Station To Station

Melodic and magical and full of soul and life and sadness and glee. This was a journey I really enjoyed taking.

David Bowie on David Bowie. Erittäin kovatasoista musiikkia

Never heard this Bowie album before, really really good

Really enjoyed it. Best Bowie I’ve had thus far. Definitely need to explore the 60s and 70s catalog.

Very solid album. Not my favourite Bowie, but good, dependable Bowie. Favourite track: Wild is the Wind

Way ahead of his time. Brilliant album.

I have already listened to this album MANY TIMES! it is one of my favourite bowie records, and it’s very timeless. it always finds me at a time of myself life when i feel that a crossroads is coming. big fan

Ok I know it’s occult or wtv but I happened to have listened to this a few days before and musically it’s super expansive and immersive while being still easily accessible and catchy. That being said I won’t be listening to this again 😭

Stay.

Four stars only because it's not one of my personal five star Bowie albums.

I've never listened to this but Golden years might be one of my favorite ever tracks. What can I say the rest is also great

I’m not sure we need eight Bowie albums on this list, but the man was so incredibly productive throughout the 70s that it might make sense. In any event, Station to Station is among Bowie’s best records, intertwining elements of R&B from his previous work with the experimental rock that would follow. These new experiments would ultimately prove highly influential on post-punk that followed. Despite, perhaps because of, the fact that the album was made during an infamous cocaine binge its varied songs come together into a cohesive record. While the songs explore different styles, most start slowly, building in energy before falling the listener back down again. Sort of like a cocaine trip. The opening title track, inspired by krautrock, is an incredible opus, my favorite on the record, followed by TVC15. The backing band is fantastic here and on many tunes that followed. This is worth pointing out, because it is sometimes easy for the underlying instrumental work to get lost behind Bowie’s crooning. Having two guitarists with very different styles doesn’t always work, but when it does, like this record, surprisingly interesting textures result. All of this is not to detract from Bowie’s singing. There is some great singing on this record, made somewhat more poignant by darker than usual subject matter. I very much enjoyed listening to this album again.

Station to Station is Bowie’s dark, brilliant bridge from soulful funk to Berlin-era experimentation. Just six tracks, but packed with gems like the epic title opener, groovy “Golden Years,” and paranoid “TVC 15.” It’s raw, immersive, and fueled by his Thin White Duke vibe—pure genius amid the chaos.

That's some good Bowie!

The guys a champ

Golden Years was very catchy!

Nice Album Had some great songs

Took a second listen and was worth the extra effort. Got better with more listens. I loved Stay!

Bowie has always been one of my favorites. That said - I'd never listened to this album before and only knew Golden Years off of it. It's definitely a different kind of album and it took me two listens but I ended up really loving it. Stay is the standout for me here.

Lowk can’t wait to listen to it tmr it seems fun…

- i don’t know Bowie well so this was a great intro - feels a little heavy handed for my taste, which is suprising b/c generally I enjoy art-pop & this is obvi foundational to the genre - feels overdone, but its literally the prototype - some corny, but some GREAT lyrics - “does my prayer fit in with your scheme of things” - more melodically complicated than i'm generally drawn to for passive listening - Favorite Song: Station to Station

Some solid classics from David here but it doesn’t have a 5 star feel to me.

Норм, но не супер зашло.

Продолжаю познавать мир Боуи. Этот альбом отличается даже от прослушанного вчера и при этом записанного на следующий год. Пока что эта работа показалась самой слушабельной и дружелюбной к слушателю, очень движовые треки. Поняла, что музыку тех лет интересно слушать, читая при этом историю создания альбомов.

Dienstag, 24.02.2025 ~ abends ~ Auf dem Weg zum BER, um Yun vom Flughafen abzuholen. In der Ringbahn - Richtung zuhause, nachdem sie mich dort abgeladen hat.

cocaine be damned my boy can funk it up

An impressive array of songs to say they are only 6 And it flowed nicely , I’ve never listened to a Bowie album fully so this was a new experience for me , the opener was atmospheric and when it kicks in with the bass , immediately draws you in to a hypnotic groove , Bowies voice is charismatic , dark , mysterious , melancholy has so many angles to it , and with the band that he has on this album which is a fine set of musicians , it works so many levels , I can’t put my finger on what it is but have to say bowie has a touch of genius that transcends because there’s not one song that sounds the same he’s always changing his style and personality Golden years is a pop classic I loved the groove on Stay , an exceptional rhythm section going off in that song , And a word on the wing quite poignant Id give it a 5 but I don’t think it was quite there for me probably 4.5

7/10…

Wild is the wind!

Is it my favorite from Bowie? Not quite. But it's hard to go wrong with any of Bowie's output.

Bowie innit, but i like this more than most of his stuff

Had to come back to this several times. Station to Station was really good, and I did enjoy most of the rest of the songs, but I actively disliked Golden Years. Favorite Song: Station to Station

A little too noodley/art house to get five points but still a great listen

One of Bowie's best albums. A piece that is dripping with atmosphere through all six tracks.

I never listened to Bowie before this project, and I now admire how this guy kept re-inventing himself between albums and always coming out with something new and fresh vs. prior work. Mad respect. Someday I'll go through his catalogue end to end. Highlights: golden years

Station to station as a track starts with a bit slow/noisy, but the second half absolutely slaps. I'd never heard anything from this album, but everything on it held a pretty high level. All in all i was impressed. 4/5

Wild is the Wind is so heartfelt and almost paranoid. Golden Years feels kind of jam-band-y? This is so different than his other stuff. I really liked the variety even within this small, 6-song release.

I really like this album, and I’ll call this is a 4.5. Some it sounds a bit too typically Bowie/of its time to be a 5 for me, and some of it is transcendentally beautiful and timeless, like Wild is the Wind. The lyrical content, particularly in that song, is also amazing.

Bowie is an alien god. But he's not an infallible alien god because Golden Years is his worst radio hit. It's the only blemish on an otherwise perfect album.

I really liked this, but I didn't find it as completely groundbreaking as some other Bowie. I would recommend it to a friend

Typically Bowie albums just don't mesh to me despite liking his singles (like Queen) but liked this one a smidge more than his others tbh. Definitely got stronger as it went on as well. You can't say that he doesn't change his sound on every album. 7/10

Favourite Songs: TVC15 Stay Wild Is The Wind

I'm not sure what melodica and banjo have to do with trains, but I'm here for it. Sometimes this list just feels like a psyop to get more people to appreciate the music of David Bowie. Like, this was really good, so much better than other stuff I've listened to. The only songs I didn't immediately vibe with were Word on a Wing and TVC15, but they're still growing on me. I can't wait to listen to this again. I don't think its perfect, but I can see why its so popular, despite only having like one single.

This album really shows David Bowie's artistic versatility - the sound is absolutely different and darker compared to Ziggy Stardust or Aladdin Sane. I just wish some of the middle tracks had the same vibe as Station to Station. For instance, "Stay" is kind of a departure from the rest of the album stylistically speaking.

Wild is the wind was a highlight for me.

Weird Bowie is the Best Bowie

Good Bowie, not sure what a TVC15 is but I fuckin want one right now

9/10 - fantastic album. Not my favorite by Bowie but a strong album. Almost gave it a 5/5 but was afraid to give every Bowie on this list a perfect score. Love this one a lot but doesn’t make it in my S tier list for Bowie

Damn it. More Bowie. Damn it. Still great.

good, disco-y. really like closing track

I had almost forgotten Station to Station. But that was exactly what I listened to alongside Heroes in my early youth by David Bowie. Who still remembers "Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo" (We Children from Bahnhof Zoo)? Still a great album that I will listen to again and again, but not that often. 4/5

Stay and the title track are awesome and worth the price of admission. 4 stars. I wish Bowie had stayed in this era a little longer.

Ranks relatively low among my Bowie favorites, but this is still a very good album from his peak period.

Very solid album.

I love Bowie and this is one of his best albums.

Muito bom, foge do óbvio

super inconsistent in a way that made me extremely unsurprised to learn this was made in a cocaine fugue state, but i actually kinda like it. most of this bounces between Kinda Nice and Existing, though on a second list it grew on me a lot. the title track is unquestionably the standout, but i like "word on a wing" and "wild is the wind" a lot too. i don't know if i'd ever seek out putting this record on, but i enjoyed listening to it. the note that i've been given about bowie is that even if you hate one era you might like another because he's all over the place so i can see glimpses of that here. musically, this is a wild mess of influences, and that's something i appreciate.

This is an uneven Bowie album in a way, mostly because it starts with my tied-favorite Bowie song (the other being Rock and Roll Suicide) but then doesn't QUITE keep up the pace. But first lets talk about that titular song because wow. I love the way the intro builds so much, I mean, I love everything about the song. The train sound into the, for lack of a better term, chorus and the musical change up afterwards. Its like listening to someone spiral out in real time. This album is probably the most uncomparable David Bowie has ever sounded, usually you can point to some kind of grounding in influence but this really is all over the place for better and worse. It's Funk and Krautrock and art rock with a bit of soul. Does it come together as a whole though? Perhaps not as much as other David Bowie. I still love it.

I think the Thin White Duke persona is the coolest looking one but acknowledge it was probably one of the most dangerously unhealthy ones. The titular track is one of my favorite Bowie songs. Doing Wild is the Wind as also a good idea. The 'inside' middle of the album kind of just carries forward but it doesn't leave much of an impact on me. I wonder what this album would have sounded like with the piano just further down in the mix or not present at all.

With the exception of the oft discussed title track, Station To Station is an album that is generally more well known for what it represents in Bowie's career than for its music. Station To Station is Bowie's only album released in his Thin White Duke era. Which is to say that this was Bowie's controversial "mountains of cocaine, and fascism" period. At this time, he was so far gone it feels kind of amazing that Bowie managed to release an album as great as Station To Station. A real, distinct mania runs through Station To Station, which isn't all that surprising, when considering the circumstances. It's one of the things that separates this album from Bowie's discography at large, and it gives the album a real "dance until you collapse" kind of vibe. The album is just 6 songs, 3 are essential Bowie and the other 3 are between good and very good. The title track is a microcosm of what's going on here. We see Bowie extending his sound closer to where The Berlin trilogy would pick up over the course of 10 minutes. The construction is pretty immaculate for just how fevered he sounds: this is probably the best song on the album. Word On A Wing is similarly fevered and worth reading about a little. It works great on its own, but Bowie's motivation for writing this song puts into perspective just how bad things were. And while I don't want to romanticize this sort of behavior, I do think knowing what was going on with Bowie at this time is kind of essential to getting to the bottom of this album. The last essential here is his cover of Wild Is The Wind, recorded as a tribute to Nina Simone. And it is one of the purest moments of beauty on Station To Station. And it keeps the album from ending on an entirely dour note. As far as the other three songs go, I still really like Stay, and enjoy Golden Years. But I am a little bit more ambivalent towards TVC15. That being said, my complaints with this album are mostly within the context of Bowie's broader discography. This is a remarkable, slightly harrowing whole. And it is, as a whole, essential to understanding the arc of Bowie's life on some level.

Intriguing intro Intense instrumentals

That's good Bowie. Will listen again.

- david bowie harvemmin pettää - eka biisi ihan quotsan esi isä - tämäkii bowie aivan hieno levy

David Bowie quoi

Funny I can see a progression in the 4 albums I've listen so far from David Bowie: Hunky Dory: 2 -- awful Low: 3 -- ok-ish, maybe I should even re-listen, I might have been biased by Hunky Dory Ziggy Stardust: 4! -- I was asking myself if I was starting to like it. Station To Station: now I get it! I do like it :) I can finally admit David Bowie grew on me. This is for sure going into the replay list :)

Hij heeft zeker betere albums dan deze maar enjoyed it nonetheless

Dancey!!

I always love to hear a DB album. This one had really easy listening to it - everything fell easy to the ears. I wouldn't say that there was anything in particular that stood out, however. I would personally give this a 4.5, but I feel like 5 is too high.

I was dreading the amount of David Bowie on this list. This is really enjoyed however! Still not a fan of Bowies signing voice, and groaned out loud when the first track was 10 minutes long. But it was 10 minutes I got into because, you gotta have that funk.

Might be a new favorite damn

One of his best albums. The final song is also one of his best. I think TVC15 overstays its welcome a bit however.

This album was from the start of Bowie's Thin White Duke era, and by all accounts was fuelled as much by cocaine as anything else, and yet it's still a ton better than much that came before or after. Still carrying some of the glam rock elements he brought through from Ziggy Stardust and Aladdin Sane, there's also elements of his growing interest in electro-pop to be found in the six tracks on this album, and while it's not one of my personal favourites, it definitely ranks high enough to get a decent four and half stars out of me.

I thought it was pretty good

First song is super long but I’m a fan

Listened to this while baking in the kitchen. Was very dancing around to the first song, super fun

Short, but good listen

yaaass love David Bowie!!! Album cover is interesting idk if I like it or not. Apart from that, not a long album... 10 minute song is always crazy, but if u slay, i will look the other way Guuyyyysss I love Golden Yearssss half of those streams on spotify are mine I cannot really describe it, but the album feels timeless, like it could have been made somewhere in the last 40-50 and I would have believed it. Great vibe, great sound. Love the Thin White Duke and also love the film the persona was based on :)

4/5

Every song on this album is brilliantly produced & written, with an incredible soul & eccentricity to them. What the album misses for me is 2-3 absolute stand-out hits. Whilst there are some killer tracks on it - “Stay” being my favourite - I think it lacks those standout tracks that will live long in the memory of Bowie’s absolute best. Despite this though this record is put together exceptionally well and it has a great coherence to it that makes it a great listen.

First time listening to an entire Bowie album, always felt like subhuman for not really knowing any of his music definitely liked it a lot. A bit distracted on first listen but will 100% be listening again to fully appreciate

Favourite : Station To Station Least Favourite : TVC15 Blend of funk elements mixes well with Bowie's anthemic art rock sound leading to an interesting soundscape throughout, without lacking any of Bowie's oddball, eccentric charisma throughout. Overall, great listen excited for the rest of David's catalogue.

Nemoze Bowie napravit los album, dobra glazba nema sta. 7/10 Najbolja pisma: Station to station

When I see rock as the genre this is what want!

PEAK

Shorter than I thought it would be but the length of the songs make up for it

I've gone back and forth between rating this 3 or 4. I liked the first half better. I already knew Golden Years - one of my favorites. Listening to this with a head cold only amplified the dreamlike quality of this album.

Really like the classic-disco-rock with the reliable Bowie spin

A good album, I liked Golden Year's the most.

Like

One of my favorite Bowie albums

I really liked this, first time ever purposefully listening to David Bowie and I will say it was a good experience.

Thin White Duke

Great album

David Bowie

3.5

É sempre maravilhoso ouvir o que Bowie fez para a música. GK Kunten.

au début je voulais mettre 5 mais vasy je sais pas c'est toujours pas vraiment mon style. on peut arreter les albums de david bowie d'ailleurs

An excellent album. Not as iconic as Hunky, Ziggy etc, but showcases David's adoption of soul and Krautrock themes.

Solid, if short, Bowie album.

RIP the one of the greatest. Can't believe it's been nearly 10 years since his passing. While I don't think this is Peak Bowie as a performer, he definitely surrounded himself with an absolutely amazing band. Station To Station is also my favorite song of his. Idk he's just an amazing chameleon who's music is lasting long after his death and hopefully that's the case forever.

David Bowie can do no wrong. Obviously knew most of the songs on this album but don’t think I’ve ever listened to it back to front and don’t think I’ve ever even heard Wild is the Wind before (which coincidentally was my least fav song on the album). Not getting 5 stars just because I don’t feel the drive to listen to it back to front again but I love the majority of the songs so let’s go with 4. TVC15 is probably in my top ten fav bowie songs. Did not realize station to station was an 11 min song (apparently Bowie’s longest ever)… the second half is more up my alley than the first but still a good track. i just looked up what the title track is about was about and its very very weird and apparently bowie barely remembered recording it bc he was on a lot of coke! The article also said “The title track to Bowie’s Station to Station album can be looked upon as the transition between the highly successful funk-infused Young Americans released the previous year and his more experimental Berlin trilogy begin with Low.” which i think is a good explanation about why its not my fav bowie bc i love his funky stuff. All that being said, it’s good nonetheless! Thanks David!

I have a soft spot for Bowie and don't mind at all that he appears several times on this list

Had to give this a second listen before I could get into it. I always thought I loved this album, but the first listen didn’t hook me and I started questioning my assumed love of all Bowie. Second time around worked a treat. A short but solid entry from Bowie’s Thin White Duke era 3.5/5

Classic, Bowie at his best

Songs 3.5/5 Vocals 4/5 Atmosphere 5/5 Grooves 100/5

Classic Bowie in all his strangeness. It helps thay the instruments and the tone of the recording are just so entrancing. And the cherry on top is Bowie's emphatic vocal quality. While this definitely isnt an everyday listen, I can definitely see myself just laying in my bed and sinking into the soundscape created by this record.

This album is just so cool. David Bowie is cool. I felt cool listening to it. And it’s just…cool. I would have never chosen this Bowie album but I’m glad I did. I always hesitate with “long” songs because I get distracted easily but these were bops and it made the time go so fast.

195/1001 :: David Bowie - Station to Station Heard before? ✅ Would I revisit? ✅ Rating: 8 Listen before you die: Yes I’ve listened to this before but today I really connected with this album. It’s not the style of Bowie that usually reach for so I think in the past I’ve maybe not appreciated its brilliance. This is a daring release, one that mixes styles. Glam, disco, rock and funk all fused together weaving in and out of each other. I also just discovered that he did this under a new persona; The White Duke. Which makes sense as he was growing tired of his rock n roll stardom at the time, had just moved to LA and was completely coked out. That’s some real rock star shit. RIP Bowie.

Bowie - The Thin White Duke emerges!

one of bowie’s greatest albums ever. Such phenomenal work by him. Station to station, golden years, and TVC15 are my favorites from the album

Very good.

really good i love david bowie. easily took the cake for best album so far on this website. it’s punky and funky and all the things david bowie did best. although not as good as some of his other works still top tier 8/10

fauvorite: wild is the one first time listenning to bowie

90/100

GOD HE’S GREAT

4!

Kind of lacking in cohesiveness but each song has its own feel and are actually pretty good, though not "catchy" at all. Actually-Listenable experimentation

4.5 stars

Is Bowie on here too much? Probably. Is this one of the better ones? Yes!! GOLDEN YEARS up there as one of my Bowie favs. Another strong, hip groove: TVC15 (just hooks you in, 'Transition, transmission...'

Bowie has been the main revelation of 1001 for me

the bowie persona and lore does nothing for me. However, I liked a lot of the song compositions, especially the more soul/funk ones. I imagine I might like Young Americans if that is on the list (since every bowie album is apparently on this list)

Very avant garde - i think this is the Bowie Album to “get” Bowie

love david bowie

My favorite two parts of this album are the shifting soundscape in the title track (it was an adventure!!), and the guitar solos in Stay. Honestly I’m bummed I lived 41 years without the guitar solos in Stay. They are funky and alive and crawling and I can’t get enough of it.

Ok, solid 7/10 but not the brilliance of his earlier stuff

First Bowie album I’m hearing here, tbh not my favorite out his whole discography, but David Bowie is one of my favorite artists. Wild is the wind is great!

I'm hovering between a four and a five here. I mean, it is really, really good and shows such a range of styles that Bowie was working with. The title track is absolutely great. This album doesn't quite settle into one of my favourites though, and it has some of Bowie's most theatrical vocals (which is a side of him I like less). So I'm going keep the five stars for a couple of his other albums and just give four to this one.

Pretty good, but from the same period, I preferred "Young Americans"

This album is special. I will return to it.

Awesome vocals, instrumentation piano big vibe, some melodica on there, bro is probably doing a bunch of Coke on this record

This is the Bowie i know and love. Great tunes where he really has found his feet. Everything works together really well, his voice, the playing and the production and the output contains the magic that makes it more than the sum of its parts.

A short album at under 40 minutes and only 6 songs long but a joy to listen to. Side 1 in particular with album title track and golden years is great. A taste of what was to come from the Duke with Low and his later albums. 4 out of 5

pretty good. dabey never disappoints. TVC15 was peak

7.5/10 Favorite Song: Station to Station Very great album structure and with only 6 songs it still felt like an adventure and was a great listen. Great premier and finisher.

sounds like david bowie

This is the second Bowie album I listened to. First was hunky Dory. This album was way better in my opinion, I like his vocals here betterm Even though I didn't like the first songs that much it kinda grew on me, and I really loved the last songs.

Good Bowie but the GREAT Bowie

Not one of my more listened to Bowie albums. But really great.

track 1: station to station - long intro, but i know i'll have to get used to it - cool beat change ^_^ - i really like long songs 6.8/10 track 2: golden years - gooooolden years 6.4/10 track 3: word on a wing - 1 min in, this could be my favourite song on the album - bbbbeaaautiful!!!!!! 8.5/10 track 4: TVC15 - didnt add it to my playlist - good song but i cant imagine myself listening to it on the regular - not the best but its not terrible 4.8/10 track 5: stay - the intro helps me believe that this'll be nice (34s in) - absolutely AWESOME - cool guitar riffs - would listen to this lots and lots - surpasses word on a wing by a few 8.8/10 track 6: wild is the wind - "with your kiss my life begins" wow - absolutely earthshattering - i really like the note arrangement - i lied this is my favourite song on the album 9/10 astronomically bodacious brah.. 7.5/10

i feel like i always forget that bowie was like actually a weirdo for being such a popular musician

Absolute legend , great early album with a favourite of my DB in golden years , wow what a voice this man has

Bowie. Reinvents. Again.

Good

jolly, umililo mi jazdę metrem ,przez chwilę doceniłam życie

I could listen to this again. Very nice to bop around the house to.

Another Bowie album, another great day. He’s just so cool isn’t he, shows the power of cocaine, when you pack so much into a tight 6 track album. Station To Station into Golden Years is an amazing 1-2, with Stay keeping the pace up later on in the album. 4.8/5.0 Best Song: Golden Years obviously

The cokiest Bowie album by far. First 3 tracks are just absolutely unreal, I feel the next 3 aren't amazing but, still work and are very atmospheric and mad for this album. Best Track: Golden Years

Incapable of writing bad music. Not as masterpiece worthy as the other two but this thing is phenomenal. He has such a talent for vocal arrangements. Not much to say as there’s no hits or anything that I think will make a playlist but everything on here is masterclass writing. Just didn’t hit that gold mine this time.

Crazy how this is better than so many artists' whole discography, yet it is far from Bowie's best.

4/5 for this one.

Æ vet ikke, æ likte det, men det satte tydeligvis absolutt ingen varige spor i hjernen min, så nu har æ glemt alt. Sistesporet va en fin versjon av en sang æ allerede like, da, det va en uventa bonus.

This was nice

After a brief dalliance with soul, Bowie continued his move away from glam rock by getting funky. I'm not sure if this is Bowie's weirdest album now, but it was at the time, with long songs mixing elements of funk with bouncing piano. This doesn't stand up to true funk rock in terms of funkiness, but there's an undeniable groove on most of these songs. The title track makes good use of its ten minutes, building from a tentative opening to a raging dance number highlighted by the piano. I do kind of wish more of these songs had the energy of the second half of that one, but there are enough layers and hooks to keep me satisfied throughout. It's also clear Bowie's interest in soul was still there, given the soaring vocals on many tracks and the great cover at the end. Definitely one of Bowie's best and most unique albums.

This may be my preferred Bowie era, a really tight 6 song album that hits its high with Golden Years and manages not to drop it through the rest of the tracks.

finally found a bowie album i enjoy

"TVC15", "Golden Years" and "Stay" are tops Bowie. I dug "Station to Station" quite a bit as well but not as much. "Wing" and "Wind" were just ok. (8.95) ★★★★

The title track is the highlight. I'm not that into Bowie, but this is one of the better Bowie albums I have heard. 4 stars

Not my favorite Bowie album, but it's excellent nontheless. It's an interesting album because it really acts as the perfect bridge between the soulfulness of *Young Americans* and the experimentalism of *Low*. Highlights for me are the epic title track, "Golden Years", and "Word on a Wing". The :Wild is the Wind" cover is also really nice. Doesn't quite get to 5, but a strong 4.5 stars.

4.5

Bowie’s transitional phases are always the most fascinating to me—those moments when he’s molting one persona while engineering the next. Station to Station is another such metamorphosis, into The Thin White Duke, which isn’t just a character he slipped into; he’s Bowie’s own chemical burnout made theatrical: elegant, skeletal, emotionally vacant. The record feels like someone singing about feelings from outside the glass—in full command of form, while personally falling apart. That tension is the engine of the album: cold, grand, and disturbingly beautiful. It’s Bowie weaponizing his turmoil into a sharp artistic pivot.

God I love this album. I didn’t even need to listen to it, but I still did of course. This is one of my favorite Bowie records of all time. I’ve always viewed Station To Station as the sounds of “persona Bowie” dying. There is a definite darkness to this record while still remaining a very catchy listen. Always a great album to experience.

This album was new to me other than Golden Years. Start to finish I enjoyed listening to it, it's nice hearing new to me Bowie music. Favorite tracks: Golden Years, Stay

I liked it, especially Golden Years. His vocals really shine and there's a nice funk touch.

It somehow pulls off an intersection of funk, prog, pop, and rock. An great record from front to back.

This era of Bowie is not my favourite. I’m more into Ziggy Stardust than the Thin White Duke, but I see why people dig this. +1 star for Golden Years, which is a really good track.

That was a great listen. Liked all the tracks and it was a powerful note ending with Wild Is the Wind

very solid bowie album!

Excellent. 4.5 stars

RIP Bowie, this one was short and to the point with a great sound.

The sound of all your great ideas, and all your goodwill, and all your fidgety energy, and all your certainty, and all your even better ideas, and all his ideas too, and all their ideas, and all, hold on quick skip to the loo, and yeah, all their ideas, and every best intention, new innovation, back to first principles – just let it fucking ride! – all of it, all of it and if it isn’t it then whatever we tried and that’s glorious coming together and, because you’re a genius, it working. This is Bowie sitting in the pocket of his talents with his talents sitting in his pocket (for ten minutes, at least). And as per usual, it’s an invitation addressed to all culture and sent from the very edge of what’s possible – luckily, and especially for fans of arty post punk, culture followed.

Man David Bowie really is the goat Fave track: Golden Years

True classic

It's Bowie. That's it, that's the review. It's good.

Pretty solid

Very nice Interesting

Fun groovy album. Each track takes you on a journey. I’m excited for more Bowie!! 77/100

I'm not a big Bowie head, so this should be interesting. The title track has a lot of unsettling background noise accompanying it, but I'm really loving how eerie the guitars sound alongside it. Bowie sounds like a ghost, fittingly. I really enjoyed this one all the way through, which is saying something for a 10 minute song. Golden Years is super funky, loving this one off the rip. Really nice groove to this song, even if it's a bit repetitive at times. Word on a Wing is beautiful, feels like he's singing fully from the soul on this one. Side note that Bowie claims he doesn't remember making this album. This was peak cocaine-addicted Bowie, I just can't imagine making music like this and having no recollection of it. Such an interesting human being. RIP. TCV15 feels a bit non-Bowie esc, it almost feels like country rock, I like it though. Must be the keys. Ok it's obviously not country rock but I hope you know what I mean. Anyway, I like this song. Stay rocks. The guitar is great throughout, then steals it on the solo. It's almost chilling how ghoulish Bowie has sounded at points throughout this album. I think he really excelled at layering sounds in a way that was really interesting and added to tracks rather than being distracting. Wild is the Wind is a beautiful ballad to close out the album. It's crazy how much longer songs used to be back in the day. 6 song 38 minute album would sound criminal in the modern music world but I really enjoyed this. This didn't have me absolutely grooving out of seat but I really enjoyed it. Was bopping multiple times. This is a very strong 4 for me, could easily see it being a 5. I apologize for not being more familiar with your game Mr. Bowie.

I have never heard most of these songs before. Word on a Wing is when Bowie is at his best. This is my favorite track. 4/5

3.8

Good Bowie, but not great Bowie.

Full to the brim with prime Bowie goodness. Wild Is The Wind was a showstopper. Made cooking gnocchi a very enriching experience.

It's always neat when the albums on the list are in dialog with one another. One of our group's earliest albums here was Nina Simone's Wild Is The Wind; more than 300 albums later, here we get Bowie offering a great take on that album's title track.

Fun

Tight, fast, enjoyable ride to the station

I enjoyed this one. Favorite Song: Stay

Good it was nice but not my style

HELL YEAH

I think this is song-wise, one of Bowie's best, but for me, I don't think it's his best sounding or most imaginative record.

work

If the stations in question are “Ziggy Stardust” and “Dark Star,” then this album does seem to lie perfectly in between.

Nothing unpleasant on this album, and I can see it being popular on that front, yet it still brings Bowie’s creative spirit as it bends towards several genres. 3.5

Good stuff! I'd only heard Golden Years prior.

A short and sweet Bowie album. Loved the second track. Good overall

Groovy and interesting bowie album

Solid album from Mr Bowie. Not sold on the first and last tracks though so only 4/5

I don’t really . . . relate to the lyrics, but that Bowie sound is pretty much all I need. I appreciate the experimentalism, and you can hear precursors of what was next in Bowie’s career

Nice to listen to, but without any great songs.

Great vocal performance! Dramatic, funny: you can notice a lot of his emotions also thanks to a mix of genres, like hard rock, funk, soul, blues

Bowie knows how to make music. This is just great!!

Started the week with Bowie and I’m ending the week with Bowie. This is album 5/9 from him, and by God I’m starting to run out of things to say about David Bowie. I’m already a slight bit over 150 albums into this challenge, and it’s front loading me with a metric ton of Bowie. They’ve all gotten a 3 star rating, I would say deservingly so. So, what makes this one different? I don’t know myself really. Vibes mostly. I just find this to be the most consistently good from top to bottom. Every single Bowie album has 1 notable song and then a ton of filler. This has a few notable songs, and it’s really short at just 38 minutes long, so the notable songs take up a good little chunk of the album. My favorites on this one are the title track, “Station to Station”, and my actual favorite song on the album, “Stay”. This album does a lot of experimenting. If this even makes sense, that feels like the theme of this album, and it works here. There’s a good blend of rockers and lighter songs, instrumentals and vocal tracks. It took 5 albums, but I may have finally found the best Bowie album. We’ll see what the next one has in store within the next couple of days if this keeps up, so until then!!

Album No. 0042 on my list. Finally, my first Bowie album on here (since he’s statistically most likely to occur). I like many of his more famous songs, but are not all too deep into his discography, so this was a fresh one for me. I found this to be an interesting listen. Not all songs were that memorable to me, but there were some cool songs on this (including “Golden Years” and “Word On A Wing”, my two favorites). I’m conflicted between 3 and 4 stars. But since the sound is nice, I like Bowie’s Thin White Duke personality and, to be honest, I think It’ll look nice on my highly rated albums list, I’ll rate it: 4/5 stars!

this is my first David Bowie album and he didn’t have me in the first two tracks but I saved 4 out of the 6 songs because TVC15 took me on a lil groove journey and once reading the lore of this being reference of Iggy Pop drug fueled dream of the tv eating his girlfriend I was sold! Word on a wing took me to reflection island on my desire of wanting a person to love and how my prayers were answered so I made French toast for late brunch

Golden years and station to station were the bigger hits from this album. Overall consistent good music. Not an album with Bowie's biggest hits, but good start to end.

Le highlight ici est l'instrumental, les percussions sont très hot et y'a des riffs de guitare extrêmement catchy. Le côté plus funky/bluesy est assez intéressant.

Great album. My third Bowie album in the list so far, all of which have been 4 star ratings. This is a 4 too. Creative, entertaining and solid.

Good bowies album

One that I really should have listened to before, but never have. Great tracks: Station to Station, Golden Years, Stay Less enamoured of the others, but that gives it a solid 4 stars

fav songs: word on a wing, wild is the wind

Strong 4

This album is so varied in its composition and yet has a similar feel across it. Short but not, only 6 tracks but still 38 minutes long. Some really good vocal performances, bit funky, mellow and kind of all over the place. This really is a representation of a coked out very creative brain.

Everyone's favorite fascist, The Thin White Duke!

Mm mmm mmmmm

Very good! Not a lot of songs but solid ones.

I'm no expert, but the SOUND of this album is amazing - so much going on, instrumentally.

groovy

I feel like my parents really undersold Bowie and now I'm playing catch-up. This was really good.

I came to Bowie late, very late... the first album of his I owned on vinyl was Blackstar. I followed that up with Ziggy Stardust and then this. It's not my favourite Bowie album, his 'Thin White Duke' persona was very different to an alien from Mars and it took me a while to adjust to the avant-garde change in sound. Kicking off with the ten minute experimental epic prog-funk of the title track, the album weaves though disco, soul, funk and krautrock, all filtered through Bowie's lens.

Fun album! Learned about Bowie too

Hard to diss any of Bowie’s albums. This is a mixture of classics and also rans, which are not bad but change the mood a bit.

Nice one! I'm wasn't familiar with this album, actually not very familiar with Bowie's work but I liked this album.

Loved the album, especially the title song

Yeah, it's good - experimental and ambitious, would have gone hard in 1976. Golden Years is a bop. Title track does drag a little...

So close to 5 but that TV song was ass

Great Songs: Golden Years Good Songs: Station to Station, Word on a Wing, TVC15, Wild as the Wind Mid Songs: Stay Bad Songs:

Le glam rock c'est pas trop mon truc, on dirait que j'ai perdu l'âge/la fougue de me faire raconter des histoires psychédéliques. C'est triste hein? Un des seuls que je connaissais de Bowie avec Black Star et Ziggy. Il y a des beaux funks. Ça me fait un peu penser à The Wall. C'est bien en général

A nice album! Fairly short, but I did like all the songs. Some of my favourite chords sequences being used on the album. Don't really have more to say!

Started out well. Into the opening track, didn't mind it being long at all. Golden Years is one of my all time favs. But felt boring and self indulgent by the end, last track reminded me of the music of boringly self-indulgent friends. Overall gonna give it a 4 because it has one of my favourite songs on it and was mostly enjoyable.

I'm a big Bowie fan, but this is not my favourite. Some good ones, started off a chill 3 but warmed up to 4

Good solid Bowie stuff this.

The best one of his so far with better things still to come

I wouldn't say it's the best of David Bowie, but I liked it.

Never knew how short it was. Could’ve used more

Word on a wing

I'm trying hard to fit into your scheme of things. I like when this record is funky. I always skipped "Word on a Wing" on compilations. I know, I'm worried now because I've read comments of countless people who LOVE it to their core. I still can't yet key into what the song's getting at. It has never succeeded in speaking to me. One of the best album openers in "Station to Station". I like a piano that sometimes sounds like a London pub piano. This album is how I imagine total creative fulfillment and harmony in a studio, just dream-like. This being so coke-fuelled, which to be fair is more wholesome than the cola, probably means it wasn't, but so much is clicking together. In the mid-1970s Bowie's creative and mental health life was affected by "astronomical" (his quote, wikipedia) use of hard drugs, and apparently his Thin White Duke character was retired when he got on a cleaner path more positive for him. My thoughts, then - this fact had me thinking that this is the artist's darkest album, and the question how much should we indulge artists in self-destructive phases or welcome a world of less "Stations to Stations" but healthier, happier people? I love "Wild is the Wind", wings are presumably involved somewhere but I find that more inviting listening. There's love and love songs on this tender album, but it's a dark tunnel between then and the future, affected by hedonism, emotionally out of control. What's interesting is how a lot of it is a funk record, and funk can be and often is joyful and Station to Station isn't wholly joyful, isn't wholesome. In fact it's movement in a modern-sounding crisis between one thing and another, like its a funk experience of a depressing traffic jam, it has movement in it but you want out. Five stars would be boring. I prefer warmth these days, and warmth with my funk. I might not immediately go to this great, unmatched album as a choice.

A good mix of funk and glam from the Thin White Duke. An enjoyable experience that feels like it ends almost too soon, clocking in just shy of 40 minutes.

Tonight’s final listen is David Bowie’s Station to Station. It’s the record where we meet the Thin White Duke—Bowie’s cold, aristocratic alter ego—right in the title track, which creeps in like a slow-motion nightmare before roaring forward. Then he pivots with the sly wink of “Golden Years,” almost playful if you ignore how hollow he really was at the time. “TVC15” runs like a math equation in motion, all angular rhythms and twitchy repetition. “Stay” slams the accelerator down and never lets go, while “Wild Is the Wind” croons with cracked Sinatra glamour. Six songs. That’s it. Six tracks where Bowie shapeshifts more than most artists manage in their whole careers.

I liked this more than I expected. The length worked for some of the songs but others were a bit much. Station to Station, Golden Years, and Wild is the Wind were standouts.

Rating: 7.5/10 Some amazing ideas and great songs on here, a few songs run a little long though.

This is my fourth Bowie album from the list and easily the most consistent yet. The short and sweet approach helps, the 10 minute opener an exception - but didn't feel at all like 10 minutes. 6 songs, all strong and a very coherent and powerfully evocative album. Almost a 5.

Didn’t know any of these songs but it was good! He has a unique song and very interesting.

Sigo considerando que los álbumes que más me gustan de Bowie tienden a ser los últimos. Pero siempre me encuentro con canciones que considero hermosos trabajos en toda su obra. El álbum "Station To Station" tiene un estilo peculiar. Canciones muy largas (pero para nada tediosas, porque tienen mucha dinámica), estilos diversos que van de búsquedas más progresivas, a power ballads o temas con elementos del soul, funk y la música disco. La voz de Bowie es siempre icónica y reconocible, la calidad de producción y grabación es excelente, la elección en la instrumentación y los efectos que se utilizan son muy apropiados. "Wild Is The Wind" es mi tema favorito del álbum.

Bowie is always a great listen, but this short album doesn't really stand out against his other work.

Места унылый и нудный, местами красивый.

Pretty good Bowie this but not his best still. Every song was just a bit too long for me personally. Way better than blackstar though Specific rating- 3.9 Fav song - stay Least fav- wild is the wind

Sounds good. It just sounds kinda abstract

David Bowie is one of my favorite musicians. I have never listened to this album before, but I do already like the song Word on a Wing

nice listen!

Solid album with a banger song

I don't exactly know what he's saying but he seems to be saying it rather well.

Drugs are a hell of a drug

What a great sounding Bowie album. Loved the music, loved his voice and there was only 1 track I had heard before! Brilliant

Berri-UQAM to Place-des-Arts

It must have been very exciting everytime Bowie released an album back then. This guy (almost) can't miss!

David Bowie is crafting exquisite art rock like no others!

Bowie!

Not my favorite Bowie, but still great.

I do like this album but almost a bit surprised it is on this list. I am a Bowie fan (though maybe not a very good one) and didn't know this at all, which did make for an intriguing first listen. I feel like you have to have some depth of knowledge of Davis Bowie and to have listened to some of his other albums before being able to appreciate this, from an outside perspective it's pretty weird if you don't "get it." It's also pretty evident that cocaine was a big inspiration behind this so maybe that's part of it.... Still solid, super creative, and feels like a part of his whole story but not an album I would particularly rank amongst the best of all time.

My dad has this album, though it was completely against type (it would’ve been slipped in between Eagles and Willie Nelson albums on his record shelf). Somehow it endears this album to me, just thinking that my one-music-lane father might’ve even been willing to try the alternative world of Bowie (even though I can’t recall hearing it played in my house growing up). And…it’s a great spin. 3.5 up to 4 for the accompanying nostalgic halo.

Never heard this Bowie album before and I think this this was the missing Bowie link for me. This is going into my regular rotation.

High 3 I think? Maybe low 4. Golden years reminds me of A Knights Tale RIP Heath

“It's not the side effects of the cocaine” is the biggest lie David Bowie ever told. Dramatic and grand art pop, with a bit of a creepy dark undertone, along with Bowie’s white British soul/funk. Title track is a cool, extended, proggy pop kinda thing. Golden Years is funky with peculiar backing vocals. Stay had a solid groove and some quality guitar moments. TVC15 just gets weirder and weirder. Closing track has more of an unsettling haunting feel. An odd, but listenable and danceable album that’s not quite consistent enough for me to consider this a peak of his career. Though many disagree, and I may give this a little more time.

Has never stood out as an S-tier Bowie record to me, but it's clearly fantastic, and I might be underrating it with my four stars here. Title track might be a career high, but Wild Is the Wind comes close as well. "It's not the side effects the cocaine/I'm thinking that it must be love." If anything, Golden Years may be my least favourite cut here, which is remarkable. Bowie's best album cover?

i like this kind of bowie

Better than I expected given it's not an album with any massive songs but there's not a bad one on there

soft 4, really enjoyed it and it works so well as a full album but i dont know when ill revisit individual songs

Golden years is such a banger

Great soundtrack for a Halloween party. Dark, edgy & wired. This predicted the music of the 80s. My rating shows my like for it at this point in life, earlier I would have given it a straight 5 stars

I was greatly surprised by this album. Bowie shows a wide a range of tones and musical influences. It was very interesting album to listen. I have a good time with it.

Very good, fun, catchy, layered, interesting album. Not in my top five Bowie records personally but I can see how it would be in others’. Must-listen #203.

Bowie

Weird and wonderfully eclectic.

The vocals and arrangements never fail to make me feel some kind of way.

pretty damn good

Station to Station – David Bowie (1976) | Art Rock / Funk Rock / Krautrock | Avg: 7.58 | Favorite Song: “Wild Is the Wind”* Station to Station might be one of Bowie’s most seamless blends of style and transformation. You can feel him pulling away from glam and leaning into something colder, more theatrical, and more compositionally daring. The title track sets the tone—ten minutes of tension and slow-build that eases you into the rest of the record’s strange, elegant sprawl. There’s funk, there’s krautrock rigidity, and there’s a real sense that Bowie’s persona is shifting right in front of you. But the moment that floored me most was the closer, “Wild Is the Wind.” Even though it’s not his original song, it might be one of Bowie’s greatest vocal performances. It’s tender, aching, and completely exposed in a way the rest of the album only hints at. That one track reframes the whole project emotionally. I see Station to Station by David Bowie not just as a pivotal Bowie album, but as one of his most subtly ambitious works—caught between personas, but locked in artistically.

3,5/5

Some good songs. Very bowie

Great album, golden years is one of my all time faves. Station to station also a great track. Loved it

Banger. This might be my favorite Bowie project yet, its shorter tracklist with longer songs make the album feel more focused, and they're all just incredibly fun. The Bowiepill starts to take effect! Standouts: Station to Station • Golden Years • TVC15 • Stay

xoxo

Very pleasant on the ears, well arranged songs and harmonies. 9/10

None of his big hits on this album, but it works pretty well as a whole. Some spheric and repetitive elements which were new in his sound cosmos, but it fits. Not my favourite by Bowie, but a good one. Fav: Station to Station

Now that is a proper Bowie album.

Fun listen. Really liked ‘Wild is the Wind’ and ‘Golden Years’ is a classic. - 3.5/5

3 greatest hits in a 6-track album. Bangin

Riktigt härlig Bowie med ett par låtar jag inte hört förut

Något ojämnt, men topparna Riktigt bra och överlag nice sound

Nice med Bowie

A solid album. I liked it.

I'm still learning what made Bowie, Bowie. But this was a great start. Nothing really stood out to me as "that man is one of the greatest ever" but I did enjoy all of the album. Excited to see if more Bowie albums show up on this list.

czy to jest TEN thin white duke?? omg tak can you hear the cocaine? parę długich utworów

I don't like Bowie all that much, but Golden Years is one of those random bangers he occasionally puts out that makes you realize how talented he is. As for the rest of the album, it's actually not too bad. This is perhaps the 4th bowie album I've heard from this list, and so far it's the best one. Probably a 3 star album on it's own merits. But for having one of my regular bar songs on it, I'll bump it up to 4.

This was a decent Bowie album. Not great, but I listened to it twice with no complaints. Golden Years is one of my favorite Bowie tracks, but the rest of the album is all over the place.

This better than I expected. I guess this is on here as the start of the Thin, White Duke phase???

This is a B+ Bowie Album at best. Strange choice. 4*

The title track largely prefigures Bowie’s next move, where he took on board much of the influences coming out of Germany, while Golden years stays pretty much with the funk of his previous effort. A bit of a transitional album, that still produces some good moments

This is my first Bowie album. I expected more. I'm looking forward to hearing Bowie's other albums, but if they are like this one, they will be perfectly fine. My perception of Bowie before this was not "perfectly fine," though. Tracks 4 and 5 were the best. None of the tracks were bad. I'd listen to each one again. I hope I like the other Bowie albums more, but as it stands, this one is respectable.

The first Bowie album I’ve ever listened to in full and it was great! Loved the lyricism and the instrumentation in particular. 4/5

Från Bowies bästa era. Det är funk och soul överallt, europeisk intellektualism finkänsligt utpotionerad, det är 70talsrock när den är som bäst nämligen genrebefruktande och storögt nyfiken utan att ta till teatrala gester. Det är ett litet tight blandfärgat band som verkligen är med på noterna. Shaft-inledningen på Stay överraskar mig varje gång. Den eleganta vita funkrocken i Golden years är bättre än allt Roxy Music nånsin försökte sig på och hörs fortfarande spelas av mer nogrannräknade DJs runt Medelhavet. Men Bowie är också på väg vidare, han förebrådar här både sin egen Berlinflytt och stilriktning men också en mer omspännande perspektivförskjutning, "it's too late, an european time is here" ylar han i titelspåret. Kraftwerk skulle snart förändra musikvärlden för alltid, den brittiska punken är alldeles runt knuten och soul skulle bli disco. Bowies finkalibrerade kulturradar har förstås fångat detta redan. STS är som att Bowie kramar ur de sista dropparna rock, funk och blues (eller läs Amerika om ni vill) ur sitt system innan något annat, något nytt får och måste ta vid. Han gör det förstås med den äran. Kanske är det mitt mest spelade Bowiealbum, jag tror det. Fyran är gjuten och den sneglar t.o.m. uppåt Lyssna också på Roxy Music - Siren, Blood Orange - Coastal grooves, David Bowie - I'm only dancing (the Soul tour 74) (Live), David Bowie - Live Nassau Coliseum '76

Bowie kan sin sak. Till och med boggie woggie låter helt ok. Farligt nära queen I titelspåret, men Bowie styr in tåget på rätt spår.

This one takes a while to get going. My favourite aspect is the rhythm section. It gets funky in a specifically Bowie way.