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The Buddha Of Suburbia, in many respects, is David Bowie's most important album of the 90s. Not the best (that is still Earthling), but this is the one that shook Bowie out of the simply trying too hard after simply not trying hard enough a decade previously.
It's rough, and has an air of the deliberately unfinished about it. Had it not been linked with Hanif Kureishi's exemplary dramatisation of his book and Bowie called it something like Strangers, it would have been retrospectively given a great deal more air and talked about being the belated follow-up to Low and 'Heroes'. Because the pressure was to an extent, off, it left Bowie free to score a soundtrack, pay homage to himself and his roots while rifling through various stages of his career.
Working in partnership with Erdal Kizilcay with David Richards engineering and programming, Bowie returned to strange, alien landscapes. The supper jazz of "South Horizon" - complete with Mike Garson's customary overwrought tinkling; the great Bowie pop of "Strangers When We Meet" (the interpretation on 1:Outside may be better, but this is still touching) and the two versions of the title track; one tender and the other triumphant with Lenny Kravitz doing his best Stevie Ray Vaughn.
What Buddha Of Suburbia did do was rouse Bowie from his slumber: in the next decade he would reclaim his art-rock crown and he now lives in fully venerated semi-retirement, something that may not have happened had this not come out quickly after the big budget confusion of Black Tie White Noise. Enjoy it now in this lovely remaster. --Daryl Easlea
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2007 Remaster of this excellent 1993 soundtrack for the BBC TV mini-series
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Buddah is the Bowie album that got away. promoted purely as a soundtrack album when it was first released only die-hard Bowie fans went for it. This album has some of the best songs he has ever written and to this day ranks in my top 5 all time Bowie albums. Give it a listen just once and your hooked!
21 of 22 people found the following review helpful
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Even though I'm a huge David Bowie fan and have a fairly large knowledge of his music, the reviews below me are of such a high standard that I feel I maybe punching above my weight, but I'll give it my best shot anyway. Here goes:-
This is a very experimental rhythmic multi-layered album that sounds all the better for being digitally remastered. The various styles of music on this take in everything from Jazz, Rock, Techno and Ambient (including instrumentals). There are some great tracks featured here that include: 'Bleed Like A Craze Dad' which has an Underworld quality about it, as does the rhythmically hypnotic 'S*x And The Church'. Also worth mentioning is 'Dead Against It' and possibly my favourite - the Ambient ballad 'Untitled No 1' that will just make you melt. The only dead wood on this album in my opinion is 'Mysteries', 'Ian Fish Uk Heir' and a second version of 'Buddha Of Suburbia' which although is very good isn't strictly necessary, as it's practically the same as the original - as stated by another reviewer.
Finally, let's clear this up once and for all, this is a 100% bonafide Bowie studio album that happens to be a 10% soundtrack as well - in as much as the title track only. So please buy this underrated little gem this time round as it deserves to be discovered.
This is a very experimental rhythmic multi-layered album that sounds all the better for being digitally remastered. The various styles of music on this take in everything from Jazz, Rock, Techno and Ambient (including instrumentals). There are some great tracks featured here that include: 'Bleed Like A Craze Dad' which has an Underworld quality about it, as does the rhythmically hypnotic 'S*x And The Church'. Also worth mentioning is 'Dead Against It' and possibly my favourite - the Ambient ballad 'Untitled No 1' that will just make you melt. The only dead wood on this album in my opinion is 'Mysteries', 'Ian Fish Uk Heir' and a second version of 'Buddha Of Suburbia' which although is very good isn't strictly necessary, as it's practically the same as the original - as stated by another reviewer.
Finally, let's clear this up once and for all, this is a 100% bonafide Bowie studio album that happens to be a 10% soundtrack as well - in as much as the title track only. So please buy this underrated little gem this time round as it deserves to be discovered.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Why this has not been re-released is a mystery to me. The fact that you can buy some pretty dodgy Bowie material and not get hold of this, one of his best and most interesting albums, requires some explaining by the men in suits.
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Hmmm...are you there David?
The Buddha Of Suburbia is by no means a bad album. The problem I have is that it doesn't feel like a bona fide Bowie album. Read more
Published 7 months ago by M. Evans
buddha of suburbia
the buddha of suburbia is one of the hidden gems within the david bowie back catologue.a must for bowie fans and probably also one the most accessable albums to get into ,so this... Read more
Published on 15 Jan 2010 by Mr. Sean Mcskeane
The true follow-up to Man who Sold the World and Hunky Dory
I will never forget hearing Buddha of Suburbia for the first time. I am a big fan of Bowie's earlier work The Man who Sold the World, with its meditation on sanity called "All the... Read more
Published on 24 Aug 2009 by Mr. T. Anderson
The best Bowie album never to have reached the top 75
Well, the title's a cheat as it's the only studio album to have never reached the Top 75. However, this album is awesome beyond comprehension. Read more
Published on 12 July 2009 by phatboi
Lazy Bones
It's a CD. It's a present. It hasn't been given or played yet. I assume it's OK.
Published on 5 May 2009 by R. H. Wright
Not a bad album
I waited years for this album to be reissued and finally it happened. Of the 10 tracks 6 are excellent 1 is a bit pointless and the 3 ambient instrumentals bore the pants off me. Read more
Published on 7 Dec 2008 by Mr. N. Foord
Excellent....
First things first, this is not the soundtrack to the BBC play... It is an album Bowie created afterwards, using some of the material from the soundtrack and adding quite a bit of... Read more
Published on 5 Nov 2007 by John David Charles Hilton
Bowie's 90s Resurgence
I became a hardcore Bowie fan as a teenager in the early 90s, when the vintage-years reissues started to come through. Read more
Published on 25 Sep 2007 by D. M. Deeks
Down on my knees in suburbia
And quite literally, I was. As a Bowie fan for 30 years I'd never been able to get hold of this album so it was with great excitement that I saw it being re-released. Read more
Published on 23 Sep 2007 by Trendy
Muted efulgence
It's not really important (though interesting) that this album started life as a soundtrack.
What you find when you spin this disc is that it's a very, very satisfying... Read more
What you find when you spin this disc is that it's a very, very satisfying... Read more
Published on 12 Sep 2007 by R. Herriott
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