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Title: Fascinating Stuff
Review: The occasionally silly narrative is the only drawback to this record; I sometimes wonder what it would have sounded like without the various characters and their monologues interrupting these excellent songs. Not that the idea doesn't work: the dark, futuristic story informs the lyrics and gives the work a very creepy and urgent feel. Bowie, Eno, Gabrels and the rest of the personnel are said to have played role-playing games and engaged in various other musical experiments during the making of the record, and this sense of play and experimentation shows. Standout tracks: We Prick You, Hallo Spaceboy (which sounds brilliant nine years later on the current Reality tour), I'm Deranged, Strangers When We Meet, and I Have Not Been To Oxford Town.At least three of the songs from "Outside" were used in films; you have probably heard something from this record before, even if you don't know the work already.
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