"rough edges" that were then "sanded down" and given a "high-gloss finish". Pegg also notes that the appearance of three covers on the record was evident to Bowie hitting a creative slump. Spitz on the other hand, considers Let's Dance to be "as revolutionary" as Ziggy Stardust, Station to Station or Low. He finds it unfair to call it Bowie's "sellout record", saying it is "every bit as high concept as his canonised seventies efforts". Although he finds the record's first four tracks among the strongest of Bowie's entire career, Perone describes Let's Dance as a "double-edged sword", in that it was commercially successful but artistically, it found Bowie exploring more conventional lyrical themes and accessible music that would hinder his next recordings. On the album's influence, Billboard Joe Lynch argued that Let's Dance provided "the template" for alternative dance music "for the next 30 years". In 1989, the album was ranked number 83 on Rolling Stones list of the "100 Best Albums of the Eighties". In 2013, NME ranked Let's Dance at number 296 in its list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. In 2018, Pitchfork ranked the album at number 127 in their list of "The 200 Best Albums of the 1980s"; Jeremy D. Larson wrote that Let's Dance "sounds anything but dated" and felt it "became a Trojan horse for the world to discover all the many Bowies hiding underneath the blond bouffant and designer suits." Reissues In 1995, Virgin Records rereleased the album on CD with "Under Pressure" as a bonus track. EMI did the second rerelease in 1999 (featuring 24-bit digitally remastered sound and no bonus tracks), followed by another in 2003 as a hybrid stereo SACD/PCM CD. In 2018, Let's Dance was remastered for the Loving the Alien (1983–1988) box set released by Parlophone. It was released in CD, vinyl and digital formats, as part of this compilation and then separately the following year. Track listing Personnel Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes. David Bowie lead vocals; producer; engineer; assistant mixing; horn arrangements Nile Rodgers guitar; producer; engineer; assistant mixing; horn arrangements Musicians Stevie Ray Vaughan lead guitar Carmine Rojas bass guitar Bernard Edwards bass guitar on "Without You" Omar Hakim, Tony Thompson drums Sammy Figueroa percussion Robert Sabino keyboards, piano Stan Harrison tenor saxophone; flute Robert Aaron tenor saxophone Steve Elson baritone saxophone; flute Mac Gollehon trumpet Frank Simms,