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David Bowie's Low (33 1/3 Series)
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LENGTH3 hrs and 31 mins
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RELEASE DATE11-18-08
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Program TypeAudiobook
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Publisher's Summary
Hugo Wilcken is Paris-based, Australian-born writer and translator. His first novel, The Execution, was published to critical acclaim by HarperCollins in 2002. His next, Colony, was published in 2006.
33 1/3 is a new series of short books about critically acclaimed and much-loved albums of the last 40 years. Focusing on one album rather than an artist's entire output, the books dispense with the standard biographical background that fans know already, and cut to the heart of the music on each album. The authors provide fresh, original perspectives - often through their access to and relationships with the key figures involved in the recording of these albums. By turns obsessive, passionate, creative, and informed, the books in this series demonstrate many different ways of writing about music. (A task which can be, as Elvis Costello famously observed, as tricky as dancing about architecture.) What binds this series together, and what brings it to life, is that all of the authors - musicians, scholars, and writers - are deeply in love with the album they have chosen.
Rock on: listen to more of the 33 1/3 series.
©2005 Hugo Wilcken; (P)2008 Audible, Inc.
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What Members Say
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"even if ur just a little curious about Bowie"
Part of Bowie's wild Berlin Trilogy, Low is a great David Bowie album. It's the sonic experimentation equivalent to experiencing (second hand) schizophrenia, paranoia, moodiness, and lots of death and drugs. What's not to like?
Info on Iggy Pop and Brian Eno are contained here, too, so if you are into them, check out this audiobook.
This is one of the most dense and meticulously-written of the 33 1/3 series that Audible carries.
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"Ample Background Info"
This book covers not only the making of "Low" but also contains a considerable amount of information on Iggy Pop's "The Idiot," as well as the Bowie albums that preceded and followed "Low," being "Station to Station" and "Heroes." The real value of the book is not so much analysis of the music of "Low" (actually I thought Wilcken was surprisingly bland and uninsightful when pedantically describing individual tracks on the album) but in the real-life stories about Bowie's days of excess in L.A. and the difficult period of transition during the making of his "Berlin Trilogy." Naturally, the book will also be of interest to followers of Brian Eno's serpentine career. A thoroughly enjoyable listen ... I don't believe any one "perfect" book about this important recording could be written, but Wilcken's is enjoyable, informative, and intelligent.
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"Great analysis, wonderful writing"
I'm not a fan of this type of music (though I am a Bowie fan), Wilcken provided wonderful background, history and insight. And he is a marvelous writer. Made me appreciate an album I've always overlooked.
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"An interesting essay on an intriguing album"
If you could sum up David Bowie's Low (33 1/3 Series) in three words, what would they be?An interesting analysis.
What did you like best about this story?The little tidbits that I didn't know about, in spite of the many Bowie-related books I've read to this day.
What does Victor Bevine bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?It's great to be able to listen to this book while walking as an exercise and Victor Bevine has an excellent voice.
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?No.
Any additional comments?I would just like to add that I find it rather annoying when the narrator keeps saying
1 of 1 people found this review helpful