B ★ O ★ W ★ I ★ E
HALLO SPACEBOY!
On this day in music history: September 26, 1995 - “Outside”, the nineteenth album by David Bowie is released. Produced by David Bowie, Brian Eno and David Richards, it is recorded at Mountain Studios in Montreux, Switzerland from Late 1994 - Early 1995. David Bowie reconnects with his former collaborator Brian Eno when Bowie marries Somalian supermodel Iman in 1992. At the wedding, Bowie and Eno talk about working together again (for the first time since “Lodger” in 1979), but at first is unsure what musical direction they will take. Unlike their previous projects, they enter the studio without any material prepared ahead of time. What they come up with is a concept album based on a short story by Bowie entitled “The Diary of Nathan Adler” which revolves around a dystopian world on the eve of the twenty first century.Bowie and Eno write many of the albums songs along with Tin Machine guitarist Reeves Gabrels. It spins off three singles including “Hallo Spaceboy” and “The Hearts Filthy Lesson” (#92 Pop), the latter of which is heard over the end credits of David Fincher’s film “Se7en”. “Outside” peaks at number twenty one on the Billboard Top 200.
You need to pay attention with David Bowie I feel and this set slipped the net with me and (call yourself a Brian Eno fan?) how can that be? . . . . . . it's along boring story but I caught up later. I think I first found this by watching the film and then checking out what album the track came from. This is truly fascinating as is all the collaborative work for this listener with Eno involved and frankly so is everything he produced after marrying his beautiful wife Iman, when he seems to have become settled in his skin somehow and producing like a proper fine artist. I cannot put it any better than that and I am not sure Bowie fans would agree with me. It's just a feeling . . . . from this to 'Dark Star' I followed everything again.
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