Reviews (page 10 of 14)
This is one of the better Bowie albums I've been served up on this site. Probably because it doesn't sound like the rest of them. lol
This for me is one of his weakest but it actually gets better as it goes on- the more ambient/eno it gets the more I enjoyed
My first album in this project!
well. um. huh. i think this was good. low 3. lots of ambiance. too much for my taste
Pre-listening thoughts: if I had a nickel for every time we got an album rated on the bottom twenty of this website immediately followed by a David Bowie album, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice. Post/during listening thoughts: the white hot spotlight starts making my face sweat profusely as I nervously clamber my way on stage. I tap the microphone and the feedback whines. I clear my throat. I can hear the impatient shuffling of people who don’t care enough to read all of this to see what my opinion is. “David Bowie’s ambient stuff is mid and the Berlin trilogy is overrated.” I say, mustering up the courage to stand up straight and look at the audience without picturing them in their underwear. All of a sudden I hear rumbling, a thousand simultaneous boos from Brian Eno dick riders. Tomatoes start pelting my skin, and I rush off stage, wondering if I stooped too Low. 5.5/10 DID I NEED TO HEAR THIS BEFORE I DIE: nope Fav tracks: Breaking Glass, Sound and Vision, Be My Wife Least fav tracks: all of side B
It's Bowie, so its gonna be good. Not his best, and a lot of pyschodelic instrumentals, but good background music.
Honestly, there’s too much Bowie on this list. Low is an okay album, but it never really reaches greatness. The first half has some decent tracks, while the second half dives into an instrumental, concept-album vibe that’s more interesting than enjoyable. It’s a bold experiment, but not something you'll find me returning to.
Bowie again? Enough!!!
Meh. It's Bowie, so it doesn't suck, but it's Bowie, so it's weird.
Definitely an acquired taste for sonic landscapes and a bit of the avant garde. Not for everyone.
Ja, little Davie und sini spannende, chli experimentelle Ahfangs-Albe. Die erste Lieder hani biz mässig gfunde, aber ab de helfti hani mi denn is biz experimentelle und chli ruhigere chöne driigeh und hans denn au recht entspannt und nice gfunde. Mal chli was anders was mer sust so da hend. Aber irgendwie ned sone mäntigs-mood-album, darum fahri mit mine drü Lowriders, arm dusse, riise lunte im muul, gmüetlich am little Davie verbii und begrüessen miteme lässige chopf-nicke.
Bööörououou bäärouououo To windows, to walls Ah falsches lied falsches album. David bowie bowster Sehr experimentel, was mir eich na gfahlt, aber denn halt doch nöd d bnger wualität erreicht. Has gfühl ich wirde zwenig lieder vu dem albums jemals wieder lose zum mit gutem gwüsse es 4 low fives z geh. Coole socke ische er glich 3 muurdurbrechendi kuss-songs für berlin vu mir
This kind of music is usually hit or miss. I don't listen to it very often, but I can appreciate the direction it is taking. The same is true of this album. It's not David's best work but good nonetheless.
This one doesn't really get going for me until Sound and Vision comes on. Great song and the highlight of the album. The next song, Always Crashing..., was cool and had a really good guitar solo finish. Be My Wife feels like a very introspective song and one that resonates really well. Everything after that feels so unlike Bowie, which makes sense once you read about the backstory behind this album. It is quite a bit of electronic-sounding instrumentals. Not quite what I was expecting at all. I like most of Bowie's stuff, but most of this album wasn't for me. Still a solid 3 or 3.5 at the end of the day.
This felt different than most Bowie albums we have had so far (this is the ninth album holy hell). This one felt more like an atmospheric adventure, especially in the second half. I think I have heard Sound and Vision before. I sincerely don't think I need any more Bowie. At least he's better than Morrissey. 3.5 here.
Didnt enjoy it as much as his other albums. But overall solid. Standout songs: Always Crashing in the Same Car Warszawa
interesting musically i guess
Interesting vibe for Bowie but still good. Not likely to return though.
Full disclosure I'm a big Bowie fan but rarely listen to a whole album straight through because they often consist of a few really good tunes and a few meh tunes. This one is no exception
I guess a cog in the machine of Bowie - not my favorite album of course but Sound & Vision is a gem
As I’ve gotten older, I’ve come to appreciate Bowie’s ingenuity and creativity. He was such an original and pioneer. This album is so interesting with the atmospheric instrumentals. And I’ve always loved the groove of Sound & Vision.
going to hit the rest of the group the wrong way i fear.
instrumentals at the end weren't doing much for me. other than that another 4/5 bowie album.
6/10 - David Bowie has too many albums on this list. This album did not need to be on there i think.
It's alrighrt, but nothing fancy. Mostly because it's not my genre
This and Lodger were always my least favourite early Bowie (n.b. I stopped paying attention after Never Let Me Down which I didn’t like much either) but Bowie I don’t much like is still head and shoulders above so much else. Side 1 would be a 4, but dragged down by the dreary instrumental electronica on side 2.
Sehr entspannt, fast liminal
Very interesting...didn't expect this to have so few vocals.
Meh.
Bowie is baffling to me. On one album he can conjure up a hit at will to save it. With Low he seems content to meander around a laboratory of incomplete or inarticulate ideas with mild enthusiasm. Nothing really seems to be great or really catch hold of the imagination. It's like he is showing off the worst kind of artistic entitlement imaginable. Bowie is certainly a talented songwriter and musician, but even the best creative minds lose their way.
Its not as good. There are some good tracks, and the sleeve is iconic, but the last couple of tracks are mehhh.
The second time of listening to this album had me appreciate it a lot more, especially the second half. Whilst not everything here hits the mark for me, I feel it is just shy of getting 4 stars and this may be an album that I rate higher with further listens.
Not sure what I'm missing, but apparently I'm missing it.
It does have quite possibly the best Bowie single on it ("Sound and Vision") and I get it, bRiAn EnO tHo, but like...it's a lot of soundscapy bleepin and bloopin. Powerfully haunting at time but start-to-finish? Not the BEST of Bowie
The weakest David Bowie Album i have heard yet (from first listening experience wise) but I'm still and continuously stunned how consistent bro was... (3.0/5.0)
I like Bowie and obviously respect his contributions to music and acting, but this album is kind of mid. It’s not bad, but it also wasn’t very memorable.
I've never heard this album before now. I enjoyed it - all of it. I don't fully get it, but I'd be more open to hearing it again over Nick Cave or Euro synth pop. I'm really at a 3.5 on this one, but I don't want to give it a 4 until after I've digested the 2nd half of the album some more.
The first of Bowie's albums to become known as the Berlin Trilogy. Not one of my favourite Bowie albums, but it does contain the single "Sound and Vision".
An eclectic mix. Interesting and not bad, but not my preferred listening really.
I liked the feel of the album, but nothing really grabbed my attention. Some of the instrumental pieces I really enjoyed.
I wasn't mad about it. Diamond Dogs recently blew me away but this I didn't enjoy too much. I may have to listen again at some point soon
Is/was it avant-garde, ground-breaking, and "interesting"? Oh yes. Do I like it? Not really. It has been part of my collection for some considerable time but it is a long way from being my favourite Bowie album. Since I am scoring on "how much do I like it" rather than "value to pop/rock music as an art form" this gets a middling 3/5.
Listened Before? N Another awesome Bowie album! Really solid, beginning to end. Also a bit of a different sound for him. Thoroughly enjoyed. Added to Library? N Songs added to playlist: Sound and Vision
Discordant in parts - when good, really good
GAY NAZI COKEHEAD PEDO RAPIST. ALBUM WAS OK
Obviously with Bowie you get a lot of different manifestations of the dude, but I can’t imagine this is anyone’s fave. This overly instrumental collection is just too lacking. Hurts but I can’t go above 3 for this one
Not my fav from Bowie. Many of the songs weren’t very musical and hard to get into. Respect the creativity. 2.5
Love me some Bowie but this just doesn’t do it for me. Hard for me to rate this any better than good especially when compared to his other albums. 3/5
Another “here’s a new sound” album. Listening to Bowie is always interesting and a joy. But he hasn’t yet come into his own on this album.
It was okay, but nothing special.
I guess the Labyrinth soundtrack is really Bowie's best. 3.4.
This is probably my favorite Bowie album to date. Thanks, Iggy! Personal enjoyment: 3/5 Relevance to this list: 4/5
Bangers but teh unknown sings are unknown for good reason
Second half was little too much ambient for my tastes.
I'm not big on bowie's vocals but I enjoy stuff like the instrumentation on Warszawa, Art Decade and Subterraneans. Some of the vocals on Subterraneans remind me of some of Maynard James Keenan's vocals which is odd and surprising. I was also surprised by how rocky the album was and thought the structure was thoughtful. Definitely need to revisit this one for a third time and beyond for more understanding.
I can appreciate the history and the background with Brian Eno and the fact that it was going to be a film score. Standalone it is just an odd film score of an album
3.5/5
Odd album. Kind of a journey if you’re hopeful going out, and the night slowly degrades as you go on
OK
261/1001 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑
Not his best, but interesting and definitely ahead of it's time.
normally I adore him, but this album is just not for me.
speed of life-3/5 breaking glass- 2.5/5 what in the world- 3/5 sound and vision- 4/5 always crashing in the same car- 3/5 be my wife- 2.5/5 a new career in a new town- 2/5 warszawa- 4/5 art decade- 3/5 weeping wall- 2.5/5 subterraneans- 3.5/5
didn’t like it, not a fan of electric.
okay, not his best album
A great opening seven Bowie songs, ruined by the closing four Eno songs.
The album was very good, a bit odd, but I thought the amount focused on the instruments really pulled it all together
Not his best album. I'm surprised it made this list, tbh.
I love Bowie, so much awesome stuff. But this iiiiis not really Bowie I like as much.
Maybe I'm missing something, but it was very basic. Probably should have been there.
Less familiar to me than other bowie. Sound and vision really strong single, album tailed off a little in the back half.
Versatile moods and collab with Brian Eno. Emotional and darker. Of course made an impact in the late 70's and fed into the post-punk genre. I think this is critically acclaimed, and I like it, but doesn't serve me in the same ways
I read the wiki on this album and it says some of the origins of this album were originally intended to be a soundtrack and it shows. This album plays like a movie score at times with mostly instrumental numbers. It is ok.
Not my favorite Bowie album. I really enjoy Sound & Vision
Think I need to listen a few more times
I listened to this when I was at work and was expecting something amazing, especially as Sound and Vision are on this album and I love that song. I was disappointed. It was almost as if he had heard Jean-Michel Jarre and got a bit carried away. It just seemed to be watered down version of that.
A decent album for him.
Pretty good. Not my favorite, but good background music. All kind of sounds like music that would belong in a different movie. Christmas music, suspenseful, old time, detective, music, etc.
3/5 - Interesting first half but loses me on the second half. Nice introduction to experimental Bowie. FAV: Always Crashing In The Same Car
Previously rated: The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (4/5) Aladdin Sane (3/5) The Next Day (3/5) Young Americans (3/5) Station to Station (3/5) Hunky Dory (4/5) ************************************************************************** First half has good stuff; I was enjoying it. Second half instrumental movie soundtrack or whatever did nothing for me.
This is an album to listen to in the evening or night, not at 4:30 pm like I have been I like the synth and the overall atmosphere of the album Nothing too special, and I'm pretty sure he has better stuff, but decent nonetheless. Ooo that random bit of sax in the middle of the last song was good
Zdecydowanie lepiej mi to weszło niż \"Heroes\". Może dlatego, że tak mało śpiewu Bowiego na tym albumie. A może po prostu dlatego, że jest dużo bardziej eksperymentalny i przez to ciekawszy dla mnie. Te instrumentalne kawałki były przyjemne. Oczywiście bonus ode mnie za zatytułowanie jednego utworu \"Warszawa\" i dodatkowy plus za zachowanie polskiej pisowni. W tych czterech ostatnich utworach starałem się szukać uczuć, które ewokują we mnie ich tytuły i muszę przyznać, że rezonowało to ze mną. Poniesiony umiarkowanie pozytywnym odbiorem tego krążka przesłuchałem jeszcze raz utwór \"Heroes\", ale nic się nie zmieniło, dalej mi nie podchodzi. I ten album też, mimo lepszego odbioru, nie przekonał mnie jakoś do Bowiego i nie sprawił, że zrozumiałem jego fenomen. Z czasem robi się dla mnie ciekawy, ale wyłącznie na poziomie intelektualnym i głównie dlatego, że moje niezrozumienie dla jego twórczości wciąż mnie delikatnie frustruje. Mamy jeszcze 7 jego albumów przed nami, może na zasadzie syndromu sztokholmskiego na koniec zostanę wyznawcą. Na razie umiarkowane 3, także oczko wyżej, niż Heroes, które długimi fragmentami mnie zwyczajnie irytowało.
Kurde... I hate it, ale nie potrafię pokochać tej płyty. Frustrujące, bo w teorii powinna mi się podobać, przemawiać do mojego gustu. Jest naprawdę ciekawa, różnorodna, śmiała, eksperymentalna. Słyszę to, ale z jakiegoś powodu nie umiem docenić. Słuchałem 3 razy, it's time to move on, może to nie czas dla tej płyty. Póki co czuję, że ciężko mi będzie do niej wrócić, nie mam konkretnego punktu zaczepienia. Słuchało mi się dobrze, ale trudno było mi tu odnaleźć coś dla siebie, coś co by mnie poruszyło. Nie umiem tego lepiej opisać
It was good. Like some of his other stuff better. My knock against it was that it was too “musical” and not enough action. I know this is weird since I am a huge Pink Floyd fan and my kids always yell at me there are no words on their songs. But this felt different.
Sound and Vision was a catchy classic. I enjoyed the more ambient parts, but wasn't wowed overall. Album cover: (B) Good arresting image and colors.
At times pretty good, at times annoying.
Why is David Bowie so mid? I said this in my last review but Bowie is a boring Elton John. The songs are so slow and boring, and when they occasionally threaten to pick up, they quickly abandon ship and go back to being boring. 5/10, it's so fine but never gets good.
It’s Bowie?
Not my favorite Bowie album but still a solid effort, more important than good
Somehow never heard this before. I liked it. It has that kick I need in music, that rhythm.
it’s an alright album but i feel like im taking crazy pills, how is this album so highly lauded?
Started strong but then went weird
Firstly, I’d just like to say that Bowie has always creeped me out a little bit. He looks like a lollipop lady who smokes a pack a day with an apparent disdain for children. Ultimately trying to do a nice thing, but it’s all a bit weird and confusing. Went into this a bit worried as I’m not a massive Bowie fan. However, the music wasn't too bad for the most part. Wasn’t a fan of the little extra he seemed to add to each song though, some really strange futuristic noises thrown in for some reason. I believe it was Goliath who once said “David, stop pissing around with it or you’re going to hurt someone” but David didn’t listen and Goliath received a bit of biblical GBH (great big headache, if I’m not mistaken). Thats a bit like what David Bowie did here, took a perfectly nice sounding album and tried to give me a GBH. Apart from that though, middle of the road album for me, which is a compliment as I’m not a massive Bowie man, and neither is Goliath, he’s just massive.
I was initially concerned I'd let nostalgic bias interfere with this review, as Bowie was one of the first artists I was introduced to as a child. Luckily, listening to a bootleg cassette tape in my Dad's rusty van whilst he drove around trying to sell poppadoms didn't have much sway in today's review, as 1) I've never heard this album before, and 2) me and my old man, never got on. The album is exactly what I think you'd end up with if you left an alien with a synthesizer, some pan pipes and a wah wah pedal for 6 months. Trying to look at the album objectively for what it would have been back in the 70's I can completely see this being something ahead of the curve and quite pioneering. It was, for the most part, an acid trip of extra-terrestrial proportions.. and better still, it wasn't Bob Dylan. The album is fucking nuts. Not Tom Waits nuts, but more like "Where am I? Where's David gone? Why is this Alien trying to grab my arse.. and why do I kind of like it" Sort of nuts. Funnily enough, like my old man, Bowie turns up late and at points just fucks off completely throughout large parts of the album, vocally at least. I spent a bit of time initially waiting around, abandoned in this bustling intergalactic circus I'd been thrust into, hoping for David to come back.. like some mad, androgynous father figure, who was supposed to help guide me through whatever this escalating bedlam was. Catching Bowie's vocals on this was like trying to catch acid-laced smoke as he was a much more diffuse and mercurial figure, ultimately attempting to tell interpretative stories through the instrumentals more so than objective lyrics. Sometimes it really worked and sometimes I felt like I was in the middle of a Doctor Who episode. I thought 'Sound and Vision' was great, 'Be My Wife' was fun and probably the last real exposure you have to Bowie's voice on the album.. and then, like any meaningful trip, it takes a much more sombre tone as 'A New Career in a New Town' is the last beacon of optimism, before 4 strikingly different and darker songs kick in. Whatever journey you are on with Bowie prior to this point, and the novelty you find along with it, comes to a jarring end. 'Warszawa' hits you hard and unexpectedly because of this.. and jolts you into realising that you've been sold a one way ticket, to whatever dystopian world you've now been abandoned on, with only this effeminate lunatic for company. I appreciate the journey, but now I'm trapped here I'm not sure I signed up for, or wanted any of this. With a bit of luck I can maybe squint and pretend David looks just enough like a woman that we can try and colonise this new planet.. although I have a feeling it will be more colon, and less nice.. if you catch my drift. I wanted to rate this album higher than 3 stars, but couldn't bring myself to rate it 4 stars, not whilst I was sober at least. What I have learned is that my old man really learnt a lot from Bowie and that I probably need therapy. 3 stars and I need a drink.
Not an album I often think to put on, but I'm usually happy to hear it by accident. I appreciate Low in the context of the Berlin trio, which I always thought was a very cool innovation in how artists can release music and carve out their own little places and moments in time, and not be concerned with commercial appeal. Sound and Vision is a cracking song. Nice jangly guitars, driving bass, great vocal performance, synths, strings, sax and eno on backing. It's such a pop belter you forget it's about isolation at a time when Bowie has fled L.A to kick drugs and other life pressures. The bleeps and bloops, and overall dalliance into electronica come together well. Warszawa has the hallmarks of Eno and obvious kraut art rock influences, without being totally derivative. Hauntingly powerful even if the lyrics are total gibberish. The track was so influential, Ian Curtis named his band Warsaw before changing it to Joy Division. Enjoyable but omitted from my own Mount Rushmore of Bowie albums.
Just like his next album Heroes, it starts strong (though this one is better) yet finishes dark and ambient. I find the sound interesting throughout, but wish he could have trimmed down the ambient instrumentals, cause the regular songs to me are awesome.
I found this album extremely charming. Speed of life immediately locked me in. It was very lovingly crafted. Be my wife had my head bopping A new career in a new town sounds refreshing and modern even to my ears today. Probably not something I’ll listen to, but I loved the experience. Very fun, different, and thoughtful. I would 100% put this album on this list myself. However, it didn’t shake me to my core or really move me at any particular point, so I can only rate it a 3.
Surprised by how meh I thought this one was.
ziggy was better
Ok album
Dope.
Sound and Vision is a brilliant songs. Speed Of Life, A New Career In A New Town and Subterraneans are good too. Rest ok 3/5
I sort of understand why this is so hyped, and it is truly an inventive and interesting album. But I still find David Bowie less of a musical genius, and more of a rock star that had the resources to experiment with technology. The result is something that sounds experimental in a dated way, lacking the timelessness of focused songwriting in favour of experimenting with the newest toys on the market.
A nice listen, but felt more like a movie soundtrack than a David Bowie album.
3.5 stars
cool listen the kind of album if you played some of those songs i wouldnt just guess it was david bowie sound & vision a banger
It's fine. It can get a bit boring.
I just think its fine
A few years back I had a drunken and slightly heated debate with a mate who said a lot of Bowie songs are shit! My position being that a shit Bowie song is far better than most artists great songs! However on revisiting all Bowie early albums, including this one, I can’t help thinking my mate might of been in to something. There is what can only described as an awful lot of “filler” in between the undoubted classics that we all remember and love so much, food for thought?
Interesting record. Bowie is an institution. Glad I have listened to it, but I won't put it on repeat.
This is an interesting Bowie album, but I'm not sure it's essential listening. The production is great, like all of Bowie's albums, but I didn't expect to go into this only really listening to instrumentals. Best Songs: Speed of Life, Warszawa Worst Songs: Weeping Wall,
I have this vinyl pressing in my library. Supposedly worth quite a bit. :) Interesting listen, this one. Kind of trippy.. Reminds me of 'Golden Years' and some of the music he did in Labyrinth.
my parents had best of bowie on CD so i know all the hits, and i’ve picked up various songs from soundtracks and references and other people’s playlists, but i’ve never Sat My White Ass Down And Listened to any bowie album all the way through….which seems kind of insane/borderline impossible. but it’s true! i really liked the pop songs on this album but the atmospheric instrumental chanting stuff really lost me toward the end i fear…i guess i just don’t get it…it’s kinda nuts that “sound & vision” is on the same album as all the ambient stuff but the progression to get from one to the other wasn’t in fact that jarring, so. maybe it was more effective than i’m giving it credit for? either way the bass goes crazy!!! fav tracks: breaking glass; sound and vision; always crashing in the same car; a new career in a new town
Bowie is a legend. I enjoyed listening to the album. Just a couple songs I really enjoyed though.
Was expecting more vocals, didn’t realize the instrumental and synth focus this album had. Could kind of take it or leave it.
Good but not his best
I don't really like instrumental albums. It was fine background music.
Low is interesting and has some really good tracks, but it’s kind of lacking Bowie himself. Still impressed with his ability to grow and change and evolve but never release anything sub-par.
Again, did not feel much for this. Definitly more good than bad and I might have been a little harsh on the last record, although I think my last assertion about standout tracks rings true here as well. Best song: What in the World Worst song: Warszawa
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. I like the idea of the concepts better than most of the songs, and it got worse on a second listen. Best song: Sound and Vision / Subterraneans Worst song: Be My Wife
I really liked the first seven songs of this album and just wish the second half had followed suit. If it had then a strong score of 4 would have been forthcoming. Unfortunately the last 4 songs were just a bit too experimental for me and brought the overall score down. Still, easily the best album on here I’ve listened to so far.
bowie’s bowie, and his (timely) 77 collab with eno proves to me that post-coke bowie sounds a lot like mid-coke bowie but… ambient? i guess? pretty alright record but not much stood out to me…
Glad I listened to it. Not sure I’ll listen to it again
Not my favorite Bowie record, but the worst Bowie record beats the best of most artists.
Ikke hvad jeg havde forventet med fedt ‘soundscape’
It was great background music that helped me focus, but it was not memorable.
I was tempted to give it 4 purely for ‘always crashing in the same car’ which might be my favourite Bowie song. I like the brooding atmosphere of this album and the synth tones. Not a huge fan of instrumentals in general but I did think this album was really well done.
Very ambient and strange. Not the Bowie I've heard before but it was educational.
Philip Glass wrote his first symphony based on this album, saying "My generation was sick to death of academics telling us what was good and what wasn't." The irony is that Glass got it exactly backwards. In praising Low as a masterpiece, he became the very academic he was criticizing. Pitchfork named it the greatest album of the 1970s in 2004. Most people don't listen to it. The Spotify numbers tell the story. "Sound and Vision" has 112 million streams, which sounds impressive until you remember it's riding Bowie's general fame and is one of the more accessible things here. The next highest track has 13 million. For "Bowie's best album" and "#1 of the 1970s," that's pretty pitiful. I enjoy Captain Beefheart. Odd and innovative are fine by me. But a record still has to be something I want to listen to, not just appreciate. If someone played guitar at twice the speed anyone thought was possible, that might be genuinely impressive. But I don't listen to music to be impressed. As is the case with the rest of Bowie's Berlin trilogy, I tend to like the second, experimental half better. If you're going to experiment, go for it. Trying to mix the experimentation into pop songs, like with the first half, doesn't work as much for me.
not my favorite Bowie album.
Man, all my notes got wiped out, but I'd call this a transitional album. Clearly Bowie, with all its influences worn on its sleeve, but not fully made his own. While I can agree that 'boring' would be a good descriptor, I think the ambient stuff is pretty decent. Not all music has to go somewhere, and especially not ambient. It's no mistake that there aren't any classic Bowie hits on here, but that doesn't make it bad, just hit-less. The separation between the first half and second half make it feel a bit more like an art project than something coherent, so on that I'm knockin' it down from a 4 to a 3.
I like this, reminiscent of a Pink Floyd album where the it feels like a journey. It stands on it own from beginning to end. Sound and Vision is a jam. I wish I could give half stars cause this feels like a 3.5. Not quite a 4 in my opinion so I'm going with a 3. I'll listen again though
Cool, vibey Not particularly exciting, but I fw it
Really liked some of it, but some tracks were just ok for me
Overall cool but weird ending
Still like picturing him in Berlin getting back on track jammin with homies. But prob the lowest ranking Bowie for me. Low Bow. 2.5
Surely there are 1001 albums to listen to before this one
Much better than the last Bowie album
Its's ok. Very much fragments, and though he was getting clean this feels like I can only imaging coming down off cocaine does. Not sure I want instrumentals from this guy, whose whole lyric containing songs are pretty good. Still some cool moments. Better than the idiot.
Full disclosure, I'm a big Bowie fan. As usual I love the pop rock songs but not so much the electronic instrumentals. Also, my least favorite of the Berlin Trilogy.
bowie just like many artists apparently went through a weird experimental phase, first tracks are good but the last ones are not so good
I get the 1st half being pop and commercial-oriented and the 2nd being ambient and experimental and showcasing David Bowie's ability beyond just singing, BUT it still feels like 2 different albums or EPs from different genres shoved into one. NOT for me
Not his best
It's a nice album. Listnened 3 Times to it yesterday.
Weird and trippy and not at all what I expected. Very artsy though
me gustó 7.5/10
Experimental, creepy and cold. Very weird but not in the worst way. It was okay.
Listening notes: I first listened to this while on vacation in Hawaii, and the vibe was not quite right. I ended up turning it off before finishing it. Picking this back up after getting home: Kicking off with some great riffs on Speed of Life, kindof a weird Rolling Stones sound. Instrumental, interesting choice for an opener. More funky weirdness with Breaking Glass and What in the World. Sound and Vision: awesome single. Love this one. Always Crashing in the Same Car, this is pretty cool. Be my wife: guess this was a single but kinda forgettable. A new career in a new town - nice and bouncy Waszawa - alright it's getting dark and strange. More moody with Art Decade Weeping Wall - kindof a Philip Glass feel here then back into the creepy darkness with the closeout Subterraneans. Yeah this is decidedly not a Hawaii album haha. I liked it more the second time. But it just feels like the first and second half are very different albums, and I wasn't quite ready for the second one today. I'm intrigued, but left a little confused. Very experimental. Wouldn't seek out the album again. 3.5/5, round down
Quite average
Uno de los más influyentes discos de Bowie (y ha tenido varios). El del comienzo de la trilogía berlinesa, que si se alimentaba de pimientos y cocaína, que si Eno e Iggy Pop, que si tal y que si cual... Como temas más conocidos están la instrumental Speed of life y sobre Sound and Vision. Always Crashing in the Same Car y Be My Wife (segundo sencillo del álbum) presentan a un Bowie más convencional. Otro instrumental cierra la cara A: A New Career in a New Town, que tiene algunos trazos de TVC15 y de su periodo Thin White Duke. La B es la más reconocida, sobre todo por Warzsawa, tema con enorme carga ambiental, voces y coros tribales y todo tipo de novedades que seguramente hicieron fruncir el ceño a sus habituales seguidores. Art Decade, mantiene ese tono espectral y Weeping Wall con Bowie tocando vibráfono y xilófono. Subterraneans cierra el disco con más pasajes intrumentales y Bowie tocando un inquietante saxo. Un disco que fue recibido con tibieza por algunos, y que ha ganado mucho con el paso del tiempo. Disco esencial de la explosión del 77 (junto con los de SEx Pistols, Talking Heads, Ramones, The Clash, Television, Bob Marley, Iggy Pop, The Jam, Suicide, Mink Deville, Kraftwerk, The Modern Lovers, Elvis costello... también Fleetwood Mac y Bee Gees...).
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4. Sound & vision is very funky background Overall very low tempo. Cool sounds. Very atmospheric, but nothing that really grabs the attention
Sound and Vision - total classic A new career in a new town - the harmonica reminds me of the The!
I give this 3.4 rounded to 3 stars. I love Bowie but this was not close to his best despite many reviewers loving the Berlin trilogy. The first half was good and I really enjoyed Sound and Vision and Be My Wife. The second side was full blown arty electronic music mostly without vocals. While it was interesting, it's not something I'd go back to over and over like some of Bowie's classic albums.
gut, aber bleibt für david bowie verhältnisse wenig hängen bei mir
I liked this. I like the instrumental and I thought it was unique. I haven’t really listened to Bowie before, like actually sat down and listened.
Pretty cool and decently different, but not exactly life-changing or essential. And certainly not as avant-garde as it likely regarded itself to be. The experimentation is pretty tepid and derivative in the end. "Sound and Vision,” “Be My Wife” and “A New Career in a New Town” are best cuts. One doesn't much like the sound of "Breaking Glass." The instrumental second side is pleasant enough but drifts in to so much Enonian noolding. There are plenty of musty/dusty synth lines that sound as if Vincent Price may have dropped by the studio. Others are direct rip-offs of Kraftwerk or Neu, offering yet more evidence of Bowie as shameless imitator rather than true innovator. One can see why afficianados would consider this a hidden gem, but, given the significant superfluity of Bowie records on this list, impartial listeners might hear a likely candidate (among at least 3 and maybe 5 others) for culling.
Liked it but david bowie isnt my genre
Pretty good. Brian Eno’s hand is evident on the second half. It makes for great soundtrack for a movie, but less so for a commute. As a general rule I like some of Bowie’s stuff, and this album holds to that.
This album is certainly interesting and worth hearing, but it’s not my jam. I’m sorry that the pretty pop/rock star got hooked on cocaine and had to go to Berlin and listen to ambient music and krautrock while getting clean, but that doesn’t make him an ambient musician or a krautrocker. It just makes him a strung-out tourist. He does well when he is making his pretty pop/rock (“Sound and Vision”) but the rest of this is Bowie doing something other than what Bowie does best. So it’s just not that great, despite the music nerds overhyping it for the last decade. Also, hey late-70’s David Bowie: https://youtu.be/-E3dwBabYBY?si=meE0-IpG0H4__NT3
1001 albums is making me consider something unexamined about my music tastes... do i just not like david bowie very much? this is a very strange thing to discover about yourself in your third decade of life. i have always been Someone Who Likes David Bowie. ziggy stardust is a masterpiece! his singles and big songs are incredible! so why am i so unenthusiastic about all these albums? i don't know, but i wasn't vibing with this one. 1001 albums being what it is, i think i still have a few more albums of his to try out, but i do not like this new frontier of doubt!!
this is my fifth david bowie from this list in under a year. I'm starting to realize that what i thought would be glam rock all the way down is actually more like a new genre exploration every album. this one has two: german electronica/art rock and ambient. i actually enjoyed the former and thought this might be my favorite album of bowie's since ziggy stardust, but then i hit the ambient part and was bored to death. favorites: speed of life, breaking glass, always crashing in the same car, be my wife, a new career in a new town
Meh.... I like words, I love lyrics. Not a fan of mostly weird musical sounds strung together in unhinged melodies. But I love David and these albums seem to bee of some significance in his musical journey.
Not my favorite of his. Some of the instrumental stuff was beneath him in my opinion. He's a better writer than that. Felt contractually obliged.
Didn't blow my mind, but I like it.
Disjointed, one half is rock and the other half is electronica?
Not my jam
I love Bowie, but this one didn't hit for me.
David bowie good but there are better albums of his
This sound is very different from all of the other david bowie i’ve heard before, and i’m here for it. It is weird listening to a David Bowie album that is for the most part instrumental, but i guess it’s like the three stacks record. Overall i really like the sound space he taps into although on some songs the phrases can feel pretty repetitive and not completely thought out (like on weeping wall and what in the world). Some songs just sound much more coherent than others, like sound and vision and subterraneans feels much more… intentionally put together.
I enjoyed this album for ambient background music, but probably would not return to it. It’s all a bit too avant garde for me. I did enjoy it well enough, 3/5
Bowie’s good of course, kinda bores me half the time though
There were a lot of different feels and emotions in this album. At first I wasn't sure about all the heavy instrumental songs, but they were good, A New Career in a New Town was one of my favs. I don't know if they all worked together but most of the pieces I really enjoyed.
The first half of this was pretty cool and funky. Then things went super ambient, which I didn’t mind, but it felt like two different albums. Sounds like he was really going through it at the time with trying to get sober, and this was sort of a mish mash of his experimentations in the face of all that. Cool grooves overall!
Cara, que doido! É o segundo álbum do Bowie que eu escuto, e parecem dois artistas completamente diferentes, que interessante isso. "Low" mostra um Bowie mais introspectivo, contemplativo até, e apesar da produção em si não ser tão compatível com meu gosto, a qualidade é inegável.
When I listen to this David Bowie album, it fells like I'm at the space, felling the aura of the stars. Nonetheless, you have to find the perfect momentum to listen to it.
Spacey, mostly instrumental
3.5
Very genre inclusive.
Cool sort of instrumental record
The problem with being on the bleeding edge with new technology is that it massively dates you in the future. This album is kind of the equivalent of a 14lb mobile phone shaped like a brick. It’s not that I don’t see the foundation it set (a young Trent Reznor’s mind must have been blown), and I certainly appreciate what’s to come from this genre, but to me, this sounds antiquated as hell. That’s not to say it doesn’t have its moments! There are a couple catchy songs on the first half, even if they do sound as fresh and relevant as bluegrass, and the second half has some nice ambient songs that are thoughtful and interesting and show that Bowie is not a linear thinker. It’s about as far from Ziggy Stardust as you can get, and it was an interesting listen. I’ve never heard any of these songs, and I wonder if this is a harbinger of Bowie’s later albums/sound. I read in a comment somewhere that this project allegedly has NINE Bowie records, so we’ll see.
Honestly this was a bit weird
Syret!
Clearly a very experimental album that sounds way younger than it's 1977 birthdate would suggest. Listening to 'Warszawa' for me evokes feelings of celebrated modern movie ambiance/soundtracks like Inception and Interstellar. Not my favourite Bowie tracks, but I can easily see how it challenged the notions of what music should be at the time and inspired other artists. Standouts Warszawa 3/5
Bowie is Bowie. Like it don’t love it
I thought I'd listened to it before, but it didn't sound familiar. Interesting experiment with the second half being ambient music. Nothing stands out on this album. I enjoyed the second half more than the first. I wouldn't think it needed inclusion on this list but I guess it respresents a major pivot in Bowie's career.
Interesting. Didn't love it...didn't hate it.
The most different Bowie album I've heard so far. Very atmospheric, but I feel there's something missing to really draw me in.
Lidt mere ambient end de andre Bowie plader. Ikke nogle direkte bangers .
Subterraneans Sound and vision Warszawa
NOT A BIG FAN OF BOWIE, BUTTTTT The second half of this album is great.
Never enjoy Bowie much
People like Bowie more than I do
That was pretty cool I liked it 3/5
No radio hits. Some instrumental tracks.
atmospheric bowie
Too British for me. Sowwy
Did not understand the concept of this album. Some good songs and some very forgettable songs.
Pretty enjoyable but not a standout for me
Uh fr
Fine. Was hoping for more with the Kraftwerk and Neu! influences reported. Best Bowie so far.
First half is a 4, 2nd half a 2.... So 3 stars.
not up to the standard of the other bowie albums but the final few tracks had great instrumentals
This is a weird one, even for Bowie. Very cinematic, as opposed to his usual theatricality, with a tiny bit of early chiptune on one of the tracks. I know the Berlin Trilogy is influential for a lot of bands that I'm a fan of, but this one doesn't do it for me. I'm glad I listened though.
3.5. Segunda parte do album praticamente toda instrumental. Um som espacial. Bom para relaxar. Bom álbum.
A but too experimental for my taste
I admire Bowie for stepping away from what people want to hear and doing what he wants. This isn't a commercially good album but it's an interesting listen. Half familiar Bowie and half Krautrock/dune soundtrack.
I don't think I have ever listened to this album all the way through. In classic Bowie style, he writes a couple of singles to appease the part time fans record labels then does what ever the fuck he wants. Personally, maybe I'm a casual fan because I want more songs like Sound and Vision, but God bless him for doing what he wants on his terms.
Liked it, didn’t love it. Appreciate Bowie and Eno, to be sure, but I haven’t dug deep into the catalog of either. This album was no doubt influential in and representative of its time, but most of the music sounded … familiar at this point. A-side was recognizable as Bowie, for better and worse. B-side, though pleasant, had me ready to move on before it was over. Very glad to have kicked off my 1001 Album Generator journey with this work. I had never heard most of this music before and haven’t listened to an album all the way through in along time. Good stuff. This is going to be fun.
2.5 Nothing really stood out to me with one listen (and it wasn't a particularly engaged listen on my part)
- interesting variety of sounds especially on the second half - not really something I'd go back to a ton but I respect the talent
- interesting mix of background music and pop songs - I kind of enjoyed it but not thoroughly
Not my favorite album by David Bowie but some of the instrumental tracks were very cool on the back half of the album.
My first Bowie album of the project, and my first Bowie album full stop - I've tried before, and he never really stuck, and I think the problem was that I had a best of, and if this album is anything to go by his work really benefits from being heard amongst other tracks that were recorded at the same time rather than being cherry picked. What I'm saying is that I enjoyed this album, and really enjoyed the first half especially. The second half is a bit aural wallpaper, but it wasn't at all bad and the first half was really good. Glad I had this today.
An excellent Bowie album from start to finish! Blow me down!
Um álbum um bocado diferente do David Bowie, tendo fortes traços de sintetizadores e músicas mais suaves focados nos instrumentos em junção com esta sonoridade mais "cósmica" proveniente destes sintetizadores elétricas, músicas tais como o Speed of Life, Warszawa e a subterraneans. Pelo que compreendi este álbum é conceptual, seguindo o station to station. Todas as canções parecem uma história continua de um jovem a mudar-se para um novo lugar, começando com as suas peripécias e terminando na realização desta mudança. Um álbum interessante, não o melhor do Bowie, prefiro o Hunky Dory que ouvi neste "projeto". Destaco a música Always Crashing in the Same Car. Nota: 6/10 20/05/2024
Music is pretty good. Overall a little to avant garde for me.
Bowie, meh
3/5 - just not a fan
It’s good! Maybe not GREAT. Love Sound and Vision. The others are not as memorable.
Meh. I'm just not that into Bowie. 3/5
Don’t like: Funk parts, almost circusy at times, too many long and slow instrumentals in a row. Like: Driving Bass, Disco Beat (“Be My Wife”), Harmonica/keys overlay (“A New Career…”) Sound and Vision - Always Crashing in the Same Car - Be My Wife: AWESOME Subterraneans outro - EPIC Overall: will comeback for 4 tracks. The rest not really for me.
After that stuff from Zappa and the Moss Story, I really didn't want to hear a half album of instrumental/orchestra stuff. Damnit, Dave. I see Jane next so at least I know I have a very good album coming up next. Through this list, I have been recognizing all the great contributions to the music world form Bowie, even appreciating a lot of stuff I overlooked when I was younger. This wasn't his best effort. Look, I did enjoy from Breaking Glass through A New Career in a New Town. But damn, from Warszawa through the end, well, I just don't get it. Maybe the big fans of Bowie enjoyed this, but a pass from this listener. Could be the effect of the previous couple albums, but after A New Career, this album should have just ended. It's Bowie. I'm not going to rip him here. I just didn't think this his best effort putting together an album. Again, it's Bowie so I'll go with a 3. Mainly because I want my son to think I'm a cool dad. ;) 3
Good background music to listen to. It felt very calming but a bit boring.
Wasn’t a fan of the first half, loved the last half. 3/5 for balancing that.
This is a repeat for me from before we created the group. I'm wondering what I wrote on my first pass. I suspect I am enjoying it more on this pass than on the first. I had fun letting this wash over me while doing my work e-mails. Very ethereal at times, mellow overall. Just a pleasant listening experience. I didn't recognize any track (beyond hearing the album a month ago, of course...), no radio hits/charting singles that I knew. I think Sound and Vision was the highlight for me.
This album served a purpose for post-punk way before the world knew it needed it.
It's like when you serve the best wine at the start of the party and then just swill at the end.
twas ok but i liked the first half a lot more
I felt this was an album of two halves, the first half had more energy and felt more like Bowie, whereas the second half was a lot more industrial and felt a bit hollow and depressing. I can admire the album for what it is and am aware that it was a pivotal turning point for Bowie, but I can't say it's my favourite album of his.
3 stars
Ambient and psychedelic. A little too experimental for my taste even if it is Bowie.
Like David Bowie. Good album. 3 stars
I vibed to this for sure, not as eccentric as his other work but still very heartfelt
There are definitely David Bowie albums worth listening to, but this wasn't one of them.
I don't hate it, but I wouldn't listen to it again.
not my bag in terms of bowie
I didnt realize going into this album that there were so many songs or big portions of songs with little to no lyrics. It's a very middle of the road album for me!
More of an instrumental album. I found it interesting. I give it 3 stars.
No he conectado mucho con este disco, pero Bowie siempre interesa.
good album, not my fav bowie tho. sound and vision only one i knew beforehand. most of it wasnt memorable to me from just one listen
I get why it’s so influential, but it’s not so much for me
If I were to rank my favorite David Bowie albums, this would probably be pretty low (heh) on the list. But it’s still a fantastic album, that just goes to show how amazing Bowie is. The first half of this album consists of songs with a similar vibe to his earlier albums, particularly Aladdin Sane, and I love all of them. “Sound and Vision” is an all-time great Bowie song. The second half of the album, starting with “Warszawa” co-written by Brian Eno, is mostly instrumental songs (all but “Subterranean”) and all have the minimalist vibe that I don’t love nearly as much as the first half of the album. The Eno influence is clearly there despite him only being credited on the one track. I do like the songs thematically though, because it blends the desolation Bowie saw in post-war communist Eastern Europe with his own drug addictions that he was recovering from at the time.
It's fine, but this being a Bowie album doesn't make it fundamentally amazingly.
A lot more instrumental than I thought, good, but not some thing I would listen to every day.
For an album he was sober for, he doesn’t sound so sober. Interesting choice to make the last couple songs all instrumental. Favorite: Sound and Vision Least favorite: Warszawa 3.7/5
Intersting and satisfying album.
No me termina de gustar este disco. Aunque me gusta David Bowie, este no es realmente de mi agrado.
Buen disco con unos arreglos tremendos y un género inencasillable... tipo un funk progresivo ?
An intriguing album that has yet to grow on me. Side A is boring, but side B is where things start to pick up. Yeah, this may be a controversial opinion, but I much prefer the instrumental portion of the album. 7/10
Second Bowie album already. This album was very different and has Bowie working with Brian Eno. This is electronic, avant garde music that is fine. I enjoyed it more than I thought I might while at the same time being glad it did not last longer.
own
David Bowie - awesome. Can’t wait to listen to this and discover some deep cuts that I know I’ll love. Never heard this album. Ok - I know a couple of songs great. Track 8 come on - ok little atmospheric. Then the record just stays that way. Waste of time. Came in expecting to give at least a 4, came close to giving it a 2.
Side 1 is great. Best songs are Sound and Vision, Be My Wife,
Lost me in the last 1/3 of the album. My friend said I have to be on heroin to get it. I called everyone I know. Couldn’t get hold of any. I just don’t move in heroin circles. I wished albums like this would flag the need for heroin. I can’t just magic it up. Surely they should have a warning or something like the parental guidance sticker from the 90s. ‘Heroin Advised’ or something. I feel like the lack of heroin has really dampened my experience of this album. 3.4
Bowie, you didn't do your best work on this one. Sorry to say, Average.
Good
energetic opening unlike anything ive heard of synthesizer go brrr a bit uneven tho sounds really good wouldve been more cool if the songs segued with each other the lyrics could be better okay im a bit bored now pink floid stuff hapenning rn its my first time listening ill give it a 3 maybe a bit harsh ig
A good Bowie album but certainly not his best. I like the lean toward ambience. All in all an ok listen. 3/5
3.4 This was a new listen for me, but hardly sounded like something from 1977. The back half of the album felt like the soundtrack from Blade runner, which was released in 82. Sure sounds like Vangelis borrowed from this sound. The first three songs didn't have much vocal content, but the funky jazzed up kazoo sounds kept it interesting & I was excited to hear the rest. Track 4 almost had a rockabilly guitar with funky synths later in the song...still no vocals just some sighing. Then vocals come in 3 mins into a 6 min song...found that very interesting. Tracks 8-11 is where I felt like it was a movie soundtrack. Very different and enjoyable...I really enjoyed listening to all the moving parts.
The first half was interesting and nice, the second half was a weird long instrumental section. Stand-out: Always Crashing in the Same Car
Thoughts before listening: One of the albums from Bowie's Berlin era. This one gets a ton of praise from journalists but I've never found this phase of his career to be as fun as the Hunky Dory/Ziggy Stardust era. I'm excited to give it another listen though. Review: So this album is a little hit or miss for me. I like the actual rock songs such as "Sound and Vision", "Speed of Life", and "Be My Wife" which sound like a precursor to much of the late 70s/early 80s indie rock I love so much. However, I am not as into the Brian Eno ambient stuff. I mean I understand the talent that goes into those songs, its just not something I gravitate to when listening to music. If this was all avant garde rock songs I'd give it 4-stars, but instead this gets a 3.
Only 17 albums in and this is my third Bowie. They are starting to sound the same.
Musin only. Soft, maybe too much soft.
I like the instrumentals. My favourites are sound and vision, always crashing in the same car, a new career in a new town. The lesson I learned here is I should listen to more instrumental-only songs where men finally learn how to stfu. 3/5
Started off pretty normal but by the last few tracks I had to check if I already finished the album and accidentally switched to "calming extraterrestrial study beats" without knowing. It was a different sound than the first David Bowie album we heard (Ziggy Stardust), but not in a bad way at all. Favourite tracks were Speed of Life, Sound and Vision, and A New Career in a New Town, and the instrument-only tracks were chill too. Time and more listens will almost certainly increase this rating, but for now I'll put it at a respectable 3 - no real standout hits but very enjoyable nonetheless
Never knew Bowie did an album that was 95% instrumental. Wasn't bad, but I wasn't ready for it either.
Another Bowie album with some quirky sounding songs and a long artsy section. None of the songs were really bad but none were memorable. Every instrument was so evenly mixed in it was kind of hard to distinguish anything
I remember when I bought the pre-recorded cassettes for Low and Heroes back in the day I wasn't impressed. The sound was gloomy, dark and songs moved as far away from mainstream music as possible. This was the first of Bowie's "Berlin trilogy" with Eno and explored a experimental and ambient electronic sounds, something I didn't appreciate at the time and thought he lost his mind. Listening now, decades later, it's still a somewhat difficult listen and it borders between, strange and brilliant. If you listen to the trio of albums (Low, Heroes, Lodger) now, it's no longer surprising or shocking, but a slow burn of avant-garde pop, not worrying about commercial appeal, while exploring the musical styling and influence of Germany surrounding Bowie around this period. Fascinating and worth rediscovering, though not for all and you have to be in the right state of mind and mood to appreciate it.
I don't know how I feel about this album. I like David Bowie, generally speaking, and I like the overall sound of Low, but a little of it goes a long way and there's a lot here. Ultimately, I think this album is a little too conceptual for me.
Not a Bowie fan per se. overall it was an ok album but no big stand outs as far as songs
Sound and Vision is a banger. Warszawa is beautiful. There are some other highlights throughout, but all the extended instrumentals don't really land for me. Kind of forgettable.
Legend. Died way too young. Not his best album, but classic Bowie.
Warszawa 10/10 a tak to średni
Pretty cool stuff to have on while doing other stuff. Not great for driving.
I really enjoyed the first half of the album with sound and vision and be my wife being the obvi standouts. The second half was more experimental and not to my taste as much.
Chiller Bowie album fav song be my wife
Not Bowie’s best, but still better than 99% of the other stuff on here
Nyeh...
Pretty instrumental and experimental like
Probably harsh and may grow on me but not a great first listen
Didn't we do this with Heroes already? The thing were the songs suddenly transition into ambient music? (I know it was Side 2 of the LP, but I still don't quite get it.) Having listened to about 11 David Bowie albums in this project so far, this one doesn't stand out for me at all, Side One or Side Two.
Okay, it starts more or less with a David Bowie sound, although not specifically anything that I know. Then later I’m wondering if I’ve somehow wondered off-track. Not that it was bad, but I just wasn’t sure that I was still on the album. At some moments a 4 and others a 3…
Classic early Bowie. Probably wouldn't listen to it very often.
Sin más
I'm not a huge Bowie fan, and expected to go 2/5. But, I really liked the instrumental and experimental aspects of this. Some songs were actually in my tastes.
A bit on the strange side, even for Bowie.
This is music for aliens. No doubt about it. There is a lot of genius here, but it's too extraterrestrial for me. If I came from the planet this originated from I'd probably give it 5 stars.
Love Bowie but not my favorite album
3.7 Bowie er egt nice men litt skuffa nå
One of the first albums I listened to when I was doing one-a-days before this 1,001 albums program started. This was fine, and I appreciate its historical significance for Bowie and the era it came out in (disco, early new wave), but this is all just OK for me. I like early Bowie better.
Sound and vision is great, the first half is good, second half much less listenable - although interesting
Not bad, some I knew but mostly not my style
Much more instrumental than I expected but I really enjoyed. Again, this just goes to show how much more I need to listen to Bowie.
I didn’t get through all of the songs. I never did follow David Bowie so it was a challenge to stick with it but overall I didn’t mind what I heard.
I had no idea this David Bowie record existed. It's whacky and experimental. It's pretty fun but I feel that the instrumentals get a bit repetitive sometimes. The synth sounds were a fun addition and added some depth though. The second half of the album has some pretty cool and unexpected instrumental songs.
I've always been a Bowie fan, but I can't figure out why this album is on the list. It's good, and interesting. However, the songs don't catch me like some of the earlier (and even later) Bowie songs do. My best guess is that the experimental elements and bits seem elemental for future music? Anyway, its fine. I probably won't revisit.
Not really my favorite Bowie.
3/3,5? Ik houd ervan dat elk Bowie album een duidelijke sound heeft. "Sound and Vision" is een van mijn lievelingsnummers. De rest van het album is goed, soms beetje obscuur, maar niets overtreft dat nummer.
Bien-mal. Un sonido que no pasa de moda, pero unas canciones que han pasado sin dejar poso en mí.