And it would have been so easy

To answer the crucial question of whether you should buy this publication: NO !!
No even a 50th anniversary work so you do not have to celebrate, so half-heartedly to sloppy - the money it can not have, Bowie would have enough. Maybe it's the label "Parlophone", whose logo is a programmatic sterling character.
About the music:
About the quality of the music needs it no more words, and "Sue"? Well, if the master now wants to jazz, he can do that. However, if you like Bowie, will not be delighted by this song, and if you like jazz, no Bowie plate buys.
If the sound quality is convincing: Yes, but that it was in previous releases, even when the individual albums, previously, of a 2014er Remasters it would not beduft, only "All The Young Dudes" sounds cleaner than previous versions.
Selection: What is a Best-Of - As you can probably make anyone quite, but showing the unfortunately underestimated repeatedly Dreierbox "Platinum Collection" (also available as 1969/74, 1974/79 and 1980/1987.) what can go all if someone makes a retrospective deliberately and carefully. Since there namely even rarities such as "Prettiest Star" with Bolan, the Sax mix of "John, I'm Only Dancing" or the Springsteen-Cover "Growing Up", or else not at Bowie plates to be found " Underground ". How easy it would have been to expand this box to 5 CDs (+1964/1968 u 1993/2014 -. Tin Machine rausgelassen times) ... and voila, there would have been an unbeatable showcase, then maybe pimped a bit like Graham Nash & Co. have managed that (packaging, mini booklet etc.) and I would have liked, although I have always been pretty much bought this box of delights, even for a few Euros more.
In this box some single-Edits sense (eg Loving The Alien), others not (eg, "The Gene Jeanie"), on rare hoped (almost) are in vain: The MM remix of "Time Will Crawl" is really succeeded (previously only "iSelect"), which should, however, be any different with "Life On Mars" in Maslin remix essential ... the Orchestrale is a bit higher expressed, but also may be due to remaster that details be better perceived, a jubilee re- Issue of Hunky Dory (as with all other 70 boards except Pin Ups and "The Man Who Sold The World") there has never been, unfortunately. Why must (even if he likes to do) the inclined fan until the "Original Album" buy series of Mott The Hoople, to benefit from the superior "All The Young Dudes", as amended, at the Bowie together and alternately with Ian Hunter to find on vocals? Here would have been the opportunity. The songs of 64-68 were carelessly and arbitrarily hintenan gebappst, there was not "The Laughing Gnome" of 67 OD. 68, which was 73 in Bowie Mania in UK Top Ten hit? Was there not 'Love You' Til Tuesday ", which even gave the name of a movie? And and and. I think it's just annoying when Bowie people entrusted projects that are likely to completely different music tracks on the go. War "Sound & Vision" quite interesting (3 songs from each album, several rarities), the many national best-ofs were quite funny and are such things as "iSelect" (with Bowie himself as important designated songs) or "Collection" quite interesting (with songs that are not normally found on Best-Ofs) or "All Saints" (instrumentals), then this compilation just a Bowie inappropriate. What the heck, one imagines up his own box together, the technology's so forth :-)
By the way: Of course, the songs, unlike a Vorrezensent claims in chronological order, but in the Dreierbox in reverse order.