An Analysis of Bowie's 1980s Pop Trilogy - PART 2: TONIGHT REVIEW

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The second part of this three part series looking at Bowie's creative decline in the 1980s as he became a superstar and lost his musical identity. This second part focuses on Bowie's 1984 album Tonight. Tonight saw Bowie attempt to sustain the success of Let's Dance with a new release, whilst not quite understanding the core elements which made Let's Dance a success. Whilst Tonight was a commercial success, it was a creative failure. A misguided, direction-less follow up demonstrating that Bowie was unsure how to sustain his level of superstardom as an artist.
PART 1: LET'S DANCE - • An Analysis of Bowie's...
Track List: -
1. Loving the Alien
2. Don't Look Down
3. God Only Knows
4. Tonight (with Tina Turner)
5. Neighborhood Threat
6. Blue Jean
7. Tumble and Twirl
8. I Keep Forgettin'
9. Dancing with the Big Boys (with Iggy Pop)
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@StephenSatterfieldTheSLSway Год назад

Superb review ! Loving the Alien, Blue Jean, and Tumble and Twirl were fine songs with fantastic lyrics, but I wish he could stayed up in Canada longer or waited to go back to the studio.

@yourefinallyhome 4 года назад

Really enjoying this series mate :)

@TheStrongBoyz19 4 года назад

Never really think of the 80's output to be one of his accessible and creative parts of his discography. Not everything was bad but it sours weakly and what I'd realise and then found the material themselves to be lackluster and not complete like the strong era from the 70's.

@djsamuel 4 года назад

Do a series off Bob Dylan

@TheAIbumMan 4 года назад

Im sure I will at some point :)

@michaelg6641 2 года назад

Show some respect. Your pedantic prattling is pointless. Bowie had to pull together a record to follow his biggest selling smash record Lets Dance, which was in rotation on MTV steady in the US (yeah I remember it like yesterday) and somehow follow that up, and just finished the Serious Moonlight massive world tour too, which I saw also. He didn't play any instruments on this record, or Lets Dance, which also seems rather thrown together actually, and featured a lot of Iggy Pops songs and help, but happened to be the first one that suddenly got notice. Do you think lightening strikes twice in the same place? Maybe they wanted a rest. You mention the records covers, but fail to mention one of the records (and Bowie & Iggy's) most standout, upbeat songs, Tumble and Twirl, an adventurous romp (yeah, Sailor had that theme) written by them as they visited Bali, Indonesia, where David 's final ceremony took place, he was taken with it that much. You mention the song Blue Jean, but not the totally cool video, where he plays the character Screaming Lord Byron, and the guy with the girl. I know it was less then stellar, but a lot of accessible Bowie songs came from tis era, but are not known it seems like because there all overshadowed by the Lets Dance record and tour.

@rogermurray8553 4 года назад

When God commands an Old Testament prophet to leap the centuries and hurl vitriol at the classic "God Only Knows", you know that He has an all abiding contempt for Brian Wilson, the song and and any and all artists, no matter their stature, ethnicity, or language of expression, who attempt to cover it.