Tonight (2018 Remaster)

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  David Bowie

  Neil Hopkins

  It’s generally acknowledged that Bowie was pretty much burnt out at this time, exhausted from touring and out of ideas. This album has only two original songs, the rest being covers and reworkings of earlier collaborations with Iggy Pop. The experiment with reggae is deeply ill advised, and even a duet with Tina Turner can’t save the title track (which has a xylophone part that sounds uncannily like the Monkey Island theme).

  Looking on the positive side with the two original songs, Loving the Alien is a haunting classic and Blue Jean (and the accompanying Jazzin’ for Blue Jean mini movie by Julien Temple) is a fun 50’s pastiche.