Live in Santa Monica '72

Artist	David Bowie
Format	CD
Genre	Rock
Label Name	EMD Int'l
Producer	Richard Kimball
Release Date	2008 07 22
Song List	1: Introduction (0:13) 2: Hang on to Yourself (2:46) 3: Ziggy Stardust (3:22) 4: Changes (3:27) 5: The Supermen (2:55) 6: Life on Mars? (3:27) 7: Five Years (4:32) 8: Space Oddity (5:04) 9: Andy Warhol (3:49) 10: My Death (5:50) 11: The Width of a Circle (10:43) 12: Queen Bitch (3:00) 13: Moonage Daydream (4:53) 14: John, I'm Only Dancing (3:16) 15: Waiting for the Man (5:44) 16: The Jean Genie (4:00) 17: Suffragette City (4:11) 18: Rock 'N' Roll Suicide (3:01)
Style.Categories	Album Rock, Experimental Rock, Proto-Punk, Pop/Rock, Glam Rock, Prog-Rock/Art Rock, Hard Rock

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Among Bowie aficionados, the live recording from the Santa Monica Civic Center in 1972 ranks as perhaps the best document of the Spiders from Mars at their peak, certainly outranking the Ziggy Stardust: The Motion Picture soundtrack, which may have documented the band's fabled final gig, but didn't capture the band at full flight. This recording -- frequently bootlegged, often popping up on semi-official releases, finally released officially by EMI in 2008 -- does just that. Here, the Spiders sound otherworldly, lean yet monstrous, simple and lethal on "Hang on to Yourself" but majestic and dramatic on a ten-minute "The Width of a Circle," flipping a hat to Jacques Brel via Scott Walker on "My Death," then stripping down such grandiose Hunky Dory tunes as "Life on Mars?" to the essentials. The grand thing about Live in Santa Monica '72 is that it doesn't feel like a special gig: it may have been Bowie's first American radio broadcast, but that's secondary to how it feels like a snapshot of the band during its prime. It's tantalizing to think that this is just how the band was in 1972 and that there may be plenty of other great performances never recorded. What's special about this is that a night like this was indeed captured -- and with each passing year this seems more and more like the best Bowie live album. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide