David Bowie - Never Let Me Down (1987) - 12 February 2010

Released: April 27, 1987
Recorded: Mountain Studios, Montreux, Switzerland 1987
Genre: Rock, Pop rock
Quality: eac-flac
Label: EMI America Records
Producer: David Bowie and David Richards

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Never Let Me Down is an album by David Bowie, released April 1987. It drew some of the harshest criticism of Bowie's career, condemned by critics as a faceless piece of product and ignored by the public — Bowie himself said that the album featured good songwriting that was ruined by overly commercial and dull production. However, it featured more of Bowie's own compositions than its predecessor, Tonight.

Tracks from Never Let Me Down formed the backbone of Bowie's highly theatrical Glass Spider world tour in 1987 (an official "video album" was released from this tour which was also called Glass Spider). The album's second track, "Time Will Crawl", was also used in the French arthouse movie Les Amants du Pont Neuf (The Lovers on the Pont Neuf).

Describing the album, critic Ira Robbins wrote "although this casual loud-rock outing... seems on first blush to be slapdash and slight, the first side is actually quite good, offering provocative pop-culture lyrics delivered with first-take enthusiasm and carefree backing."[1]

1. "Day-In Day-Out" – 4:38
2. "Time Will Crawl" – 4:18
3. "Beat of Your Drum" – 4:32
4. "Never Let Me Down" (Bowie, Carlos Alomar) – 4:03
5. "Zeroes" – 5:46
6. "Glass Spider" – 4:56
7. "Shining Star (Makin' My Love)" – 4:05
8. "New York's in Love" – 3:55
9. "'87 and Cry" – 3:53
10. "Bang Bang" (Iggy Pop, Ivan Kral) – 4:02

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Exact Audio Copy V0.99 prebeta 4 from 23. January 2008

EAC extraction logfile from 19. December 2009, 11:39

David Bowie / Never Let Me Down

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