Right now I'm digging the new 180 gram vinyl version of David Bowie's Outside album called 'Excerpts from Outside'.
By necessarily jettisoning all the pretentious twaddle in order to squeeze this work onto a single LP, the focus here is on the songs and the resulting album is so much stronger than the CD version that it could easily stand among Bowie's best 70's work. It could, in fact, be a logical extension of the direction he took with 'Scary Monsters', as if that horrible apathetic 80's era never even happened, and isn't that a pleasant thought?
Hard to find and expensive but well worth it for die hard fans. A little glimpse of what might have been. All of Bowie's 90's records were full of excellent moments, so I hope this trend of seeing how they might have existed in the abbreviated LP format will continue.
Just because you have 80 minutes doesn't mean you should feel compelled to fill 80 minutes. I'll take quality over quantity every time.