While I'm capable of grasping the idea of an artist who goes in new directions I'm not necessarily thrilled with but respect them anyway, I am also very sympathetic to Bowie fans who failed to appreciate his evolution from someone who kept reinventing himself by releasing brilliant records every year to someone who's stuck in a rut, doing the same commercial gunk as everyone else on MTV.
Scary Monsters didn't sound like Low, which didn't sound like Station to Station, which didn't sound like Diamond Dogs, which didn't sound like Hunky Dory. The problem with his Phil Collins years is that it's the opposite of that.
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