Music Banter - View Single Post - MB Bowie Classics: "Tin Machine II" by Tin Machine

~~MicShazam~~ · 06-09-2018, 01:26 PM

I think the best tracks on here beat out the first Tin Machine album, but overall, I'm still not that into it to be honest. "You Belong in Rock and Roll" is my favorite track on Tin Machine II, but there's not much else I'm really going to get up and root for. "Baby Universe" is pretty cool though.

I also feel slightly peeved by the somewhat poor attempt at covering Roxy Music's actually very good song "If There Is Something". Bowie's take removes all the sexy swagger and swinging rhythm of the verses and unnecessarily tames a mid section vocally, while not transforming it into anything new, for a quite disappointing result.

Overall, I like the sound of this album better than the previous one, but there's just not enough songs that really stick out as anything all that good.

3/5 again.

Spoiler for previous ratings:

06-09-2018, 01:26 PM	#7 (permalink)
~~MicShazam~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Aug 2015 Location: Aalborg Posts: 7,636	I think the best tracks on here beat out the first Tin Machine album, but overall, I'm still not that into it to be honest. "You Belong in Rock and Roll" is my favorite track on Tin Machine II, but there's not much else I'm really going to get up and root for. "Baby Universe" is pretty cool though. I also feel slightly peeved by the somewhat poor attempt at covering Roxy Music's actually very good song "If There Is Something". Bowie's take removes all the sexy swagger and swinging rhythm of the verses and unnecessarily tames a mid section vocally, while not transforming it into anything new, for a quite disappointing result. Overall, I like the sound of this album better than the previous one, but there's just not enough songs that really stick out as anything all that good. 3/5 again. Spoiler for previous ratings: _Previous ratings:__________________ (Rated on a scale relative to only Bowie's own discography, where 1 means the worst he's done and 5 means the best he's done.) David Bowie: 1/5 Space Oddity: 2/5 The Man Who Sold The World 4/5 Hunky Dory 3/5 The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust 3/5 Aladdin Sane 3/5 PinUps 2/5 Diamond Dogs 2/5 Young Americans 1/5 Station to Station 4/5 Low 5/5 Heroes 4/5 Lodger 3.5/5 Scary Monsters 3/5 Let's Dance 3/5 Tonight 1/5 Labyrinth OST 4/5 Never Let Me Down 1/5 Tin Machine 3/5 Tin Machine II 3/5 Black Tie White Noise /5 1. Outside /5 Earthling /5 Hours /5 Heathen /5 Reality /5 The Next Day /5 Blackstar /5 Last edited by MicShazam; 06-09-2018 at 01:57 PM.