The Platinum Collection (David Bowie album)

Infobox Album
Name = The Platinum Collection
Type = compilation
Artist = David Bowie


Released = start date|2005|11|7 (UK)
start date|2006|1|10 (U.S.)
Recorded = 1969-1987
Genre = Rock
Length = 223:59
Label = EMI/Virgin
Producer = "Producer varies from track to track"
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:me6m962oaepo link]
Last album = "Live EP (Live at Fashion Rocks)"
(2005)
This album = "The Platinum Collection"
(2005)
Next album = "The Best of 1980/1987"
(2007)
Misc = Extra chronology 2
Artist = David Bowie compilation
Type = compilation
Last album = "The Collection" (2005)
This album = "The Platinum Collection"
(2005)
Next album = "The Best of 1980/1987"
(2007)

"The Platinum Collection" is a compilation album by David Bowie, released in 2005/04. The period from 1969 to 1987 is summarised over three discs. The first disc is the same as the compilation "The Best of 1969/1974", which was released in 1997, and the second disc is the same as the 1998 compilation "The Best of 1974/1979". The third disc was released as an independent compilation "The Best of David Bowie 1980/1987" by EMI on start date|2007|3|19. This release is part of EMI's two-disc Sight & Sound series of releases and features a DVD of 1980s videos on the second disc.

Track listing

All songs written by David Bowie except as noted.

Disc one (1969-1974)

#"The Jean Genie" – 4:08
#"Space Oddity" – 5:15
#"Starman" – 4:18
#"Ziggy Stardust" – 3:16
#"John, I’m Only Dancing" (Sax version) – 2:42
#"Rebel Rebel" – 4:30
#"Let's Spend the Night Together" (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards) – 3:07
#"Suffragette City" – 3:27
#"Oh! You Pretty Things" – 3:14
#"Velvet Goldmine" – 3:11
#"Drive-In Saturday" – 4:29
#"Diamond Dogs" – 6:05
#"Changes" – 3:34
#"Sorrow" (Bob Feldman, Jerry Goldstein, Richard Gottehrer) – 2:55
#"The Prettiest Star" (Bolan stereo version) – 3:14
#"Life on Mars?" – 3:52
#"Aladdin Sane" – 5:10
#"The Man Who Sold the World" – 3:56
#"Rock 'n' Roll Suicide" – 3:00
#"All the Young Dudes" – 4:11

Disc two (1974-1979)

# "Sound and Vision" – 3:02
# "Golden Years" (single edit) – 3:28
# "Fame" (Bowie, Carlos Alomar, John Lennon) – 4:13
# "Young Americans" (single version) – 3:12
# "John, I'm Only Dancing (Again)" – 6:59
# "Can You Hear Me? (David Bowie song)" – 5:05
# "Wild Is the Wind" (Dimitri Tiomkin, Ned Washington) – 5:59
# "Knock on Wood" (Cropper, Eddie Floyd) (live) – 2:58
# "TVC 15" (single version) – 3:52
# "1984" – 3:25
# "It's Hard to Be a Saint in the City" (Bruce Springsteen) – 3:46
# "Look Back in Anger" (Bowie, Brian Eno) – 3:06
# "The Secret Life of Arabia" (Bowie, Eno, Alomar) – 3:45
# "DJ" (Bowie, Eno, Alomar) – 3:22
# "Beauty and the Beast" – 3:34
# "Breaking Glass" (Bowie, Dennis Davis, George Murray) – 1:51
# "Boys Keep Swinging" (Bowie, Eno) – 3:18
# "Heroes" (Bowie, Eno) (single version) – 3:33

Disc three (1980-1987)

# "Let's Dance" (single version) – 4:07
# "Ashes to Ashes" (single version) – 3:36
# "Under Pressure" (Bowie, Freddie Mercury, Brian May, John Deacon, Roger Taylor) (single version) – 4:05
# "Fashion" (single version) – 3:26
# "Modern Love" (single version) – 3:58
# "China Girl" (single version) – 4:17
# "Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)" (single version) – 3:32
# "Up the Hill Backwards" – 3:15
# "Alabama Song" (Kurt Weill, Bertolt Brecht) – 3:52
# "The Drowned Girl" – 2:26
# "Cat People (Putting Out Fire)" (Bowie, Giorgio Moroder) (single version) – 4:12
# "This Is Not America" (with Pat Metheny Group) (Bowie, Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays) – 3:51
# "Loving the Alien" (with Tina Turner) (Bowie, Iggy Pop) – 7:08
# "Absolute Beginners" – 5:37
# "When the Wind Blows" (Bowie, Erdal Kizilcay) – 3:34
# "Blue Jean" – 3:11
# "Day-In Day-Out" – 4:11
# "Time Will Crawl" – 4:18
# "Underground" (single version) – 4:26