1. OUTSIDE
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1. OUTSIDE
Outside (subtitled The Nathan Adler Diaries: A Hyper-cycle) is the nineteenth studio album by English recording artist David Bowie, released on 25 September 1995 by Arista Records. It marked Bowie's reunion with Brian Eno, whom he had worked with among others on his Berlin Trilogy in the 1970s. Outside centres on the characters of a dystopian world on the eve of the 21st century. The album put Bowie back into the mainstream scene of rock music with its singles "The Hearts Filthy Lesson", "Strangers When We Meet", and "Hallo Spaceboy" (remixed by the Pet Shop Boys). - Wikipedia
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Off The Tracks
David Bowie’s Most Underrated Album.
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RollingStone
is way too much of a good thing.
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Subjective Sounds
a solid album from start to finish.
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sputnik music
A problematic experiment, an astounding experience.
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ALL MUSIC
Outside pays off in a richly voyeuristic experience where Bowie once again reflects fringe culture onto the mainstream and forces us to consider that the differences are not so great.
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Music Box
Without a doubt, Outside is not an album to be taken lightly, and its complexity yields rewards only after the utmost attention has been paid to its contents.
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Medium
A 74-minute concept album about fearing the end of the century. This could have been a really good 35-minute album, but it isn’t. The concept didn’t age well, but I remember and miss the navel-gazing, existential end-of-the-millennium fears of the ‘90s.
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Only Solitaire
Bowie took a primitive genre that was already on its last breath and breathed new, even if a very short, life into it. These songs are subject to loads of interpretations, of course, but at least that's it - you may take this album and fit it in your personal dream. Me, I just haven't got any, so I'm not going nuts over it (like some fans did); but I sure would like to listen to it again. Sometime.
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John Mcferrin
Every time I listen to this album, I find myself glad that I listened to something that entertained me in the past while, but it's frustrating to have little idea why once I'm finished.
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Adrian Denning
It still is a masterpiece, albeit a challenging and generally underrated one. Dig in deep and wide, enjoy Bowie as his finest.
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Don Ignacio
Well, this might not be the greatest David Bowie album in existence—not by a long shot—but it's an entertaining one.
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Wilson & Alroy's Record Review
They're extraordinarily wacky, but his sense of theater sucks you in to the fantasy. All of this is hard to assimilate, but after a few listens any real Bowie fan will come around.
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Classic Rock Forum
Outside is David Bowie's bloated, flawed, and yet creatively rich mid 90's attempt to become artistically relevant again.
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TV Tropes
Bowie planned for the album to be the album to be the first of a trio of concept albums (the second would have been called 2. Contamination), but Bowie ultimately scrapped the other two records and left the story unfinished.
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