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Thoughts from the mind of Dennis Gunn, 01-07-2002:

>  >Okay, I did last week -- bought it without listening... and, to be
>>honest, I don't see what's astounding about it.
>
>I was quite the hard core Bowie fan 23 years ago.  Everything up
>until and including "The Lodger" totally blew my mind.  But the edge
>did seem to come of somewhere along the line between "the Lodger" and
>"Lets Dance".  Was it him or was it me.

It was him.  I lost interest at the exact same time.  "Let's dance" 
was the 1st album I didn't buy...
Then "Outside" was rather interesting again, some 15-20 years 
later... (don't recall the exact years -- that's age... :). 
"Earthling" again rather sucked in that it was a bad copy of Outside. 
And now this new album...  which sounds decent enough, pleasant 
background music, but not coming close to "blowing your mind"...

>Could it be that that level of creativity may be just too hard for 
>*anyone* to sustain forever.

Probably, yes.  I have the same sort of problem with Peter Hammill, 
whose music was (to me) even more earth-shattering than Bowie's.  Not 
so nowadays -- same story.

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