I've indulged in a comprehensive, completely subjective overview/celebration of Bowie's SECOND PHASE, which I consider to be everything post NLMD/1987.
===ALBUM ))) ===Outside ===Heathen ===Earthling
===POP ))) ===Miracle Goodnight ===A Better Future ===Everyone Says Hi ===Looking For Satellites ===Telling Lies (Adam F remix)
===ROCK ))) ===Baby Universal ===The Buddha Of Suburbia ===Afraid ===The Pretty Things Are Going To Hell ===Let Me Sleep Beside You
===GOTH ))) ===Wishful Beginnings ===The Heart's Filthy Lesson ===Sunday ===Heathen ===I Am With Name (Ramona A. Stone)
===GRUNGE/METAL/INDUSTRIAL ))) ===Baby Can Dance ===Hallo Spaceboy ===Little Wonder ===Pretty Thing ===Seven Years in Tibet
===ELECTRONIC/TECHNO ))) ===Untitled No. 1 ===I'm Deranged ===The Last Thing You Should Do ===No One Calls ===Telling Lies ( Mark Plati remix )
===ANTHEM ))) ===Never Get Old ===Under The God ===I'm Afraid of Americans ===Outside ===Reality
===INDIE (?!) )) ===I Can't Read ===Fall Dog Bombs The Moon ===Tin Machine ===Cactus ===Slow Burn
===INSTRUMENTAL ))) ===Pallas Athena ===South Horizons ===Brilliant Adventure ===The Wedding ===Looking For Lester
===LOVE SONG ))) ===I Would Be Your Slave ===The Wedding ===Days ===Prisoner Of Love ===You've Been Around
===NARRATIVE ))) ===Shopping For Girls ===She'll Drive The Big Car ===I Have Not Been To Oxford Town ===Bus Stop ===Black Tie White Noise
===COVER ))) ===Pablo Picasso ===Nite Flights ===Waterloo Sunset ===I Feel Free ===Nature Boy
===BOWIE BOWIE COVER ))) ===A Hole In The Ground ===Silly Boy Blue ===Rebel Rebel (neutered-tho-nifty) ===Let Me Sleep Beside You ===Slip Away
===VIDEO ))) ===Jump (They Say) ===Tin Machine (20 minute medley) ===The Hearts Filthy Lesson ===I'm Afraid of Americans ===Pablo Picasso (spectacular fan-made-YouTube!)
===DUET ))) ===Gail Ann Dorsey ===Robert Smith ===Trent Reznor ===Annie Lennox ===Placebo
===GUITAR SOLO ===Slow Burn (Pete Townshend) ===Looking for Satellites (Reeves Gabrels) ===Sunday-Live (Earl Slick) ===The Buddha of Suburbia (Lenny Kravitz) ===Heaven's In Here (Reeves Gabrels)
===COLLABORATION ===The Cynic (Kashmir) ===Saviour (Kristeen Young) ===Province (TV on the Radio) ===Pretty Pink Rose (Adrian Belew) ===Nature Boy (Massive Attack)
===NAMEDROPPING ===Madonna (Pretty Thing) ===Andy Warhol (I Can't Read) ===Ted Bundy (Video Crime) ===Cher (Hammerhead) ===Michael Jackson (Shopping For Girls) ===Jesus (Bus Stop) ===Brueggel (Goodbye Mr. Ed) ===Velvet Underground (Crack City) ===Pablo Picasso ===Sex Pistols (Goodbye Mr. Ed) ===Golem (Goodbye Mr. Ed) ===Uncle Floyd (Slip Away) ===Glen Branca/Sonic Youth (Tin Machine)
===CREDIBILITY AWARD ===Removing Too Dizzy from Never Let Me Down ===Not attending/taking seriously Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ===Passing on Knighthood ===No Reality Shows, hourly tweets/blogs, etc... ===Son Duncan became killer Director, not musician + ===Kept his ticket prices startling low ===Kept promise of creating brand new exciting body of ===work...
===CREDIBILITY DEPLETION ===Lords Prayer-Queen Concert ===BTWN album promo of lazy lip-synced videos ===(had a full band-coulda played one gig & taped it!) ===Oy Vey Baby-(not even close to the best performances) ===Sound & Vision touring band (stripped of all nuance- ===Bowie's command of "broad strokes" - bad move) ===Striking Jesus pose's in a lime green suit & Versace shirt! ===Blaming his 80's output on peers like Phil Collins & ===Paula Abdul (I guess he forgot about the Smiths, ===Echo, Cocteau Twins, Kate Bush, Cure....even Michael ===Jackson or Thompson Twins for god's sake ! )
===WE ARE NOT WORTHY AWARD ===Fan threw a lollipop stick in his eye ===NIN concert-goers walked out in droves ===Record Sales & Airplay (at least in US) DISMAL ! ===Any critical respect "cautious" ===Axl Rose / Morrissey storm off stage if so much as an ===empty beer cup is thrown at them - Bowie attempts to ===finish a concert even though he's having a fucking ===heart-attack !! ===THANK YOU DAVID !!!!
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