I've tried it on 3 different stereos now. Next up will be in my car, with the best speakers of all.

AaronMaximus said:

I'll let you guys know how good the SACD ASAP after its release...I'm VERY excited for the Ziggy, Scary Monsters, and Let's Dance SACDs, too!

i've listened to this cd a dozen times and it gets better with every spin! i've been procrastinating on my homework and i can't think of a better way to do it. bring me the disco king is hypnotizing! never get old is on right now and i'm realizing how much he has combined his older sound with his current sound...its brilliant! more than 30 years as a performer and he is still growing. Prince could learn a lot from bowie.

imnotsayinthisjust2bnasty said:

At this point, Prince could learn a lot from my right nut...and that's the dumb one!

imnotsayinthisjust2bnasty said:

WORD!

Prince's move? - A bloody retrospective greatest hits tour

TheLodger said:

and instead of buying back the rights to one's masters, and then licensing them to double or triple the investment... what does he do? throws a tantrum and expects people to just hand over something to him that he was paid millions and millions of dollars for in the first place.

crackpot!

RollingStone.com review:

David Bowie Reality ISO/Columbia
As a young subversive, David Bowie played with Sixties verities about gender, identity and rock & roll itself, insisting that truth was nothing but another mask. Now fifty-six and a revered figure himself, he's searching for some version of truth -- or, as this album title puts it, Reality -- and it turns out he was right the first time. To his mixed dismay and amusement, meaning comes and goes. "I still don't get the wherefores and the whys," he sings over the roaring guitars of the title track. "I look for sense, but I get next to nothing/Hoo, boy, welcome to reality." And Reality turns out to be an intriguing place. As on last year's Heathen, Bowie ponders life after 9/11 -- he lives about a mile from Ground Zero -- and his role in a world that has trumped all his apocalyptic fantasies. Part of that role, at least, is rocking hard. With co-producer Tony Visconti, Bowie toughens up his sound, sawing at the edges of Jonathan Richman's "Pablo Picasso" and, on "New Killer Star," reclaiming the insinuating guitar propulsion he'd loaned to Lou Reed when he produced Transformer. On a quieter note, his version of George Harrison's "Try Some, Buy Some" becomes a waltzing memorial to a fellow spiritual searcher. Reality closes with "Bring Me the Disco King," a surreal ballad that runs close to eight minutes. It's another of Bowie's ambivalent farewells to the era in which he wreaked such havoc "in the stiff, bad clubs/Killing time in the Seventies." The difference is he now knows that time is killing him, and all of us, and that the Disco King, that master of revels who promised eternal life on the dance floor, is nowhere to be found. (ANTHONY DECURTIS)

This album grows with every spin...

Can't wait to see the show

I've been listening to Reality a couple of times now and I think my favourite track is Try some, Buy Some.
I know a lot of people hate this song, but I love the mood on this track and I don't know the original so I can't compare the two.

Reality is such a grower...love this CD now! Honestly, give it time...

My wife hated it at first, too. Well, I came home from work yesterday to find her listening to it loudly! I could've sworn I heard her singing along also!

And are you warming up to the title track also?
From 3:00 minutes into the song, it just blows my mind...
you know, when he sings "I've been right and I've been wrong..."

calldapplwondery83 said:

No...it still sounds like a TM reject to me...Aside from the occasional "woo" that David yelps, the verses aren't bad. But the chorus just eats a fat cock. The "Ha ha ha ha" part makes my balls shrivel up and turn into a he-uterus, and the "da da da da da da da da" shit is sooo lazy. The whole song just sounds really forced to me -- the same thing that I have always thought about that crime against cultural humanity known as "The Pretty Things Are Going to Hell."

I find "Try Some Buy Some" boring, not offensive like "Reality." Which means I can listen to it boringly without reaching for the SKIP button.

I'm just about ready to give a formal review. Stay tuned.

TRON said:

When you get done, can you please e-mail it to me also? That'd be awesome...I'm very interested to see what you 'formally' think of it...

KingSausage said:

Will do.

I always look forward to your thoughts and ideas about Bowie.

It's cool to be able to talk about other artists I love here. I find the Bowie forums a lot less human and interesting than the org for some reason.

TRON said:

i find the bowie equivalents of "orgers" to be... well, insane in their taste in bowie music, quite frankly.

AaronMaximus said:

Namely, TWers.

TRON said:

the alt.fan.david-bowie ones are a little nuts too.


always bitching about having to spend money on b-sides and bonus discs.


i'd kill for any of my other favorite artists to do that sort of thing.

KingSausage said:

I really don't understand what the hell you're talking about!

calldapplwondery83 said:

i can see the comparison between the title track and Tin Machine. the music is in a similar vein, and the verses are patterned after TM's "Baby Universal" (the music in the chorus brings to mind "Hallo Spaceboy" as well).

i don't think it sounds like a Tin Machine *reject* though. sounds like the level of quality that Tin Machine was trying to reach, and nearly acheived on a few select tracks.

Fly
Queen Of All The Tarts
Rebel Rebel 2002
Your Turn To Drive
Love Missile F1-11
Disco King (Loner Mix)

are all available for streaming download on www.bowieaudio.com. Most are pretty cool. All that's left is Waterloo Sunset.