Where Was He Then? David Bowie's Not-So 'Lost' Decade
The current received wisdom is that following the tour for 2002’s Heathen he fell off the map, but the weird thing about Bowie’s ‘lost decade’ is how little of it was lost....
- Mount Kimbie - Cold Spring Fault Less Youth
- Baptist Generals - Jackleg Devotional to the Heart
- Tribes - Wish to Scream
- "More bands should split up" - Brett Anderson opens up to DiS about the return of Suede
- CocoRosie - Tales of a GrassWidow
- Laurel Halo - Behind the Green Door
- Frankie & the Heartstrings - The Days Run Away
- Drowned in Manchester #15 – May 2013
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during the 1. Outside period in particular, he managed to be both very great and very crap.
...going to need some sort of quantification to that statement.
Outside represents Bowie at his most primally creative since Scary Monsters, maybe even Diamond Dogs.
The music was brilliant
his clothes were AWFUL
the whole 'I'm going to do a trilogy of albums with Brian Eno, I'm even going to give the second one a name' was sort of endearingly lame (I don't really mean 'crap' as a big insult)
people may disagree with me, but I thought the PSB remix of Hallo Spaceboy was pretty rubbish, seemed to go entirely against the spirit of Outside in order to get a hit, felt very cheap of them just dropping in the Major Tom reference
Given the choice now I would never take the 'story' bits out of Outside as I've just lived with them too long, but objectively speaking they're pretty silly and probably stopped a lot of people getting into that record (their loss, but as I recall none of the reviewers could get past it, really)
I don't really remember much about his fashion during Outside.
I vividly remember the getup he wore for Earthling but Outside is escaping me at the moment. And yes, you're absolutely right, the Pet Shop Boys remix of Hallo Spaceboy is proper tosh; but that's hardly Dave's fault - for an immensely better remix experience you have Trent Reznor's mix of Heart's Filthy Lesson. So much more appropriate: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIMs4flv8Pk
Good one
It was a sort of a gothier version of that
some of it looked alright, to be fair, but the extremes (notably his Brit Awards get up) were very silly indeed, and in general the fact he was trying to look a bit sinister didn't really pay off. Earthling and the Union Jack frock coat was pretty silly, but it was sort of intentionally a bit tongue in cheek...
it was ok-ish
much better than Black Tie White Noise