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Overview
Much as Low and Lodger reflected David Bowie's surroundings in Berlin, Reality follows 2002's Heathen in documenting the singer's settling into adulthood -- if not altogether into middle age -- as a New Yorker and a family man. Relatively spare in construct and dominated by straight-ahead guitar songs, the disc has its moments of melancholy ("Fall Dog Bombs the Moon") and warm contentment (the spangly "Days of My Life"), all of which seem connected by Bowie's desire to present himself, in contrast to his persona-hopping of past decades, as just a regular guy. For the most part, he's successful in doing just that: The ballad "The Loneliest Guy in the World" (not nearly as morose a tune as the title suggests) is as open as anything he's ever done, while the wispy "New Killer Star" (a musing on September 11th) reveals a surprisingly empathetic streak. Dating back to his earliest days, documented on Pin-Ups, Bowie's had a knack for cleverly choosing cover songs and smartly refashioning them in his own image. Here, the singer revamps a pair of distinctly different ditties, cloaking Jonathan Richman's snotty, postadolescent plaint "Pablo Picasso" in cocked-eyebrow detachment and then peeling back that attitude for a spare version of George Harrison's "Try Some Buy Some." Think of Reality as a portrait -- or, more accurately, a short film -- of an artist still finding himself after all these years.
Product Details
Release Date: | 04/29/2008 |
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Label: | Sbme Special Mkts. |
UPC: | 0886972663029 |
catalogNumber: | 726630 |
Rank: | 22599 |
Tracks
Album Credits
Performance Credits
David Bowie Primary Artist,Synthesizer,Guitar,Percussion,Keyboards,Baritone Saxophone,Background Vocals,StylophoneEarl Slick Guitar
Mike Garson Piano
David Torn Guitar
Gail Ann Dorsey Background Vocals
Sterling Campbell Drums
Matt Chamberlain Drums
Catherine Russell Background Vocals
Tony Visconti Bass,Guitar,Keyboards,Background Vocals
Gerry Leonard Guitar
Mark Plati Bass,Guitar
Mario J. McNulty Percussion,Drums
Technical Credits
David Bowie Composer,ProducerGeorge Harrison Composer
Jonathan Richman Composer
Tony Visconti Producer,Engineer
Rex Ray Illustrations
Bill Jenkins Engineer
Brandon Mason Engineer
Mario J. McNulty Engineer
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