Title: Two and a half stars
Product review: Bowie hits his first slump on this album. 'Blue Jean' , along with a couple of other tracks are good pop songs, but it's just padded out with too much filler. Even its high points don't match Let's Dance's, but on the plus side (or should that be down side?), this album is at least a bit longer. You have to accept that Bowie is no longer the avant garde enigma he once was, and just try to enjoy what's left. Which isn't much. 'Tumble and Twirl' is given a brisk, funky backing, and it's good fun, too.Yet half the album is made up of, at times embarrassing, filler. I especially don't want to hear Bowie singing about 'Old Rudy' in a cod-Jamaican accent ('Don't Look Down'), and the inclusion of a Beach Boys cover is the sound of a man without ideas, trying to get by as a crooner. I'd pick this up on Marketplace if you see it for a couple of quid.
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