History Music / Changesonebowie

--> ''He says he's a beautician and sells you nutrition and keeps all your dead hair for making up underwear''.

--> ''Fame, puts you there where things are hollow''

* GenderBender: "Rebel Rebel"
--> ''You got your mother in a whirl''
--> ''She's not sure if you're a boy or a girl''

--> ''Fame, "Nein! It's mine!" is just his line''

--> ''Nothing's gonna touch you in these golden years''

--> ''Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes, turn and face the strange''

--> ''Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes''

--> ''With your silicone hump and your ten inch stump''
--> ''Dressed like a priest you was''
--> ''Tod Browning's freak you was''
--> ''Her face is sans feature, but she wears a Dali brooch''

--> ''"Ground Control to Major Tom''
--> ''Your circuit's dead; there's something wrong..."''
* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: An overarching theme of "Golden Years", courtesy of the downright sociopathic Duke.

''Changesonebowie'', released in 1976, is the first GreatestHitsAlbum by British rock musician Music/DavidBowie. Issued on Bowie's then-current label Creator/RCARecords, the album contains various hits spanning from Bowie's second SelfTitledAlbum from 1969 (better known today as ''Music/SpaceOddity'') all the way up to his then-most recent album, ''Music/StationToStation'' from earlier in 1976[[note]]although the 1969 self-titled album and ''Music/TheManWhoSoldTheWorld'' from 1970 were both originally released on Philips Records and Creator/MercuryRecords, Bowie had regained the rights to his masters for those two albums after leaving the labels, and handed them over to RCA when he signed onto them; RCA would legally own these albums until 1988, when their rights to them and the rest of Bowie's output up to ''Music/ScaryMonstersAndSuperCreeps'' expired[[/note]]. As Bowie had only just recently broken into the American mainstream with his 1975 album ''Music/YoungAmericans'', the compilation is an obstinately British-oriented one; later compilations would add in hits that managed to hit it big in the US as well as the UK.

* RefrainFromAssuming: "Space Oddity" is not called "Major Tom". Peter Schilling's new-wave sequel to Bowie's song, on the other hand, was titled "Major Tom" despite there being no mention of Tom in the chorus. It's sometimes referred to as "Coming Home". To add to the confusion, Peter Schilling has two "Major Tom" songs. One takes the themes of the Bowie song and runs with them-- "Major Tom (Coming Home)", the second one is "Major Tom, Part 2" Or, in the original German version, as "Major Tom (völlig losgelöst)"; the parenthetical part features very prominently in the chorus.

** [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain Venom Snake's nationless army]] is named after "Diamond Dogs" and its parent album (for which it is the TitleTrack).
** ''VideoGame/EarthBound'' features a boss named Diamond Dog, likely a reference to the Bowie song and its eponymous parent album given the game's bevy of other musical references.

* RearrangeTheSong: In 2003, "Rebel Rebel" was remixed with "Never Get Old" from ''Music/{{Reality}}'' and released as a single as "Rebel Never Gets Old"
* RearrangeTheSong: "Space Oddity" was remade as an acoustic number in 1979, as a prelude of sorts to ''Music/ScaryMonstersAndSuperCreeps''[='s=] follow-up song "Ashes To Ashes", the single edit of which would find its way onto ''Changestwobowie'' in 1981.

* LastNoteNightmare: The cacophonic ending of "Space Oddity", [[SugarWiki/MostWonderfulSound depending on your perspective]].

''Changesonebowie'' was a commercial success, peaking at No. 2 on the UK Albums chart, No. 10 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart, and No. 8 on the New Zealand Albums chart, and being certified Platinum in the United States just 5 years after its release. ''Changesonebowie'' was enough of a success for RCA to release a follow-up compilation, ''Changestwobowie'', in 1981 that focused on songs left off of the first compilation plus newer hits from after 1976. A later compilation called ''Changesbowie'' was put out by Creator/{{Rykodisc}} in 1990 that acted as a distilled combination of both ''Changesonebowie'' and ''Changestwobowie'' with some newer hits from the Creator/EMIAmericaRecords years and a new remix of "Fame" thrown in (a 1996 reissue of ''Changesbowie'' would omit the remix in favor of the original 1975 version due to fan dissatisfaction towards the remix). ''Changesonebowie'' and ''Changestwobowie'' would be taken out of print while Ryko had the rights to the Bowie back-catalog, but would later be put back into circulation once that deal ended (with ''Changesbowie'' in turn going out of print).

While an ordinary greatest hits album would normally not be fitting material for a dedicated article on this wiki, what makes it stand out is the sheer level of acclaim it's garnered since its release. ''Magazine/RollingStone'' listed it at No. 96 on their 1987 list ''The Top 100 Albums of the Last Twenty Years'', and in 2003 ranked it at No. 425 on their [[UsefulNotes/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime list of the 500 greatest albums of all time]] (it was dropped from the 2012 revision of the list, though). A large number of artists who were directly influenced by Bowie first stepped into the man's back-catalog via this album, and to this day fans and critics alike regard it as an excellent starting point for neophytes given the sheer level of sonic variety throughout Bowie's oeuvre (over half of it consists of material from his GlamRock phase, but even that is considerably variable in sound from track to track given that, even for Bowie, the definition of glam rock is far less rigid than most other genres); to this day it's widely considered one of the greatest greatest hits albums ever made.

In addition to being a major critical success, ''Changesonebowie'' was also a commercial success, peaking at No. 2 on the UK Albums chart, No. 10 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart, and No. 8 on the New Zealand Albums chart, and being certified Platinum in the United States just 5 years after its release. ''Changesonebowie'' was enough of a success for RCA to release a follow-up compilation, ''Changestwobowie'', in 1981 that focused on songs left off of the first compilation plus newer hits from after 1976. A later compilation called ''Changesbowie'' was put out by Creator/{{Rykodisc}} in 1990 that acted as a distilled combination of both ''Changesonebowie'' and ''Changestwobowie'' with some newer hits from the Creator/EMIAmericaRecords years and a new remix of "Fame" thrown in (a 1996 reissue of ''Changesbowie'' would omit the remix in favor of the original 1975 version due to fan dissatisfaction towards the remix). ''Changesonebowie'' and ''Changestwobowie'' would be taken out of print while Ryko had the rights to the Bowie back-catalog, but would later be put back into circulation once that deal ended (with ''Changesbowie'' in turn going out of print). To this day, ''Changesonebowie'' still stands as the most notable and prolific of the many, '''many''' compilation albums released over the course of Bowie's career, is generally considered a go-to example of a compilation album done right, and is often ranked as being on par with his proper studio records; not bad for a mere greatest hits album with no new material on it, huh?

''Changesonebowie'' was also a commercial success, peaking at No. 2 on the UK Albums chart, No. 10 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart, and No. 8 on the New Zealand Albums chart, and being certified Platinum in the United States just 5 years after its release. ''Changesonebowie'' was enough of a success for RCA to release a follow-up compilation, ''Changestwobowie'', in 1981 that focused on songs left off of the first compilation plus newer hits from after 1976. A later compilation called ''Changesbowie'' was put out by Creator/{{Rykodisc}} in 1990 that acted as a distilled combination of both ''Changesonebowie'' and ''Changestwobowie'' with some newer hits from the Creator/EMIAmericaRecords years and a new remix of "Fame" thrown in (a 1996 reissue of ''Changesbowie'' would omit the remix in favor of the original 1975 version due to fan dissatisfaction towards the remix). ''Changesonebowie'' and ''Changestwobowie'' would be taken out of print while Ryko had the rights to the Bowie back-catalog, but would later be put back into circulation once that deal ended (with ''Changesbowie'' in turn going out of print).

While an ordinary greatest hits album would normally not be fitting material for a dedicated article on this wiki, what makes it stand out is the sheer level of acclaim it's garnered since its release. ''Magazine/RollingStone'' listed it at No. 96 on their 1987 list ''The Top 100 Albums of the Last Twenty Years'', and in 2003 ranked it at No. 425 on their [[UsefulNotes/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime list of the 500 greatest albums of all time]] (it was dropped from the 2012 revision of the list, though). A large number of artists who were directly influenced by Bowie first stepped into the man's back-catalog via this album, and to this day fans and critics alike regard it as an excellent starting point for neophytes given the sheer level of sonic variety throughout Bowie's oeuvre (over half of it consists of material from his GlamRock phase, but even that is considerably variable in sound from track to track given that, even for Bowie, the definition of glam rock is far less rigid than most other genres); to this day it's widely considered one of the greatest greatest hits albums ever made.

In addition to being a major critical success, ''Changesonebowie'' was also a commercial success, peaking at No. 2 on the UK Albums chart, No. 10 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart, and No. 8 on the New Zealand Albums chart, and being certified Platinum in the United States just 5 years after its release. ''Changesonebowie'' was enough of a success for RCA to release a follow-up compilation, ''Changestwobowie'', in 1981 that focused on songs left off of the first compilation plus newer hits from after 1976. A later compilation called ''Changesbowie'' was put out by Creator/{{Rykodisc}} in 1990 that acted as a distilled combination of both ''Changesonebowie'' and ''Changestwobowie'' with some newer hits from the Creator/EMIAmericaRecords years and a new remix of "Fame" thrown in (a 1996 reissue of ''Changesbowie'' would omit the remix in favor of the original 1975 version due to fan dissatisfaction towards the remix). ''Changesonebowie'' and ''Changestwobowie'' would be taken out of print while Ryko had the rights to the Bowie back-catalog, but would later be put back into circulation once that deal ended (with ''Changesbowie'' in turn going out of print). To this day, ''Changesonebowie'' still stands as the most notable and prolific of the many, '''many''' compilation albums released over the course of Bowie's career, is generally considered a go-to example of a compilation album done right, and is often ranked as being on par with his proper studio records; not bad for a mere greatest hits album with no new material on it, huh?

** Another in the same series of commercials uses the cover of "Major Tom (Coming Home)" by Shiny Toy Guns (originally recorded by Music/PeterSchilling), and it cuts off right after "Earth below us / Drifting, falling..." While it's a very cool commercial, you just have to say, "Uh, you know that song ''doesn't end well'', right? [[spoiler:''"Across the stratosphere / a final message / 'give my wife my love' / then nothing more..."'' it's only even more of a TearJerker after that, and that "drifting, falling" part becomes an IronicEcho-- the same words meant something totally different on the way ''up'', didn't they?]]

* WhamLine:
** From "Space Oddity":

** From "Cygnet Committee":
-->And I open my eyes to look around
-->And I see a child laid slain on the ground
-->As a love machine lumbers through desolation rows
-->Plowing down man, woman, listening to its command
-->But not hearing anymore.

''Changesonebowie'', released in 1976, is the first GreatestHitsAlbum by British rock musician Music/DavidBowie. Issued on Bowie's then-current label Creator/RCARecords, the album contains various hits spanning from Bowie's second SelfTitledAlbum from 1969 (better known today as ''Music/SpaceOddity'') all the way up to his then-most recent album, ''Music/StationToStation'' from earlier in 1976. As Bowie had only just recently broken into the American mainstream with his 1975 album ''Music/YoungAmericans'', the compilation is an obstinately British-oriented one; later compilations would add in hits that managed to hit it big in the US as well as the UK.

While an ordinary greatest hits album would normally not be fitting material for a dedicated article on this wiki, what makes it stand out is the sheer level of acclaim it's garnered since its release. ''Magazine/RollingStone'' listed it at No. 96 on their 1987 list ''The Top 100 Albums of the Last Twenty Years'', and in 2003 ranked it at No. 425 on their [[UsefulNotes/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime list of the 500 greatest albums of all time]] (it was dropped from the 2012 revision of the list, though). A large number of artists who were directly influenced by Bowie first stepped into the man's back-catalog via this album, and to this day fans and critics alike regard it as an excellent starting point for neophytes given the sheer level of sonic variety throughout Bowie's oeuvre; to this day it's widely considered one of the greatest greatest hits albums ever made.

In addition to being a major critical success, ''Changesonebowie'' was also a commercial success, peaking at No. 2 on the UK Albums chart, No. 10 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart, and No. 8 on the New Zealand Albums chart, and being certified Platinum in the United States just 5 years after its release. ''Changesonebowie'' was enough of a success for RCA to release a follow-up compilation, ''Changestwobowie'', in 1981 that focused on songs left off of the first compilation plus newer hits from after 1976. A later compilation called ''Changesbowie'' was put out by Creator/{{Rykodisc}} in 1990 that acted as a distilled combination of both ''Changesonebowie'' and ''Changestwobowie'' with some newer hits from the Creator/EMIAmericaRecords years and a new remix of "Fame" thrown in (a 1996 reissue of ''Changesbowie'' would omit the remix in favor of the original 1975 version due to fan dissatisfaction towards the remix). ''Changesonebowie'' and ''Changestwobowie'' would be taken out of print while Ryko had the rights to the Bowie back-catalog, but would later be put back into circulation once that deal ended (with ''Changesbowie'' in turn going out of print). To this day, ''Changesonebowie'' still stands as the most notable and prolific of the many, '''many''' compilation albums released over the course of Bowie's career; not bad for a mere greatest hits album with no new material on it, huh?