Teh URL

Wednesday, May 18, 2005

David Bowie - I'm Deranged

Track Review
Released: 1997
Download It(5.3MB)

Found this little gem while checking out the excellent Lost Highway soundtrack the other night.

This is from Bowie's pathetic mid-90s "i'm down with the kids" period where he turned to the then hip industrial and drum n bass sounds to energise his sound. Frankly, at the time it was plain embarrassing to see this 50-odd year old rock dinosaur flirting with the popular zeitgeist in this manner. It smacked of sheer desperation and genre-whoring.

However, Bowie being Bowie, the irony is that this layered, brooding track has probably dated better than 90% of the output from legit industrial/electronica artists of the era. (take a listen to your old NIN and Goldie albums and you'll see what I mean).

Here's saluting the chameleon with a solid ....

6/10

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

<< Home