»One damn song that could make me break down and cry

On the bus to work, listening to David Bowie's oeuvre, as so wonderfully encapsulated by Rykodisc's Sound and Vision box set. When the set came out, I skipped school (11th grade), met my parents for lunch in Oakland, and walked down to Jim's Records (now Paul's CDs) in Bloomfield to pick up the $60 4-cd set (packaged in an elegant album-sized box). At the record shop, I bumped into Josh, also skipping school to buy the same collection, and then walked back homewards through a light rain.

Drive-in Saturday. Young Americans. Station to Station. Speed of Life / Be My Wife. Not only is this the last show of the tour ... it's the last show we'll ever do.

Ryko issued the box set as the precursor to their lavish reissue of Bowie's back catagloue on CD (again out of print!): in addition to remastering all of the albums, they made CDs as beautiful as the original albums. And they put out "3-sided" LPs, in a fit of audiophile geekiness. Their Ziggy Stardust reissue ranks with Capitol / EMI's much-anticipated Pet Sounds box set. Damn I sound like an old hippy.