| Artist |
David Bowie |
| Album Title: |
The Next Day |
| Album Cover: |
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| Primary Genre |
Alternative & Punk: Art Rock |
| Format |
CD |
| Released |
03/12/2013 |
| Label |
Columbia/ISO/Sony |
| Catalog No |
88765 46192 2 |
| Bar Code No |
8 8765-46192-2 8 |
| Packaging |
Digipack |
| Tracks |
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The Next Day (3:26)
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| 2.
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Dirty Boys (2:58)
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| 3.
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The Stars (Are Out Tonight) (3:57)
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| 4.
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Love Is Lost (3:57)
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| 5.
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Where Are We Now? (4:09)
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Valentine’s Day (3:02)
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If You Can See Me (3:12)
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I’d Rather Be High (3:44)
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Boss Of Me (4:09)
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Dancing Out In Space (3:21)
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How Does The Grass Grow? (4:34)
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(You Will) Set The World On Fire (3:32)
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You Feel So Lonely You Could Die (4:37)
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| 14.
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Heat (4:25)
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| 15.
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So She (2:31)
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| 16.
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Plan (2:02)
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| 17.
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I'll Take You There (2:41)
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| Date Acquired |
03/13/2013 |
| Personal Rating |
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| Acquired from |
Amazon |
| Purchase Price |
12.99 |
Web Links |
All Music Guide Entry:
Discogs Entry: |
Notes |
Design – Barnbrook
Engineer – Mario McNulty, Tony Visconti
Engineer [Assistant] – Brian Thorn, Kabir Hermon
Mastered By – David McNair
Mixed By – Tony Visconti
Photography By [Inner Portrait] – Jimmy King (6)
Producer – David Bowie, Tony Visconti
Written-By – David Bowie
foobar2000 1.3.8 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
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Analyzed: David Bowie / The Next Day
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR6 0.00 dB -7.59 dB 3:27 01-The Next Day
DR7 -0.57 dB -9.97 dB 2:58 02-Dirty Boys
DR6 0.00 dB -7.45 dB 3:57 03-The Stars (Are Out Tonight)
DR6 -0.49 dB -7.78 dB 3:58 04-Love Is Lost
DR6 -0.51 dB -9.25 dB 4:09 05-Where Are We Now?
DR7 -0.32 dB -8.13 dB 3:02 06-Valentine's Day
DR6 -0.39 dB -7.92 dB 3:12 07-If You Can See Me
DR7 -0.55 dB -8.17 dB 3:45 08-I'd Rather Be High
DR4 -0.94 dB -7.39 dB 4:10 09-Boss of Me
DR6 -0.58 dB -8.42 dB 3:22 10-Dancing Out in Space
DR6 -0.41 dB -7.97 dB 4:34 11-How Does the Grass Grow?
DR6 -0.29 dB -7.62 dB 3:32 12-(You Will) Set the World on Fire
DR7 0.00 dB -8.87 dB 4:38 13-You Feel So Lonely You Could Die
DR6 -0.63 dB -9.28 dB 4:25 14-Heat
DR7 -0.09 dB -9.95 dB 2:31 15-So She
DR7 -0.34 dB -9.80 dB 2:02 16-Plan
DR7 -0.43 dB -8.36 dB 2:41 17-I'll Take You There
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Number of tracks: 17
Official DR value: DR6
Samplerate: 44100 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 16
Bitrate: 1040 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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| Reviews |
All Music Guide Review:
Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Say this for David Bowie: he has a flair for drama. This abiding love of the theatrical may not be as evident in the production of The Next Day as it is in its presentation, how Bowie sprung it upon the world early in 2013 following a decade of undeclared retirement. Reasons for Bowie's absence were many and few, perhaps related to a health scare in 2004, perhaps due to a creative dry spell, perhaps he simply didn't have songs to sing, or perhaps he had a lingering suspicion that by the time the new millennium was getting into full swing he was starting to be taken for granted. He had settled into a productive purple patch in the late '90s, a development that was roundly ignored by all except the devoted and the press, who didn't just give Hours, Heathen, and Reality a pass, they recognized them as a strong third act in a storied career. That same sentiment applies to The Next Day, an album recorded with largely the same team as Reality -- the same musicians and the same producer, his longtime lieutenant Tony Visconti -- and, appropriately, shares much of the same moody, meditative sound as its predecessor Heathen. What's different is the reception, which is appropriately breathless because Bowie has been gone so long we all know what we've missed. And The Next Day is designed to remind us all of why we've missed him, containing hints of the Thin White Duke and Ziggy Stardust within what is largely an elegant, considered evocation of the Berlin Bowie so calculating it opens with a reworking of "Beauty & The Beast," and is housed in an artful desecration of the Heroes LP cover. Unlike his Berlin trilogy of the late '70s, The Next Day is rarely unsettling. Apart from the crawling closer "Heat" -- a quiet, shimmering, hallucination-channeling late-'70s Scott Walker -- the album has been systematically stripped of eeriness, trading discomfort for pleasure at every turn. And pleasure it does deliver, as nobody knows how to do classic Bowie like Bowie and Visconti, the two life-long collaborators sifting through their past, picking elements that relate to what Bowie is now: an elder statesman who made a conscious decision to leave innovation behind long ago. This persistent, well-manicured nostalgia could account for the startling warmth that exudes from The Next Day; even when a melody sighs with an air of resigned melancholia, as it does on "Where Are We Now?," it never delves into sadness, it stays afloat in a warm, soothing bath. That overwhelming familiarity is naturally quite appealing for anyone well-versed in Bowie lore, but The Next Day isn't a career capper; it lacks the ambition to be anything so grand. The Next Day neither enhances nor diminishes anything that came before, it's merely a sweet coda to a towering career.
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