ISelect

iSelect
Compilation album by
David Bowie
Released29 June 2008
Recorded1971–1987, 2008
GenreRock
Length57:41
LabelEMI
ProducerVarious
David Bowie chronology
Live Santa Monica '72
(2008) 		iSelect
(2008) 		VH1 Storytellers
(2009)
David Bowie compilation chronology
The Best of David Bowie 1980/1987
(2007) 		iSelect
(2008) 		Nothing Has Changed
(2014)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
PopMatters[2]

iSelect (or iSelectBowie)[3] is a compilation album by English musician David Bowie that was first released 29 June 2008 in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The title was released in the United States by Astralwerks Records. The songs were chosen for the compilation by Bowie himself.[2] The CD was available exclusively as a free gift with the 29 June edition of British newspaper The Mail on Sunday.

The selection includes several album tracks, with only three singles ("Life on Mars?", "Loving the Alien" and "Time Will Crawl"). In addition, the version of "Time Will Crawl" included on the album is a remix by engineer Mario J. McNulty,[4] featuring several newly recorded parts in an effort to revisit some of the material Bowie had released as part of Never Let Me Down, an album with which he was disappointed.

It is the only release to contain the track "Some Are" which has been unavailable since the mid-1990s deletion of the 1991 edition of Bowie's 1977 album Low on which it was included as a bonus track. It also features the medley of "Sweet Thing" and "Candidate", and the reprise of "Sweet Thing" as a single track, rather than being split up by song as it has been released on previous CD versions of Diamond Dogs.

It also includes a teaser track combining the "Intro" track and "Hang On to Yourself" from Live Santa Monica '72, an official rerelease of the bootleg album Santa Monica '72.

  1. ^ Lymangrover, Jason. "iSelect – David Bowie". AllMusic. Archived from the original on 13 August 2021. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
  2. ^ a b Schiller, Mike. "David Bowie: iSelect < PopMatters". PopMatters. Archived from the original on 9 March 2012. Retrieved 25 February 2012.
  3. ^ David Bowie Digs Into His Catalog for New Compilation Archived 12 September 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ "Joe d'Ambrosio Management - Mario J. McNulty". Archived from the original on 1 May 2013. Retrieved 4 March 2013.