Tin Machine II is the second and final studio album ( The Live Compilation Oy Vey. Baby followed) by Anglo-American rock group Tin Machine, originally released by Victory Music in 1991. After this album and the supporting tour, Tin Machine dissolved as David resumed his solo career.
The band reconvened following their 1989 tour, recording most of the album in Sydney.The band played an impromptu show at a small Sydney venue on 4 November 1989, which prompted a rebuke from the local musician's union before taking a rest while David Bowie conducted his solo Sound+Vision Tour and filmed The Linguini Incident.In describing this album, guitarist Reeves Gabrels said \"this album is as aggressive as the first one, but the songs are more melodic. Last time, we were screaming at the world. This time, I think, they're all love songs in a strange kind of way.\" Reeves joked that his playing style was something his friends called \"modal chromaticism, which is 'any note you want as long as you end on a right note.'\"Gabrels later stated that at the time he was deeply into Nine Inch Nails' album Pretty Hate Machine and was looking for an industrial edge to his own guitar work for the album. Ultimately (after recording track after track of guitar noise), he found a \"shard of guitar noise\" that he liked and used it on the album track \"Shopping for Girls,\" a song about child prostitution in Thailand. Bowie said of the track:
That song actually came out of an investigative magazine article that Reeves' wife wrote on child prostitution around the world. And one of the places she went to was Thailand. Reeves had the rather unsavory job of hiring the children and then getting them out of the brothels to Sara, who could then interview them. We were just talking about those experiences one night. And I've also been in Thailand and witnessed the same kind of thing. The actual approach of how to write the song was quite devastating. 'Cause it was so easy to slip into sensationalism. I tried all kinds of ways of approaching it … the moral point of view … and I just ended up doing it straight narrative. That seems to make it stronger than any other approach.\"If There Is Something\" (a Roxy Music cover) was originally recorded during the sessions for the first Tin Machine album but deemed unsatisfactory, so it was shelved until this album
The album's cover was created by Edward Bell, who had previously worked with Bowie in making artwork for Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps). In a manner similar to pop art, it consists of a photo of the Kroisos Kouros repeated fourfold. The original concept had each one overlaid with torn pieces of photos of each member to represent them (except for Gabrels', which featured a cutout of a Steinberger guitar).The photo that would represent Bowie was used to emblazon the CD label.
or the American release of the album, the cover was airbrushed to remove the genitalia of the Kouroi statues. \"Even Canada has the original cover,\" Bowie said, \"Only in America …\" Bowie floated the idea of allowing American album-buyers to send away to the record company for the genitalia that were struck from their version of the cover, but the label balked. He said: \"then [the fans] could paste them back on. But the label freaked out at the idea. Sending genitals through the mail is a serious offence.
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