Black Tie White Noise

Well, uh, okay.

We're, we are looking at, uh, Black Tie White Noise, an album that many people, um, uh, have mixed feelings about.

Um, an album that many people might look at and go, "What the hell's that?" [laughs] An album that some people might go, "Oh, is that for real? Is that...

D- does that exist? D- did it actually get released?" Uh, an album I find very charming.

[laughs] Uh ...

Which is an interesting thing that we will get into.

Um, anyway, let's get going on Black Tie White Noise, the side A things.

Um, this is all, as you will g- as regular listeners probably know, side A is where we put the context, side B is where we put the track-by-track reaction.

Sometimes I think people forget that he has a sense of humour or had a sense of humour.

And, you know, it's the same with his Morrissey cover on Black Tie White Noise.

He's definitively making it sound like he's back in 75.

Yeah.

On bass, we have Gail Ann Dorsey, who had been Bowie's live bassist since 1995 and had appeared on Earthling.

On drums, Sterling Campbell, who had played on 1993's Black Tie White Noise and 1995's Outside.

On keyboards, Mike Garson, who had started with Bowie during the American leg of the 1972 Ziggy Stardust Tour and had played on Bowie albums up until Young Americans.

He was reunited with Bowie in 1993 and had been a mainstay ever since.