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David Bowie / Outside to be issued on 2LP white vinyl in its entirety

By Paul Sinclair

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David Bowie‘s 1995 album Outside will be issued in full, across two white vinyl records this November.

US label Friday Music are to issue the double vinyl set in a tri-fold sleeve to coincide with the shopping extravaganza that is Black Friday. An edited version with the moniker Excerpts From Outside has been the only vinyl version available in the last 20 years – it omits several tracks and has edits of others.

Outside spawned three UK top 40 singles back in the day, including The Hearts Filthy Lesson, a re-recorded Strangers When We Meet (originally on the Buddha of Suburbia album) and Hallo Spaceboy (reworked in 45 form by the Pet Shop Boys).

Despite a release date that coincides with US Record Store Day, no queuing up is necessary, since this you can pre-order online now, from the Official Friday Music Store, where there is other coloured Bowie vinyl available. Note, these ship from the US.

Outside on double white vinyl is released on 27 November 2015.

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SIDE ONE
1. LEON TAKES US OUTSIDE
2. OUTSIDE
3. THE HEART’S FILTHY LESSON
4. A SMALL PLOT OF LAND

SIDE TWO
1. SEGUE-BABY GRACE (A HORRID CASSETTE)
2. HALLO SPACEBOY
3. THE MOTEL
4. I HAVE NOT BEEN TO OXFORD TOWN

SIDE THREE
1. NO CONTROL
2. SEGUE-ALGERIA TOUCHSHRIEK
3. THE VOYEUR OF UTTER DESTRUCTION (AS BEAUTY)
4. SEGUE-RAMONA A. STONE/ I AM WITH NAME
5. WISHFUL BEGINNINGS

SIDE FOUR
1. WE PRICK YOU
2. SEGUE-NATHAN ADLER
3. I’M DERANGED
4. THRU’ THESE ARCHITECTS EYES
5. SEGUE-NATHAN ADLER (VERSION #2)
6. STRANGERS WHEN WE MEET

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  2. Just ordered it.

    Interesting the email confirming states the album will be shipped end of November 2015 but delivery is expected mid to late October 2015!

    How does that work exactly ;)

  4. Digitally sourced LPs? What’s the point? I love vinyl and to be truthful I have digitally sourced LPs in my collection but no more. I have compared these LPs to the CDs and there is no difference apart from the packaging.

  5. The 1. refers to the fact that it was the first in a planned trilogy of albums that were linked thematically. Sadly he abandoned the idea after 1. Was released and so far as I know never actually finished any material for the follow up episodes. My favourite Bowie release of that decade.

  6. An absolute nonsense release. But then, people are willing to pay £40 to hear music they’ve been hearing since the albums original release. There’s just no reason for this madness to end.

    Expect much more of this. As someone else noted – how about some extras? In fact, there have been at least three “Special Editions” of this on CD with various bits and pieces, all still missing from this release.

    Meh.

  8. The follow up was planned to be 2. Inside, a purely instrumental piece, again with Eno. I don’t recall if anything was ever recorded for it though. Bowie then made an album called Toy, which remains unreleased.

      1. Heh, I was there too . . . Kentish Town forum right? ‘Symphony or Damn’ could do with a deluxe . . . . great BSdies to an amazing album. Shame he killed his career with that second album though!

        1. That’s the one. It wasn’t very full was it? Sad really. I think he’s absolutely brilliant and despite the commercial flop of Neither Fish Nor Flesh (which I love) I really admired the way he came back with Symphony or Damn, which might be his masterpiece and went top 5 in the UK and had four top 20 hits. ‘People’ seem to forget that. Let Her Down Easy was covered my George Michael of course. I loved Wildcard! (I have both versions) but it is overlong and he fell into the Tori Amos trap of producing 18-track albums. I do think the music and production has taken a bit of a dip in recent times when he’s producing stuff he knows he just has to sell to the diehards via his website. At least WildCard started out as a proper commercial enterprise, and he did improve it I think with the ‘Joker’s Edition’ which had a much better cover and slightly improved track listing.

          I’d love him to have a commercial comeback, but of course I’m sure that’s the last thing he wants. He has a nice life living in Italy, playing live locally, recording what he wants and releasing it via his website and probably getting nice royalty cheques every six months for “Hardline”

          1. A super deluxe edition of “Introducing the Hardline” would be nice, though, and certainly justified, considering the impact the album had at the time. It always shocks me when an artist releases something that massive and then commercially just disappears. I think he’s had some incredible follow-up albums, but even Hardline seems to have been forgotten.

          2. Yes, I think the Q review for ‘Symphony’ at the time put it nicely by saying “TTD has always proclaimed himself a genius – now he’s finally gone and proved it”. Loved ‘Vibrator’ as well, but I suppose too much of an eclectic odd ball for the masses to digest. In saying that, he did know how to choose a first single, and God only knows why ‘She Kissed Me’ and ‘Holding on to You’ weren’t bigger hits. Can you imagine if someone like Sam Smith released ‘Holding on to You’? Would have been massive. But there you go.

            Yes, seems content in what he’s doing (though like you I have lost interst over the years), but suppose he’s still doing what he loves and he seems to have both his art and personal life in check – same thing cant be said about our George unfortunately.

          3. You’re right about Holding On To You. A travesty that it wasn’t a bigger hit. Sam Smith *should* cover it, or someone already ‘big’ should, they would surely have a massive hit as you say!

      1. As I recall, the “1.” referred to the fact that it was the first in a series of annual albums that would run until the millennium. So there would have been five in all, with the same rotating cast of characters. Pity that didn’t happen.

    2. the 1 in 1.outside was conceived at the time as part of a 5 part sequence that was never realised- see Nicholas Peggs “The Complete David Bowie”. In 2000 he confirmed he was working on post production on 2. Contamination. Bowie revealed 27 hours of extra material existed from the 1.Outside sessions. Wow! Yet another project that fell by the wayside or not fully realised.

    3. It was to be the first of a new Bowie/Eno trilogy of linked albums but the Dame didn’t have a long enough attention span to see the project through.

  13. I am a huge fan of this album, but I LOATHE that it keeps seeing reissue with nary a whisper of ever including any part of the multiple hours of jamming that went into its creation.

    It doesn’t have to be everything, but even an edited highlights of these fine players over a disc or two would be welcome. I find it hard to imagine there’s nothing there worth hearing.

    Oh, but please no “Endless River” treatments. Let us hear the stuff as it was played then. No overdubbed vocals or instruments, please!

    1. Agreed. We’ll creep together should have been part of the official release at least ( and Strangers when we meet left on Buddha) One day maybe such archives will see the light of day. Until then it’s premium priced vinyl issue time for an album that was released with the capacity of CD very much in mind.

  14. One of my all-time favourite Bowie albums (second only to “Low”). I had given up hope that the full version would ever be released on vinyl. Here’s hoping the Amazon Canada listing is not too much.

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