OK, here I am again, making alternate versions. Before we star I think a few words of explanation are in order. Instead of Adam's original rule to use Ryko bonus tracks as replacements. Instead I've based these lists on what tracks were available at the time (thus I could not use Absolute Beginners on Tonight, no matter how hard I wanted to ). Anyway, the results look like this:
Hunky Dory
1. Changes 2. Oh! You Pretty Things 3. Eight Line Poem 4. Life On Mars? 5. Kooks 6. The Superman 7. Fill Your Heart 8. Holy Holy 9. Velvet Goldmine 10. Andy Warhol 11. The Bewlay Brothers
Ziggy Stardust
1. Five Years 2. Soul Love 3. Moonage Daydream 4. Starman 5. Lady Stardust 6. Star 7. Sweet Head 8. Hang Onto Yourself 9. Ziggy Stardust 10. Suffragette City 11. My Death
Aladdin Sane
1. Aladdin Sane 2. Drive In Saturday 3. Panic In Detroit 4. All the Young Dudes 5. Time 6. John I'm Only Dancing (Sax mix) 7. Cracked Actor 8. Let's Spend The Night Together 9. The Prettiest Star 10. Lady Grinning Soul
Diamond Dogs
1. Future Legend 2. Diamond Dogs 3. Sweet Thing 4. Candidate 5. Sweet Thing (reprise) 6. Dodo 7. Candidate (demo) 8. We Are The Dead 9. 1984 10. Big Brother 11. Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family
Lodger
1. Fantastic Voyage 2. African Night Flight 3. Move On 4. Yassassin 5. I Pray, Olé 6. Red Sails 7. D.J. 8. Look Back In Anger 9. Boy Keeps Swinging 10. Red Money
Note: After a long study, I have concluded that even though Repetition is an excellent song, the album works much better without it, so that Red Money can be given enough space so that it can end the album.
Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)
1. Up The Hill Backwards 2. Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) 3. Ashes To Ashes 4. Fashion 5. Alabama Song 6. Teenage Wildlife 7. Scream Like A Baby (demo) 8. Kingdom Come 9. Because You're Young 10. It's No Game (Part 2)
Note: The demo of Scream Like A Baby can be heard on the bootleg Glamour. IMO it is superior to the albums version, with it's more upfront guitar.
Let's Dance
1. Cat People (original version) 2. China Girl 3. Let's Dance 4. Modern Love 5. Without You 6. Ricochet 7. Criminal World 8. Cet People
Tonight
1. Loving The Alien 2. Don't Look Down 3. God Only Knows 4. Tonight 5. Neighbourhood Threat 6. Blue Jean 7. Tumble And Twirl 8. Dancing With The Big Boys (extended dance mix)
Note: Yes, one was supposed to keep the original number of tracks in these new versions per Adam's original rules, but as the DWTBB dence mix is over twice as long as the normal version, I decided to omit both the original DWTBB as well as I Keep Forgettin'.
Never Let Me Down
1. Glass Spider 2. Shining Star (Makin' My Love) 3. New York's In Love 4. '87 And Cry 5. Bang Bang 6. Beat Of Your Drum 7. Never Let Me Down 8. Zeroes 9. Time Will Crawl 10. When The Wind Blows 11. When The Wind Blows (instrumental)
Note: It is actually totally incidental that the A-side on my version is identical to the B-side on post-1987 releases of this album.
Black Tie White Noise
1. The Wedding 2. You've Been Around 3. I Feel Free 4. Black Tie White Noise 5. Jump They Say 6. Nite Flights 7. Pallas Athena 8. Miracle Goodnight 9. Lucy Can't Dance 10. Looking For Lester 11. I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday 12. The Wedding Song
Hours...
1. Survive (Marius de Vries mix) 2. Something In The Air 3. (Safe In This) Skylife 4. If I'm Dreaming My Life 5. Seven (Beck mix) 6. What's Really Happening 7. The Pretty Things Are Going To Hell 8. New Angels Of Promise 9. Brilliant Adventure 10. The Dreamers
Note: I've never heard the 1998 version of Safe (naturally), but judging from the Heathen version, I'm quite positive it was better than the cringeworthy Thursday's Child.
Heathen
1. Sunday 2. Cactus 3. Slow Burn 4. Afraid 5. Conversation Piece 6. I've Been Waiting For You 7. I Would Be Your Slave 8. I Took A Trip On A Gemini Spacecraft 9. 5:15 The Angels Have Gone 10. Everyone Says 'Hi' 11. A Better Future 12. Heathen (The Rays)
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