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Posted by ConorClockwise on 2007-05-07 03:37:07 +0000

Great album art.

Posted by Chopper on 2007-05-07 12:35:23 +0000

Oy Vey! Yes, the best thing that can be said for this album is the cover art. True Bowie fans, the purists, often rank this and the following record ("Never Let me Down") as his worst ever, but "Tonight," in my opinion, is a tad better. It is more stylistically varied and more clearly rooted in Bowie's signature musical sound/vocals. The top ten hit, "Blue Jean," has a 1950's style rock n' roll sound and a catchy guitar beat, but does get annoying pretty quickly. For whatever reason, Bowie has always been partial to the tune. Bowie leans toward light, up-beat, funky tunes like "Tumble And Twirl", 1970's-style pop ("Loving The Alien") and a little reggae ("Tonight"). Iggy Pop as usual for this time period shared many of the songwriting credits and appears on a couple tracks. The awesome Carlos Alomar is back on guitar, but the rest of the band is carried over from "Let's Dance." During the next year, Bowie had two collaborative, non-album hits: the movie theme "This Is Not America," with the Pat Metheny Group (a great piece of music), and the "Live Aid" single "Dancing In The Streets," with Mick Jagger - horrible! If you must purchase this directionless effort, hunt down the out-of-print Ryko version with the bonus tracks of "Absolute Beginners" and "This Is Not America." Otherwise, it just ain't worth it.

Posted by MF DU on 2007-05-07 13:16:06 +0000

LOVE This Is Not America. Purposely netflixed The Falcon and The Snowman to hear the track again. I ned a proper recording of this - if I can't lock down the oop RYKO I will have to hunt the Falcon and Snowman OST.

Posted by tommy on 2007-05-07 13:36:16 +0000

I've always liked Blue Jean (well, a little but anyhow) but other than that, this album is not doing anything at all for me. Good! Maybe I'll listen to something besides David Bowie at work for the first time since February.

Posted by MF DU on 2007-05-07 13:57:54 +0000

May I suggest Napalm Death? (the early Grindcore stuff, I mean)