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Posted by MF DU on 2007-06-27 13:18:14 +0000

"Seven" was a pretty good song. This is the tour Bowie had Page Hamilton from Helmet on guitar.

Posted by tommy on 2007-06-28 09:15:37 +0000

Now we're talking! Not up to the level of his glory days, but this is way better than some of the preceding stuff. Sounds a lot more like Bowie being Bowie. A solid album. I might listen to it again at some time in the future, which is more than I can say for anything since Let's Dance.

Posted by Chopper on 2007-06-28 11:10:45 +0000

Finally got another listen and I'm thinking that this really was as retro as could be for David Bowie. Here he attempted to revive the glam rock sound of his early 70's glory. The album is a real-life memoir of his losses and regrets. But yet, I cannot help but think that it was another way to keep mining the fans' wallets. Bowie does love money and he always found ways to keep the cash flowing in. However, that being said, hours is a rich self-portrait through which Bowie in a sense makes up for past mistakes (and we've heard them by now). Bowie seems to speak out about his life in the ways he had been criticized, idolized and mythologized by the masses for the past thirty years. Bowie was once "driving their mamas and papas insane," ("Oh, you Pretty Things" from Hunky Dory) but here he noted that life has become aged and faded ("The Pretty Things Are Going to Hell"). The band includes Mark Plati on several instruments and drummer Mike Levesque. This time around, no Mike Garson, Gail Ann Dorsey, or any of the other recent veterans. Guitarist Reeves Gabrels co-produced with Bowie and co-writes on everything, but this time he's remarkably restrained. You can tell his guitar was not what you'd expect. In a third of a century of recording Bowie had never shown a strong inclination to revisit his past glories, but "surprise," he did so here. NEXT TWO FINAL ALBUMS ARE AWESOME...MUST LISTEN !!!!!!!!!!!