David Bowie - Reality
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Artist: David BowieEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2003-09-16
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- New Killer Star
- Pablo Picasso
- Never Get Old
- The Loneliest Guy
- Looking for Water
- She'll Drive the Big Car
- Days
- Fall Dog Bombs the Moon
- Try Some, Buy Some
- Reality
- Bring Me the Disco King
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Free Music Review: Best rock DVD ever!
Hit: 5 Stars
Outstanding video of the 'Reality' tour Dublin concert.
First: the vidoegraphy was by far the best I have seen in music videos with a perfect balance of lingering and fleeting, close-up and expanded, multi-color and black-and-white, pulsing and flowing...images mainly of Bowie performing, but also of the featured musicians as appropriate. Superb - worlds apart from those annoying, neurotic music videos that are a dime a dozen on MTV. Here, the cameras and editors have captured the essence of the genius of Bowie - the passion, the emotion, the brilliance. I have watched this DVD over a dozen times in a month and I am still blown away.
Second - and possibly more important: the music. The sound balance is perfect. The band is probably the best Bowie has ever toured with. The keyboard player's solos give me constant goosebumps - on a par with the awesome piano solo on the studio version of Alladin Sane (probably the same guy!) In fact, on many of the songs, I prefer the live concert version to the original studio version - in particular the stripped-down version of 'Loving the Alien', my all-time favorite 'Ashes to Ashes' and the relatively unknown 'Bring me the Disco King'. I hardly paid attention to the studio version of the latter, but Bowie's vocal performance on this track especially was worth the entire DVD. Bowie must be pushing 60 in this concert and yet his voice, personality and stage presence are the strongest I have ever witnessed.
Brilliance! Sheer brilliance.
Reality Poster
Expectations have long been the mixed blessing of David Bowie's illustrious, if at times frustrating career. Whether he addresses the inherent paradoxes of his own chameleonic past on this loose concept album (or, given his statements arguing that there's "not any ultimate reality," is it anti concept?) is almost beside the point: The real glue that holds it together is the renewed strength of Bowie's songwriting. If his success at reinvention arguably went off the rails sometime between the dance-club affectations of Let's Dance and Tin Machine's noisy, overweening art-rock, he continues the renewed embrace of basics heralded by Heathen here. Not surprisingly that album's producer, Tony Visconti, has returned, framing Bowie's muscular efforts in ever more ambitious and far-ranging productions that paradoxically echo both Bowie's modern Manhattan roots and his 60's-70's musical prime (an era during which Visconti was often a key collaborator). Be they oblique, if cutting commentaries on current geo-politics (the Low/Heroes-era evoking "New Killer Star," "Fall Dog Bombs the Moon" and "Looking For Water"), surprising cover choices (Jonathan Richman's "Pablo Picasso" all dizzy and beefed-up; a suitably grand, Wall-of-Sound recreation of Ronnie Spector's obscure, George Harrison-penned "Try Some, Buy Some") or more personal concerns (the vaguely Incan "Days"; the rhythmic Low-isms of "Never Get Old"), Bowie's work here is powered by a renewed sense of dramatic focus and musical purpose that's refreshingly free of the shackles of fashion and self-imposed reinvention. It's true you can't go home again; but damned if Bowie hasn't found his most compelling music in decades trying. --Jerry McCulleyAlternative Rock Music CDs
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