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~ David Bowie
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  • Audio CD (27 Sep 2004)
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Format: Limited Edition
  • Label: Columbia
  • ASIN: B00027LCQW
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 55,931 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Disc: 1
1. Leon Takes Us Outside
2. Outside
3. The Heart's Filthy Lesson
4. A Small Plot Of Land
5. Segue - Baby Grace (A Horrid Cassette)
6. Hallo Spaceboy
7. The Motel
8. I Have Not Been To Oxford Town
9. No Control
10. Segue - Algeria Touchshriek
See all 19 tracks on this disc
Disc: 2
1. The Heart's Filthy Lesson (Trent Reznor Alternative Mix)
2. The Heart's Filthy Lesson (Rubber Mix)
3. The Heart's Filthy Lesson (Simple Test Mix)
4. The Heart's Filthy Lesson (Filthy Mix)
5. The Heart's Filthy Lesson (Good Karma Mix by Tim Simenon)
6. A Small Plot Of Land (Basquiat OST version)
7. Hallo Spaceboy (12" Remix)
8. Hallo Spaceboy (Double Click Mix)
9. Hallo Spaceboy (Instrumental)
10. Hallo Spaceboy (Lost In Space Mix)
See all 14 tracks on this disc

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In the cyber-drenched 1990s, David Bowie once again proves himself ahead of the game. OUTSIDE is more a monumental collage of techno-war coldness than a mere album. Bowie combinesthe most essential pieces of each of his previous personas and musical styles to make OUTSIDE into an all-too-dense song-cycle with a story-line. Sound-wise, it is a closer musical approximation of "industrial" noise than the throbbing tones created by most young guns half his age.
OUTSIDE begins with the premise that the action is taking place here and now ("not tomorrow"), in a fading industrial town in New Jersey, circa 1995. A place that is littered with characters facing inhuman desperation as "rejects from the world-wide internet", making plans to "lease the moon" above their shop. Musically, Bowie reaches for the same densely evocative landscapes that make OUTSIDE's themes so disconcertingly real. A perverse mish-mash of booming classical piano trills loop inand out of machine-like drums and Bowie's schizophrenic monologues. Through the different characters we see the horrible truths of our dying culture--romance, for instance, is brought down with the admission, "if there was only something between us...besides our clothes". OUTSIDE is happening rightnow, right here.

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Bowie's Darkest Hour, 30 Oct 2004
Whenever a new Bowie album is released it seems people are more than happy to brand it as his best album since Scary Monsters!, however with 'Outside', I feel it is fully deserving of such praise.
'Outside' did originally recieve good reviews from the American critics, but failed to cause much more than a ripple of excitement over here in 'Old Blighty'. Now it seems much has changed and at last the British press seem to be giving it the praise it deserves.

From the opening track the album sets a incredible mood with it's brilliant production, dark textures and haunting musical landscapes and this incredible mood continues throughout. What really makes this album so enjoyable is that it contains some of Bowie's best music, the title track, 'I have not been to Oxford Town','Thru these architects eyes' and 'Hallo Spaceboy' are the more immediate melodic songs and easily excite. 'The Motel' is one of the best tracks and with Mike Garson's piano it remains the albums most haunting moment. All the musicians are more than fantastic but it is Mike Garson who dominates this album with his highly distinctive piano playing, it really helps drive the music along at a frantic pace, especially on tracks like 'I'm Deranged' which still after 9 years remains one of my most favourite Bowie tracks of all time. It all ends on a lighter moment, 'Strangers when we Meet' which is similar in style and construction as earlier Bowie hits like 'Heroes' and 'Teenage Wildlife'. As I say this is probably the darkest album Bowie will ever make and it is a must to any Bowie fan or any curious rock fan.

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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars THIS IS BOWIE, 15 Aug 2005
This one is what i needed,what i have been searching for in my life.I don't have got that digibook extanded edition and bonus cd because i bought original version of this album.This whole album is amazing.Outside is Bowie's best masterpiece.Light your cigarette,prepare your wine and listen this masterpiece in your room by yourself.Enjoy...
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4.0 out of 5 stars perhaps the final experiment..., 8 Feb 2005
By ashley thorpe (Athens, Greece) - See all my reviews
A wonderful album. A 'grower'. The more you listen to it...etc...At the time it seemed that Bowie was about to launch upon a new found era of experimentation grounded in the eras dug with Eno in the late 70's. Taking on board street dance grooves and pop/industrial sensibilities of NIN and the Prodigy this album marked a road forward whilst tipping a hat to past successes/influences.In some ways very much of its time (if one thinks of Tricky and the afore-mentioned)yet elusive in the way that only Bowie can be. Perhaps the closest thing to a 'Diamond Dogs' for the Millenium. The album is a half breed of experimentation and great alt. pop/rock tracks...having heard some of the outakes from the album one wonders how the original 'Outside' may have been if Bowie had been allowed to persue the chant / narration ideas as in evidence on the track 'I am with name'. The second disc here is comprised of things which are, on the whole, mostly expendable. The 'Rubber' mix of 'HFL' is great, as is the 'Basquiat' mix of 'Small Plot', Bowie's vocal isolated, a wonderful mix. 'Nothing to be desired' is one of the rare polished mixes of 'the stuff that got away' from the 'Outside' outakes (When will they release this stuff!!?!!)As for the Pet shop boys remixes: great material sold down the river...shoulda gone to Reznor/Tricky/Goldie.
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