Re: (TV) OT: Bowie/Visconti

["Philip P. Obbard" <pobbard@yahoo.com>]

--- Cliff McLenehan <klif@volny.cz> wrote:
> I agree with you Brian. I think it's time for a Tin Machine 
> rehabilitation campaign. I thought the first album had six good 
> songs and a lot of filler, but the second had a lot going for it.

CLIFF, STOP SMOKING THAT CRACK THIS INSTANT. The second Tin Machine record
should have resulted in automatic jail time for all members for including stuff
like "You Belong in Rock 'n' Roll", "One Shot", and the
so-bad-you-wish-you-were-still-married-to-Angela-Bowie "Stateside". I can name
three good songs on Tin Machine II - "Baby Universal", "Goodbye Mr. Ed", and
"Shopping For Girls". But even those are only "good" by Bowie-in-the-80s
standards - i.e., they would have saved TONIGHT, but they would have been the
low points on LOW, LODGER, etc.

I respect EMI for dropping Bowie when he brought them the tapes for Tin Machine
II.

On the other hand, I really enjoyed the first Tin Machine record, sans the two
underwritten "bonus" songs on the CD version. "Under the God", "I Can't Read",
the title track, "Heaven's In Here", etc. The record went to #3 in the UK
charts (now widely forgotten), and it deserved it, being a huge return to form
for Bowie.

> Reeves should also be credited for dragging Bowie out of the mid 
> 80's miasma he had sunk into.

I agree with that. There's a quantum leap between everything on NEVER LET ME
DOWN (1987) and the reworking of "Look Back In Anger" that Bowie and Gabrels
did in 1988 (Reeves' first track with Bowie). His playing was also fantastic on
OUTSIDE.

--Philip

P.S. One more Tin Machine slam: I'd rather listen to HELL FREEZES OVER ten
times in a row than ever have to listen to OY VEY, BABY again!


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