Low

The album is good it's mostly an instrument-based album which is not my cup of tea. 3/5 stars.

No me gusto. Aburrido sin emocion

ambient david bowie!!!!! so soothing. excited for the rest of the berlin trilogy

Algjört meistaraverk. Ótrúlega framtíðarleg miðað við útgáfuár. Mjög hugrakkt að hafa aðra hliðina instrúmental. Sounds and vision algjör negla og Warzawa magnþrungið. Skil vel að Joy Division hafi fyrst skýrt hljómsveitina eftir laginu.

Strange sound, some great songs

I can’t believe I’ve never listened to this one through, may have just become my favorite Bowie album.

A true game changer, with not a hint of over exaggeration.

Don't feel this is quite to the level of some of his other work, but still pretty interesting

liked the first half, neutral about the second half

A good album with a very interesting and unique production style. It sounds clean and carefully built, yet still strange enough to keep your attention. Overall it is very enjoyable and easy to stay with from start to finish. The record splits into two clear halves. The first side has shorter songs with vocals, still carrying a pop sense but already stripped back and slightly cold. The second side moves into longer instrumental pieces that feel more open and atmospheric. That contrast works well and gives the album a real sense of movement. Bowie sounds restrained and focused, never overplaying anything. The production by Bowie and Tony Visconti is a big part of why it works. Electronic textures, sparse arrangements and careful use of space make the whole record feel different from most rock albums of the time. Nothing is cluttered. Every sound has room. Low is a strong and distinctive record. Well made, unusual, and still a pleasure to listen to.

The second half could have done well in my ambient music week a few weeks back. Art rock supposedly. Well at least the first half. Not really sure if the album as a whole falls into any easy genre category. Another 3.5 Could not listen to it driving at night without falling asleep. If you didn't fall asleep it's probably not until 20 minutes after the album finishes that you realise the music stopped, as it's that low key. Didn't change my world.

Fun background vibe but not really my style. Good music tho

Fantastic

Algunas canciones mejores que otras

This is his best album.Not unrelated to it being mostly instrumental.

no soy tan fan de este album particularmente de bowie

Overall it is okey, but there is not any song that i particulary like. It has good melodies and production but it ends up being a bit boring

favs: sound and vision warszawa subterraneans rating 1.3/5

david bowie i forgive you for what you did to Ster in that tf2 lobby

Bowien Berliini-trilogian ensimmäinen osa on mielenkiintoinen katsaus ensimmäisiin kokeiluihin yhdistää rock ja konemusiikki.

One of those albums which automatically gets painted with the 'genius' brush, but if I'm listening really critically, I have to say it's the least satisfying of the Berlin albums, mainly because it does feel unfinished and almost like a soundtrack album. Which doesn't diminish its impact at all, because this may be the single most influential album on this entire list - entire genres of music sprung up in its wake, and bands used its template to reinvent themselves by taking radical new directions. It worked for Bowie, went the refrain, why won't it work for us? I'd give it 4.5 if I could, but in the end, it's a milestone and worthy of the full marks.

OST of the time, I love Bowie. My wife has never been a fan, which astounds me. This guy played no small role in my musical upbringing, and I remember well the day I bought Young Americans with my saved allowance. I think I still have the record, though I know it’s in rough shape. Still and all, this album doesn’t really inspire. The wife thought I was listening to a buddy’s kid’s mixtape of electronic meditation tunes he created in his college dorm. Sleepy stuff. 3 stars because it’s Bowie.

Very Unique textured sound. Bowies vocals and the overall production is js amazing And Yes I do think about Sound and Vision

I love Bowie but not a fan of coked out Low Bowie.

Bowie was pretty good at being really good. This album was good.

Great, innovative, electronic Bowie!

Lowkey this is kinda good I don’t think it’s quite a 5 but it’s a solid 4

Speed of Life - Good start 3/5 Breaking Glass - Dat bass 3/5 What In The World - Strange sounds 3/5 Sound And Vision - Dat bass pt. Two 3/5 Always Crashing In The Same Car - Bowie 3/5 Be My Wife - Dat bass III 3/5 A New Career In A New Town - Fun sounds 3/5 Warszawa - In album only 2/5 Art Decade - Calming down 2/5 Weeping Wall - Atmospheric 2/5 Subterraneans - Spooky ending 2/5 Some Are (previously unreleased) - Continued gloom 2/5 All Saints (previously unreleased) - More ambiance 2/5 Sound And Vision (remixed version) - Energy again 3/5 Thoughts that come to mind: "I've had this record in my library a long time, but I haven't given it a proper listen." "Need to look up who is playing bass on this record." "Sounds like Bowie." "Some of the sounds he created on this record are amazing for 1977." "Drags down some at the end. I assume this is a stylistic choice based on the theme I infer from the album title."

Some interesting songs on here. Some needed to be longer, others shorter. Sound and Vision is the highlight.

Absolutely masterful

Instrumental mostly, but ok

Utterly forgettable. But it’s Bowie I guess.

It's David Bowie so of course I'm giving this five stars. In fact, I think it might be my favourite material of his. It's a very different type of record to those which immediately preceded it in his catalogue, stripping away the theatricality and sonic excess of his previous eras to effectively lay the groundwork for the likes of post punk, synthpop, ambient and industrial music. It's an incredibly dense, fragmented and robust album across side one, and a brooding cinematic experience across the other in collaboration with Brian Eno. It only continues to reveal more of itself to me on each listen. One of my favourite things about the album is that proto-industrial mechanical drum beat courtesy of Tony Visconti, sounding like a factory press clamping down all of the time. It's easy to hear how the sound shifted the trajectory of multiple of my favourite genres and provided a vital blueprint for others to draw upon. It mimics the aesthetic of exactly where it was recorded – Cold War Berlin. Meanwhile, the second side is simply phenomenal. How it manages to sound simultaneously beautiful but alienating in equal measure is a work of genius. Throughout there is such a uniquely unsettling yet engaging atmosphere to wrap yourself around. I also love how each song is structured entirely differently to one another in a thoroughly unconventional manner. You simply never know what twists the songs are going to take next, but they're all executed with aplomb.

the most peaceful shii I eva heard bruuu>>>> F w it HEAVYYY/>

mid range for Bowie to my tastes

Nice to hear it, but no hits or awesome single song

Um dos meus álbuns favoritos da vida

Un par de temazos, otras son piradas

Cool, sleek, Bowie. The man could make an album for sure.

Ok

Not a Bowie fan

This might be my favorite Bowie album which is really saying something. The first half is sheer perfection with the best band that Bowie ever assembled. "Speed of Life," "Sound and Vision," "Breaking Glass," "Be My Wife"...sheer art rock perfection. The second half is gorgeous Eno inspired and produced soundscapes led off by the beautiful "Warszawa." If I was introducing someone to Bowie this album is where I would start. It shows his full range and maybe proves the adage that struggles with addiction and adversity leads to great art.

For a long time, I've felt that Sound and Vision is the best Bowie song. Just distills everything that made him so great into three minutes. This is also my favorite of the Berlin Trilogy, perfect art rock in the first half and then just beautiful, eerie, Eno-driven ambient that gives me chills in the second. Best songs other than the immaculate Sound and Vision for me are Be My Wife and Warszawa. Unbelievably modern sounding

You can never go wrong with Bowie! Sound & Vision is one of my fav Bowie songs, but the whole album is a fun ride through some psychedelic sounds!

What's with all the David Bowie albums? Was he really that much of an influence on the musical scene? If one was to ask me, I would think the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Beach Boys, and Elvis would have been greater influencers. Oh well, just another David Bowie album if you ask me. It was fine.

I enjoyed the instrumentals, the vocal style wasn’t my favorite but good tracks and lyricism nonetheless.

Very rad. The soundtrack that never was, interspersed with some great no nonsense rock song

Very good album.

Bowie and Eno, a wild combination. While this is album is very inconsistent in terms of material, switching back and forth between the art rock and the ambient electronic instrumentals in an unconventional order, all the songs are great. The electronic achievement of this record is awesome, and its blend with the normal rock instruments is seamless, especially considering the time period. The synthesizers are for sure the highlight of the album, elevating the quality of every song. A complaint I definitely want to bring up is some of the lyrics being not very good. However, the saxophone featured in a couple of the songs is absolutely phenomenal. Some tracks tended to get quite repetitive, but it wasn't too bad. The strange instrumentals ended up being my favorites, but they definitely threw off the pacing for the album due to the placement. This record loved to hop back and forth between the line of too experimental to be good and amazing weirdness, which harms my opinion of it slightly. Interesting Bowie album, nice listen.

Gonna go with weird. Too much concept weirdness here

If this album were made by anyone other than David Bowie people would be clowning on it. 1.5/5

I think Brian Eno might be the most impressive rock producer of all time, he brings something really special to this album that I don’t think it would’ve had without him. Obviously the traditional Bowie songs work pretty well here, but I think this album really shines with the instrumental side. Obviously Eno is obviously very good at making ambient music, but this some of the finest I’ve heard. There’s a lot of really beautiful sounds on there, it’s so layered and it’s honestly just beautiful. I ended up liking this a lot more than I thought I was going to. This is definitely the best Bowie album I’ve heard through this. Favorites: Breaking Glass, Always Crashing in the Same Car, Subterraneans

quite sonically different from bowies other albums but in a cool way. some of the songs (esp the more instrumental ones) felt like they could be in a soundtrack for a movie. extraterrestrial. not something i would listen to everyday but definitely gives a cool listening experience when is listened to. fav songs from album are what in the world, sound and vision, a new career in a new town and subterraneans.

Why is this one on here

Already listened to the Berlin trilogy when Heroes came up last week, but still a fun one to revisit

Enjoyable. Would probably need more time to truly appreciate

Starter rimelig decent. Så kommer "What in the World", bare orker ikke sånne låter og blir i litt dårlig humør. Resten av albumet treffer heller ikke helt. "Be My Wife" er dritt. "Warsawa" og "Art Decade" er kul og redder helhetsinntrykket.

Ikke det ebste fra bowie dette her altså

Starter veldig bra med «speed of life»! Klarer ikke holde nivået hele veien, selv om «sound and vision» er en deilig låt, så blir en litt svak 4 for min del

Litt av det som gjør Bowie spesiell på en positiv måte, litt av det som gjør Bowie spesiell på en negativ måte, ingen av bangerne dom gjør Bowie til en legende

Speed of Life + Sound and Vision are the only songs of interest for me. The second side, trying to do a kraut-like sound, should have worked a bit better, with Eno around too. But nothing on the actual Germans.

WOW. A METÀ TI SEI STUFATO DI CANTARE E HAI DECISO DI PARLARE LA LINGUA DI DIO. CHE DIO TI BENEDICA, DAL PIANETA TERRA IO TI DO 5 STELLE. 5/5

very atmospheric but just not for me

Really enjoyable

I prefer Bowie when he's Ziggy.

#471 It has to be good to get 5 stars from a first listen but it’s Bowie, so there was always a chance of that, and I’m sure further listens will prove it worthy. Didn’t have many songs I was familiar with but always good to explore an artist further. Heard before? ❌ Would I revisit? ✅ Listen before you die? ✅ Fave track(s): Sound and Vision Rating: 9/10 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

After 5 Bowie albums so far, this list has convinced me that Bowie is one of the most overrated artists. Besides his hits I really don't find a lot of his music that interesting. This album is ok, pretty average, although I did like the instrumentals.

Not what I was expecting from a Bowie album, this was awesome. Felt like a concept album. Will definitely come back to this one

++*: What in the World ++: Speed of Life, Breaking Glass, Always Crashing in the Same Car, Be My Wife, A New Career in a New Town, Art Decade, Weeping Wall, Subterraneans +: Sound and Vision, Warszawa 9,5/10

Masterpiece. The first half is weird, mutant, alien pop music. It's as strange as a rock band can sound while still being rock. Sound and Vision might be the greatest song of all-time. The second half is blissful and way, way ahead of it's time. Pretty much a perfect album. It's even got great cover art.

Very different from expectation, so much instrumental that I tended to lose concentration. But not unpleasant.

As to be expect with Bowie, a first half of average songs with a one or two well known ones sprinkled in, then a second half of dull instrumentals. I simply don’t get the hype.

Liked the latter half's spacey acoustics. Also can't overstate the impact of having an album you've listened to before (even if years and years ago) in the sea of mediocre 70's rock.

Retro future music

Lo de Bowie es tremendo. No es solo la combinación de sonidos, también es su interpretación. Es impresionante buscar los sonidos que conforman cada canción a través de los auriculares y pensar como hizo para unirlos. No son temas que suenen para nada iguales, pero gracias al sonido que le saca a los instrumentos logra que parezcan hermanos. No me entra mucho en la cabeza como alguien puede hacer un disco así. Es muy difícil ponerme en los zapatos de Bowie. ¿Cómo los compuso? ¿Con que empezó? Cuando se sentó a escribir este disco, ¿Qué fue lo primero que hizo? No lo puedo deducir. No se me ocurre. Puede ser que este disco haya sido un collage de sonidos. Yo no lo creo igual. No veo a Bowie haciendo tal cosa. Es un disco medio espacial. Me da esa impresión. Pero desde el principio, no solo su parte b. Es una especie de álbum de estratósfera. Y eso que los nombres de los temas tienen referencias terrestres. Es decir, es interpretación mía, nada garantiza un concepto espacial. Con este disco me doy cuenta un poco más de quién era David Bowie. Sube indudablemente mi admiración hacia él y su obra. Gracias.

Bowie's Berlin masterpiece. Amazed when I first heard it, amazed now.

Easily one of the best rock albums ever

3 stars It’s not my favorite Bowie album. I think of it as a representation of how hip and cool someone thinks they are when they say they love this album. Side one is interesting and has good moments, certainly. But side 2 is literally a score for a B movie. I don’t understand why people go crazy for this album. But yeah, see one has interesting moments.

"Sound and Vision" is so damn good and is a shining light in this album. It's beautiful, catchy, poppy, and highlights why Bowie is so synonymous with the "Art Pop" genre. The album as a whole is pretty unspectacular but does have moments of inspiration and wonderful creativity. Like a walk through the woods where suddenly a flowering bush or a colorful butterfly passes into your perception. Overall it's a 6/10, but when it's good it's GOOD.

God bowie ikke hans bedste efter min mening. Selv der må han få 4. Undskyld Anders, vi har projektaflevering så det er lidt sløjt med anmeldelserne :D

Måske sniger der sig en lille smule Bowie-bias ind her, men det er sgu bare et godt album 4.0

Listened before: never. this will be my 5th David Bowie album review on this list Speed of Life - 4/5 Breaking Glass - 4/5 What in the World - 4/5 Sound and Vision - 5/5 Always Crashing in the Same Car - 5/5 Be My Wife - 5/5 A New Career in a New Town - 4/5 Warszawa - 5/5 Art Decade - 3/5 Weeping Wall - 4/5 Subterraneans - 4/5 Average score: 4.3/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ this is definitely a more ambient album for sure, likely because of his collaboration with Brian Eno and the inspiration from some other German artists (Kraftwerk and the like) a lot of Bowie fans seem to consider this one of his best albums (if not *the* best), but i don't think i understand why quite yet. it's a little jarring how different this sounds compared to his earlier rock albums (Ziggy Stardust, Hunky Dory, etc) so i'm really not sure how i feel about Low just yet i think it's interesting at least, i certainly don't hate what i listened to. i think it'll take more listens to determine how much i really like it. all things considered, i think my rating is more than fair

Non proprio il mio genere non me lo aspettavo così da bowie lo riascolterò più avanti

I love Low. I always have and I always will. Fucking fantastic.

This is a more low key and chilled kinda rock album. After reading about the dudes drug addiction I can see the vibe hes trying to create reflects the head space he was in at the time. It’s enjoyable to listen to but it’s nothing mind blowing. A very spacey vibe

Very chill album. Decent instrumental decent vibe, just decent overall I’d say. My favorite song was sound and vision though, as it was the most upbeat and enjoyable at any time.

Tillsammans med Young americans Bowies bästa. Två vitt skilda sidor av samma artistskap. B-sidan är magnifikt bra och helt befriad från anglo-amerikanskt bluesarv. Filmisk europeisk elektronika som är ödslig och vacker, klassistisk och experimentell, Kraftwerk och Tangerine Dream, saxofon och stråkar, fritt och modigt. Det är en sjuhelsikes albumsida helt enkelt. A-sidan går heller inte av för hackor fast på helt andra premisser. Här finns två av mina favoritlåtar med Bowie, "Sound and vision" som nog är hans allra bästa, med Kraftsrkinspirerad synt och uppdaterad kritvit funk från “Golden years", det är bara synd att den är lite kort. Därefter följer *Always crashing in the same car" som nästan lika bra. Enda låt som inte riktigt når upp till några stora höjder på albumet är "Be my wife" som hemfaller till lite mycket traditionell rock. Annars hörs en hel del arty ekon från Enos Roxy Music och olika fint utvalda stråk av europeisk avantgarde, utan att på något vis bli efterapningar. Två saker till. Ett: Bowie sjunger fantastiskt, utan ansträngning nästan lakoniskt. Två: den här skivan låter fantastiskt, produktionen är brilljant. Det gick alltså utmärkt att göra välljudande rockskivor på 70talet. Varför gjorde inte fler det? Det är förstås en solklar fullpoängare

Sida A. Ja, det är bra. Lite skissartade låtidéer, men det funkar och låter bra i en lätt överstyrd produktion. Trumslagen nästan distar. Bowies sång är som vanligt briljant och snygg. Bästa spåren är Sound and vision, Always crashing in the same car. I en lite annan produktion hade de kunnat platsa på Young Americans. En fyra. Sida B. Jag har aldrig förstått varför en artist vars främsta resurs sitter i sångrösten väljer att göra en hel sida med så gott som instrumental ambientmusik. Är det ens Bowie eller är det Enos solonummer vi hör? En tvåa.

Det var nog först med Bowiepodden som jag på allvar upptäckte och lärde mig uppskatta Berlin-triologin i allmänhet och kanske Low i synnerhet. Visst hade jag gillat hitsen sen tidigare men som album hade de inte riktigt satt sig. Det är onekligen ett jävla fint grove som levereras på den popiga A-sidan. Inte minst i Breaking glass och Sound of vision. Bowie sjunger hur bra som helst, med den där lite lätt nonchalanta rösten som bara han behärskar. B-sidan är ju något helt annat. Ett tidsdokument som verkligen andas kalla kriget och dess mest kusliga skepnader. Han lyckas verkligen förmedla en otäck känsla av öststatsbetong och stasiövervakning. Sen orkar man inte kör B-sidan om och om igen lik den motsatta. Oavsett ett riktigt bra album som nästan når toppbetyg.

A-sidan är full av utmärkta låtar. Jag håller Breaking Glass särskilt högt. Däremot är jag inte lika förtjust i B-sidan. Den levererar en stämning som kompletterar a-sidan. Den är inte dålig men den är inte heller särskilt spännande. Det var utmanande 1977 med en nästintill instrumental b-sida på ett rockalbum, men idag låter det rätt mycket som mellanmjölk. Kan lätt misstas för soundtracket till en sci-fi-b-film från tidigt 80-tal. Totalt sett är det ändå ett starkt album.

I'd heard most of this album before, but can't remember listening the whole way through. I've listened several times already today and understanding the groundbreaking reputation of the album. The industrial noise of the first half of the album is excellent, kicking off with the fantastic instrumental Speed of Life and progressing steadily toward one of Bowie's best with Sound and Vision. The ambient second half of the album is a complete shift. While not as immediate as the first half, it's an intriguing collection of abstract tunes starting with Warszawa. Great album--I'll be coming back to this one.

My fav Bowie album.

Banger

This was not bad for a Bowie album - my 9th here and hopefully last. 🤞🏽 I actually like the more experimental stuff on side 2.

Better than station to station? Had some weird elements to it that I liked and I did enjoy it. Highlights Speed of Life Sound and Vision Warszawa (fav) Weeping Wall

a little weird but i liked it. good work music honestly because it kind of just blends to the background. better bowie than station to station

Better than the other one we listened to. Instrumental's were fun. I liked the experimentation a lot. Some of it was a little weird. Still not for me. David you got 7 more albums to impress me...

Unlike what I usually expect from David Bowie. It leans towards ambient music for most of the album with, comparatively, few vocals from Bowie himself. The ambient instrumentation is pleasant and retains a heavily 70's feel--electronic synths, strange bottle-tapping percussion, and bass that just seems to warm your heart.

Warszawa reminds me of The Lion King soundtrack

First half is a 5, second half is a 2. Round up because sound and vision is so incredible.