Earthling - David Bowie

I'm writing this as I find when I trawl through the Bowie ops that no one has written a piece on Earthling. I find this rather staggering but then I was the first person to ever write an op on Outside, when Bowie, at his latest gig, described fans of Outside as being his core fans (though I wasn?t there, my mate told me). Earthling, I'm reliably informed, came about from Bowie's obsession with Trent Reznor aka Nine Inch Nails. I'm not a big NIN fan, I like Closer though the explicit lyrics perhaps detract from the song. Still, it seems about right that Bowie considers Reznor starting point. Bowie is experimenting with a harsher, some say Drum ...

Taking yet another sharp turn in his career, Bowie turned his back on following up 1. Outside (with 2. Contamination) by treading down the Drum'n'Bass route instead. While the disc could have been an absolute nightmare, with the help of a couple of hit singles, the Thin White Duke has managed to maintain his credibility. Bowie also follows his 'song with a movie title' theme (that spawned Look Back In Anger) by composing 'Seven Years In Tibet'. ...