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Alfred Huete
A pop culture historian,a bastard,a god,a lost cause.
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Alfred Huete's Album Reviews
![Loving the Alien [1983-1988]](https://fastly-s3.allmusic.com/release/mr0004924469/front/120/SgfbkhYs37d-lzLUVCOMmh_TZlp6n_cq-Emr2zx15tU=.jpg)
Nothing on here is essential.
Let's Dance is a fun album but it's not great and it's a poor follow up to Scary Monsters, still, it's fun and catchy and a solid Three Stars, it's worth owning in my opinion. It's all downhill after Let's Dance and little is worth owning a first time much less a second time regardless of the pretty packaging & nifty book.
1983 - 1988 are easily Bowie's most uninspired years. The production tends to be awful all around, the extended dance mixes are crap, the live albums are his absolute worst. Some of the non-album stuff is decent enough, Absolute Beginners is probably as good as it gets after Let's Dance but the awful production dates the hell out of it.
So why not a lower rating? Well it's Bowie and even his worst album has an interesting track or two, you just have to dig for them & dig hard but they are there.
It's pretty pointless reviewing something like this box set as those that will buy it are the fanatics who likely have most if not all of this material in a purer state (no reimaging rubbish, no needlessly 'long' versions, etc) but on the off chance someone is reading this review, are not familiar with this output & are considering buying this box set,RECONSIDER it's over $100 for the CD box set and almost $300 (!!!) for the vinyl box set and frankly it sounds worse in a big chunk like this than it did when these recordings first came out. These have not aged well,hell, both Tonight & Never Let Me Down sounded outdated from the get-go.
You can easily get all or pretty close to all of Bowie's essential work for the price of this bloated CD box set.
How often do you really think you're going to play the remastered version of Tonight?
Exactly.
Let's Dance is a fun album but it's not great and it's a poor follow up to Scary Monsters, still, it's fun and catchy and a solid Three Stars, it's worth owning in my opinion. It's all downhill after Let's Dance and little is worth owning a first time much less a second time regardless of the pretty packaging & nifty book.
1983 - 1988 are easily Bowie's most uninspired years. The production tends to be awful all around, the extended dance mixes are crap, the live albums are his absolute worst. Some of the non-album stuff is decent enough, Absolute Beginners is probably as good as it gets after Let's Dance but the awful production dates the hell out of it.
So why not a lower rating? Well it's Bowie and even his worst album has an interesting track or two, you just have to dig for them & dig hard but they are there.
It's pretty pointless reviewing something like this box set as those that will buy it are the fanatics who likely have most if not all of this material in a purer state (no reimaging rubbish, no needlessly 'long' versions, etc) but on the off chance someone is reading this review, are not familiar with this output & are considering buying this box set,RECONSIDER it's over $100 for the CD box set and almost $300 (!!!) for the vinyl box set and frankly it sounds worse in a big chunk like this than it did when these recordings first came out. These have not aged well,hell, both Tonight & Never Let Me Down sounded outdated from the get-go.
You can easily get all or pretty close to all of Bowie's essential work for the price of this bloated CD box set.
How often do you really think you're going to play the remastered version of Tonight?
Exactly.
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