BOWIE’S BRILLIANCE AND MORE
It took a while, but David Bowie fans are now approaching the end of their hero’s career-spanning anthology. The just-released Brilliant Adventures is the fifth and, presumably, penultimate release within Rhino/Parlophone’s now six-year old series of megabox era sets, and we’ve reached the 1990s — a decade which some observers were surprised Bowie even dared enter.
Recent releases, after all, had been patchy. Tin Machine (1989) was fun but insubstantial; (1984) and (1987) ranked among his worst-received albums yet; and the last we heard from him, as 1990 got underway, he was preparing a greatest hits tour. The last refuge, indeed, of the worn out and desperate.
