8x Digital Media
Loving the Alien (1983–1988)
Compilation by David Bowie
Tracklist
- Digital Media 1
- 1Modern Love4:484.4 ★
- 2China Girl5:334.2 ★
- 3Let’s Dance7:374.4 ★
- 4Without You3:093.0 ★
- 5Ricochet5:133.6 ★
- 6Criminal World4:253.8 ★
- 7Cat People (Putting Out Fire)5:093.8 ★
- 8Shake It3:523.0 ★
- Digital Media 2
- 1Look Back in Anger (live ’83)3:07
- 2“Heroes” (live ’83)4:53
- 3What in the World (live ’83)3:44
- 4Golden Years (live ’83)3:32
- 5Fashion (live ’83)2:43
- 6Let’s Dance (live ’83)4:34
- 7Breaking Glass (live ’83)3:00
- 8Life on Mars? (live ’83)4:07
- 9Sorrow (live ’83)2:49
- 10Cat People (Putting Out Fire) (live ’83)4:20
- 11China Girl (live ’83)5:27
- 12Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) (live ’83)3:42
- 13Rebel Rebel (live ’83)2:24
- 14White Light / White Heat (live ’83)5:36
- 15Station to Station (live ’83)8:58
- 16Cracked Actor (live ’83)3:58
- 17Ashes to Ashes (live ’83)3:51
- 18Space Oddity / Band Introduction (live ’83)6:32
- 19Young Americans (live ’83)5:25
- 20Fame (live ’83)5:36
- 21Modern Love (live ’83)3:55
- Digital Media 3
- 1Loving the Alien7:134.5 ★
- 2Don’t Look Down4:113.8 ★
- 3God Only Knows3:093.2 ★
- 4Tonight3:453.8 ★
- 5Neighborhood Threat3:123.5 ★
- 6Blue Jean3:123.7 ★
- 7Tumble and Twirl4:593.2 ★
- 8I Keep Forgettin’2:353.2 ★
- 9Dancing With the Big Boys3:343.2 ★
- Digital Media 4
- 1Day‐in Day‐out5:393.9 ★
- 2Time Will Crawl4:204.0 ★
- 3Beat of Your Drum5:062.8 ★
- 4Never Let Me Down4:053.0 ★
- 5Zeroes5:473.2 ★
- 6Glass Spider5:342.8 ★
- 7Shining Star (Makin’ My Love)5:062.8 ★
- 8New York’s in Love4:352.5 ★
- 9’87 and Cry4:223.0 ★
- 10Bang Bang4:303.4 ★
- Digital Media 5
- 1Day-in Day-out5:26
- 2Time Will Crawl4:26
- 3Beat of Your Drum5:27
- 4Never Let Me Down4:263.0 ★
- 5Zeroes5:06
- 6Glass Spider6:53
- 7Shining Star (Makin’ My Love)5:32
- 8New York’s in Love4:33
- 9’87 and Cry4:25
- 10Bang Bang4:42
- Digital Media 6
- 1Up the Hill Backwards (live Montreal ’87)3:51
- 2Glass Spider (live Montreal ’87)5:55
- 3Day‐in Day‐out (live Montreal ’87)4:34
- 4Bang Bang (live Montreal ’87)4:02
- 5Absolute Beginners (live Montreal ’87)7:08
- 6Loving the Alien (live Montreal ’87)7:14
- 7China Girl (live Montreal ’87)4:55
- 8Rebel Rebel (live Montreal ’87)3:30
- 9Fashion (live Montreal ’87)5:04
- 10Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) (live Montreal ’87)4:52
- 11All the Madmen (live Montreal ’87)6:39
- 12Never Let Me Down (live Montreal ’87)3:56
- 13Big Brother (live Montreal ’87)4:47
- 14’87 and Cry (live Montreal ’87)4:07
- 15“heroes” (live Montreal ’87)5:10
- 16Sons of the Silent Age (live Montreal ’87)3:10
- 17Time Will Crawl / Band Introduction (live Montreal ’87)5:23
- 18Young Americans (live Montreal ’87)5:06
- 19Beat of Your Drum (live Montreal ’87)4:37
- 20The Jean Genie (live Montreal ’87)5:23
- 21Let’s Dance (live Montreal ’87)5:01
- 22Fame (live Montreal ’87)7:05
- 23Time (live Montreal ’87)5:11
- 24Blue Jean (live Montreal ’87)3:26
- 25Modern Love (live Montreal ’87)4:53
- Digital Media 7
- 1Shake It (Long remix)5:22
- 2Blue Jean (extended dance mix)5:20
- 3Dancing With the Big Boys (extended dance mix)7:31
- 4Tonight (vocal dance mix)4:31
- 5Don’t Look Down (extended dance mix)4:55
- 6Loving the Alien (extended dub mix)7:15
- 7Tumble and Twirl (extended dance mix)5:05
- 8Underground (extended dance mix)7:54
- 9Day‐in Day‐out (Groucho mix)6:28
- 10Time Will Crawl (Dance Crew mix)5:34
- 11Shining Star (12” mix)6:28
- 12Never Let Me Down (dub / a cappella)6:02
- Digital Media 8
- 1Let’s Dance4:104.0 ★
- 2China Girl4:174.1 ★
- 3Modern Love3:594.0 ★
- 4This Is Not America (The Theme From ’The Falcon and the Snowman’)David Bowie & Pat Metheny Group3:51
- 5Loving the Alien (remix)4:43
- 6Don’t Look Down (remix)4:06
- 7Dancing in the Street (Clearmountain mix)David Bowie & Mick Jagger3:113.4 ★
- 8Absolute Beginners8:043.6 ★
- 9That’s Motivation4:19
- 10Volare3:16
- 11Labyrinth Opening Titles / Underground3:204.0 ★
- 12Magic Dance4:14
- 13As the World Falls Down4:51
- 14Within You3:29
- 15Underground5:574.5 ★
- 16When the Wind Blows3:35
- 17Day‐in Day‐out4:14
- 18Julie3:43
- 19Beat of Your Drum (Vinyl album edit)4:34
- 20Glass Spider (Vinyl album edit)4:56
- 21Shining Star (Makin’ My Love) (Vinyl album edit)4:06
- 22New York’s in Love (Vinyl album edit)3:59
- 23’87 and Cry (Vinyl album edit)3:55
- 24Bang Bang (Vinyl album edit)4:02
- 25Time Will Crawl4:03
- 26Girls (extended edit)5:34
- 27Never Let Me Down (7” remix)3:59
- 28Bang Bang (Live promotional mix)4:07
- 29Tonight (live)Tina Turner & David Bowie4:19
- 30Let’s Dance (live)Tina Turner & David Bowie3:25
More by David Bowie
Release credits
- background vocals [15]
- drums (drum set) [1, 4-25]
- producer [7-9]
- guitar [15]
- assistant [7.5-6, 8.6]
- assistant [4.1-10, 8.17-26]
- baritone saxophone [8]
- additional [15]
- arranger [8.15, 7.8], conductor [1, 3, 9], producer [7.8, 8.11-15], strings [1, 3, 9], synthesizer [3.1-5, 3.5, 3.7, 3.9, 7.7]
- additional [3], remixer [3]
- bass [4]
- background vocals [15]
- engineer [8.1-3, 8.7, 1.1-8], mix [8.1-4, 8.7, 8.17-26, 8.28, 2.1-20, 6.1, 6.4-25, 4.1-10, 1.1-8], sound [3]
- electric bass guitar [29-30]
- alto saxophone [15]
- keyboard [11]
- additional [4, 7], background vocals [6, 9], cuatro [3.7, 7.7], guitar [3.1-9, 7.7, 8.18, 8.26, 4.1-10, 6.1, 6.4-25, 2.1-21]
- bass [8.3, 1.1-3, 1.5-8, 2.1-21], electric bass guitar [6.1, 6.4-25, 3.1, 3.3-4, 3.6-7, 3.9, 7.7]
- background vocals [15]
- assistant [11], recording [11]
- remixer [10]
- background vocals [15]
- producer [7-9]
- chimes [9], congas [4, 7], percussion [8.26, 4.1-10], rhythm sticks [4, 6], wood block [4]
- background vocals [7.7, 3.1-8]
- guitar [12-13]
- background vocals [15]
- assistant [1-8]
- Moog [6], acoustic guitar [1-21], arranger [8.15, 7.8], assistant [8.1-3, 1.1-8], background vocals [4.1-2, 4.4-7, 4.9, 8.8, 8.10-13, 8.15, 8.15-16, 8.18, 8.26], guitar [6.1, 6.4-25, 4.8-9], harmonica [4], horn [1, 3, 5, 8], keyboard [8.18, 8.26, 4.1-8, 4.10], lead vocals [7.7, 4.1-10, 8.1-3, 8.7-13, 8.15-16, 8.18, 8.26, 1.1-8, 3.1-9], mellotron [6], mix [7.11, 3.1-9], percussion [9], performer [29-30], phonographic copyright [1.2-4, 1.6-8, 8.1, 8.3, 8.8, 8.18, 4.4, 3.4, 3.6-7, 3.9], producer [7.1-12, 3.1-9, 4.1-10, 8.1-8, 8.10-28, 1.1-8, 5.1-10, 6.1, 6.4-25, 2.1-21], synthesizer [4], vocal [2.1-21, 6.1, 6.4-25, 8.4, 8.14, 8.16, 8.29-30]
- additional [9], keyboard [9]
- alto saxophone [7.12, 8.27]
- keyboard [11]
- keyboard [1-21]
- assistant [4.1-10, 8.17-26], engineer [16, 18], mix [11], producer [8.16-27, 7.9-12, 4.1-10, 5.1-10]
- background vocals [1.1-8, 8.3]
- guitar [3, 6-7, 10]
- analog synthesizer [1, 1-2, 2, 9], bass [1-2], electric bass guitar [3.4, 3.6-7, 3.9, 7.7], guitar [1-2, 4, 6, 8-9], keyboard [7.7, 3.1, 3.3, 3.7, 3.9], piano [2], producer [3.1-9, 7.2-7, 8.5-6], synthesizer [1-2, 2, 4-5, 9]
- background vocals [4.1-3, 4.5-10, 8.12, 8.18, 8.26]
- baritone saxophone [8], solo [8], tenor saxophone [9]
- trumpet [4.1, 4.3, 4.5, 4.10, 8.26]
- guitar [2.1-21, 8.7]
- assistant [8.15, 7.8]
- bass [4.1-3, 4.5-10, 8.10, 8.16, 8.18, 8.26], bongos [10], congas [8.16, 6.1, 6.4-25], drums (drum set) [4.1-7, 4.7-10, 8.10, 8.16, 8.18, 8.26], guitar [10, 16], handclaps [10], horn [16], instrument [16], keyboard [6.1, 6.4-25, 8.10, 8.16, 8.18, 8.26, 4.1-3, 4.6-10], marimba [10], organ [7-8], producer [10], sampler [8.16, 8.18, 8.26, 4.1, 4.1-2, 4.2-3, 4.3, 4.5, 4.5-7, 4.7-8, 4.8-9, 4.9-10, 4.10], strings [16], synthesizer [8.16, 8.18, 8.26, 4.1-3, 4.5-10], trumpet [1, 4-25], violin [6.1, 6.4-25, 4.10]
- assistant [1-10]
- background vocals [15]
- background vocals [12, 15]
- background vocals [2.1-21, 1.1-8, 8.3]
- guitar [7]
- cello [3-4, 10]
- background vocals [15]
- tenor saxophone [8]
- background vocals [2.1-21, 8.3, 1.1-8, 3.1-6, 3.8-9], vocal [7.7, 3.7]
- horn [9]
- background vocals [4.1-3, 4.5-10, 8.18, 8.26]
- baritone saxophone [8]
- assistant [1-10]
- strings [2]
- marimba [3.1, 3.3-4, 3.6-9, 7.7]
- drums (drum set) [11], membranophone [11]
- background vocals [7]
- engineer [7.2-7, 3.1-9, 8.5-6], mix [1-9], producer [3.1-9, 8.5-6, 7.2-7]
- lead vocals [9]
- assistant [7]
- drums (drum set) [29-30]
- background vocals [15]
- guitar [29-30], vocal [29-30]
- guitar [29-30], vocal [29-30]
- background vocals [8]
- mix [21]
- engineer [3]
- guitar [13]
- remixer [2]
- mix [12, 15]
- executive [11]
- percussion [7]
- percussion [7]
- electric bass guitar [7]
- assistant [4.1-10, 8.17-26]
- assistant [4.1-10, 8.17-26]
- piano [29-30], vocal [29-30]
- guitar [7-9]
- violin [2]
- background vocals [4.1-3, 4.5-10, 8.18, 8.26]
- violin [3-4, 10]
- spoken vocals [7]
- baritone saxophone [7], clarinet [9], horn [1-21], tenor saxophone [3.1-3, 3.6-9, 4.1-3, 4.5, 4.9-10, 7.7, 8.7, 8.26]
- mix [13-14], recording [12-14]
- background vocals [15]
- percussion [8-9]
- piano [4], synthesizer [4]
- trumpet [1.1, 1.3, 1.5, 1.8, 8.3, 8.7]
- additional [4.1-10, 8.17-26], engineer [18]
- background vocals [15]
- mix [11], recording [11]
- background vocals [15]
- mix [1-10], percussion [1, 3-5, 7-10], producer [1-10], recording [1-10]
- flugelhorn [9], trumpet [3.1-3, 3.6-9, 7.7]
- engineer [7-8]
- viola [2]
- assistant [11]
- background vocals [15]
- cello [2]
- bass [8-9], electric bass guitar [7]
- additional [8.7, 7.8], engineer [4, 7], remixer [7.5-6, 7.8, 8.5-6]
- assistant [12-14], mix [13], recording [7.8, 8.15]
- additional [7], lead vocals [7]
- guest [7], lead vocals [7]
- viola [3-4, 10]
- drums (drum set) [7-9]
- guitar [13-15]
- strings [3-4, 10]
- additional [7], assistant [8.1-3, 1.1-8], guitar [1.1-8, 8.3], horn [1, 3, 5, 8], mix [21], producer [7.1, 8.1-3, 1.1-8]
- drums (drum set) [3.1-9, 7.7, 1.1-3, 8.3]
- acoustic guitar [4], electric guitar [4], guitar synthesizer [4], producer [4]
- remixer [9]
- tenor saxophone [8]
- drums (drum set) [4], percussion [4]
- bass [11], bass guitar [11]
- percussion [7]
- electric sitar [5, 10], guitar [4.2-3, 4.5-10, 8.18, 8.26, 6.1, 6.4-25]
- assistant [7.8, 8.12, 8.15]
- keyboard [2], piano [4.1, 4.3, 4.5, 4.8-10, 8.26]
- guitar [11]
- acoustic guitar [5, 9], guitar [1, 3-10]
- background vocals [15]
- keyboard [1, 4-25], saxophone [1, 4-25]
- assistant [7]
- Hammond organ [15], piano [15]
- piano [8]
- violin [3-4, 10]
- Hammond organ [3], analog synthesizer [4, 8], keyboard [1.2-8, 8.3], organ [8], piano [1]
- synthesizer [1, 3]
- arranger [7.8, 8.12-13, 8.15], guitar [15], keyboard [12-15], programming [12-14], synthesizer [12-15, 15]
- flute [3], tenor saxophone [8.3, 1.1, 1.3, 1.5, 1.8]
- violin [2]
- additional [13], background vocals [13]
- background vocals [3.1-5, 3.7-9, 4.1-3, 4.5-10, 8.18, 8.26, 7.7]
- congas [7.7, 3.1, 3.3, 3.7, 3.9, 1.3-5, 1.8], percussion [1.2, 8.3, 3.4-5], tambourine [1.3, 3.8], wood block [3.1-3, 3.7, 1.3, 1.7-8, 7.7]
- guitar [1-2, 10]
- synclavier [11]
- additional [8.27, 7.12], synthesizer [8.27, 7.12]
- alto saxophone [8.7, 8.26, 4.1-3, 4.5, 4.10, 3.1-3, 3.6-9, 7.7], flute [3], horn [1-21], tenor saxophone [3.9, 1.1, 1.3, 1.5, 1.8, 8.3, 8.7]
- engineer [7]
- drums (drum set) [1-5, 7-10]
- assistant [7]
- background vocals [9], baritone saxophone [3.1-3, 3.6-9, 1.1, 1.3, 1.5, 1.8, 4.1-3, 4.5, 4.9-10, 8.3, 8.26, 7.7], flute [3], horn [1-21]
- drums (drum set) [12-15], percussion [14-15]
- additional [7.12, 8.27], engineer [8.27, 7.12], keyboard [7.12, 8.27]
- keyboard [7-9], piano [8-9]
- acoustic bass guitar [4], electric bass guitar [4]
- additional [8.6-7, 7.4-8], remixer [8.5-6, 7.4-8]
- bass [6], drums (drum set) [6-7]
- guitar [8.1-3, 1.2-8], solo [1-2]
- producer [29-30]
- background vocals [7]
- horn [7.7, 3.1-3, 3.6-9]
- background vocals [5]
- keyboard [29-30], percussion [29-30], performing orchestra [29-30], saxophone [29-30]
- bass [1, 3-5, 7, 9-10]
- lead vocals [4], performer [30], vocal [29-30]
- drums (drum set) [2.1-21, 1.4-8]
- arranger [11], conductor [11], keyboard [11], orchestrator [11], producer [11]
- background vocals [12], bass [12-13, 15]
- tenor saxophone [8]
Issues
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L8x Digital Media12 October 2018
L8x Digital Media12 October 2018






