re: the credits discussed above, this is what the '99 remaster lists:
Personnel:Carmine Rojas (bass)Omar Hakim, Tony Thompson (drums)Nile Rodgers (guitar)Stevie Ray Vaughn (lead guitar)Rob Sabino (keyboards)Mac Gollehon (trumpets)Robert Arron, Stan Harrison (tenor and flute)Steve Elson (baritone and flute)Sammy Figueroa (percussion)Frank Simms, George Simms, David Spinner (backing vocals)David Bowie, Nile Rodgers (horn arrangements)Bernard Edwards (bass on 'Without You')
― willem, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 08:12 (eleven years ago) link
Would have went with 'Modern Love'.
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Thursday, 25 April 2013 21:49 (ten years ago) link
The first side of this album is basically perfect. never really been so keen on the second though.
― president of the people's republic of antarctica (Arctic Mindbath), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 02:07 (ten years ago) link
comes down to "modern love" and "without you" for me.
― president of the people's republic of antarctica (Arctic Mindbath), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 02:08 (ten years ago) link
if Alfa Anderson had sung "Without You" it'd be a keeper. As it is it's an arrangement in search of a singer.
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 02:10 (ten years ago) link
the bass on "china girl" is all time
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 03:27 (ten years ago) link
This record could really use "Blue Jean".
― vmajestic, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 03:41 (ten years ago) link
Tonight could really use "Without You."
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 03:47 (ten years ago) link
I've only just clocked how good Richochet is.
― chap, Monday, 21 August 2017 11:43 (six years ago) link
David Bowie, 1983 by Greg Gorman. pic.twitter.com/uWT0GTmRsg— David Bowie News (@davidbowie_news) September 7, 2017
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 9 September 2017 13:32 (six years ago) link
China Girl has always sucked, eh?.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 17 December 2017 03:01 (six years ago) link
I was about to put forth a theory that the mediocre "China Girl" and "Let's Dance" must have been riding a wave started by the awesome "Modern Love," but I just checked and discovered that ML was the *third* single released from the album, after those other two. I guess people actually like those songs, then?
― iCloudius (cryptosicko), Sunday, 17 December 2017 03:22 (six years ago) link
A telling sign that ML was a third single was that while LD and CG both had splashy big-budget narrative videos, it got the lip-synched "live concert clip" treatment.
― Never Learn To Mike Love (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 17 December 2017 04:15 (six years ago) link
haha yeah
Let's Dance rules though, as do the vocals on China Girl
― niels, Sunday, 17 December 2017 10:08 (six years ago) link
Sorry this is a really poor album...even the cover of ‘Criminal World’ (which is a great song) changes the lyrics so the subversive nature is lost...and I’ll say this quietly but I really dislike Stevie Ray Vaughan’s playing...it’s just somehow rong’...
― X-Prince Protégé (sonnyboy), Sunday, 17 December 2017 11:03 (six years ago) link
...and I thought I couldn’t love Bowie any more
https://tidal.com/track/82969018
― X-Prince Protégé (sonnyboy), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 13:54 (six years ago) link
'Ricochet' was robbed.
― Bobby Buttrock (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 14:16 (six years ago) link