Tonight is the 16th studio album by Bowie,released on 2/9/84.he follow-up to his most commercially successful album Let's Dance,The music on Tonight has been characterised as pop,blue-eyed soul,dance & rock. Much of the album's sound is the same as its predecessor's,due to Bowie's effort to retain the new audience that he had recently attracted,although some tracks contain R&B and reggae influences.Much of Bowie's creative process was the same as he used on Let's Dance.Devoid of new ideas from touring Bowie wrote only two new songs himself. Three songs, including the title track, were covers of Iggy Pop songs.Supported by the singles"Blue Jean","Tonight & "Loving the Alien".However,it received mostly poor reviews from music critics,with most noting its lack of creativity,Bowie would later express dissatisfaction with this period,calling Tonight not one of his stronger efforts,a sentiment echoed by later reviewers and Bowie's biographers.Full story and detailed playlist in the comment
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1. Loving The Alien (Club Clique Coeur De Lion Edit)
2. Blue Jean (Vocal Track).
3. Don't Look Down (Extended Dance Mix)
4. Tonight (Lionel Simon Extended Mix)
5. Tumble and Twirl (Extended Dance Mix)
6. Dancing With The Big Boys (Extended Dance Mix, 2018 Remastered Version)
7. Loving the Alien (Single Version)
8. Blue Jean (John 'Jellybean' Benitez 12'' Dance Mix)
9. God Only Knows.
10. I Keep Forgettin'
11. Dont Look Down (Remix)
12. Tonight (Vocal Dance Mix)
13. Neighborhood Threat
14. Loving The Alien (Extended Mix)
15. Blue Jean (Dub Remix).
16. Tumble and Twirl
17. Dancing With The Boys (Extended Dub Mix)
18. Dont Look Down
19. God Only Knows (2018 Remastered Version)
20. Tonight (Dub Mix)
21. Blue Jean (2018 Remaster).
22. Loving The Alien (Extended Dub Mix)
23. Tonight ( DreamTime Mix)
24. Tumble and Twirl (2018 Remastered Version)
25. Blue Jean (Extended Re-Mix) 26. I Keep Forgettin' (2018 Remastered Version)
27. Dancing With The Big Boys
28. Loving The Alien
29. When the Wind Blows
30. Blue Jean ( Video version)
31. Tonight (Live With Tina Turner)
32. Loving The Alien (A Reality Tour)
33. Absolute Beginners
34. That's Motivation
35. Blue Jean (Golden Years Collection edit)
36. As the World Falls Down
37. This Is Not America (with Pat Metheny)
38. Loving The Alien (Tusk Come & Go Remix)
39. Neighborhood Threat (2018 Remastered Version)
40. Blue Jean (DJ Andreas Club Remix)
41. Tonight (Alternative version with Tina Turner)
42. Don't Look Down (Re-mixed Version, 2018 Remastered Version)
43. Loving The Alien (2018 Remastered Version)
44. Blue Jean (Extended Dance Mix, 2018 Remastered Version)
45. Dancing With The Big Boys (2018 Remastered Version)
46. Loving The Alien (2K14 Remastered Single Remix) . 47. Don't Look Down (Extended Dance Mix, 2018 Remastered Version)
48. Tonight (2018 Remastered Version)
49. Karmacoma Blue Jean (With Massive Attack)
50. Blue Jean (Lionel Simon Extended Mix) ..................David Bowie released his sixteenth studio album ''Tonight'',the follow-up to the multi-platinum Let’s Dance. Although it initially sold well, Tonight was poorly received by critics, and in later years Bowie distanced himself from the album.The recording of Tonight began less than five months after Bowie’s longest and most successful tour to date. The Serious Moonlight tour had ended in Hong Kong on 8 December 1983, having taken in 96 performances in 15 countries over seven months. Bowie sold out every show, shifting more than 2.6 million tickets.Bowie ended the tour with a holiday in Bali and Java, accompanied by his assistant Coco Schwab, and Iggy Pop and his partner Suchi Asano.His record label, EMI, was keen to cash in on the success of the tour and the Let’s Dance album, and to recoup some of the advance – said to be nearly $17 million – they had paid in 1983. ''While we’re on tour we get called by the record company. They say, ‘The record’s doing great and sales are amazing. We need another album right away.’ This is what really bummed David out, he hated that.Carlos Alomar,Uncut, November 2018.A live album of the tour was mixed by Bob Clearmountain and scheduled for release in 1984, but was shelved for reasons unknown. Instead, Bowie prepared to return to the studio to record the follow-up to Let’s Dance.Bowie rarely wrote songs while on tour, and he lacked sufficient new material for an album. Whereas he had come up with five new compositions for Let’s Dance, bolstered by new versions of ‘China Girl’ and ‘Cat People’ and a cover version of ‘Criminal World’, the Tonight album contained just two original Bowie compositions: the singles ‘Loving The Alien’ and ‘Blue Jean’.Tonight additionally had two new co-writes with Iggy Pop, ‘Tumble And Twirl’ and ‘Dancing With The Big Boys’, the latter also credited to guitarist Carlos Alomar. There were also cover versions of ‘God Only Knows’ by the Beach Boys and ‘I Keep Forgettin”, a 1962 single by Chuck Jackson, written Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller.The remainder of the album was new versions of songs previously recorded by Iggy Pop. ‘Don’t Look Down’ had appeared on Pop’s 1979 album New Values, and ‘Neighborhood Threat’ – co-written by Bowie, Pop and Ricky Gardiner, guitarist on 1977’s Low – was originally on 1977’s Lust For Life. Another song from that album, ‘Tonight’, was re-recorded as a duet with Tina Turner.One key figure from the album who did not return was Nile Rodgers. The Chic linchpin had played a pivotal role in relaunching Bowie as a pop superstar, yet was overlooked for the follow-up. Rodgers later suggested that Bowie wished to distance himself in order to give the impression that his success was not solely down to the producer.