Outside
Earthling
Heathen
Black Tie White Noise
Hours

Sorry, but Buddha still doesn't feel quite like it counts to me. Unfinished isn't the word I'm looking for; maybe half-hearted? Sure, it's more adventurous and experimental than a lot of the above, but in a "I don't care quite so much about this silly soundtrack" fashion that leaves a lot of the tracks feeling hollow and weak. I'd call it a better album than Hours and maybe Black Tie, if only I could convince myself that it deserved to be called an album...

TW's Top Fag!

1. Outside
Eart hl i ng
Tin Machine
Black Tie White Noise
Tin Machine II

Trying to navigate TW reminds me of what it was like having dial-up service.

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Buddha still doesn't feel quite like it counts to me. Unfinished isn't the word I'm looking for; maybe half-hearted? Sure, it's more adventurous and experimental than a lot of the above, but in a "I don't care quite so much about this silly soundtrack" fashion that leaves a lot of the tracks feeling hollow and weak. I'd call it a better album than Hours and maybe Black Tie, if only I could convince myself that it deserved to be called an album...

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Quoted for truth.

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Heaven is a place where
Nothing ever happens

Buddha didn't count as an album to me for about a decade, but another 6 years on it's earnt it's stripes. I've even gotten over my loathing for SWWM after sticking out Buddha regularly over the past 3 years or so.


Love is the Province of the Brave

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"I don't care quite so much about this silly soundtrack"

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But it isn't, that's the whole point.

(However I admit it does sound a bit half-hearted. Well, maybe not so much half-hearted as just something he made for his own amusement. I mean, he recorded the whole thing in two weeks with Erdal Kizilcay, based on the stuff he wrote for the actual Buddha of Suburbia soundtrack. It sounds like Bowie having fun and making music for himself and not an audience. Which actually makes it the most extraordinary Bowie release since Scary Monsters or thereabouts).

"Fishfingers are made of fish?! ... Then I don't like them."
- my brother

And because he's having fun and not trying to force any particular idea or formula the songs are so effective. Only about half the songs are fully formed ideas, but I'd rate each of those songs as bona-fide classics with "Untitled #1" being the best Bowie single that never was.

Pain is hearing Bowie and Mickey Rourke trading rap lines on 'Shining Star (Making My Love)'. Yes, the actor Mickey Rourke makes an appearance on a David Bowie album credited as "rapper".

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I'd rate each of those songs as bona-fide classics with "Untitled #1" being the best Bowie single that never was.

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I made a CD of Bowie's 90s singles and added Untitled # 1 to it. It fits in perfectly. It would have made an excellent first single from the album and may have lifted the status of the album somewhat.

bye tr

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"No peachy prayers, no trendy rechauffé
I'm with you so I can't go on"

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I've even gotten over my loathing for SWWM

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I'm afraid I'll never like it.

The most beautiful words in the English language are not 'I love you,' but 'It's benign.' | Mon Espace

1. Let's Dance
2. Outside
3. Earthling
4. hours
5. Black Tie White Noise

Let's Dance being the only one I still spin with any regularity. God bless "Shake It."

They let the retard in the game and he went wild.

This is provocation.

The most beautiful words in the English language are not 'I love you,' but 'It's benign.' | Mon Espace