Low

I've again deferred to my cat named Bowie on this review. When I told him that Low was today's album, he legged it from room to room around our apartment, bouncing off every wall and surface like he was off his tits on catnip. When he finally came down off his Low induced high, he told me "this is Big Dave's finest hour". So there's your review.

"All hail the Berlin trilogy!" I think they should be called Low, parts 1, 2 and 3. This is music that only sold because of his name. I wonder how many praise these albums because they don't want to admit that they wasted their money. I've learned a frightening word since I started listening to 1001 albums: AMBIENT. It is code for plain boring, weird boring, or monotonous pretentious twaddle. This album is just boring because I've heard it before. Back in the day it was weird boring. I assume Lodger is also in the list. I hope not. Yesterday I had Paranoid, more of that ilk, thank you.

6/6 First half is avant-garde, second is alien civilization. Standout Tracks: Speed of Life, Sound and Vision, Warszawa, Art Decade, Weeping Wall, Subterraneans

Bowie! It's hard to dislike anything Bowie has done, honestly. He was so alien and ahead of his time that there's always something new and strange to learn when listening to his albums. This was one that I hadn't spent any time with in the past so I hit the wikipedia article for context which was helpful. It's electronic and pop and undeliably Bowie. Is it dated? Yes. But it also feels like it's a decade younger than it actually is. While the rest of the world was making disco pop, Bowie was making electro bangers and synthetic, cinematic dreamscapes.

This album woke up at 5:45 pm to a house party happening downstairs, and quickly got sick of it, deciding to bar hop and scuttle around town. Never finding what it was looking for, it finally decided to walk the city streets alone through the night, stuck in its own head, until passing out in an alley behind a dingy jazz club. 10/10.

Takes the listener to a new world. Neat.

I love Bowie but for me this was too dramatic and artsy with too many random sounds and instruments. It's risky, I just didn't like it that much.

I am a massive, massive Bowie fan, and I think even amongst his pretty great catalogue that the Berlin trilogy is quite near the top. Bowie and Eno. What a dream team. Every one of these songs slaps, but Sound and Vision and Be My Wife are the big standouts. Perfection. We didn't deserve Bowie.

Okay. Often good, never all that great. The second half is mostly instrumental, concept album kind of thing. Interesting. I wouldn’t go back for it.

Anything Eno touches is electronic gold, and this collaboration with Bowie is one of his best works I've seen. I admit it hardly even feels like a Bowie album. It's a series of avant-garde pop rock tracks that knows how to control the unusual noises it's dealing it. The first side is absolutely perfect and if the whole album were like it I would have no doubt awarded the full score. But I'm mixed about the 2nd side. I've tried looking at what people had to say about it. Some say people only now started to appreciate it while others say it feels dated now... Ok? To me, it's a series of carefully crafted melancholic ambient pieces that are long enough for appreciation with enough variation to prevent us from growing tired of them. They apparently reflect geographic locations like Warsaw and West Berlin. They're excellent pieces that bring a calming feeling to the album, but how should I rate this album? Does it detract from the perfect score I should give? Well it's different and amazing as well but doesn't fit with the other side yet doesn't distract from it either. Maybe I'm hesitant because I already awarded 2 5-stars in the past couple days, and an avant album seems like the perfect excuse for me to break that. But I admit this is a perfect album that I commend Bowie and Eno on. In the end, they deserve the perfect score of this random listener.

When initially listening to Low, you get the sense of it being very David Bowieesque. It seems to have influence from free form jazz in the way that the instrumentation is arranged. The production definitely is the center of each song, as the lyrics are sometimes drowned out by the repetition of the production. There are long pauses in the spoken word, so this album almost becomes an instrumental album. At just 39 minutes in runtime it is an easy listen, an album you throw on a turntable as background music.

Split between a side of jittery experimental rock and a side of avant-garde/ambient music, Low is probably Bowie’s most drastic reinvention of his art. Brian Eno joins Bowie on Low and deserves much credit for shaping this album’s sound and style. Recorded in Berlin, the influence of Eno’s ambient work and the German experimental rock scene of the time is fully evident on Low. The A side of the record is more typical of Bowie’s sound at the time: the plastic soul of Station to Station became even more synthetic and angular, with percolating analog synths driving the songs. Think of it as a precursor to Eno’s work producing the Talking Heads a few years later. On the B-Side, Bowie and Eno delve deep into the experimental side of the pool, producing four moody avant-garde soundscapes influenced by Cluster, Kraftwerk, Steve Reich’s minimalism, World music and Brian Eno’s own ambient experiments. Few, if any, of Bowie’s megastar contemporaries were even attempting music like this in the late 70’s. Low and the ensuing two records Bowie recorded with Eno in Berlin are ground-breaking achievements, which successfully introduced the avant-garde and experimental into popular music. For both Bowie and Eno, Low is a high water mark.

Wow, what a yawner! Amazing he ever became a star.

The feeling of exited trepidation I feel before refreshing the page each day to reveal my next musical journey was very much dampened on this occasion when I discovered a David Bowie lp. Not being a huge fan I was still interested to hear what is supposedly one of his best pieces of work. If this is considered one of his best albums then it kinda confirms my long held opinion of Bowie’s music...blandish and boring’ish. David Bowie was universally acknowledged for sounding different, looking different and pushing boundaries in general yet I still find his songs fatiguing and uninspiring. Quit frankly the last three tracks on this album all sounded like instrumental lullabies aiming to set you off to sleep...which was a hazard in itself as I was driving at the time. It’s no coincidence that the only Bowie material I own is a Greatest Hits on vinyl. After listening to this album, that’s not going to change any time soon. 1 Star!

in May of 2020, when I listened to the entire Bowie solo discography, I ranked this album his second best. it's a decision I still stand by! sorry, I just really love Blackstar, but in terms of "classic" Bowie, this is the album I reach for first. it's just such a succinct and perfect encapsulation of this artist (artists, if we take Brian Eno and Tony Visconti into account) at the peak of his powers! it may not have legendary, generationally anthemic songs with roof-tearing vocal performances like Hunky Dory or Ziggy Stardust or Station to Station, but so much of what makes this album special is its understatedness and brevity. the A-side is 7 flawless rock miniatures, all clocking in around 3 minutes or less, all replete with brilliant details in their pristinely engineered instrumentation, with heavy layers of Eno synths masterfully woven into the fabric for good measure. in many ways these songs (and others from the Berlin years) feel the bedrock of new wave and post-punk. even the instrumental songs are full of intrigue! the stakes on these tracks are much lower than they've been on previous Bowie albums, but there's a straightforwardness to the songwriting on this A-side, particularly in the lyrics, which I find really compelling. "Sound and Vision" might be the most "perfect" song in the entire Bowie catalog, and there's quite a few contenders there! then side B transports you somewhere else entirely. Eno takes center stage, with Bowie acting more as an object in the musical scene than a central figure across 4 grandiose slabs of ambient goodness. fuzzy string patches, Steve Reich-esque marimbas, thundering bass tones, droning vocals, and a ton of electronic pads all come together in various flavors. the connection these tracks have to the 7 rock songs that came before them isn't immediately obvious, but they just make sense together. with the rock side, you get terse reflections on David Bowie's state of mind as he tried to kick his various vices to the curb, and with the ambient side, that focus shifts outwardly to his immediate surroundings in West Berlin and the quiet horror of the Cold War. I can't imagine one without the other! this is one of the most transcendent listening experiences you can find in the entire rock music canon. 10/10.

Its so good oh my god I'm crying listening to Subterraneans. Crying. This is the third time I'm listening to the ambient closer and I'm crying. OMG. Side A - avant-garde pop Side B - ambient

First half is marvellous, second half is sublime. Alongside the classic Kraftwerk run, this is one of the strongest statements of and for post-war European culture, pop or otherwise.

Busy day, brief review - this is great!

I’ve always wondered what impression this album made to the Bowie fans at the time it was released. At the time it was only 5 years but 8 albums between this and Ziggy Stardust. Bowie had already reinvented himself a few times since then, but this still had to be a shock to listeners after Station to Station. The songs on side one seem more like ideas than songs. The crazy thing though, is that they work as songs as well and flow seamlessly into each other. As soon as one song is over, the listener is left wanting a little more but then they get hooked into the next song which then starts the cycle all over again until “A New Career in a New Town” brings the listener out of out. Side two , all of which reflects impressions of various locations musically, opens with what is Bowie’s most ambitious track at the time. “Warszawa” is both bleak and beautiful. The track is meant to capture his impressions of a previous visit of his to Warsaw. The final track, “Subterraneans”, is the oldest on the album. It was previously recorded shortly after Station to Station and like the track that came before reflects the mood in Germany surrounding the separation of the country during the cold war. Although this is not my favorite Bowie album it is up there and truly worthy of the 5 star rating.

A little shook I gotta come on here and defend Low! Not sure I have the credentials to do so. But this album is groundbreaking! One of the world's biggest rock stars assuredly planting is feet at the edge of the genre's avant garde. This album is so dense with collage. Such an unusual and introspective use of rock and roll; exploring all the ways it might collide with electronic, kraut, ambient, and so on. I can honestly say I've never heard an album from before or after Low that sounds quite like it. Even Heroes, which is, I think, his best album, and was released the same year (!!!), finds Bowie taking his experiments in a tonally different direction. I think it's stunning and inspiring to hear someone who had just released their first "greatest hits" album whipping around and doing something like this. The influence this album had on New Wave, Post-Punk, Indie, and everything after Rock's golden age is evident and essential. Hard to imagine many of our most beloved rock groups up to and including Radiohead existing as they do without Bowie's experimental period and without this album. All that, AND the first half of this album totally bops! "Sound and Vision" is one Bowie's best pop songs!

Bowie introduces some electronic sounds! I'm a Bowie fan but have never listened to this one, so this was a treat. I enjoyed the exploration of new sounds, and you can definitely see the influence this had on subsequent artists. The second side was particularly interesting and unexpected. My top pick is 'Sound and Vision', but I also really liked 'Be My Wife' and 'A New Career in a New Town'.

It's hard to imagine what modern music would sound like without this album. Bowie and Brian Eno create an album with a satisfying rock front half, and a ethereal, dreamlike, and somewhat menacing back half. The experimental and ambient elements here are crucial to the development of post-punk. I remember when I first heard Blackstar, I thought that it was coming out of nowhere because I had not explored this period of Bowie. This album has given much such a deeper appreciation of this artist and of the history of music in general.

5.0 + I've listened to this album many times over the years. My first listen left me utterly confused. However, being a huge fan of Bowie's more pop-oriented music, I hung in and with subsequent listens that confusion turned to distaste, to understanding, and finally to absolute reverence. My journey to love this album in turn has made me appreciate experimental music and the artists that successfully struggle to present truly original sounds to my ears. I'm grateful for this album, for the supernova forces behind Bowie and Eno that briefly collided, as well as for my being able to finally appreciate the fruits of that collision.

Had a great time listening to remastered versions of Bowie’s classics plus some new ones that I’d not heard before. It has a psychedelic electro soul which puts me in mind of “war of the worlds musical”. Blooming brilliant

Cigs for breakfast vibes Sound and vision Eno good?

4.5 Kind of a weird coincidence that we went from having two instrumental albums to the closest Bowie’s ever come to writing one, but what better way to send off the trio of like-minded works than with the beginning of Bowie’s own famous musical trilogy. Obviously I’m using “like-minded” loosely here, as this is miles ahead of Barry Adamson and Zappa in every way imaginable - I mean, come on, it’s David Bowie. As someone who just claimed not to be the biggest fan of instrumental music in my review prior, this album is an exemplification of how to do it and make it compelling. I mean, right off the bat you’re greeted with probably the sexiest blast of jazz to ever open an album - you know, the kind of thing only Bowie could pull off. It’s such a captivating, groovy, and inviting way to kick things off, and it transitions into a series of slightly more conventional tunes from there that I really think are among Bowie’s best. I absolutely love the synthesizer on Breaking Glass, the clanging piano on Be My Wife, and the simple, catchy charm of Sound and Vision - these are seriously all tracks that I think need more love within the larger Bowie catalog. The back half is where you get into the meat of the instrumental work, and while I can see how it could lose some people, I really find Bowie’s take on it to be some of the most atmospheric I’ve heard. There’s an incredible ambience established immediately as Warszawa kicks in, and it really doesn’t let up until the album concludes. Supposedly the songs were inspired by Bowie’s time in Berlin, but for me, they’ve always given off this sense of “final level” in a video game (which, to be fair, Berlin was in a sense at a time) They’re all great, but to date, I honestly think Warszawa is my most-listened to instrumental track ever. David Bowie is a legend among musicians and men for a lot of reasons, but I think one of the biggest reasons was his ability to consistently innovate and reinvent himself, and I think this album, denoting the beginning of his next musical chapter, may represent that spirit the best. The Thin White Duke and Ziggy were out - David was back and changing the game again. Bonus points for why Bowie is the man: Instead of promoting this album, he chose to support his friend Iggy Pop on tour as his keyboardist.

Bowie will always be great. I think this was my first time listening to this one though. It's quite haunting.

My favorite of the "Berlin Trilogy" albums. -- At least I think. I need to relisten to Lodger The instrumental tracks are sublime. Especially Warszawa.

I really liked this. Atmospheric and cool. I would not have listened to this before. Glad I did.

# Playlist track - Sound and Vision # Notes - Never heard this album before, even though "sound and vision" is one of my favorite Bowie tracks, ever. - Album starts out pretty great. Excellent opening. Fun, energetic, but it something does sideways halfway around. A set of weird experimental tracks takes over and they just feel out of place.

Can't believe I'd never heard Be My Wife before... it sounds so 80s. The ambient sections I find a bit tedious. Didn't hate it but I probably won't revisit the second half of the record. 3 overall, but a 5 for sound and vision

Some moments of genius

Mostly ambient and experimental music. Interestingly odd.

Szerintem olyan közepesen jó volt. Semmi földet indító nem volt benne, de hallgatható.

Not my cup of tea

Weird

Sorry. Just can’t get on with Bowie. Much over hyped, the tunes themselves are pretty good but his voice is awful and puts me off listening

#296. I don't know why there's so much Bowie on here when so much of it is trash. I've learned though that Bowie, like Dylan, should have quit while they were ahead in the early 70s, because there's not really anything particularly good going on after that. It's hard to pick a favorite song here, because none of them were even a little bit interesting. 2/5: please stop.

Unique in the way that I didn't know one could use such experimental instrumentation and still bore me. 2/5

Idk it felt like half the album was missing. Good beats otherwise

Points for trying something different, but never really came together.

This album received higher score because of two tolerable instrumental songs. The other songs were not worth listening to.

"Low" to jedno z najodważniejszych dzieł w dyskografii Bowiego. Pierwszy album z berlińskiej trylogii jest pełen kontrastów: emocjonalny i eksperymentalny, chwytliwy, a jednocześnie alienujący – tragiczne arcydzieło. Album powstał w kluczowym momencie życia Bowiego – w trakcie jego wyjścia z uzależnienia i przeprowadzki do Berlina. Był spłukany przez umową z managerem i wyczerpany powiązaną sprawą sądową. To osobisty dziennik artysty, który walczył z własnymi demonami, jednocześnie szukając nowego kierunku w swoim życiu i sztuce. Pierwsza połowa to utwory bardziej konwencjonalne, choć nadal eksperymentalne, jak „Sound and Vision” czy „Breaking Glass”. Są to krótkie, intensywne eksploracje dźwiękowe, pełne melancholii i introspekcji, ale też niesamowicie chwytliwe. Z tej części mój ulubiony kawałek to "Always Crashing in the Same Car" - utwór o frustruacji wynikającej z powtarzania tych samych błędów – zarówno w życiu osobistym, jak i twórczym – ale w wyjątkowy sposób nadaje tej frustracji ton niemal stoickiej akceptacji. Nie ukrywam - rezonuje ze mną w bardzo osobisty sposób. Muzycznie utwór jest oszczędny, ale głęboko nasycony atmosferą rezygnacji i refleksji. Hipnotyczny riff gitary oraz powtarzalny rytm perkusji tworzą wrażenie zamkniętego cyklu, z którego nie ma ucieczki. Dźwiękowa metafora tytułowego „rozbijania się o tę samą ścianę”. Kluczowym elementem jest również melancholijny syntezator, który delikatnie unosi się w tle, podkreślając samotność i izolację. Wokal Bowiego, niemal wyciszony i pozbawiony emocji, dodaje utworowi jeszcze większej autentyczności. Druga połowa to niemal całkowicie instrumentalne kompozycje, które budują niesamowity nastrój za pomocą syntezatorów, ambientowych tekstur i hipnotycznych melodii. „Warszawa”, jeden z najbardziej charakterystycznych utworów na albumie, brzmi jak opowieść o samotności i tęsknocie – surowa, a jednocześnie przejmująco piękna. Emocjonalne serce albumu. Utwór wywołuje obrazy zimowych krajobrazów, pustych ulic i samotności, które jednak nie przytłaczają – wręcz przeciwnie, inspirują do refleksji. Jest w nim coś transcendentnego, jakby mówił o czymś większym niż codzienne życie. Myślę, że utwór, jak i cały album, świetnie odnalazłoby się w soundtracku Disco Elysium. Mocne 5, jeden z moich ulubionych albumów.

Fantastic Bowie album, swirling keyboards, under-stated vocals, just excellent

Side A party on dude, side B next morning 3 final songs of side A what a beautiful sandwich

Love Bowie so love all his albums

An easy 5 for me. It's got pretty much everything I want out of an album. Innovation. Emotional depth. Brian Eno. The ambient excursions alone solidify it's impact. Bowie has better hooks and more memorable songs, but this one consistently comes up as the favorite album of other musicians for a reason.

Two fives in a row, but they’re worth it. This is my favorite Bowie album, always has been. Peak creativity and songwriting. I love the ambient tracks just as much as his more traditional pieces. A

One of my favourite albums

Not gonna relisten but this is one of my favourite albums of all time. Eno and Bowie are one of the all time great collaborations and they make something really beautiful here. It's moody, dark, luscious, and melancholy. An album very close to my heart. Best Track: Subterraneans Worst Track: nada

Best Song: Sound and Vision Worst Song: Weeping Wall

Just what Bowie needed. Eno, Eno and more Eno.

David Bowie is the only thing making Eno relevant

All time great. The songs, the atmosphere, the production, the legend - it's all there.

After listening to Aladdin Sane, i did think that David Bowie definitely did have a lot of talent when it came to making music but Low showed that way more. This was just one of those albums that always would do something that i would not have expected and yet, handles it so well that it just clicks so well with me. Nearly every sound here from the regular instruments used in nearly all the tracks, to the more one-off sounds are all handled absolutely amazingly. This album was also just a really beautiful sounding one making me feel like I'm getting one of the greatest views of my life while being at a high surface. This album is a genuinely amazing one that i never expected would be this good. Best Song: Speed Of Life Worst Song: Weeping Wall

I mean, it's David Bowie -- you really can't go wrong. I hadn't heard any of these songs before and I loved them all. I listened to the whole album twice. Five stars.

The song fragments are all fantastic, catchy and intricate in the way that only Bowie could be, and the ambient tracks take the best parts of Eno’s contributions to the genre and expand it with Bowie’s relentless experimentalism and sheer fucking beauty. This is one of those albums that deserves to be listened to all the way through

4.5/5

I really enjoyed this one a lot!

Yeah this album is pretty blatantly ripping off Neu! at times but honestly, who cares when the music is this good

Really enjoyable to listen to. I found myself restarting later in the evening after having listened to it once.

excellent

Classic.

Bowie is a classic!

Sound and Vision is my favorite Bowie track.

So immersive. I really enjoyed the contrasts of each half of the album. While the first half is more experimental pop rock that's energetic, the second half is very melancholic and ambient that challenges the listener. In the end I'm left satisfied. If I was in a completely different mood this rating would probably be lower, but I wasn’t. It was perfect right here and now. Best song: Sound and Vision / Subterraneans Worst song: Be My Wife

One of the favorite periods of Bowie’s career

I've always really loved this album. It's very different from most of the rest of his work but I think it really paints a great picture of his headspace living in France and Berlin with Iggy Pop. What a weird time that must have been. Sound and Vision is probably the best track but I also really like Breaking Glass, that song doesn't ever get the praise it deserves. I particularly like the live version from the Reality Tour album. What in the World is great too. All the songs are great, really. And I love the second side being mostly instrumental. It's beautiful and soulful and experimental and wonderful. Brilliant album, though I wouldn't consider it one of Bowie's top 5. But I love it and will listen to this over and over again for life. 5/5

This has long been one of my favorite albums by Bowie, and a standout example of why he was always at his best when he was experimenting. No one would have expected this turn in his sound back when it was released, and it remains just a revelatory now as it was then.

this album is the definition of a vibe

That's what you get when you own a "best of" album. You get to completely re-discover aspects of an artist when listening to full albums. That was very much the case here. I love Bowie but only knew one song from this album. Loved all of it though, more instrumental than I expected, and esp. the "B side" was unexpected (Brian Eno, good job). Sometimes, as with most art, it's difficult to explain WHY you love it, but I do. A true album that just works, the songs follow each other beautifully.

My second favourite Bowie album. I’ve currently only listened to Ziggy Stardust and Hunky Dory (LOVE Ziggy and not awfully fussed on Hunky Dory) but this sits very nice between them

hugely risky. ambient and eerie. albums to listen to when you want something low-stimulation that makes you feel bad but in a comfy way. favorites: Warszawa; Always Crashing in the Same Car least favorite: A New Career in a New Town

Not only one of Bowie’s best, but definitely one of the best albums ever recorded.

-This is amazing, definitely my favorite release by Bowie I’ve heard so far. Something very alien and gripping about all the sounds, especially Eno’s ambient textures in the second half. This is my second full listen and it sounds even better -Favorites are What In The World, Weeping Wall, and Subterraneans

Absolutely love David Bowie. Absolutely love this album. Definitely up there as one of my favourite albums by him. See my other reviews of his albums to know just how much I love Bowie. He's the G.O.A.T in my opinion.

5 stars. Loved this from the first time I heard it the day it was released.

His best for me personally, he couldn't be touched on this streak from 'Station to Station' to 'Heroes', what a run. I just love the split of the album from weird trippy pop/rock in the first half into the more spacey and ambient stuff in the second half. Shoutout to Eno.

Great

this is an album that I’ve already listened to, and it is already and has been one of my favorite albums by David Bowie of all time this album combines so many genres from art rock to hard rock to melancholic rock and I can keep on going to ambience and it’s really just a phenomenal album 10 out of 10

Interesting that I got Low after Lust for Life. This record is fantastic. Rare that you encounter an artist doing something completely different on side two from side one. This is almost like two different albums and yet the whole thing is perfectly inhabits the same universe. Canadian critic Dave Winnitowy called Low "hideously interesting.” I’ve been listening to this thing for years, and it’s also endlessly interesting. With the exception of pop stunner Sound and Vision, the music on Low is experimental, often very cold, and yet somehow strangely inviting. It sucks you in. Bowie and Eno are geniuses, Low is one of the most influential albums in the history of rock/pop, and the music here is unsettling, lovely, moving, strange, and stunning. I’ve taken many naps to side two, and I mean that as praise. It is a first rate experience, slowly half-nodding off to the soothing, otherworldly sounds of Low and appreciating its beauty with a semi-conscious mind.

I absolutely love this album, and have done since I was 15 (41 years ago, gulp). I don't think I'll ever get bored with it. The short tracks on side 1 are delivered in a throwaway manner, as if Bowie's emptying out some pop stuff that's been rattling around in his brain for a bit, perhaps. Except that every one of those short pop tracks has musical depth and complexity, and brings a sense of darkness in the lyrics. The opening and closing instrumentals on side 1 hint at what's to come: side 2 is epic, and beautiful. Having decided to get on board with the synth thing, and assisted by Eno obvs, Bowie was evidently happy to completely run with it, and create long, filmic soundscapes that perfectly describe post-war Europe. I feel as if I could write a book about this album. Did I mention that I absolutely love it? Never mind 1001 albums, this should be in every top 10, surely, for creativity and importance. I wish he was still here.

I never need a reason to listen to this. One of my absolute favourite albums of all time and it’s not possible for me to be impartial where Bowie is concerned.

I'm a big fan of Bowie, and this is one of his best. Absolutely brilliant and very varied album, where he tries a lot of different things that all seem to work. Fav tracks: Sound and Vision, Be My Wife, Warszawa

cool ambient second half

Classic

Absolute, total and utter masterpiece.

First half was ok, but when the sounds started moving i was sold on this album!

Favourite Bowie album for sure. Shows his genius in so many ways, each song a masterclass.

Cet album comporte ma chanson préférée entre toutes de David Bowie, Sound and Vision. Cette pièce est parfaite, tant dans son groove que dans son propos, dans la voix. Quant à cet album, il me semble, comme son titre l'indique, plus feutré dans l'exploration et moins dans l'ego du personnage. On en retire quelque chose d'éminemment intime.

The first of Bowie's Berlin Trilogy and like most Bowie albums it's amazing. It's experimental on both sides with rock and avant garde on side 1 and ambient mostly instrumental in side 2. Speed of Life, Breaking Glass, Sound & Vision, Always Crashing in the Same Car, Be My Wife & Art Decade are all highlights but all tracks are first rate.

Quintessential Bowie album! One of the best!

Great Bowie album

The first of the Berlin Trilogy. I love This album. Not much more to say!

What a coincidence after getting Heroes yesterday. I like this one much more. I think the instrumentals here are much more enjoyable than the slogs found on Heroes. I do count this among Bowie's best work.

it’s free brian eno ambient !! bowie the appreciator of <3:30 songs that u are. thank u. love u pookie.

Love this album. Named for the low profile picture but I feel high listening to this album!

Berlin era gorgeousness, and I have always loved that coat on the album cover

the sax in subterraneans was 🔥

It took me more time to appreciate the first rock side than the second ambient one. Why? Because those songs kinda felt undercooked to me, almost like demos at times. Of course, I eventually loved them for that very reason and now it's my second favourite Bowie album.