Tonight
| David Bowie
Tonight
Tonight is the sixteenth studio album by English musician David Bowie, released on 29 September 1984 by EMI America Records. It followed his most commercially successful album Let's Dance. He described the album, released immediately after his previous album's tour wrapped up, as an effort to "keep my hand in, so to speak," and to retain the new audience that he had recently acquired.
The album was a commercial success, reaching number-one in the UK Albums Chart in October 1984, and receiving a Platinum disc by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and a Gold disc by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI). It has received mostly poor reviews from music critics and Bowie expressed dissatisfaction with it in later years. The album was re-mastered in 2018 and included in the Bowie box set Loving the Alien (1983-1988) (2018). -Wikipedia
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one of the weakest albums Bowie ever recorded.
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sputnik music
An eery Bowie classic.
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John Mcferrin
we get an album with no great hit singles ("Blue Jean," one of only two songs on here credited solely to Bowie, might have been a moderate hit, but it's nowhere near as addictive and fun as the big three from the last album, and I'd actually say it kinda stinks), none of the absurdly incongruous and great guitar work SRV was able to provide on Let's Dance, and a whole lot of other problems.
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Only Solitaire
An album destroyed by banality, but an album saved by diversity. Interesting, really.
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Adrian Denning
I'm not sure he cared at all at this juncture. Perhaps he had more important things in his life, who knows?
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Wilson & Alroy's Record Review
Bowie fans often rank this and the following record as his worst ever, but Tonight is notably better than Never Let Me Down; it's more stylistically varied and more clearly rooted in Bowie's signature sound. The Top Ten hit here is "Blue Jean," which has an entertaining marimba part, 50s-style rock 'n' roll horns, and a catchy guitar hook, but does get annoying after a while.
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Don Ignacio
Aw, Bowie was obviously trying too hard to be a huge pop star like Michael Jackson and Madonna. I guess it was working for the most part, because he was selling these albums like hotcakes!
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Robert Christgau
What makes Bowie a worthy entertainer is his pretensions, his masks, the way he simulates meaning. He has no special gift for convincing emotions or good tunes--when he works at being "merely" functional he's merely dull, or worse.
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