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Old 06-09-2018, 10:46 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Default MB Bowie Classics: "Black Tie White Noise"



Back to Bowie's pure solo material, and here's the next one in his discography, with music inspired by his time with Tin Machine. Amazingly, we have only seven albums left, eight if you include the soundtrack to The Buddah of Suburbia...
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I'm going to vote for this based on how I remember it, as I heard it years ago and nothing on it made me want to stick with it. From what I remember it's quite a 90s Dance type album.

I can remember the title track but don't recall it being a great album.

It's 2/5 for me.
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First serious vote I’ve given in a long time
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Bowie returns to pop and releases another stinker. Dated, mediocre, 90's dance-pop and the worst cover of "I Feel Free" by Cream that I've ever heard. I don't know what it was about Bowie and covers but it seems as if Bowie forgot how to make a decent cover song after his "Pin Ups" album.
Nothing about this album interested me whatsoever.

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the worst cover of "I Feel Free" by Cream that I've ever heard
If that was stripped down to a simple whole notes only beat track and vocals (or a cappella) it could have a great Scott Walker vibe. Behind all that silly bull**** his voice still slays. It is a horrible cover though.
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I get that the song meant a lot to him, what with his brother and all, but it still irks me that every Bowie album to date seems to have to have at least one cover version on it. Maybe not every Bowie album (I haven't checked nor am I interested in doing so) but certainly more than there should be. And yes, it's a **** cover.

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Then be thankful you aren't into Bryan Ferry. Half of many of his albums are covers. He's even covered himself!
He's also got at least a couple albums that are 100% covers. One is all Bob Dylan covers front to back.

I don't actually mind covers anymore. Not as long as the artist in question has a lot of his/her own material out with a fair frequency.
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Then be thankful you aren't into Bryan Ferry. Half of many of his albums are covers. He's even covered himself!
He's also got at least a couple albums that are 100% covers. One is all Bob Dylan covers front to back.

I don't actually mind covers anymore. Not as long as the artist in question has a lot of his/her own material out with a fair frequency.
Actually I like Ferry and Roxy, though I kind of feel Streetlife is all I need really.
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I get that the song meant a lot to him, what with his brother and all, but it still irks me that every Bowie album to date seems to have to have at least one cover version on it. Maybe not every Bowie album (I haven't checked nor am I interested in doing so) but certainly more than there should be. And yes, it's a **** cover.

Free>I Feel Free
Low
Heroes
Lodger
Blackstar
The Next Day
Scary Monsters
The Man Who Sold the World
Diamond Dogs

All good albums with no covers. So really most of his best records have no covers. Of his classic material we are talking just the glam era that has a cover song on the albums and it's one song on each of them (four albums). No big deal.
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All right, I really love this album. A great return to form for Bowie, with some experimental sounds, some gospel, some rock and some pop. Lots of sax work from the man himself, the last album Ronson worked on prior to his death, and some great production by Bowie's reunion with Rodgers. The cover already mentioned aside, can't find anything wrong with this at all. 5/5.
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