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''Tin Machine'' is the debut album of Tin Machine originally released by EMI in 1989. The group was the latest venture of David Bowie, inspired by sessions with guitarist Reeves Gabrels. Drummer Hunt Sales and bassist Tony Sales formed the rest of the band, with "fifth member" Kevin Armstrong providing rhythm guitar. The project was intended as a back-to-basics album by Bowie, with a hard rock sound and simple production, as opposed to his past two solo albums. Unlike previous Bowie bands (such as the Spiders from Mars), Tin Machine acted as a democratic unit. ==Album and song development== The band prepared some demos in LA before moving to Mountain Studios in Switzerland and then on to Montreal and then finally to Nassau. The band did not have much luck recording in Nassau, finding it hard to record in the midst of the "coke and poverty and crack," which partly inspired the album track "Crack City."〔 Bowie also claimed his own cocaine-addled past in the 1970s as an inspiration for the track. The songs on the album tend to stick to topics such as drugs and urban decay.〔 All songs were a group effort, and the band recorded 35 songs in just six weeks.〔〔 The first song the band wrote and recorded was "Heaven's in Here," which they wrote from scratch and recorded in their first 30 hours together.〔 They followed up by recording a cover of John Lennon's "Working Class Hero" (one of Bowie favorite Lennon songs) and Roxy Music's "If There Is Something," though the latter wouldn't appear until the second Tin Machine album in 1991.〔 The tracks on the album were recorded raw and live with no overdubs to capture the energy of the band. The band urged Bowie to avoid re-writing his lyrics: "They were there all the time saying, 'Don't wimp out,' sing like you wrote it. Stand by it. I have done and frequently do censor myself in terms of lyrics. I say one thing and then I think, 'Ah maybe I'll just take the edge off that a bit."〔 He elaborated, "We wanted to come out of the box with energy, the energy we felt when we were writing and playing. There's very, very little over-dubbing on (album ). For us () is our live sound."〔 There were no demos made for the album; Gabrels said "Basically the album is the demo."〔 Bowie enjoyed making the album, saying "I'm so up on this I want to go and start recording the next album tomorrow."〔 Stylistically, he felt that the album was a continuation from ''Scary Monsters'': "Its almost dismissive of the last three albums I've done. Getting back on course, you could say."〔 Gabrels would later describe the songs on the album as the band "screaming at the world,", and Tony Sales, bassist for the band, described the band's approach to the music they created by saying: As the band finished the album, Bowie was sure the band would continue. He said, "There'll be another two albums at least. Oh, yes, this will go for a while. While we're all enjoying playing with each other so much, why not?"〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tin Machine (album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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