Originally Posted by Trollheart

Surprisingly, not as terrible as I remember. I quite enjoy it up to "Glass Spider" (I like the combination of the spoken word over the ambient-style music and then the song part itself is really good) but "Shinin' Star (Making My Love)" brings it all crashing down like a fist through a spiderweb. It's just an awful, sub-soul/sub-disco/sub-Marley/sub-Jackson/sub-everything song that has no place on this, or any Bowie album. Absolutely dire. After that, it kinda goes downhill - "Bang Bang" is embarrassingly bad, and "Too Dizzy" is, well, not on my Spotify copy, but I don't remember it being great. Poor album, but not as bad as my memory made it. Still, only gets a 3 from me. Generous? Maybe. Don't care. I expected to hate it and I kind of don't so that deserves something.