Look at the Moon! (live Phoenix Festival 97)

by David Bowie

The Bowie estate has had a weird relationship with releasing new material. Unlike Prince's estate there's really been little to no deluxe editions with unreleased tracks or scrapped albums outside of Toy, and very low key demo releases that are really weirdly distributed. In the meantime they've been putting out a lot of live concert albums, and this might be the best out of the few that actually deserved to be released.

Right in the middle of the Earthling era, Bowie just says "yeah no fuck real instruments we're cool kids now like Nine Inch Nails" and it works so well while Bowie is still aware of what he can and can't get away with inside the genre.

Some old songs such as Stay and Man Who Sold The World are redone wonderfully, I might say even better than the originals. We also get a lot of songs from Earthling of course, exactly like the album versions.

Look at the Moon! is an example of what live albums should be. Unique and filled with great performances. Live albums often feel like cash grabs but, just this once, it really isn't.