David Bowie - Fame 90 -CDM- (c) 1990 Rykodisc
Artist....: David Bowie
Album.....: Fame 90
Type......: Maxi
Source....: CDDA
Tracks....: 05
Genre.....: Rock
Label.....: Rykodisc
Catalogue#: RCD5 1018
Encoder...: LAME 3.97
Quality...: VBR kbps / 44.1KHz / Joint-Stereo
URL.......: http://www.discogs.com/release/199267
Tracklist:
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01 Fame 90 (With Queen Latifah) 04:10
02 Fame 90 (House Mix) 06:00
03 Fame 90 (Gass Mix) 03:41
04 Fame 90 (Hip Hop Mix) 06:01
05 Fame 90 (Absolutely Nothing Premeditated, Epic Mix) 14:26
Total:49,9 MB / 34:18 min
Release Notes:
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Note: Previous releases of this title were only 2 track single versions
- this is the full 5 track Maxi CD.
It's remake/remodel time for everyone's favorite stardust monster, and,
boy, is this a helluva funky slab of good stuff. On the one hand,
prompted by the use of the remixed "Fame" in the movie Pretty Woman,
and on the other hand prompted by the Sound + Vision series of Bowie
re-releases from Ryko, this CD-5 is thunderous proof that not only is
Bowie still viable, but if you treat an old song the right way, it'll
come up seeming amazingly fresh all over again, and just about blow
away everything else around it. When you consider that one of the
people involved with the recording of this song was John Lennon, and
not by the use of samplers or old demo tapes, it comes close to raising
the old eyebrows. But, you wonder, is it worth all the numerous
versions? Well, actually, yes. After all, if constant remakes and
rethinks can be considered perfectly normal for classical and jazz
music, why not rock? Here the exercise is redeemed 100 percent by the
presence of a monster titled Absolutely Nothing Premeditated/Epic Mix
(absent from the British version released by EMI), which travels a
variety of routes for almost 15 minutes as remixer David Barratt stands
the track on its head, among other things, and tosses in odd little
sound bites at unexpected moments. The song gets dismembered in the
wildest ways and stuck back together in even wilder ones, and is tons
of fun all the way through. Sad to say, there aren't many monster
remixes you can say that about. You also get the rap version with Queen
Latifah, which isn't too bad as these things go (if you want truly
stupid rap remixes, try the one on Ofra Haza's "Ya Ba Ye" CD-5), plus
the House Mix by Arthur Baker, the Jon Gass mix, which is the most
faithful of the lot, and the Hip Hop Mix, which is the dullest of the
lot. Overall, though, this is worth checking out. The Jon Gass remix
also pops up on the Ryko edition of Changesbowie.