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Earthling
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0827969209820
Format: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
Label: Sony
Manufacturer: Sony
MPN: 92098
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Sony
Release Date: March 23, 2004
Studio: Sony
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Customer Reviews
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Rating: - A Crash Course for the Ravers
After being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996, David Bowie released his 20th studio album Earthling in 1997. In the age of industrial music and sampling, Bowie followed suit with this Techno driven effort. Receiving some of the strongest critical reviews in years, Earthling incorporated experiments in British Jungle and Drum 'n' Bass. The singles were released via the internet and included Telling Lies, Little Wonder, and Deadman Walking. The track I'm Afraid of Americans was used ... Read More
Rating:  - Better than I thought
I bought a used copy of Earthling while I was living in New York. I had heard that it was very good. I slapped it into my CD player and was quickly disappointed. It was too dissonant and caterwauling for my taste at the time. I relegated it to the bottom of the pile. However, while traveling through the subway I had a second chance to listen to the album on my CD walkman. While sitting on a train in Penn station I realized that this was Bowie's best album in years. It is not for everyone, I realize ... Read More
Rating:  - Club/Techno Music...eck!!!
Like many other people that have reviewed this album I'm an avid Bowie fan and find something to enjoy in most all of his albums. But I detest club/techno music as much as I detest rap music. Had I read the one negitive review regarding this album I may have saved myself six dollars. You can add all the distorded power chords you want to these songs but it essentially comes down to the mechanical sound of a drum machine and synthizers. The year was 1997 and U2 tried a similar experiment with 'Pop' and ... Read More
Rating:  - Not Bowie's Best But Still Worth Having
In Bowie's stunning career, he has jumped genres and even reinvented them constantly. This finds him entering new territory again, but with mixed results. THe first half of the album is pretty good, certainly listenable. "7 Years in Tibet" is the only track on the album though that is really great. The title track is one of the weakest Bowie tracks ever recorded, almost on par with something off of NEver Let Me Down. NOntheless, if you are as a big a Bowie fan as I am, you will find things to like about ... Read More
Rating:  - Not good....not good at all...
Sorry. I'm as big of a Bowie fan as anyone, but I have to be objective and honest: Bowie's output from 'Let's Dance' through this album, 'Earthling', just flat out sucked. Sure, there were good tracks here and there, but Bowie's heart just seemed to not be in his music. In the '70's, he changed from style-to-style and developed his reputation as a musical chameleon...but COMMITMENT was in each of those recordings. Beginning with 'Let's Dance', it almost seemed as if he felt a need to constantly change ... Read More
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