A very YAY from me!

YAY for Modern Love!

It's okay.

The version of Cat People on it is kind of funny in a way. The film version is one of my favorite Bowie songs, but then I listen to the Let's Dance version and think "Huh, I could take it or leave it."

i like it. even the weaker songs are better than the "best" songs he put out on records throughout the rest of the '80s (with the exception of "loving the alien" and a couple of other songs from "tonight").

cool, but i'm still more of an "outside" fan.

HobbesLeCute said:

I agree with you on the Cat People bit...the original version is better

12FU said:

Outside is probably one of my top 5 Bowie albums. It's fantastic.

HobbesLeCute said:

the tour was great as well.

him and trent reznor.

12FU said:

i got pissed as hell that all the teenybopper NIN fans filed out of the venue when the bowie set started, but whatever - it just meant that i got to sneak up to a closer seat, and my nosebleed tickets turned into fifth row from the stage seats!

Anx said:

I love Tonight (the song). Him and Tina doing it in that pure reggae rip-off style is pure ear candy 4 me!

A definite YAY for me too. It's where I jumped into Bowie's catalogue, so I'm pretty nostalgic about it.

'Criminal World' has turned into a latter-day favorite...

Yaaaaay

HobbesLeCute said:

i love the outside record, still haven't figured out why so many people dislike it.

as for the tour, i was a little disappointed with it at the time but in hindsight it was rad. at the time, the outside had not yet been released. he performed a bunch of the tracks and while it was cool hearing them for the first time, it was hard to get really excited about material i'd never heard before. but the setlist was amazing. i heard songs like subterraneans, scary monsters, breaking glass, andy warhol, and joe the lion. oh, and teenage wildlife and the man who sold the world. cool show!

sallysassalot said:

Yeah, one cool thing about those shows - it was the first after retiring his 'hits' as he had promised he'd do for the Sound+Vision Tour. If you were a veteran fan, there was a quite a bounty to be heard...

Why not Yay.

sallysassalot said:

I'm still salty that I missed that tour. I had the perfect opportunity to go too.

Yay for the most part. There are a few songs lacking on there ("Ricochet" for one), but all in all it's a solid pop album. "China Girl" is incredibly sexy, and even though it pales to the original, the version of "Cat People" on here is also yummy. "Criminal World", "Without You" and the title track are also quite good. I think I heard my brother say that it's a good album, but it isn't necessarily a good Bowie album. I can get with that.

Moonbeam said:

Hey Yanna!

GangstaFam said:

I recommend you track down some bootlegs from the US '95 tour - especially St Louis, which is a soundboard.

I saw a few of the Wembley Arena dates on the UK leg of the Outside tour, with Morrissey supporting. The latter put in some really lame, lacklustre, don't-really-want-to-be-here-at-all performances, which is a real pity because he was promoting "Southpaw Grammar" at the time. Bowie had wanted to do a few songs with him and have a gradual handover on stage, as he had with NIN, but Morrissey wouldn't do it.

Anyway, Bowie was superb. Started with The Motel. He sang the first verse offstage and came on stage slowly, like he was stumbling out of a deep sleep.

A good third of the audience left at the mid-way point, unable to get their heads around the radical reworking of The Man Wjo Sold Theworld and why he wasn't doing some of his - you know, "good songs" like Let's Dance and Too Dizzy. Bunch of idiots. I think Outside was Bowie's last genuinely great album to date. Actually, I think it's the best thing he's done. Fans of the album should track down the outtakes, which are seriously mind-blowing. Think "Nothing To Be Desired", but even more warped.

Shit, sorry! This was about Let's Dance wasn't it? Well, it was his best "stadium" album without a doubt, but I haven't played it the whole way through since I first bought it in 1983.

yay! I like David Bowie.

I'd rate it with 3,5 stars out of five. The first three tracks are larger-than -life classics, but the rest of the album...ummm Without you is one of the lamest things he has ever cut and Shake it was the WORST song of Bowie's career at that point (and it's still the fourth or fifth worst song of his entire career), The revamped version of Cat people is funny, but the original it's MUCH better. Nevertheless,the two remaining tracks save the day The version of Criminal world is awesome (very sensual) and Ricochet is very underrated.
A fine album, which is interesting from a musical point of view (the production is one of the best of the first half of the 80's), but as a strong album, Let's Dance flops.
The much reviled Tonight has some tracks that are better than the filler of Let's dance: Don't look down, Loving the Alien, Neighborhood threat, I keep forgetting and of course Blue Jean.
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PeteZarustica said:

That's what I would have said

Anx said:

happened when i saw him too.

depressing really. i could tell trent wasn't happy about that.

Shapeshifter said:

Still there's "liveandwell.com". It's really a cool live.

Thanks 4 meantioning the St. Louis Boot, Shapeshfiter. I'll try to find it in the p2p

MikeMatronik said:

Liveandwell's good, but it's from the Earthling tour, which featured the stripped down Outside tour band (no Carlos Alomar or Simms brothers). St Louis is superb though - superb sound quality. It's been released as either "Live Inside" (and includes a superb version of "Strangers When We Meet" as a bonus track - taken from Jools Holland's Later), or "Stage 1: Hurling Disdain", which is probably a better version because it also includes a radio broadcast of one of the London shows from the tour). Starts off with Subterraneans/Scary Monsters.

Shapeshifter said:

sounds interesting...

How ironic, MikeMatronik... Let's Dance being David Bowie's Like A Virgin.

I like "Let's Dance". It's like "Young Americans" 10 years later. (or, 8 years, or whatever... I don't have the dates straight )

CinisterCee said:

And Diana Ross' "Diana"...or Duran Duran's "Notorious"

I do like it, yes!

China Girl, Cat People, Without You and the title track make me forget about the last song on the album I can't even remember its title...

Also love Criminal World and Modern Love. Richochet is only ok.