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LET'S DANCE

David Bowie

 

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3.19 | 304 ratings

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toroddfuglesteg
1 stars Bowie goes big dollars.

I remember this album from when it was released. The majority of my local school (high school) loved it. The geeks hated it. My own attitude was "could not care less" because I was in a Neil Young phase of my life. Well, I guess this review means I have fallen down from my fence and it will now place me among the geeks.

The Nile Rodgers influence on this album is very evident. He was the producer and he has a trade mark sound. This album is a good example. He is a good producer in his field though. But as a proghead, I am not a fan of his funk-fests.

The album starts with the very commercial and easy going Modern Love and China Girl before the dance-fest and almost Zeuhl like Let's Dance arrives. All three songs are pretty bad. His vocals is dark and they stay dark throughout the album. The rest of the album is a waste of time with songs who simply falls flat on their face. Cat People was a great song back in those days (the title track in a horror movie from 1982) but falls flat on it's face twenty years later.

Besides of all the memories from the high school....... and friends who is sadly not among us. Of the four people in my "posse" back in those days, I am the only left. This album is an abysmal attempt from David Bowie to earn top dollars by, please excuse my use of this too much used phrase, selling out. The geeks in my school said "this album is not David Bowie". I finally have to give them due credit because they were right. This album is indeed not David Bowie. It is an abysmal album and one I deeply regret I just bought. Nostalgia or not; this one is heading for my loft where I will forget it until the end of my life.

Abysmal.

1.5 star

toroddfuglesteg | 1/5 |

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