Station To Station

So good

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

Pure Bowie excellence. A more mature sound than his work just a few years before. Wild Is the Wind is incredible and cemented the 5 star rating.

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 guess I'm a Bowie greatest hits guy. The songs I like, I really, really like, but there's a lot of filler in between. Probably this makes me shallow.

I really was not understanding the album and thought this was just niche music tastes from the 70s, but I started liking it around TVC15 and Stay.

I enjoyed this one. Favorite Song: Stay

Good it was nice but not my style

Not his best but fun

HELL YEAH

Sometimes, less is a bit more, and you have to take 6 perfectly formed tracks over a mixture of decency and filler. There's so much to enjoy here, from the bonkers experimentation of TVC15 to the funk and pumping bass of Stay, from the opening 10 minute epic of Station to Station to the beauty of Wild Is the Wind. And then there's Golden Years. Ive complained about bands that overplay on guitar solos before. Theres a subtle difference between self aggrandisement and just making a song that sounds better because of what the musician is adding to it. It makes the song, or the album, greater than the sum of it's parts. Excellent.

Boring and annoying

“The Thin White Duke” - pretty funny. 3/5

This was a pivotal album for Bowie's career and was driven mostly by cocaine. I had never listened to it except by proxy through the excellent "serious moonlight" live album which was a mainstay of my teens. It's a great listen end to end.

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.

prob like a 2.75

Too long songs, overall it sounds boring. I can't believe that this can be some of Bowie's finer work.

work

Listened on an actual train journey, so bonus points!! I definitely had that guy who does the David Bowie impression on ig in my head but somehow it didn't make it any worse. Very much enjoyed. And the vibrato on that wiiild is the WIIIIIIND was really something

This music sort of epitomizes my love/hate relationship with David Bowie's music. There is the genius of his earlier works - most notably Ziggy Stardust - some other interspersed classic songs such as "Heroes", "China Girl", etc...and then there's this dreck which was foisted upon us - including one of my all-time love-to-fate songs "Golden Years" (wop wop top). Ugh to this whole disc - time to take it out to the back yard and smash it with a rock...

Okay, getting a run of Bowie and quite glad to hear the evolution and also get a better sense of his catalogue. Been surprisingly underwhelmed so far… …I enjoy the different periods and personas through his work. 6 tracks and 40 minutes feels a bit of a flex! Enjoying this more than the previous albums so far. Didn’t give it undivided attention but enjoyed it, without being wowed. (3.5)

Surprised to see this one rated so highly, I thought it was just okay. Stay is a banger though.

Amazing. Bought on vinyl

Pretty average by his very high standards

Interesting music but I didn’t feel connected to it at all

David Bowie's 3rd highest rated album on rateyourmusic.com. And he has a lot of albums! Blackstar (2016) is 2nd highest. So excluding Blackstar which is an outlier (makes sense why it's so high though), it becomes his 2nd highest rated. Wow! After one listen I don't appreciate why it is so acclaimed. It definitely requires more listens from me to see why

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.

Golden Years is a good song. Otherwise I'm just not a huge Bowie fan. He's also on this list way too many times.

‘Station To Station’ is a bit of an underrated gem (well at least I think I’ve underrated it) that kind of gets lost in between the Ziggy Stardust glam years, and the Berlin Trilogy years. It’s a transitional album, but it contains some of Bowie’s best songs: the title track, 'Golden Years', 'Word On A Wing', 'Stay'. 'TVC15'. In fact, his Nina Simone cover of 'Wild Is The Wind' is probably the only misstep here that doesn't quite hit the mark for me. But even that isn’t enough to dull the impact of what remains one of Bowie’s most compelling albums.

One of my least favourite Bowie albums from his good period. A short album that still feels like it drags. Really no standout Bowie songs here and I actively dislike Golden Years. He’s got like 8 other albums on this list, I could have done without this one.

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

Looks like it’s just me but other than Young American, I never need to listen to this again. David Bowie before about 1981 just doesn’t do it for me.

Groovy and interesting bowie album

*I can appreciate the music of this but I'm just not a huge Bowie fan. This is fine but nothing overly incredible to me.

Decent album. Nothing stood out for me.

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

M'Eh, not great

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

The album is too short.

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!

For some reason, this is one of the Bowie albums I rarely listened to, and I was probably only really familiar with Golden Years. As I should have expected, this is an excellent album, each track is great and the closing cover of Wild is the Wind is a fantastic closer with some of his best vocals. It's relatively short with six tracks, albeit the opener is over 10 minutes long. It perhaps doesn't contain many of his absolute best songs, but is a cohesive, interesting listen 9/10

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.

Mixed.Enjoyed some of it...some pretty dire

Huh, this was one of the Bowie personas I was not familiar with. Even based on the title and the tracks, seems like this is a transitional album into his later era. I was hoping that loving 2001's Knight's Tale (RIP Heath) would have me loving "Golden Years" again, but it was not as sparkly this time in the context of listening to the entire album. I get that Bowie was super prolific, but he always had a large team behind him and I feel like he would do covers as filler tracks, like "Wild is the Wind", which is ok, but I don't think does justice to Nina Simone's original. Speaking of, how is this our group's FOURTH Bowie album but we haven't been graced with Nina Simone yet???!!

The vocals were pretty rough on this one. I love the construction of the album as a few longer songs, but since I didn't really like the songs much, it solidified this as a 2.5.

Don't get me wrong, I think this is a good album. But I think that maybe Thin White Duke Bowie isn't for me. I much prefer Berlin-era Bowie. There are a few good songs (TVC15 springs to mind), but the rest were just okay and I probably wouldn't come back to this one.

It’s amazing that in the midst of his absolute lowest time, during a period he was desperate to escape Ziggy Stardust. Bowie created a real masterpiece. This is cabaret disco, mixing torch songs with funk and dance music in a real heady blend that makes you brood while you dance. There’s absolutely zero slips here, each song just enveloping you in the vibe. I’d say I would love to hear more but if The Thin White Duke had stuck around much longer Bowie might not have made it past 1976. This one is a bona fide classic.

One of my favorite Bowie records. The title track is nearly perfect, as is the rest of the album. One of his most consistent records.

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.

Hm Wild is the Wind is a pretty song.

Classic biwie

Bloody brilliant album, absolutely loved it. This is my seventh of the 9 Bowie albums on here and probably my second favourite so far after Rise And Fall of Ziggy Stardust. Coming up to a year of doing this now and one of my big takeaways so far is a much bigger appreciation for David Bowie. He was always one of those artists where I liked the big hits but never delved any deeper. Once I get the last two albums I’m going to take a few nights and go through his whole discography. Top Track - Station To Station but Stay is a very close second.

Started off a little weird but mellowed out, was enjoyable but not my favorite

I like the funkier side sneaking out. Has its moments but overshadowed by his other albums. 3/ 5

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

Classic, classic, classic.

This is amongst the upper echelons of Bowie's back catalogue IMO. It captures a delicate balance between his artsy side and his more accessible, radiant rocking side. The bass-lines throughout are incredible, with an invitingly funky feel to them, whilst on the flip side there is a constant tension laid bare across all facets of the album, owing to Bowie's physical and mental state at the time of its recording. The man was quite literally wasting away but smashed out a banging album purely on adrenaline (and the white stuff).

Love experimental Bowie it turns out. Love that there's some pretty conventional songwriting to hear but that it's been given room to breathe as a set of big musical statements. The soundscapes don't feel bloated or anything, they just seem to keep singing. The last two tracks are really fantastic. Chills.

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

not bad but kinda repetitive. was hoping it would be my thing but isn't rlly. stay was good i guess

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

⭐️⭐️⭐️ 1001 ALBUMS- # 90 The Thin White Duke arrives to The Station 😱. Surviving at the time of recording merely on a diet of 🌶️, 🥛 and cocaine, Station to Station is David Bowie at a crossroads — artistically, psychologically, and spiritually. And yet, out of this chaos, Bowie created one of his greatest and most mysterious works — an album that fuses funk, soul, European electronic minimalism, and esoteric mysticism, all cloaked in the persona of the Thin White Duke: a cold, fascistic, soul-draining aristocrat. 🎧 Classic Track: Golden Years 🎧 Deep Cut Gem: Word On a Wing 🎧 Personal Favorite: Stay 🎧 Memorable Standout: Station to Station Despite Bowie’s physical and mental breakdown during this period, Station to Station is incredibly tight, controlled, and ambitious. It’s grand, polished, and intense — partly due to the session band he assembled. Bowie fuses Funk and soul, Krautrock and minimalist electronics, Art rock theatrics and proto-industrial rhythm and European cabaret and existentialism. 🖼️ Album Artwork: Portrait of A Duke At its heart, Station to Station is a record about a man in crisis, seeking salvation — not through religion alone, but through art, ritual, control, and movement. Bowie, buried in occultism and cocaine, finds himself caught between intellectual belief systems (Kabbalah, Gnosticism, Crowley) and a visceral longing for grace. This tension between mysticism and machinery, sincerity and pose, defines the album’s mood. While the album is a highly influential creative landmark in Bowie’s career, at only six tracks with one of which being a cover, it’s a stretch for me to consider this album a fully formed LP.

Strong 4

Do so much cocaine that you get paranoid. In that paranoia you go on some messed up diet that causes you to get uncomfortably thin. So you rebrand yourself “The Thin White Duke” and make a record. Which ultimately contains one monster hit, Golden Years, and a bunch of cocaine induced nonsense.

The fourth of nine Bowie albums, and this one's more proof that nine is excessive. Ziggy Stardust, Blackstar, and either Low or Heroes is really all you need to get the full idea of Bowie. If you want to listen to more before you die, he made twenty-six albums. Three is a fine sample. Maybe it's the fact that this is the sixth overall Bowie album of listened to in my lifetime (iirc), but I'm running out of things to take note of in these albums. TVC15 was good, I guess. Of the 4 I've gotten so far, this is the least noteworthy. Heroes and Blackstar were incredible, Hunky Dory and The Next Day were bad, and this one is somewhere in between. A perfectly surface-level review for a perfectly surface-level Bowie album.

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.

не плохо

Fine album. Subpar for classic Bowie. 6.0

Generally like David Bowie, but wasn't overly taken with this one.

My man sings from the depths of his cocaine-addled soul in this album. I love hearing his voice showcased - this particular Bowie phase is one of my favorites.

Experimental; traditionally Bowie.

Everyone's favorite fascist, The Thin White Duke!

This one isn’t essential Bowie unless you’re a die hard fan. And even then this would be 6 or 7 tops in the order you’d put them in. Golden years is a good song but not a heroes or a life on mars or a diamond dogs. Bowie was capable of greatness. But not here. 2 because it has taken the place of something far more worthy.

There's a few Bowie dream runs, the Berlin records and the Ziggy/Hunky et al. But my favourite is the Diamond Dogs/David Live/Young Americans/Station to Station run. He really took it to another level, followed the adage that it is the artist's responsibility to break free of form. I also liked the aesthetic; he look so cool in this era and music reflected that smooth groove. The title track, superb, the fantastic shift half way through "its too late", the super cool Golden Years which got him on Soul Train as the first white artist to appear, what a total fucking groove. Oh my TVC15, kicks arse, again a total mooving grooving sound, a slide into Wild is the Wind, Stay, just a fabulous record deadbeats.

I love this transitional album from soul/funk Bowie to krautrock Bowie, which rate as my two favourite Bowie eras. The band is tight and funky, the songs intriguing, although some of Bowie's vocal affectations are a bit strange and the cocaine-induce emotional coldness persists. I enjoy listening to this album, although I do believe Station-era Bowie was likely a terrible human being (funny how cocaine addiction can spark flirtation with fascism). 4.5 stars, rounding up

not every bowie album belongs on this list...

MUITO BOM!

Very listenable but I can't handle a whole album of Bowie!

Mm mmm mmmmm

Really short album

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.

Golden Years a stand out track.

It’s cold, it’s grand, it’s manic — like someone having a nervous breakdown while inventing the future of pop music. Every track feels like it’s flickering between humanity and machine. Rating: 5/5 Short Review: Glam rock takes the Orient Express straight into an existential crisis. Favorite Track: “Station to Station” — a ten-minute spiritual odyssey with guitar riffs sharp enough to draw blood.

Very groovy album, really makes you want to swing. Ends with sentimental, slower paced song. Lyrics often feel juxtaposed to the music / slightly satirical, even when you're not very consciously listening to them (which I wasn't). Def one of the better Bowie albums, and that says something!

Blah

Fine. Golden Years was good. Not his worst stuff.

groovy

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

Bit depressing, still good

This is certainly a great album, marking Bowie's transition from glam superstar into a pop enigma. The slick arrangements radiate with a glacier-like quality, with Bowie crooning over it like a romanticized version of Scott Walker. "TVC-15" and especially "Stay" are highlights on the album, rhythm-driven alien pop funk. The multi-sectioned title track is one of Bowie's most interesting experiments, though I feel overall, the album suffers from its singles, the doo-wop of "Golden Years" does not live up to the rest of the material, in my opinion. But it's definitely in my top 5 of Bowie albums (with other favorites being "Blackstar", "Outside" and "Lodger").

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.

Besides Golden Years, the title track is OK, Stay has a good funky, rocking groove but still misses the mark. The rest is meh.

Innovativ, cool

A bit underwhelming for what I expected from bowie

Decent album. Pretty much more of David Bowie, but not as exciting. 3/5

Not his best

Not as impressed with this one

One good song, the rest kind of annoying

Pretty good

Love this album. Tvc15 is such a banger. Easy 5

Whatever

Great

Fun album! Learned about Bowie too

I don't think Bowie can miss. Favourite Track(s): Stay Least Favourite Track(s): Station to Station

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.

Echt inmens saai. Begin is veelste lang, eerste nummer is al 10 minuten.

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

I’ve never been the biggest Bowie fan and I think this is the first album of his I’ve just genuinely enjoyed all the way through without any intellectual explanation or anything. So I’m giving it five stars. That might be too much but I just had a good time listening to it and don’t want to over analyse it!

Pretty decent, not the best Bowie I've heard though

Que album maravilhoso! a sonoridade, a guitarra e outros elementos musicais que dá para escutar nesse album. Bowie era incrivel no que fazia, É um albúm bem curto e rápido de se ouvir, mas seu tamanho não influencia sua qualidade.

Es esch doch grad sehr passend am afang vo dem review öber s intro z rede. I dem albom lauft das so ab, dass mer zerscht e Dampfloki ghört us de distanz nöcher ond nöcher cho, die fahrt de verbi ond währenddem de ton liisliger werd fod langsam e beat ah, wo sech de öber ne rächti ziit emmer meh ufbaut. Das fendi eigentlech no rächt geil. Ned nome wels rächt guet zom tetel vom Albom passt, sondern au wels eim ziit ged imne Albom azcho ond sech druf z freue. Trotzdem verstohni emmer no ned ganz, wieso mer das Albom i sone Liischte ibaut. Das vorallem, wels doch eher monoton tönt, aber au ned wörk e krasse banger hed. Dass sech das Albom chli zoge hed, hed mi aber au chli erstuunt wel wemmers ganz objektiv aluegt heds jo ganz diversi Songs. Meischtens scho chli im stil vom Bowie, aber gärn au mol öppis sehr bluesigs oder öppis funky woner aber mega guet implementiert hed. Au heder e diversi palette a Istromänt ond setzt die au ned emmer alli gliichziitig ih wies anderi möched. Zom das z erkläre helfts aber wemmer chli aluegt wie de Bowie sini Songs ufbaut. Anders als i de meischte Songs wo de refrain als Höheponkt vom song entweder chli lüüter, höcher oder sehr iprägsam esch, machts de Bowie fascht e chli schwerig dä i sim z erkönne. Teilwiis heds gar ned wörk e refrain oder i anderne esches eifach dass sech t Akkörd oder t Intrumentalisierig zuespezt. Das machts vorallem bi dem Albom rächt schwerig e gueti öbersecht vo de Struktur z becho, wemmer de Song no ned mega guet könnt ond de fühlt sech au e Song met 3 verschednige Teil (wo btw emmer no 10 Minute god) dorch rächt langwiilig ah. So hani also chli de Idrock öbercho dass de Bowie eifach 38 Minute chli öppis am omesenge esch was i mine Ohre halt scho ned so s meischterwärch esch. Trotzdem fendi de Stil no rächt guet. Es esch weder guetnachtmusig no gods eifach drom möglechst luut z si. Es fühlt sech emmer chli wie es Fäscht ah wommer grad am Fiire esch. Die positivi Attitüde passt mer halt au huere guet. Was dem Albom eifach fählt esch e wörklech iprägsami Melodie. T struktur vo de Songs machts scho schwerig e öbersecht z ha ond wenn eim t Melodie au nie hange bliibt, de esches eifach ned so es super albom.

always enjoy listening to bowie

Enjoyable but more subdued in a way than a lot of his other stuff. 3.5

Love Bowie but not always his full albums but this one was pretty good

It’s brilliant.

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...

Always brilliant

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:

Golden Years haters need to suck it! It wasn't the album I needed this morning but it was easy to listen to.

Honestly, largely forgettable. Love Golden Years, the rest of the songs are enjoyable but uninspiring.

J'aime David Bowie peu importe à quelle période de sa carrière, même si ma préférence va de Space Odity à Diamond Dogs. On va à Berlin en novembre donc j'écoute plus souvent que d'habitude sa ''trilogie berlinoise'' Low - Heroes - Lodger. Des différents documentaires sur Bowie, j'ai bien aimé Moonage Daydream de 2022 de Brett Morgen.

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

Première incursion dans l'univers Bowie, et j'ai fort aimé! Hâte de découvrir le reste.

people back then really had a different way of thinking about music. Idk sometimes lyrics are beautiful sometimes they just feel like words to fill in blanks. Songs were less catchy also. But that's maybe today's problem with dopamine-filled songs. Maybe they had another idea for what is catchiness also Lots of words to say that my dubstep filled brain doesn't like it 2/5

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!

Didn't enjoy this at all. I felt that if he weren't already famous nobody would be onto this. Jangly and directionless. I don't really like his voice. These are personal taste things, but yeah, not for me. Golden Years and the last track better than the rest but as an slvum it did nothing for me.

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

I’m beginning to think it’s his voice that is the issue

Good solid Bowie stuff this.

Love the sound of this album. Unfortunately there's no good songs on it

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

I wanted to like it but it was just ok

Not a bad record, but nothing really stood out to me. Not one of Bowie's best, but still an enjoyable listen.

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

A good album but not his best.

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.

Easy to listen to

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.

On one hand it's not my usual jam at all on the other i was impressed by the 10 minute intro song and despite my reservations it did make my drive home into a boppy time thanks bowie

I love Bowie. 5

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

Awesome

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.

it was ok, not my favorite.

This is excellent! What a fun album, and I gotta think he was quite proud of it. Hard to believe he once produced and performed with Lou Reed and the Stooges. A true artist and showman, with a cut above the rest. He is missed, but his music lives forever. God Bless David Bowie!

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.

Damn, this is my seventh Bowie album. Granted, most of those were quality, but I was just a bit shocked by the volume here. Anyway, I don't seem to know much about this album in particular. Looks like it has the single "Golden Years", but that's about all I know. I wasn't aware that Bowie was in that bad of a spot in the lead up to (and during) this album's creation. Also the start of the "Thin White Duke", Bowie's short-lived persona of that time. This persona has been described as a "hollow man", but also one who "sang songs of romance with an agonized intensity". Pretty accurate given the album's content I guess, but things are also quite varied here despite the length. Funky, artsy, poppy, with room for some ballads too. For some reason though, things didn't reach me in a super profound way here. This just didn't feel as impactful or memorable as some of Bowie's other albums (and I've been exposed to A LOT in the last 20 months or so)

A perfectly serviceable David Bowie album with nothing that really stood out for me one way or the other.

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.

David Bowie is funky as hell. This may be a non-skip album. Crazy work considering it’s the first time I listed to it

I liked it but it just failed to grab me for some reason. Was enjoyable as a background listen but just nothing really stood out. Because of this I also struggled to pick a favourite and least favourite song. I found them all pretty enjoyable. Fav song: TVC15 Least fav: Station to Station

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

4.9/honestly imo his best album. the melodies are beautiful

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

pretty much out there at the time, what a distinct. artist

TVC15!

Meh to ok. 3

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.

This seems like an EP. That being said the Thin White Duke delivers a quick powerful album.

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.

Station to Station is in my top 5 Bowie albums. It might even be in top 3. It’s still got some funk and plastic soul from Young Americans, but we’re also starting to see some of the Krautrock influences and electronic experimentation that drove a lot of the Berlin Trilogy. There really isn’t a bad song on this album. Mind you there are only 6 songs, and at 38 minutes it doesn’t overstay its welcome at all either.

I liked it, I felt a common rythm around all songs, and had it running in a loop for the entire day, I felt inside a movie montage for some reason and it was quite comforting.

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.

3.5 stars

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

Perfect album

I get that it’s an important album for Bowie, but it doesn’t do much for me. I love that Bowie experimented with music and seemed willing to try almost anything to explore new paths. In doing so, it’s inevitable that some stuff won’t be up to the standards set by his best work. I think that’s what we have here, and that the importance of this album is more of an indirect kind in that it led up to the Berlin trilogy. So, important as it may be, as an isolated album it’s a 2/5 for me.

Classic. Iconic. Probably the last truly great Bowie album.

Meh. I just haven't gotten into Bowie outside of some radio hits, and this absolutely did not change my mind

“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.

Cold and distant, but there’s a pull to it, loneliness made strange and magnetic.

I guess it's pretty good. Bowie has some amazing stuff but I do think he is a bit overrated especially with how many albums of his are on here. Not a bad album and I like the succinctness of it, but did not have much staying power with me at least

God

Short, sweet and lovely

I quite like David Bowie personally I suck at writing these things

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?

What is it with older albums having multiple 6 minute songs, I love bowie but this ain’t it. The album only gets going with TVC15 which is the only song that I would consider worth a second listen. That isn’t to say the music is bad, it just drags. The sort of music you’d put in the background of a bar scene in a gangster film

Finally after 249 days a Bowie album!! Just absolutely amazing 5 stars, love it, love it, love it. You can expect a few more reviews like this stars wise for upcoming Bowie albums

i like this kind of bowie

bravo!

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

Classic

Golden years is such a banger

Amazing album and the birth of the Thin White Duke, and the springboard album to move production from LA (where this album was recorded) to Germany - where the Berlin trilogy will occur.

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

Meh

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.

Listened to the first song, wasn't feeling it at all

I liked the instrumentals and the vocals grew on me. Liked it more than I expected to

I can appreciate rock and roll, even if I’m not a huge David Bowie fan. The intro of Station to Station was slightly irritating but I guess I can see what he was going for. I just usually like when people get right into the music, I’m not a huge fan of listening to just noise for 2 mins straight. Stay is my favorite song on this album but I probably wouldn’t seek it out to listen to it again. Overall not my favorite but also not the worst. Solid 6/10

Imagine you have a boss who is a Boomer and you’re in desperate need for them to like you and the only way is to listen to their self proclaimed “top notch record” they produced back in college. This is that record. Felt like I took a bite out of the plastic apple that was only on the table for decoration. Just didn’t feel right, no matter how much you want it to.

I had such high hopes for this! There are David Bowie songs that I love and grew up listening to. The music was great, I love how unique the 70s-80s era was. My complaint is that I quite literally didn’t understand a single word of what he was singing. Is it bc he’s British?

Did not enjoy Bowie’s voice, but did enjoy a some of the musical elements. Did not enjoy them enough and overall annoying. Also only 6 songs and somehow feels so long

Every time I hear Bowie I think the same thing: I’m not sure I like this. There’s nothing overtly offensive in this record, but it walks a thin line of being almost annoying. It’s pretty funky, but doesn’t really scratch the funk itch for me. The songs felt repetitive and stagnant—with no groove. In fact the longer it went on, the more I anticipated the end of each song. For such a heralded artist, I’m disappointed. 3/10

The best to ever do it. Transition - Transmission - Transition - Transmission!

Interesting blend of genres and styles. For me doesn't hit the heights I'd expect of a classic album.

Some songs are delightfully funky.

Well, it’s Bowie, so it’s inventive, sophisticated, often surprising, and still sounds fresh almost 50 years later. But - nothing really sends it into the heights that would make it indispensable.

Nuori nainen on yksin asunnossaan. Hän menee nukkumaan koiransa lattialla vierellään. Keskellä yötä hänet herättää outo ääni. Hän on peloissaan, mutta ojentaa kätensä koiran luo, joka nuolee hänen kättään. Hän rauhoittuu ja nukahtaa uudelleen. Aamulla hän herää ja huomaa koiransa kadonneen. Hän menee kylpyhuoneeseen ja kauhistuu nähdessään koiransa roikkumassa suihkussa kurkku auki. Peiliin on verellä kirjoitettu viesti... JOS LUOIT SITÄ KILTTIÄ NUOLEMISEKSI, ODOTA, KUNNES SAAT TÄTÄ PALJON! Bananananowwww! Hän kuulee jonkun soittavan kitaraa, ja David Bowie syöksyy peilin läpi. Hän seisoo lavuaarilla hänen edessään ja työntää haaroväliään suoraan hänen kasvoilleen kuin yrittäisi elvyttää hänen suutaan kiveksillään. "David Vittu Bowie!" hän huutaa. "Rakastin sinua Tron: Legacyssa!" Bowie heittää kitaransa ulos ikkunasta, ja se lentää taivaalle polttaen edelleen uskomattomia riffejä kuin ehdoton mestari. Tyttö hyppää hänen syliinsä ja he suutelevat niin kovaa, että koira herää henkiin ja ostaa auton. station to station

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.

In the top 3 for Bowie. What a cool album with so many amazing songs

Classic Bowie, appearing to be midway through a style change

Bowie

Jesus. Long

Weird and wonderfully eclectic.

Why do people think the Berlin trilogy is Bowies three best mid seventies albums? THIS shits all over Lodger, and although an LA album is a much more focused and a natural stylistic pairing to what he would do in 1977. To go from Blue Eyed Soul pastiches to a Brechtian art rock with jazzy undertones in twelve months is INSANE. The fact his lifestyle didn't destroy him around this time and he could be so creatively fertile is wild.

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

pretty damn good

This is a really short album - 6 songs, 38 minutes. This is more important as an artistic transition than a great album to listen to. The most notable song is Golden Years. Pitchfork: 9.5 Rolling Stone: Top 500 Album #52 Best Songs Golden Years

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.

This list has forced me to finally deep dive into Bowie and I’ve been pleasantly surprised. This album is no exception.

Not a huge David Bowie fan...

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

Take red peppers. Add milk. Throw in copious amounts of cocaine. A burned out rock star. What do you get? An absolutey brilliant album that the creator doesn't remember making. This is my favourite Bowie album and it is bleak, stark, dystopian yet so satisfying. Just superb.

This album is a lot of fun! I liked just about every song on it (it may help there are only 6 lol). I feel weirdly like each of the songs were 'just' solid to me, but I did like nearly all of them soooo...

Controversial but I feel like I got Bowie LESS after this one. It never quite hit the highs the singles I know from him do, and it never really landed on how "out there" something like Ziggy Stardust or the end of Low. There were still some great songs on here, and I can see myself putting it on if I'm craving some Bowie, but it was missing something that made a lot of the rest of his work more memorable to me.

Bowie's cocaine anthems album, stacked wall to wall with bangers and slappers. He does it again!!

I just don’t really get Bowie. Not why he deserves 9 albums on this list at least. None of these songs deserved to be 6-7 minutes long, and yet they all were. Like they were okay, not terrible, but why is everyone acting like this is something of the best shit they’ve ever heard?* *the song Stay kicked all sorts of ass and is not counted in the above chiding remarks

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

Instant sex, just add water. This is such a great album that I wish he made more of them with a few long songs rather than a lot of shorter ones. Golden Years is one of the most danceable songs ever, and his use of the piano on this album is absolutely out of control. I find something new to enjoy every time.

xoxo

3 Stars (8/15)

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

Just a chill album

Together with Blackstar and Low, my favourite Bowie album. Here, Bowie perfected his “plastic soul” that we first saw on Young Americans, but it’s also way more adventurous: the opener is a 10-minute epic, and one of the funkiest songs Bowie ever made. We can hear the soul also in his vocal performances, specifically Stay and Wild Is The Wind. The whole album has a non-stop drive that makes these 38 minutes fly by in an instant. Such a classic.

Please!!! No more Bowie records.

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

Not the biggest fan of this album. Just felt like it was a cool album from a unique noise perspective, but it really didn't have a lot of god feeling songs. Favorite track on the album was Golden Years, which was good, and had that cool clicking noise and echoing effects, and was the one song I felt was catchy on the album.

Meh. I understand this album was significant in Bowie's artistic journey... but there are already SO MANY Bowie albums on this list. This one doesn't stand out for me.

Fun and funky album, end on a soft note. 3/5. See the appeal and greatness but not immediately up my alley genre wise. Would enjoy listening again.

What the hell is a European cannon. Both unremarkable. TVC15 epic. Groovy riff Another groovy riff. What the fuck are you on about. Nice song wind is wild Conclusion: drug induced waffle. U

"The album opens with the epic, ten minute long, title track... it was 1976... and cocaine was king... not for me, lol... i was just a kid... i already loved every Bowie song i ever heard on the radio... including "Fame" and "Young Americans" from a year or two before... "Golden Years" exploded on the radio... it was yet ANOTHER tour de force, radio hit for Bowie... if it didn't make you want to get down and get funky... nothing did... The Thin WHITE Duke... emphasis on the white, er... and i'm not talking about his pasty skin, lol... no matter how whacked out on drugs he may have been at the time... his bad assness always shone through... every song on this record is worth knowing... "Word on a Wing" is beautiful... and, "TVC15 hits you like a ton of bricks... with that Professor Longhair style, New Orleans piano roll... Roy Bittan of E Street Band fame... the funky thin white duke gettin' down... the really bad ass "Stay" gives the entire band a mention... Roy and David of course... Earl Slick and Carlos Alomar on Guitar, George Murray Bass, Denny Davis Drums, Warren Peace Percussion... the album ends with the beautiful "Wild is the Wind"... you better freakin' believe... this gets FIVE STARS..."

Now that is a proper Bowie album.

Most of the songs I was unfamiliar with and found them enjoyable

Not his best is it

Bowie gets an oblig 1 star for just showing up

Не знав, що у Боуі був такий фанкі період. Альбом мені сподобався, проте не настільки сильно щоб хотілось другий раз переслухати. Stay чудова грувова пісня з класною гітарою.

Before this challenge I had never really listened to Bowie at all. Outside of the first album I got, I’ve enjoyed most of the other albums I’ve gotten as my daily picks. Yet I could not get into this one at all. The entire album just felt like one song, and nothing stood out for me. It just became noise in the background instead of me actually paying attention to it. Further proof the author needed a 2 or 3 album cap per artist. 2.5 / 5

Interesting but I doubt I'll go back to listen to this one over some of his others

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

Spent all day trying to put my finger on why I love this Bowie album (maybe the most of them all). Is it performance art? Like was he actually the 'Thin White Duke'? Like was there no real pretending or character acting involved? The whole thing feels scarily real to me. And yet still it grooves and still it pops.

Mid 5 best song: station to station ITS TOO LATE Title track is top draw as good as it gets. Stay is amazing too. Golden years and tvc15 both very good. Word on the wing drops it a bit. Wild is the wind cover is what it is

The return of the Thin White Duke

That's a good jam.

Good

10/10

Have no idea why the list included that many David Bowie’s, he’s a good icon and artist but never that good as a musician or singer (I’m sorry) Back to this album, it didn’t strike me

This album is more consistent than blackstar but has lower highs. There's nothing all that interesting, which is disappointing because I know Bowie has interesting ideas. I can see why other people rate it so highly, but I find it fine.

3 greatest hits in a 6-track album. Bangin

Riktigt härlig Bowie med ett par låtar jag inte hört förut

Överlag ett ganska trevligt sound med nån låt som sticker ut.

Mysigt

Något ojämnt, men topparna Riktigt bra och överlag nice sound

Nice med Bowie

I thought I was a fan of David Bowie, but not this album. I thought it was kind of boring.

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

One banger. The rest of the album is disco Bowie.

I will be honest in the fact that I am a very surface level David Bowie listener. I haven't had the urge to dive deeper into his discography than what is in my algorithmic mixes on Spotify. This was nice to hear some songs that I had never heard of before! Quite the variety on this album. I remember when I was little, and heard Golden Years in A Knight's Tale for the first time. Such a unique sound, and never fails to put me in a nostalgic state. I had never heard the song "Stay," and I really love that guitar line.

It's a lot better than the major Bowie hits that get played.

bowie isn't really for me

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*