LOW

Five stars for this? Granted, the dark, moody instrumental tracks go on much longer than on other Bowie albums, like Heroes, and actually sound like more than new age noodling, but the actual songs here sound more like incomplete ideas, fading out before they actually go anywhere.

On the rare event of listening to this, I skip the first half.

By the way, my copy, one of the Ryko releases, has two extra instrumental tracks, extending the moody side much longer, and a lame pseudo hip hop remix of "Sound and Vision", where the producer (was it Bowie himself?) thought adding inappropriate turntable scratches and dorky synth sound effects would make the song modern and edgy. Wrong.