Personnel: David Bowie (vocals, guitar, saxophone, keyboards); Reeves Gabrels, Carlos Alomar, Tom Frish, Kevin Armstrong (guitar); Mike Garson (piano); Erdal Kizilcay (keyboards, bass); Brian Eno (synthesizer); Yossi Fine (bass); Sterling Campbell, Joey Baron (drums); Bryony, Lola, Josey, Ruby Edwards (background vocals).
Produced by Brian Eno and David Bowie
Recorded at Mountain Studios, Switzerland.
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 combines the 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 in and 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 right now, right here.
Track Listing:
Leon Take Us Outside
Outside
Hearts Filthy Lesson, The
Small Plot Of Land, A
Segue - Baby Grace (A Horrid Cassette)
Hallo Spaceboy
Motel, The
I Have Not Been To Oxford Town
No Control
Segue - Algeria Touchshriek
Voyeur Of Utter Destruction (As Beauty), The
Segue / I Am With Name - Ramona A. Stone
Wishful Beginnings
We Prick You
Segue - Nathan Adler
I'm Deranged
Thru' These Architects Eyes
Segue - Nathan Adler
Strangers When We Meet
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