David Bowie Selects His Favorite Songs For Pay Version of Free Comp

David Bowie has handpicked his favorite songs from his own discography for the upcoming compilation iSELECT: BOWIE. Each track is accompanied with Bowie detailing why he selected the song through personal reflections and insight. The compilation was originally featured as a supplementary CD in the June 29th addition of the U.K.'s Mail On Sunday, but all editions quickly sold out and became collector's items, so Bowie will rectify the problem with a worldwide physical and digital release on October 14th. To make it up to the fans of Low, Station to Station and Space Oddity who might be disappointed that the Thin White Duke didn't select any tracks from those albums, Bowie has included two semi-exclusive tracks for this collection: the Low-era outtake "Some Are" (previously available on the old school Rykodisc version of the album) and Bowie's own remix of the Never Let Me Down cut "Time Will Crawl." Follow the jump for a full track listing.

iSELECT: BOWIE
1. "Life On Mars?" (from the album Hunky Dory)
2. "Sweet Thing/Candidate/Sweet Thing" (from the album Diamond Dogs)
3. "The Bewlay Brothers" (from the album Hunky Dory)
4. "Lady Grinning Soul" (from the album Aladdin Sane)
5. "Win" (from the album Young Americans)
6. "Some Are" (currently exclusive to this compilation)
7. "Teenage Wildlife" (from the album Scary Monsters)
8. "Repetition" (from the album Lodger)
9. "Fantastic Voyage" (from the album Lodger)
10. "Loving The Alien" (from the album Tonight)
11. "Time Will Crawl (MM Remix)" (new remix by David Bowie)
12. "Hang On To Yourself [live]" (from the album Live Santa Monica '72)

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“All Along the Watchtower”

The Jimi Hendrix Experience | 1968

Jimi Hendrix got hold of Bob Dylan's early John Wesley Harding tapes and in late 1967 recorded a version of "All Along the Watchtower" with the Experience in London. Dissatisfied with that first development, Hendrix brought those tapes with him to New York in early 1968 when he began work on Electric Ladyland. Eddie Kramer, Hendrix's engineer at the time, told Rolling Stone that Hendrix "was still looked upon by his basically white audience as the mammoth black guitar hero. There was a constant fight within him to expand himself." Hendrix's successful take on Dylan's work has long been recognized by the songwriter. "I liked Jimi Hendrix's record of this and ever since he died I've been doing it that way," Dylan wrote in the liner notes to his Biograph box set. "Strange how when I sing it, I always feel it's a tribute to him in some kind of way."

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