Moonage Daydream (soundtrack)

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Moonage Daydream – A Brett Morgen Film
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Soundtrack album by David Bowie
Released 16 September 2022 (2022-09-16)
Genre Soundtrack
Length 2:19:40
Label
Producer Tony Visconti
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Singles from Moonage Daydream (soundtrack)

Moonage Daydream – A Brett Morgen Film is the soundtrack to the 2022 documentary film Moonage Daydream based on the life of English singer-songwriter David Bowie. It was released digitally on 16 September 2022 by Rhino Entertainment and Parlophone Records, followed by a two-disc CD release on 18 November 2022, with a three-disc vinyl edition set for later release in 2023.[1][2][3]

Background

The album was announced on 25 August 2022, to accompany the film, that contained previously unreleased live singles, tracks cut from the album, film-specific remixes of Bowie's tracks, orchestral performances and interview excerpts and monologues from Bowie himself.[4][5] A single from the album – the remixed version of the song "Modern Love" – released on the same date. Bowie's official website, stated it as "This version is a unique mix starting with the isolated piano motif from the track, building up into the chorus before ending on the a cappella backing vocals offering an insight into the individual elements that create the classic we all know and love".[2] The film-specific remix of the song "D.J." was released as the second single on 9 September 2022.[6][7]

Brett Morgen worked for nearly 18 months to design the accompanying soundtrack, with the sound design team — re-recording mixers Paul Massey and David Giammarco, sound and music editor John Warhurst, supervising sound editor Nina Hartstone — working with him. On designing the film's music, Massey mashed up "a lot of music that wasn’t designed to go together into some amazing pieces of work. And the sound design is fully integrated into that. The soundtrack is like a huge dissolve, from the very beginning of the film until the end."[8]

Reception

At the Cannes Film Festival premiere on May 2022, Carey Matthew of Deadline Hollywood called it as "thundering soundtrack that literally shakes the seats".[9] Kenji Fujishima of Slant Magazine wrote "Though Bowie’s music dominates the soundtrack (with his songs remixed for maximum heart-thumping arena-rock impact), the documentary also includes music inspired by the man’s art, including snippets from the Philip Glass symphonies based on Bowie’s Low and Heroes albums."[10] Max Bell of Classic Rock wrote "If it’s axiomatic that great artistic careers build to a form of crescendo then this double CD, the official soundtrack to Brett Morgen's anticipated documentary on the musical odyssey of David Bowie, meets that criterion. Morgen’s work on Crossfire Hurricane, for the Rolling Stones, and Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, persuaded Bowie’s estate to give him carte blanche on over fifty years of material, utilising sonic enhancement, mixes that veer from the sublime to the ridiculously sublime, and a spoken word narrative of sorts that threads the meaning of time, death and faith."[11] The album received a nomination for Best Soundtrack at the St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Awards 2022.[12]

Track listing

Disc 1
No. Title Length
1. "Time... One of the Most Complex Expressions..." (Moonage Daydream Mix 1) 1:54
2. "Ian Fish U.K. Heir" (Remix Moonage Daydream Edit) 1:10
3. "Hallo Spaceboy"   3:04
4. "Wild Eyed Boy from Freecloud" (Live; Stereo) 3:19
5. "All the Young Dudes" (Live; Stereo) 1:38
6. "Oh! You Pretty Things" (Live; Stereo) 1:43
7. "Life on Mars?" (2016 Mix – Moonage Daydream Edit) 3:46
8. "Moonage Daydream" (Live; Stereo) 6:17
9. "Medley: The Jean Genie / Love Me Do / The Jean Genie" (Live; featuring Jeff Beck) 7:48
10. "The Light" (Excerpt) 4:42
11. "Warszawa" (Live Moonage Daydream Edit) 3:56
12. "Quicksand" (2021 Mix – Early Version) 4:57
13. "Medley: Future Legend / Diamonds Dogs Intro / Cracked Actor"   3:57
14. "Rock 'n' Roll with Me" (Live) 4:47
15. "Aladdin Sane" (Moonage Daydream Edit) 5:03
16. "Subterraneans" (2017 Remaster) 5:37
17. "Space Oddity" (Moonage Daydream Mix) 3:39
18. "V-2 Schneider" (2017 Remaster) 3:09
Total length:
 1:10:26
Disc 2
No. Title Length
19. "Sound and Vision" (Moonage Daydream Mix) 3:09
20. "A New Career in a New Town" (Moonage Daydream Mix) 2:06
21. "Word on a Wing" (Moonage Daydream Mix Excerpt) 0:12
22. ""Heroes"" (Live Moonage Daydream Edit) 5:52
23. "D.J." (Moonage Daydream Mix) 3:48
24. "Ashes to Ashes" (Moonage Daydream Mix) 4:13
25. "Move On" (Moonage Daydream A Cappella Mix Edit) 0:17
26. "Moss Garden" (Moonage Daydream Edit) 1:03
27. "Cygnet Committee / Lazarus" (Moonage Daydream Mix) 4:49
28. "Memory of a Free Festival" (Harmonium Edit) 0:48
29. "Modern Love" (Moonage Daydream Mix) 2:59
30. "Let's Dance" (Live Moonage Daydream Edit) 3:02
31. "The Mysteries" (Moonage Daydream Mix) 3:57
32. "Rock 'n' Roll Suicide" (Live Moonage Daydream Edit) 4:12
33. "Ian Fish U.K. Heir" (Moonage Daydream Mix 2) 3:39
34. "Word on a Wing" (Moonage Daydream Mix) 4:26
35. "Hallo Spaceboy" (Live Moonage Daydream Mix) 3:12
36. "I Have Not Been to Oxford Town" (Moonage Daydream A Cappella Mix Edit) 0:12
37. ""Heroes": IV. Sons of the Silent Age" (Excerpt) 2:21
38. "Blackstar" (Moonage Daydream Film Mix Edit) 1:38
39. "Ian Fish U.K. Heir" (Moonage Daydream Mix Excerpt) 0:44
40. "Memory of a Free Festival" (Moonage Daydream Mix Edit) 3:03
41. "Starman" (Original Single Mix; 2015 Remaster) 4:11
42. "You're Aware of a Deeper Existence..."   0:58
43. "Changes" (2015 Remaster) 3:32
44. "Let Me Tell You One Thing..."   0:18
45. "Well, You Know What This Has Been an Incredible Pleasure..."   0:24
Total length:
 1:09:14

Personnel

Credits adapted from CD liner notes.[1]

Charts

Chart performance for Moonage Daydream
Chart (2022-2023) Peak
position
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[13] 50
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[14] 49
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[15] 49
Dutch Albums (MegaCharts)[16] 36
Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ)[17] 15
Italian Albums (FIMI)[18] 100
Japanese Albums (Oricon)[19] 38
Japanese Hot Albums (Billboard Japan)[20] 59
Scottish Albums (OCC)[21] 10
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)[22] 61
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[23] 44
UK Albums (OCC)[24] 20

Release history

Release dates and formats for Moonage Daydream
Region Date Format(s) Label Ref.
Various 16 September 2022
[3]
18 November 2022 CD [25]
2023 Vinyl [1]

References

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