Something Really Fishy
A hard to find, hard to listen to, and hard to understand piece of work that still screams genius.
All most two years ago (please correct me if I'm wrong) the Outside Outtakes surfaced on the internet offering fans a glimpse into the studio where David Bowie, Reeves Gaberls, and Brian Eno had toiled. To this day no one has pinned down the graceous insider who let these gems loose, nor who then went on a mission of mercy and presented fans with a compilation named, Something Really Fishy.
Not to be too satirical, but the album itself smells a little fishy.
In 1995 fans were given the first in a supposed trilogy, 1.Outside. It was conceptalism, creativity, and horror rolled into one. Accompanying the music was "A non-linear Gothic Drama Hyper Cycle" or "The Diary of Nathen Adler", that informed us that Baby Grace Blue was brutually murdered, Ramona A Stone was a bitter machine, Leon Blank was redicuously pinning, and that Detective Adler was on the move. The journal left fans with a 'to be continued...'
Fans as whole had hopped that Something Really Fishy would give us some answers.
Instead though we were introduced to a new set of characters, The Leek Soldiers, and given melodramatic medlies. Who killed Baby Grace Blue? No one knows for sure.
Not that the outtakes are without some real beauties. The crude mixing and harsh guitar in "The Enemy is Fragile" really does make you want to wrap up whatever is you're doing and go dancing. The raving chant "She Should be There" is quite unsettling, but you cannot help asking to be given it one more time. "She's all I've Got" brings out some of the most haunting Mike Garson piano work.
If one thoroughly enjoyed the sound of 1.Outside, then find this bootleg and enjoy art crime again and again. If you're strctly a David Bowie collection, a personal reccomendation, would be to go on a hunt for "David Bowie-1.Outside-The Outtakes"- the one in particular that includes the Outside B-sides.
with B-sides 4/5 stars
Without B-Sides 3/5 stars
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