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Let's Dance [ECD]
David Bowie returned to recording after a four-year break with this relatively clean-cut 1983 album. Although offering another definite new direction for Bowie, with Nile Rodgers of Chic helping to produce a stylish post-disco dance sound, Let's Dance is a mixed bag. Much of the album's success was due to its three danceable hit singles--"China Girl," a sensuous Bowie/Iggy Pop collaboration, the distinctive "Modern Love," and the funky title track. However, much of the rest of the album is bland and vapid, marking the start of serious decline in Bowie's songwriting skills. A cover of Metro's "Criminal World" and "Cat People" are the only other strong tracks here. --James Swift more
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- Posted: Sep-17-2008
David Bowie - Let's Dance
David Bowie never stays with one musical style for very long; however, I think this may be the first time he has revisited a previous approach. His interest in R&B/dance music began with the Young Americans album and ended with the Station to Station album - or so we thought. David teamed up with...
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- Posted: Aug-06-2008
Definitely listenable and worth picking up, but it was all downhill from here....
This was actually the first Bowie album I ever bought (!), and I still like it, despite listening to his much more adventurous and creative music that preceeded this album. This was Bowie's biggest album commercially, infuriating many longtime fans and gaining a lot of new ones. Is is awful?...
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- Posted: Mar-20-2008
Lets Dance
David Bowie-Lets Dance ****Alright, alright, alright, it is easy to see that Let's Dance is not David Bowie's best album, it is way far from it. But with that being said lets make it a point to say that Let's Dance is also not his worst album, way far from that as well. Everyone says that this...
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- Posted: Feb-12-2008
Mistaken reinvention
Very much a product of its time, "Let's Dance" has not aged particularly well. It's a post-disco dance record by way of a superstar and is also easily his most uneven since "Young Americans" (another album that was a product of its time). And is he trying to look like Billy Idol on the album...
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- Posted: Nov-10-2006
Two Thumbs Up
What can you say? Every song on this CD is great!
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- Posted: Feb-13-2006
Good (as always), but it's not Dave.
I bought this album because I heard Let's Dance on the radio. It was a Bowie song I never heard, but I liked it so I bought the album. It had some pretty "okay" songs on it. Let's Dance and China Girl are definately the highlights on this record, and perhaps the only highlights. The others are...
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- Posted: Jan-17-2006
Let's dance (and you'd better not expect anything else than that)
''Let's Dance'' is not one of Bowie's best albums, but it's something you need to check, like all of Nile Rodger's co-produced works. Analysed as an artistic project it's not even in Bowie's top10, due to the inconsistency that marked all of his albums after ''Lodger'' and is not absent here...
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- Posted: Jan-16-2006
4 1/2 stars - Much better than you're led to believe
David Bowie's 1983 opus, "Let's Dance" has become quite a controversial title in his catalog in the years passing since it's release. Some see it as a sellout, others see it as a nadir, but I think both views are a little out of hand.Following SEVEN five-star albums (IMO) between 1974-1980...
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- Posted: Jan-08-2006
Far From The Gods
On the one hand, 'Let's Dance' is the first album since his 1967 debut, where Bowie releases a record not worthy of the highest praise on this planet. But on the other hand, it is by far not as awful as some have made it. Also, it is very much 1983 in a bottle, as Ziggy was 1972, Heroes 1977 and...
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- Posted: Nov-05-2005
Half of It Still Holds Up
Exchanging art for commerce, David Bowie decides to drop much of his artful tendencies, put on his red shoes and dance the blues. The results are simultaneously fashionable, fascinating and frustrating. For Bowie, this was his most blatant attempt at commerciality since Young Americans, and the...
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