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- Artist: David Bowie
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- Release Date: January 10, 2006
- Type: Compilation (best of)
- Genre: Rock
Review
Diving into a new David Bowie collection is all about comfort. The listener should land somewhere between the reliable pool of radio staples like "Golden Years," "Suffragette City," and "Let's Dance" and the deep water of fan favorites like "TVC 15" and "Look Back in Anger." EMI's three-disc Platinum Collection does an awfully good job of placating fans of both reservoirs, focusing on the Thin White Duke's mercurial 1969-1987 offerings. Each disc covers an era -- 1969-1974, 1974-1979, and 1980-1987 -- allowing time for both classics ("Starman") and obscurities ("Velvet Goldmine"). The Platinum Collection gets high marks for the inclusion of oft-overlooked gems such as "All the Young Dudes" and "Wild Is the Wind," but it's the appearance of soundtrack nuggets like "When the Wind Blows," from the animated nuclear war fable of the same name, "Underground" from Labyrinth, and "Drowned Girl" from the play Baal that sets this anthology apart from others. ~ James Christopher Monger, All Music GuideTracks
CD 1
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| The Jean Genie | David Bowie | David Bowie | (4:08) |
| Space Oddity | David Bowie | David Bowie | (5:15) |
| Starman | David Bowie | David Bowie | (4:18) |
| Ziggy Stardust | David Bowie | David Bowie | (3:16) |
| John, I'm Only Dancing | David Bowie | David Bowie | (2:42) |
| Rebel Rebel | David Bowie | David Bowie | (4:30) |
| Let's Spend the Night Together | Mick Jagger, Keith Richards | David Bowie | (3:07) |
| Suffragette City | David Bowie | David Bowie | (3:27) |
| Oh! You Pretty Things | David Bowie | David Bowie | (3:14) |
| Velvet Goldmine | David Bowie | David Bowie | (3:11) |
| Drive-In Saturday | David Bowie | David Bowie | (4:29) |
| Diamond Dogs | David Bowie | David Bowie | (6:05) |
| Changes | David Bowie | David Bowie | (3:34) |
| Sorrow | David Bowie | David Bowie | (2:55) |
| The Prettiest Star | David Bowie | David Bowie | (3:14) |
| Life on Mars? | David Bowie | David Bowie | (3:52) |
| Aladdin Sane | David Bowie | David Bowie | (5:10) |
| The Man Who Sold the World | David Bowie | David Bowie | (3:56) |
| Rock 'n' Roll Suicide | David Bowie | David Bowie | (3:00) |
| All the Young Dudes | David Bowie | David Bowie | (4:11) |
CD 2
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Sound and Vision | David Bowie | David Bowie | (3:05) |
| Golden Years [Single Edit] | David Bowie | David Bowie | (3:29) |
| Fame | David Bowie, John Lennon, Carlos Alomar | David Bowie | (4:14) |
| Young Americans | David Bowie | David Bowie | (3:15) |
| John, I'm Only Dancing (Again) | David Bowie | David Bowie | (7:00) |
| Can You Hear Me | David Bowie | David Bowie | (5:07) |
| Wild Is the Wind | Dimitri Tiomkin, Ned Washington | David Bowie | (6:00) |
| Knock on Wood [Live] | Steve Cropper, Eddie Floyd | David Bowie | (3:00) |
| TVC 15 [Single Version] | David Bowie | David Bowie | (3:34) |
| 1984 | David Bowie | David Bowie | (3:29) |
| It's Hard to Be a Saint in the City | Bruce Springsteen | David Bowie | (3:49) |
| Look Back in Anger | David Bowie, Brian Eno | David Bowie | (3:08) |
| The Secret Life of Arabia | David Bowie, Carlos Alomar, Brian Eno | David Bowie | (3:48) |
| DJ | David Bowie, Carlos Alomar, Brian Eno | David Bowie | (4:02) |
| Beauty and the Beast | David Bowie | David Bowie | (3:36) |
| Breaking Glass | David Bowie, |
David Bowie | (1:53) |
| Boys Keep Swinging | David Bowie, Brian Eno | David Bowie | (3:20) |
| Heroes | David Bowie, Brian Eno | David Bowie | (3:33) |
CD 3
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Let's Dance | David Bowie | David Bowie | (4:07) |
| Ashes to Ashes [Single Version] | David Bowie | David Bowie | (3:36) |
| Under Pressure | David Bowie, Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor, John Deacon | David Bowie | (4:05) |
| Fashion [Single Version] | David Bowie | David Bowie | (3:26) |
| Modern Love [Single Version] | David Bowie | David Bowie | (3:58) |
| China Girl | David Bowie, Iggy Pop | David Bowie | (4:17) |
| Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) [Single Version] | David Bowie | David Bowie | (3:32) |
| Up the Hill Backwards | David Bowie | David Bowie | (3:15) |
| Alabama Song | Kurt Weill, Bertolt Brecht | David Bowie | (3:52) |
| Drowned Girl | Kurt Weill, Bertolt Brecht | David Bowie | (2:26) |
| Cat People (Putting Out Fire) [Film Version][Edit][Version] | David Bowie, Giorgio Moroder | David Bowie | (4:12) |
| This Is Not America | David Bowie, Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays | David Bowie | (3:51) |
| Loving the Alien [Album Version] | David Bowie | David Bowie | (7:08) |
| Absolute Beginners [Single Version] | David Bowie | David Bowie | (5:37) |
| When the Wind Blows | David Bowie, |
David Bowie | (3:34) |
| Blue Jean | David Bowie | David Bowie | (3:11) |
| Day-In Day-Out [Single Version] | David Bowie | David Bowie | (4:11) |
| Time Will Crawl | David Bowie | David Bowie | (4:18) |
| Underground [Single Version] | David Bowie | David Bowie | (4:26) |
