 5.1-10, 10.11], recording [9.1-9, 8.1-11, 4.8, 3.1-11], remixer [1, 4-6, 9-11], sound [2.1-9, 11.12], spoken vocals [8], synthesizer [8]
  • background vocals [1, 4]
  • violin [4]
  • engineer [1.2-9, 11.3, 11.5]
  • background vocals [1.9, 11.6-7], guitar [4]
  • conductor [6-7]
  • acoustic guitar [12], electric guitar [12], guitar [11-12]
  • violin [3]
  • acoustic guitar [4.4, 4.11, 3.6, 3.8-9], arranger [10.11, 6.8, 12.3, 12.5-7, 12.9, 12.12, 5.1-10, 4.1-11], autoharp [1], background vocals [11.6-7, 2.1-6, 2.8-9, 3.1-2, 3.5-6, 3.8-11, 5.6, 4.1-11, 10.11, 12.12], conductor [4], electric guitar [3.1-5, 3.10, 2.1-9, 4.1-5, 4.7-11, 5.5-6, 10.11, 11.6-7], flute [2], guitar [12.4-5, 12.7-8, 12.10-12, 5.7, 5.9, 3.11], handclaps [4.8, 3.2, 3.8], instrument arranger [7], mellotron [4], mix [5.1-10, 12.5], percussion [8], piano [12.11, 10.11, 4.1, 4.3-4, 4.6-7, 4.10], strings [1, 4-6, 8], synthesizer [10]
  • electric guitar [1], guitar [1.4, 11.5]
  • drums (drum set) [2.1-9, 3.1-2, 3.4-7, 3.9-10, 12.4-5, 12.7-8, 12.11-12, 5.5-6, 5.9, 7.2-6, 7.8-18, 10.11, 4.1-11], güiro [8], percussion [2.8, 4.2], shakers [9], tambourine [2.3, 2.5, 4.6], timbales [1, 5, 9]
  • keyboard [2-6, 8-18], piano [5-6, 9]
  • engineer [5]
  • engineer [5.1-10, 12.5-6], recording [1-18]
  • arranger [1.1, 11.1-3], cello [1.1, 11.2], double bass [2]
  • mix [1-11]
  • bass [11-12], bass guitar [12]
  • Moog [2.2, 2.4-6, 2.8, 11.6-7]
  • producer [1-18]
  • harpsichord [4.5, 1.4], mellotron [1], piano [1, 4-7, 9]
  • background vocals [6-7]
  • drums (drum set) [1]
  • drums (drum set) [11-12], tambourine [12]
  • guitar [4]
  • arranger [1.2-9, 11.4-5, 11.9], bass [4], bass guitar [11.6-7, 1.7], electric bass guitar [1-9], mix [9.1-9, 8.1-5, 8.5-6, 8.6-7, 8.7-11], piano [3], producer [1.2-9, 2.1-9, 11.4-9], recorder [2, 4], remixer [2.1-9, 11.8]
  • background vocals [1.9, 11.6-7]
  • bass [5.5-6, 5.9, 12.4-5, 12.7-8, 12.11], bass guitar [10.11, 4.1-11, 7.2-6, 7.8-18, 12.12, 3.1-2, 3.4-7, 3.9-10], trumpet [5]
  • mix [3]
  • background vocals [1, 4], percussion [4]

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