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Never Let Me Down [Enhanced, Original recording reissued]

David Bowie Audio CD
3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
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  • Audio CD (20 Sep 1999)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Enhanced, Original recording reissued
  • Label: EMI
  • ASIN: B00001OH81
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 34,835 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Listen  1. Day In Day Out (1999 Digital Remaster) 5:35£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  2. Time Will Crawl (1999 Digital Remaster) 4:18£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  3. Beat Of Your Drum (1999 Digital Remaster) 5:03£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  4. Never Let Me Down (1999 Digital Remaster) 4:04£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  5. Zeroes (1999 Digital Remaster) 5:44£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  6. Glass Spider (1999 Digital Remaster) 5:30£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  7. Shining Star (Makin' My Love) (1999 Digital Remaster) 5:04£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  8. New York's In Love (1999 Digital Remaster) 4:32£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  9. 87 And Cry (1999 Digital Remaster) 4:18£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen10. Bang Bang (1999 Digital Remaster) 4:30£0.89  Buy MP3 


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Never Let Me Down was released in 1987 and features "Zeroes", "Glass Spider" and the Lennon homage that is the title track.

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Overlooked and under- rated 1987 album from a bloke we LOVE.

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Highly ironic album title! 27 July 2002
Format:Audio CD
This was the first David Bowie album I ever bought, when it came out in 1987, and the beginning of a great adventure, so I have a bit of a soft spot for this album. It's often described as his worst album, but that's really not fair. The real word for it is disappointing - Bowie had proved he was albe to still come up with great music during this time, just listen to the lost classic "When The Wind Blows" (not on any album, grr) or the more well-known songs from the films "Absolute Beginners" and "Labyrinth". He also co-wrote and produced Iggy Pop's "Blah Blah Blah" back to back with this album, and the Iggy album is a Bowie record in all but name and full of great songs - if he'd kept them to himself things would have been completely different!

I was only 11 when I got this album (wanting to find out more about this strange singer after seeing Labyrinth and being very impressed) and to my untrained ears "Never Let Me Down" had a certain something that made it stand out from the bland yuppie pop of the time, but compared to recent efforts like "Outside", "Heathen" and "The Buddha of Suburbia" it certainly is weak for Bowie. The only other albums (OK tapes!) I bought in 1987 also go to show how weak "Never Let Me Down" was in comparison, and how low Bowie had fallen from his creative peak - "so" by Peter Gabriel, and "Actually" by Pet Shop Boys.

There are some terribly uninspired songs that leave me cold - a pointless remake of Iggy Pop's "Bang Bang", and "Too Dizzy" a song so bad that it has been left off the most recent version of this album!...

So, not quite as atrocious as the critics make out - and not as boring as the very overrated "Let's Dance" - but not exactly his finest hour! Thankfully he made "Tin Machine" after this, which completely destroyed his '80s middle of the road pop star persona and got him thinking about making interesting records again, and most of his '90s work has been essential listening, with the exception of the rather dull "Hours".

Definitely the worst Bowie record sleeve ever! Read more ›

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars I've tried to like this album, I really have! 27 Mar 2013
Format:Audio CD
I've owned this album since it came out (in fact I only have it on vinyl!). As I write this I'm trying to listen to it again. In previous years I've got about as far as the end of the first side (Zeroes) and given up. Listening to it again now after not hearing it for several years, well it still doesn't quite grab me but I've managed to turn it over and venture into Side 2. It sounds like the soundtrack to an 80s movie, imagine Top Gun but with a gay submariner at the heart of the storyline. Hollywood, if you read this I'll write the screenplay. The sound track is already sorted!

I saw Bowie perform the Glass Spider Tour concert at Cardiff Arms Park, and it was pretty obvious then the majority of the audience was there for the classics. The Glass Spider concept, with its naive and clumsy Future Legend-style spoken prose at the start of that track seems a ridiculous attempt to recycle the brilliance of Diamond Dogs. Bowie has a habit of regurgitating old ideas and sometimes it works, not on this occasion though.

If you like 80s pop, Kids from Fame, leg warmers, plastic jewellery, speed boats and linen suits, you'll enjoy this enormously. Personally I think Bowie was slightly wrong-footed by what other bands and artists were doing around him at this time and was left treading water until he could come up with something better.

Oh please, someone tell Carlos Alomar to stop noodling all over the songs!! I've almost made it to the end of the album, but I'll never get that time back...

Signed, a massive Bowie fan
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars SPINAL TAP 17 April 2012
Format:Audio CD
I have a real fetish for commercial or artistic disasters,i am a glutton for punishment.LOVE the bloated glory of U2s Pop album,love the amped up discord of REMs Monster,Lou Reeds tuneless masterpiece Lulu,Queens Hot Space and by golly feast upon the master of mistep Gary Numans post Telekon material.Up there is David Bowie circa 1987,Pepsi ads with Tina Turner,enormous terminally hairsprayed MULLET and the immense Glass Spider tour.Fantastic.
Watch Bowie in interviews from 1987 on youtube,a truly mind boggling experience as Bowie very much the insulated,rich pop superstar uses words like "dynamite!",raves about Paul Young,talks about the "funky,turkish,durvish" playing of his guitarist,plays a goblin king in Labriynth....
You can almost feel the cool crowd suffer a collective coronary as the former purveyer of taste swaps artistry for platinum,middle aged blandness.You know everyone goes on about this period but lets be honest here David Bowie is in no way,shape or form a stupid man.This is a performer who knows exactly what he's doing.
Except what he was doing in 1987 was awful,cheesy,soaked in irrelevance.
Bowie i assume thought i want this.
Never Let Me Down should be treated as a harmless artefact of its time.On its own terms its an enjoyably superfluous album.From the multi millionaire rock star preaches about the homeless Day In,Day Out to the actually rather brilliant Time Will Crawl,the cringing monologue of Glass Spider....its a baffling,flawed album.
Certainly make no mistake 87 Bowie was equally as much as a character as Ziggy,Thin White Duke.
In this context Glass Spider,Never Let Me Down works.
Plus i like to think this experience led to the genius albums Buddha Of Suburbia and my favourite album Outside.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
3.0 out of 5 stars redeeming tracks but still...a let down
I saw Bowie during the tour for this album.Glass Spider opened the show...Bowie being lowered down from on high in a chair dressed in a red suit.The crowd went wild.Great memories. Read more
Published 12 days ago by S. Corbett
5.0 out of 5 stars A David Bowie classic for me!
Great album. Brings back memories of when my hubby and I went to see Bowie in Manchester many years ago. Fab.
Published 2 months ago by bargainhunterH
5.0 out of 5 stars Bowie Never Let Me Down
This isn't as bad as some people would have you believe. 10 years ago I lost all of my Bowie collection and wasn't able to replace it until only a few months ago. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Miss Heather Morgan
2.0 out of 5 stars Only just better than TONIGHT.
Still in the dancy, poppy stuff. However, it did have a harder edge and more "rockers" (lack of a better word) than Tonight. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Mr Paul Savory
4.0 out of 5 stars Very very good
This little gem receives negative and positive reviews in equal measure, and whilst no one would claim it to be Bowie's best work, it's one I find myself returning to on a regular... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Norman Cheeseworthy
4.0 out of 5 stars A master class
If you were teaching a masterclass in late eighties music, you could do no better than use this album. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Wyrdskein
5.0 out of 5 stars David Bowie Rocks.
Loved this. He is at his best, never, ever run of the mill, corny or like anyone else.You don't have to be a life long fan to dig this. Read more
Published on 5 Aug 2010 by jo
5.0 out of 5 stars If you are genuine and serious about music,
I implore you, BUY this album. I had it as a teenager on tape, but never replaced it, and have got all the Let's Dance, Space Oddity, Heathen, in fact 12 in all, and the other day... Read more
Published on 9 Jun 2009 by S. Chandler
2.0 out of 5 stars Bowie's 2nd worst album
After the wretched Tonight album came Never Let Me Down. At least this album had a few more ideas but the songs really aren't up to scratch. Read more
Published on 3 Oct 2008 by Mr. Jonathan Robin Oxley
3.0 out of 5 stars Again, not as bad as commonly made out
When I bought this upon release I really liked it, regarding NLMD as a return to form for Bowie (indeed, I had heard Beat of Your Drum on the radio prior to the album's release and... Read more
Published on 2 May 2008 by G. Donaldson
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