Hours [Enhanced]

David Bowie | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 5, 1999)
• Original Release Date: October 5, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced
• Label: Virgin Records Us
• ASIN: B00001QGPR
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (184 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #46,632 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Thursday's Child

2. Something in the Air

3. Survive

4. If I'm Dreaming My Life

5. Seven

6. What's Really Happennig?

7. The Pretty Things Are Going to Hell

8. New Angels of Promise

9. Brilliant Adventure [Instrumental]

10. The Dreamers

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A mature album by a mature man, November 18, 1999

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Greg Benson (Athens, GA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hours (Audio CD)

Bowie seems to still be getting a lot of flak for his eighties slump; most rockers his age can rehash and regurgitate and get rewarded by most critics just for showing up. Bowie, on the other hand, has started to really take some chances again with his music, and only a few critics seem to have noticed. While "Hours..." is (consciously or unconsciously)reminiscient of "Hunky Dory" and then "The Man who Sold the World," he has inserted the lyrics of a fifty-something musician who admittedly feels a bit left behind. Well, this is stuff we (adults) can sink our teeth into! I especially love how the album starts out slow and builds up steam; with each listen this approach seems to make more sense. Those who have listened to him for a long time don't always want the sustained energy of "Earthling." (We can't always take it! Sometimes we just want a nice ride!) And we know this is the real thing; Bowie's been giving us the real thing since "Outside" or even before. I think he knows it; too bad it's taken rock critics a while to be convinced.

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simply Spectacular, February 28, 2002

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Mud Pyramid "rilaly" (Omaha, Nebraska USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hours (Audio CD)

Some of the times an album gets drowned out by an artist's former successes. If an album, from such a performer, does not break new ground it somehow gains less attention than the upstart's albums. This, my fellow legion of Bowie fans, is simply a spectacular album. This is David Bowie easing on the cutting edge for a moment to settle into sound song craftsmanship. How many artists out there can lay claim to so many incredible and unique albums. In my opinion, Bowie has had ten albums I would call incredible, and this fits into that groove. Subtlety rules on this album. A deft hand by both Bowie and Reeves Gabrels has been used on this album to at times fill the empty spaces, and at other times let it flow. To say that I am impressed by this album would be a grand understatement. This is a probably not a great starting point for those not initiated into the Bowie craftsmanship, but to those who love him as much as I do...it's great punctuation to the progressive brilliance.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars regrets about an alternate past..., December 23, 2001

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"tom_major83" (Santa Cruz, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hours (Audio CD)

The album feels like Hunky Dory, except it doesn't. Keeping with the theme of alternate, parallel universes it almost feels like 'hours...' harkens back to when "The Man Who Sold the World" was a flop.

If "The Man Who Sold the World" was a flop, this almost feels like it would be the follow up piece to it, instead of "Hunky Dory." This album is far from hunky dory, but is just as great, and is so beautiful and serene. "Something In the Air" is my fave on the album and "New Angels of Promise" is also very great. In fact, all of the songs have a rich and deep feel to it. If you know a little bowie history, you would know that his career in the 60's was a failure.. he was continually frustrated by his inability to make a hit in the field. that all changed with his fantastic single "Space Oddity." So after that his career was sort of on a fork in the road. He could either follow up with a hit or another flop. If "The Man Who Sold The World" failed, who's to say that there would even be a Hunky Dory, or a Ziggy for that matter? 'hours...' feels like it belongs in the past, but not in THIS past.. it belongs in an alternate universe, a world of regret and missed opportunites.

in this world, where he is truly happy, bowie has had a successful and copious life... 'hours...' is an anthem to what might have been and is another fantastic undertaking by db.