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| 3.0 good | Michael Bracken | August 13th 18 |
The front half is loaded and "Fame" is a classic for a reason, but tracks 5-7 are such a slog it brings the whole album down.
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| 4.0 excellent | lz41 | April 18th 18 |
On the cusp of a cocaine addiction that would take him almost too far along the route to insanity, it's no surprise that there's a real love-hate relationship with America on "Young Americans" - or, more specifically, the America of Los Angeles in which Bowie immersed himself. The title track is the closest he would come to socio-political commentary; it's the sound of poor people being run over by a man in a Buick on his way to the bright lights of LA.
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| 4.0 excellent | Zilla2112 | November 26th 11 |
An underrated Bowie classic, 'Young Americans' takes a funkier and more soulful turn and contains some of his best music. "Win", "Fascination", "Somebody Up There Likes Me", and the hit "Fame" are some of the best moments.
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| 3.5 great | Tom93M | June 19th 11 |
'Young Americans' is also a lot more than just an interesting genre exercise, as it represented one of the first significant excursions by a white man into a genre that was previously seen as a 'black-only' style of music and is the process, Bowie opened the floodgates for blue-eyed funk imitators everywhere. Some would call it a genre-exercise and one that the fans didn't necessarily wish to be subjected to, and whilst that's true to some extent, 'Fame', 'Win', 'Fascination', 'Right' and of course 'Young Americans', that view tends to wear a little thin in favour of one that labels the album a different, but still delicious flavour, of Bowie. For those who just couldn't get over the leftfield change of style, they didn't have to wait long - by the time disco had exploded the restless musical chameleon Bowie had moved on to pastures new, but what else did you expect from one of music's great innovators?
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