- Audio CD (Oct 5 1999)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Enhanced
- Label: EMI Music Canada
- ASIN: B00001QGPR
- Other Editions: Audio CD | Audio Cassette
- Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (182 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #54,688 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| 1. Thursday's Child |
| 2. Something In The Air |
| 3. Survive |
| 4. If I'm Dreaming My Life |
| 5. Seven |
| 6. What's Really Happening? |
| 7. The Pretty Things Are Going To Hell |
| 8. New Angels Of Promise |
| 9. Brilliant Adventure |
| 10. The Dreamers |
Product Description
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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, but for the first time in his career he drops the facade. The album is a real-life memoir of loss, regret, and repentance. He boldly intertwines trip-hop rhythms, new-wave nods, Reeves Gabrels's wondrously odd guitar riffs, slow, deliberate ambient tempos, and atmospheric synth accents, all while maintaining a cohesive, otherworldly pop appeal. The CD marks the completion of an ironic circle, where Bowie draws inspiration from contemporary trends borne out of a musical style he invented decades ago. Looks like Major Tom has finally found his way home, and what a gorgeous homecoming it is. --Beth Massa
Product Description
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
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
A very good soft rock album,
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This review is from: Hours... (Audio CD)
I was really suprised when I first heard this album because it was so different from the first album I heard by David Bowie (Space Oddity), but it's quite good in a different way. The lyrics are a little confusing but nice nonetheless, all of the tracks are pleasant to listen to, and the song "Seven" really stands out - i'd say its among the most beautiful and touching rock songs I've heard. I'm not giving it 5 stars because it dosen't quite have the oomph of the REALLY good albums like Kid A or Sgt. Peppers, or even Space Oddity, but if you like soft modern rock, it's definatley worth your 15 bucks.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not entirely fascinating, but pleasant enough,
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This review is from: Hours... (Audio CD)
Bowie's problem these days is he can't get used to getting on in life. Still siring children, squiring super models, becoming the internet and, all the while, purporting to retaining footing on the leading edge of the artistic world (mates with Moby, you know), all this in his fifties ... it isn't a modus operandi I'd follow to retain my dignity if I were him. But, with a pleasing showing at Glastonbury last year, and now this record and (to an extent) the more recent Heathen, maybe the signs are there that Bowie's finally preparing to reach for the pipe and slippers. Not before time. Finally, a record with no complicated double-album length concept art murders to tax your credulity (per 1. Outside); no drum machines played back at 78 rpm to have you groping for the Tylenol (per Earthling); no peroxided quiffs, china girls, red shoes, glass spiders, screaming lord Byrons, hobgoblin kings, pet shop boys remixes - nothing like that. Just updated middle rock, contemporarily produced nice tunes and lyrics of a nostalgic bent. The nearest thing I can put it to is the more straightforward (and hence less interesting) parts of The Buddha of Suburbia. And that's exactly the problem. It just isn't all that interesting. Despite what the papers said, it is not Hunky Dory (nothing like it, in fact) and, unless you lock yourself in, it'll be over before you realise it and you'll have wandered off to do something round the house, or started reading the paper, it's that engaging. Basically, it's cafe music. That's quite an indictment, so I qualify it by saying it would be a *nice* cafe, one sophisticated enough to deliberately not own the Gypsy Kings or Simply Red, but still cafe music all the same. Sorry, David.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Simply Spectacular,
By Mud Pyramid "rilaly" (Omaha, Nebraska USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Hours... (Audio CD)
Some of the times an album gets drowned out by an artist's former successes. If an album, from such a performer, does not break new ground it somehow gains less attention than the upstart's albums. This, my fellow legion of Bowie fans, is simply a spectacular album. This is David Bowie easing on the cutting edge for a moment to settle into sound song craftsmanship. How many artists out there can lay claim to so many incredible and unique albums. In my opinion, Bowie has had ten albums I would call incredible, and this fits into that groove. Subtlety rules on this album. A deft hand by both Bowie and Reeves Gabrels has been used on this album to at times fill the empty spaces, and at other times let it flow. To say that I am impressed by this album would be a grand understatement. This is a probably not a great starting point for those not initiated into the Bowie craftsmanship, but to those who love him as much as I do...it's great punctuation to the progressive brilliance.
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