The Next Day
by David Bowie

From RockyRaccoon TOP 100 COMMENTER 07/09/2013 19:16 | #80700 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

Overall, I found this album to be fairly underwhelming. It was hyped up a lot for me for two reasons: First, I’m a huge David Bowie fan, so there’s that, and second, everyone was talking about how great it was. So those two things combined created big expectations for me. While this is a good album, it wasn’t the amazing album I had hoped it would be. There are some very good moments on this album, but there’s also a few that just didn’t feel to special to me. One very positive thing is that Bowie doesn’t come off sounding old or sounding like he’s trying to make people remember who he was. You get that a lot with older musicians, they release an album and the music is just trying to get people to say “Oh wow, I remember them. So many memories." The music should stand on its own, and in this case it does.

I need to take a quick side note here for a second: This album cover is terrible. I hate it so much. There were quotes from the guy who made it talking about how great he thought it was and how symbolic he thought it was of forgetting Bowie’s past achievements. It looks like he took the album cover to “Heroes" and did something in MS Paint that took about 30 seconds and said “Done." It’s so stupid. Anyways, that’s my little aside. The album is solid, worth listening to.

Yeah...I like Bowie too...but I can't believe that even the most loyal Bowie fan is honestly convinced that this is a good album. It's not terrible, but the 12th best album of the year?

From Shadow23 03/03/2013 13:28 | #66859 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

What a comeback album! I'm flabbergasted. We've got Bowie exploring new exciting steps ("Boss of Me") and we've got Hunky Dory-Bowie ("You Feel So Lonely You Could Die"), Ziggy Stardust-Bowie ("The Next Day", "(You Will) Set The World On Fire"), Scary Monsters-Bowie ("The Stars (Are Out Tonight)", "How Does The Grass Grow?"). Everything's here... Everything.

David Bowie's comeback album. The next day, seems to suggest that it's business as usual, a continuation of what went before, but also a moving away, hence the album cover. That was then, this is now. The songs, in my opinion, are all competent, with, where are we now, and, I'm so lonely I could die, the best tracks, but there's nothing spectacular here, just a solid David Bowie album. It's interesting, considering Bowie is always searching for something new, that after a ten year absence, he comes back with his most conventional record for years. Still, a solid album, just not stunning.

From bigeyedfish 06/20/2014 04:59 | #114848 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

I'm stunned by how great this is. Heathen and Reality already made classic Bowie new again and were excellent albums, but The Next Day reaches seemingly unattainable heights: in my opinion, this is the equal of his very best albums. Drawing from across his long career - most prominently from the Berlin era and Scary Monsters - The Next Day continues the modern classic sounds of his early 2000s albums, once again capturing Bowie's essence to create an album uniquely him. This album does so with such musical and sonic depth and taste that it instantly cements itself as one of his true masterpieces and could serve as a perfect capstone on the legend's discography, a grand finale in every sense. With a title like The Next Day, however, this may be only the beginning of a fruitful new act in Bowie's show.