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  • Anvilicious: A common criticism of the album is how un-subtle it is with the messages on its songs.
  • Contested Sequel: Like almost everything Bowie did in the '80s, Tin Machine is an album that often splits hairs with fans, critics, and analysts. While most will agree that it's an improvement over Never Let Me Down, that's where the consensus ends. Some praise it as a refreshing change of pace that broke Bowie out of his creative slump and adeptly predicted the grunge boom of the early '90s. Others, meanwhile, criticize it as half-baked and sophomoric, especially given the band's admission that the music and lyrics were first drafts.
  • Suspiciously Similar Song: The song "Tin Machine" has a very similar Epic Riff to The Yardbirds' "Over Under Sideways Down".
  • Values Resonance: With the rise of the alt-right in the second half of The New '10s and specifically the "Unite the Right" white supremacist rally in 2017, "Under the God" and its explicit condemnation of neo-Nazism, white supremacy, and government enabling of far-right extremism has become more relevant now than ever before.

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