It’s likely that even Bowie would agree that he spent the latter half of the ‘80s flailing in search of inspiration, bounding from the garish pop excess of “Never Let Me Down” to his bizarre, Pixies-inspired take on an indie-rock band, the much-lambasted Tin Machine (whose albums his estate seems to have left for a later retrospective). For the most part, David Bowie’s career can be divided into eras by decade - the ‘60s, when he tried almost anything to make it (Mod-pop, Buddhism, folksinging) and mostly failed the ‘70s, when he released some of the most exciting and innovative albums in music history the ‘80s, when he got a taste of platinum success with “Let’s Dance” and lost his muse and the period encapsulated in the latest career-spanning boxed set, “Brilliant Adventure: 1992-2001” - when he got at least some of it back.
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