10 Non Rock Albums That Rock Music Fans Love

Putting David Bowie's music into any one genre just starts to feel wrong after a while. When you listen to something like Young Americans, Ziggy Stardust, and Station to Station all back to back, it's ridiculous to think every one of those records was created by the exact same guy. The pop world may have had their fun with Bowie during the '80s with Let's Dance, but Bowie wasn't ready to stop exploring in the '90s.

Just like he had done with Philly Soul on Young Americans two decades earlier, Earthling is the product of Bowie becoming more and more fascinated with the world of drum and bass music, making something that's a lot more electronic tinged than what he had done before. While you can definitely hear the more inventive songwriter that Bowie had always been back in the days of Aladdin Sane, it's filtered through a much more graphic lens this time around, including a few sections where the sound gets borderline industrial courtesy of Trent Reznor on songs like I'm Afraid of Americans.

This wasn't just an experiment to help fit in with the kids either, with Bowie going on an entire tour with Nine Inch Nails performing different parts of his catalog, even including a cover of the song Hurt with Trent singing it as a duet when they played live. It may have been in vogue at the time, but Bowie wasn't looking for a pop smash. The Starman always looked at music as a diary of where he was at the time, and this was just another facet of what he could do.