A collection originally compiled at RCA studios in Rome for the Italian market, whereafter it was picked up and released all over Europe and Downunder. Not approved by Bowie himself, who even publically announced that he didn't like the album and it has been cited as one of the reasons he decided to leave RCA for EMI. However the partnership didn't work out and why he disliked is history now, but the LP still exists and listening today it's not bad at all as you get lots of rare cuts for the first time on LP. Beside the Italian "Space Oddity", part German "Heroes" and the US 45 edit of "Young Americans" I get no less than six previously non-LP 45 B-sides and a couple of such A-sides. The former flips are all aces in my book - "Holy, Holy", "Round And Round" "Velvet Goldmine", "Amsterdam" and the "Panic In Detroit" live take. Of the A:s "Moon Of Alabama" is odd enough listening and even if I prefer the initial 45 version of "John I'm Only Dancing" this disco take is quite good too. "Crystal Japan" - released as both A (1980 in Japan) and B (1981 to "Up The Hill Backwards") - isn't one I dive into a lot, but as it was a product of the "Scary Monsters" sessions I just gotta have it. Audio a-ok providing good listening. All the songs and takes have shown up later on countless vinyl, cassette and CD compilations, but since this was the first it's also my first choice. To my knowledge never issued in US or on legal CD. First UK had label as shown here and thin fully laminated cover with lyric inner. (PKÅ*)
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