Quite a difference to the (musically) rather ordinary The Next Day.īowie breaks out of the old man-rock’n’roll cage he had ensnared himself with the past 2 albums (partly also on Hours.
The Jazz influences add welcome twists to the songs. The parallels to BTWN aren’t coincidental, and I have previously declared that BTWN is essentially Bowie’s Fusion Jazz album.
#PLOR TO SUBURBIA GAME FREE#
It has one of the massive beats from Black Tie White Noise, like You’ve Been Around, I Feel Free or Lucy Can’t Dance. Happy Birthday Dave – thanks.Īfter the first one-and-a-half listen: Better than The Next Day, which I found easy to like, but hard to love. And right now I feel like that 11-year-old boy again. Fuck knows what it’s all about, but that was never really the point. There’s not a duff note here, every song has it’s place, it’s just, well, Bowie. Those who embraced the bizarre creative forks in the road (Young Americans/StationtoStation/Low/Outside) and felt excited as we explored who, what, where, when and why he had done it (and gotten ourselves an education in the process). All I know is that having already played it to death this is a record for ‘us’. But it’s an album that I tend to skip through now – Bowie doing classic Bowie – albeit pretty well.īlackstar is the most ‘complete’ album since….well let’s not go there. TND was greeted with shock and awe because of the sheer surprise. (Yes, I even stood in a rain-soaked Wembley Stadium and pretended to like the Glass Spider Show, one of the worst concerts I’ve ever seen). And even in the Never Let Me Down moments, I would find something to cling to within the creative dross and be stupidly defensive of the work. Post-Let’s Dance when his work became, erm, patchy that excitement became imbued with butterfly nerves. I have greeted every Bowie release since with that same 11-year-old’s excitement. I couldn’t have cared less what he was, but he was like nothing I’d seen or heard before and I knew he was ‘mine’. I still remember my cousin saying to my father as I pulled Ziggy from its sleeve: ‘You do know he’s a poof?’ I was 11. My parents bought me Ziggy Stardust and Hunky Dory for Christmas 1972 after I bugged them for months. It seems to me that it is even more powerful than the video for Blackstar although much simpler. I wasn’t able to sit still while listening to them on headphones the rythm was so powerful.īy the way, I was immensly impressed by the Lazarus video. I do like the original versions of “Tis a Pity” (I know it is a demo) and “Sue”, but I find the reworkings really interesting and extremely “physical”. (Same problem as “Boss of Me” had on TND.) But maybe it will grow on me. It feels like it is at least two minutes too long. It starts out very promising, but then it just drags on without much variation. The only song I don’t like much (so far) is “Girl Loves Me”. I am a bit uncertain about how much I like “I can’t give everyting away”. So far I think 5 out of 7 songs are excellent. It is pretty easy to tell after just playing it a couple of times that Blackstar is a great album, but all the Bowie albums I like the most have continued to grow on me for months, so just how much I will like it is hard to say. I do love TND so I will be overjoyed if Blackstar is as good.
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