alright I'm gonna go chrono then

oh and a YouTube video i see i see

u ever watched this? @Ithaka

he talks quite enthusiastically about all these follow up albums to outside that never came to be
and lots of other interesting things...

Oh man I remember that, Outside was gonna be a trilogy actually

he was even talking about 5 albums leading up to the turn of the millennium.
crazy what they had planned out

Sacrificing all that for hours 😭😭😭

lmfaoo for real, but at least we got earthling out of it

the thing with hours is, it's not even that its bad, its just soooo whatever such a middle of the road album lol

I’m one to think that a dull album is as offensive as a bad album

And on top of that hours just doesn’t bring anything new you know, sure it was contrast to the over the top Earthling but not a refreshing nor effective creative one, just.. very mid life bored album

I wonder how much was recorded of all that plan, I know there’s lot of stuff he recorded post Reality your he planned an electro album so

yep he just got married in the early 90s and this album just screams of that, just boring.

black tie white noise on the other hand is such a overlooked gem imo, which was actually recorded in the year after his wedding.

there gotta be tons of unheard stuff, but i'm not sure if bowie isn't the type to delete all that before he went up u know..

Ima have to go back to it it’s been a minute

I just can’t help to think hours was a damage control album... not just musically as it echoes some Hunky Dory sounds with that presence of acoustic guitar

But even his image

Like what, we’re trying to remind people of Man Who Sold The World era now?

It just doesn’t feel Bowie to me... he never ignores his past obviously, but this felt like a step back without any foot into the future or something new, so very anti Bowie at its core in some way, idk just uninspired

lmfao yea, actually was planning on listening to the man who sold the world tonight once more, so this is good timing

but his mind just wasn't in it making that album, kinda funny he ended the 90s with such a lackluster album but then came back strong with heathen in the 00's.

Yeah with Heathen he was like alright let me make it up for that b

Like I said imo Heathen is modern Low

yeah u said that before
need to remind myself of that comparison the next time i play heathen (which will be soon)

His Glastonbury performance from the hours era hard tho

Last time he performed this song live

love Bowie expressions in interviews

That interview so sassy hahaha

He ends it saying like yeah I don’t agree but I guess I understand... makes face

lmao

he did so many great interviews, esp. during the 90s

need to post some of em in here once i have the time

Also another gem from hours era live performances, actually my favorite version of performance of the song, magical voice - better than ever before?

I know Mike Garson on the piano plays some noodles of a classical piece there but it’s not coming back to me rn at top of my head.. (posting this ina heartbeat right before going into work)

Well it ain’t coming back to me lol it’s at 2:03 and 4:08

Beautiful version, at least the live of that era made up for the album material