| Artist |
David Bowie |
| Album Title: |
Black Tie White Noise |
| Album Cover: |
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| Primary Genre |
Alternative & Punk: Art Rock |
| Format |
CD |
| Released |
04/05/1993 |
| Label |
Savage Records |
| Catalog No |
74785-50212-2 |
| Bar Code No |
7 47855 02122 3 |
| Packaging |
Jewelcase |
| Tracks |
| 1.
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The Wedding (5:04)
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| 2.
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You've Been Around (4:45)
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| 3.
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I Feel Free (4:52)
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| 4.
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Black Tie / White Noise (4:30)
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| 5.
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Jump They Say (4:52)
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| 6.
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Nite Flights (4:30)
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| 7.
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Pallas Athena (4:40)
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| 8.
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Miracle Goodnight (4:14)
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| 9.
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Don't Let Me Down & Down (4:55)
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| 10.
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Looking For Lester (5:36)
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| 11.
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I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday (4:14)
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| 12.
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The Wedding Song (4:29)
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| 13.
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Jump They Say (Alternate Mix) (3:58)
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| 14.
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Lucy Can't Dance (5:45)
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| Date Acquired |
01/12/2013 |
| Personal Rating |
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| Acquired from |
Cowkittymedia (Amazon) |
| Purchase Price |
6.75 |
Web Links |
All Music Guide Entry:
Discogs Entry: |
Notes |
Recorded at Mountain Studios, 38 Fresh Recording Studios, and The Hit Factory
Mastered at Gateway Mastering Studios, Inc., Portland, Maine
© & ? 1993 David Bowie under exclusive license to Savage Records Ltd.
All tracks published by Tintoretto Music BMI except:
Track 2 published by Tintoretto Music BMI/Gabrels Music ASCAP
Track 3 published by Uni Chappel - Stigwood Music BMI
Track 6 published by Harambee Music Ltd.
Track 9 published by Starforce SACEM
Track 10 published by Tintoretto Music BM)/Tommy Jymi, Inc. BMI
Track 11 published by Warner-Tamerlane Music BMI
Nile Rodgers appears courtesy of Warner Bros. Records
Wild T. Springer appears courtesy of Warner Music Canada
Al B. Sure! appears courtesy of Warner Bros. Records
foobar2000 1.2.9 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2013-12-23 03:24:15
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Analyzed: David Bowie / Black Tie White Noise
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR12 -0.20 dB -13.65 dB 5:03 01/14-The Wedding
DR11 -0.20 dB -12.89 dB 4:44 02/14-You've Been Around
DR12 -0.20 dB -13.12 dB 4:52 03/14-I Feel Free
DR12 -0.20 dB -13.46 dB 4:54 04/14-Black Tie White Noise
DR11 -0.20 dB -12.72 dB 4:23 05/14-Jump They Say
DR11 -0.20 dB -12.35 dB 4:35 06/14-Nite Flights
DR11 -0.20 dB -13.38 dB 4:40 07/14-Pallas Athena
DR11 -0.20 dB -13.05 dB 4:13 08/14-Miracle Goodnight
DR13 -0.19 dB -14.21 dB 4:53 09/14-Don't Let Me Down & Down
DR13 -0.20 dB -14.08 dB 5:37 10/14-Looking for Lester
DR12 -0.20 dB -13.40 dB 4:07 11/14-I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday
DR10 -0.20 dB -12.01 dB 4:36 12/14-The Wedding Song
DR11 -0.20 dB -12.45 dB 4:05 13/14-Jump They Say (alternate mix)
DR12 -0.20 dB -13.16 dB 5:48 14/14-Lucy Can't Dance
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Number of tracks: 14
Official DR value: DR12
Samplerate: 44100 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 16
Bitrate: 956 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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| Reviews |
All Music Guide Review:
Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Black Tie White Noise was the beginning of David Bowie's return from the wilderness of post-Let's Dance, the first indication that he was regaining his creative spark. To say as much suggests that it's a bit of a lost classic, when it's rather a sporadically intriguing transitional album, finding Bowie balancing the commercial dance-rock of Let's Dance with artier inclinations from his Berlin period, all the while trying to draw on the past by working with former Spider from Mars guitarist Mick Ronson, collaborating with Let's Dance producer Nile Rodgers, and even covering inspiration Scott Walker's "Nite Flights." On top of that, the record was inspired by his recent marriage to supermodel Iman -- the record is bookended with "The Wedding" and "The Wedding Song" -- and then tied up and presented as a sophisticated modern urban soul record, one that draws from uptown soul (including, rather bafflingly, a duet with Al B. Sure!) and state-of-the-art dance-club techno, while adding splashy touches like solos from avant jazz trumpeter Lester Bowie and a nod to modern alt-rock via a nifty cover of Morrissey's "I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday." That's a lot of stuff for one record to handle, so it shouldn't come as a great surprise that the album doesn't always work, but its stylish restlessness comes as a great relief, particularly when compared to the hermetically sealed previous solo Bowie record, 1987's Never Let Me Down. Black Tie White Noise displays greater musical ambition than any record he'd made since Scary Monsters, and while much of the record feels like unrealized ideas, there are songs where it all gels, like on the paranoid jumble of "Jump They Say," the aforementioned covers, the impassioned "You've Been Around," and the self-consciously smooth title track. Moments like these are the first in a long time to feel classically Bowie, and they point ahead toward the more interesting records he made in the second half of the '90s, but they are encased in a production that not only sounds dated years later, but sounded dated upon its release in the spring of 1993, two years into the thick of alternative rock. At that point, the club-centric, mainstream-courting Black Tie White Noise seemed as an anachronism during the guitar-heavy grunge-n-industrial glory days -- something Bowie tacitly acknowledged with its 1995 successor, Outside, which was every bit as gloomy as a Nine Inch Nails record -- but separated from the vagaries of fashion, it's an interesting first step in Bowie's creative revival.
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