Editorial Reviews
Hours
Music Review:
Music Review
Famous in the Last Century [Import]
Digital Love [CD-single] [EP] [Import]
Daybreaker [CD-single] [Import]
Drugstore's Rockin V.2 [Import]
Amazon.com's Best of 1999
Hours... is a lush, largely serene self-portrait through which David Bowie atones for mistakes and reflects on regrets. Not that this is the chameleon's swan song, but it's a fitting time for him to speak out honestly about his life--a life that's been lionized, criticized, and mythologized by the masses for three decades. Bowie's Hunky Dory muses were once "driving their mamas and papas insane," but here they are aged and faded ("The Pretty Things Are Going to Hell"); yet the man himself could not be more graceful or vibrant. --Beth Massa
Amazon.com
From Outside to Earthling, which were released only two years apart in the late 1990s, the rock & roll chameleon did his best to keep pace with fleeting dance trends, jumping straight from the persona of a post-grunge industrial phantom into that of a drum & bass beatmeister. While both albums were respectable representations of each genre, by switching directions with such angularity, the CDs were ultimately more costume than camouflage. With Hours... David Bowie updates his musical wardrobe,... read more