David Bowie – Changesbowie (1990)

I do tend to avoid buying compilations, but on seeing this for 99p in a charity shop, it was always coming home with me. It's a selection of Bowie's UK singles (an incomplete selection) from 1969 - 1985, his most commercially successful period for hit singles. It was released in 1990, as a replacement for the long deleted compilations ChangesOneBowie and ChangesTwoBowie, as a double LP, and this CD version is that double, with three tracks left off to fit it to a CD.

There are no surprises here, just wall to wall hits. Most of yours and my favourites (since you asked, Changes, Rebel Rebel, Golden Years, Heroes and Let's Dance stand out), as well as a couple I'm frankly lukewarm about. I've never warmed to Space Oddity, nor its follow up Ashes To Ashes, and the Iggy Pop co-write China Girl is OK at best. And Blue Jean is throwaway.

The omissions of Starman, Life On Mars, Sound And Vision and Boys Keep Swinging is a bit of a puzzle, but doesn't stop this being a fine collection of the Bowie heyday hits.

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4* - a fine collection of the Think White Duke's hits