Low

1: Be My Wife 2: Breaking Glass 3: A New Career in a New Town

I think for 1977 this is incredibly ambitious. Nothing really hits the spot as much as sound and vision and thats because his screeching is kept to a minimum. As usual with Bowie if you like him you will love this. I do not and would rather not listen to this bobbins

As a huge Bowie fan, this album was unforgettable. Mostly instrumental, but not in any fun experimental way that I've come to anticipate from him.

Por momentos puede estar bien, pero nunca excepcional. La segunda mitad es mayormente instrumental, y podría llamarme más pero no lo hace. Una especie de álbum diferente? No sé, sigue siendo Bowie. No volvería a escucharlo.

Artists being artsy.

Not a bad album by any means, just very instrumental heavy. I think I just missed Bowies voice.

Starts off decently enough with a couple of good songs (Sound and Vision being the best), but then it devolves. A lot of it sounds like improvised experimentation. The second half of the record gets very tedious with long boring instrumentals. Bowie is an all-time great, but I don’t think this album is.

This............is disappointingly bad. 2.

Liked it more than Station to Station, but still doesn’t do much for me

Very extraterrestrial sci fi vibes

this is unlike anything bowie released prior, and i'm kinda happy he never went back to this style.

Sound and vision is good! The rest of this is not my favorite, like I can't hear the lyrics, hard to hum along to, and none of the storytelling I like about the Bowie songs I like. Great album cover tho he's so pretty. No! A weird 7 min song? Skip. The last three tracks on this I had to skip because they were too aggressively weird and boring. I think for 1977 this is like wildly out of the box, and that's cool, but I'd rather hear Hunky Dory or Ziggy, please.

Sound and Vision was the only song that was actually good

Not your best work man, “be my wife” cool tho

Ich fülle David Bowie einfach nicht.. finde das weitgehend uninspirierend.

Woah Bowie mag ja seiner Zeit immer voraus gewesen sein und das hier hat auch schöne Ambient Momente, aber ich weigere mich das hier zu feiern nur weil Bowie drauf steht. Es langweilt mich vorallem wenn es in der zweiten Hälfte nur noch Ambient ist. Das Album dauert keine 40 Minuten und es fühlt sich an als wären 2h vergangen

Never been a huge Bowie fan, like some of his songs. This is not a favorite album for sure.

Meh 5.4/10

Didnt gel with me. Not terrible. Not amazing.

I really dont care for this experimental era bowie had, the weird instrumentals on the back half make this album feel way longer that it actually was. Its just not for me

I'm not saying I would be mad if this album was playing but I also don't see myself waking up in the morning desperate to hear it, you know??

O fost ok

Not a fan of this. I bet Bolan would a done it better.

Naaahhhh. Wtf

I've not listened much to David Bowie before going into this, but of course I've heard his classics such as Space Oddity, so I went in expecting something similar, a poetry meets music kind of experience. However I was quite disappointed to find out that not only is it not poetry, there's barely any lyrics, I swear, he says like 2 full sentences through the entire album. And when your music is slow and monotonic, that's kind of a death sentence. I can see why people like it and I don't think its bad music, not by a long shot, but I expected more and it was really hard for me to not fall asleep while listening to it.

It's... fine. Kind of boring to me, mostly because it's not my sound really. Still a good album, so lowering the score just because it's not my kind of music would be rude of me. Favs: Sound and Vision

He made some goated songs but not this time fr what the hell

Aødri skjøt mæ på bowie. Bortsett fra det som e bra såklart

raro, muy musical, definitivamente no es mi estilo, 2/5

Umm the album was not appealing to me

4/10

I hate to give this album such a ¨low¨ ranking but it's a fucking slog, isn't it? I can see what he was going for, I respect it, I don't enjoy most of it.

Yeah I think this seals it. I’m just not a Bowie fan. I think this is the 4th(?) Bowie album I’ve had and it’s one the better ones but I still didn’t love it. Good moments but not much more than that for me.

I just don’t get it.

i would say listen to this album if your a fan of experimenting with new instruments and music styles but me personally i didn’t find this album intriguing as it didn’t have any lyrics

If you are a classic Bowie fan, then this is an interesting offering. I like hearing hints of electronica that be more popular in the 1980s. Many of the tracks are whimsically dark instrumentals which may serve as good background music for thoughtful dream like videos. At the end of the day, it will probably not be an album I'd put in my top 100.

Ehhhh not really my style but it was a good listen. I enjoyed dancing around my kitchen while baking & listening to this (while singing made up songs to the beats, to my cats lol) Objectively it's a good album, subjectively...? I really just didn't like it. Favorite song(s) - Art decade Rating 1-5 ~ 2 (OBJECTIVELY!)

Naturally, very strange and all over the place.

ehhhh....

Not his best

Found it quite boring tbh

Ben buna da yükselmedim… space oddity dışında Bowie yok mlsf

Just not my listen. I like spots of the recording.

Not really my cup of tea. I more so prefer Bowie’s energetic, space-sounding music. The instrument only songs were especially dreadful to me. I’m sorry, but I cannot listen to 5 minutes of the same experimental jazz sequence. Bowie has all of my respect, but this was not good.

Not into all the instrumentals Faves probably Sound And Vision and Be My Wife

mood neige prime mais sinon trop d’instru pour moi

A little too experimental for my taste, I can appreciate what people do like about it, however it doesn’t tickle my ear the right way

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I enjoyed the electronic nature to the album, there were a lot of instrumentals though which is not usually my preference

Very whimsical reminds me of a movie soundtrack

The uniqueness and tone of this block of songs does make it riveting, but many songs sound the same and fall flat for me. It grew on me and I will listen again.

A few cool moments, but really not Bowie's best.

The first half felt disjointed and not very “organic” (probably intentionally), but it’s not for me. I preferred the ambient side: the atmosphere works and is quite evocative overall, but it’s not something I’m likely to feel like revisiting

not my vibe pero def no es un mal álbum, no soy fan de tantos temas full instrumentales, es un álbum como trippy or wtv

2.5 - ok but ambient music ain’t very interesting

Started off not for me, but enjoyed the last 4 songs.

Not a fan of bowie

Very low

not my favourite type of genre, but i like the song always crashing in the same car

Track 1. (Speed of Life) Other than the fact that it has no lyrics, it's a good intro to what the album will sound like. Can't really rate it fairly tho since it's not an actual song. Fire melody tho. 6/10 Track 2. (Breaking Glass) very short and hardly any lyrics but still a banger tbh. but like it's so short I can't really rate it too high 6.7/10 Track 3. (What in the World) interesting instrumental, can't tell if I like it or not. veryyy 70's, which I do like. It's hard not to be biased because David is one of my favourite artists ever, so I still like this song. 6.9/10 Track 4. (Sound and Vision) Love the instrumental so much its just cool and catchy. Annoyingly long intro, so it doesn't leave much for David's actual singing, but that's fine. 7.2/10 Track 5. (Always Crashing in the Same Car) Cool, very David again. Not many lyrics again, mostly just instrumental, and the lyrics were lowkey random lol. 6.5/10 Track 6. (Be My Wife) I can't lie, the lyrics are just borderline dumb and don't make sense, not in a campy way but just in a bad way. I mean its not so bad, but not amazing, which is my standard for David, is probably higher than most artists. 5.4/10 Track 7. (A New Career in a New Town) Interesting instrumental, but I like it. God, why does David hardly sing in this album? His voice is something that makes his music so good and stands out. Whatever, it had so much potential, so why no singing ugh... 4/10 Track 8. (Warszawa) also... literally no lyrics... 20 words to be exact in a bloody 6 MINUTE SONG. please why are they silencing you David? Also kinda scary lol, what is he yapping about? 2/10 Track 9. (Art Decade) no. goddamn. lyrics. please im getting tired of this. also very eery, maybe I'm not cool enough for this, but whatever. 2.5/10 Track 10. (Weeping Wall) so your actually fucking with me now, likeeee no lyrics again?!?!? ok bye, girl. I get one, maybe one or two silent interludes, max 3 mintutes but this is borderline unlistenable. its giving i saw alien spaceships. 2.3/10 Track 11. (Subterraneans) yeah okay, not any better, 18 words and 5 minutes long, it's not even a good instrumental. so dissapointed tbh. bye. 3.5/10 Notes: really sad this album wasn't good, sorry not sorry I wanted it to be, and I really thought it would be getting a 5 stars, more like 1 or 2. Final score: 4.8/10

holy NOTHING BURGER. this album feels like bowie got bored halfway through the recording session and decided to contact his mother ship. favorite song: breaking glass least favorite song: art decade

Two years after the funky Young Americans, Bowie comes back with something different, but it still very much sounds like Bowie, and I expected something colder and darker. The electronic elements are pretty light during the first half, and there’s still a lot of organic, groovy material. I think I would’ve preferred something more radical, more Berlin-style. The second half leans more in that direction, but it feels closer to film music without the rock elements and you can clearly feel Brian Eno’s touch. Slightly disappointing since I was expecting something closer to Neue! (a band I really enjoyed). I don’t dislike it but I don’t like it either.

Totally wasn't in the mood for this. Also felt a bit disjointed. All the songs were trying to be something that didn't fit together for me. Very mythical and 80s. Maybe a version of the Labyrinth soundtrack?

This was his 11th studio album? How many fucking albums did this guy make?

Atmospheric and more background music than serious listening

What the??? Not good at all. 2

Meh, this was fine. Sounded more like a soundtrack to a space movie than an actual album I would want to sit down and listen to.

I know I’m going to catch some flack for this, but I just can’t get into David Bowie. It’s not him, it’s me. This album actually started off pretty strong, and for a minute I thought this might be the one that finally clicks. Then the second half hit, and it kind of lost me. Once it turns into mostly synthesizers and atmosphere, my interest just dropped off. I get what he was going for, and I understand why people respect it, but it just didn’t do much for me as a listener. I respect Bowie’s influence and creativity, but this ended up being more of a chore than an enjoyable listen.

A couple of these tracks have been in my instrumental focus playlist. But overall, it's...weird and makes me sleepy. This is not the Bowie for me. Listened before? N Saved to library? N Favorite track(s): Sound and Vision ⭐⭐: Didn't like it, didn't hate it. Saved no tracks.

Maybe this is the one. That once in a million album that finally ignites your passion for David Bowie. From now on you’re going to throw out your Tom Petty shirts and wear Bowie shirts It only took 9 other Bowie albums for this!! Update: this is not the one

Never liked that brit

I don't like david bowie He shoot arrowie with his bowie

I like Bowie but this album is not it

I’m not a huge David Bowie fan but this one is pretty good.

not the best bowie.

Oh god. The heroin addled Bowie tries to convince us he matters! Later and earlier he did but this album seems to me to be the worst excesses of Eno and the worst excesses of Bowie. I know it’s a trilogy, but heroes is enough. I will admit Bowie might be in that rare coterie who could take up 3 or 4 spaces on this list. But not with this one.

Strange. I don’t love the vibes.

Очередной альбом Боуи. Но я ожидал услышать хотя бы старый рок. А услышал странное инструментальное чёрт знает что.

Might be my least favorite Bowie album. Lots of atmosphere but not a lot of Bowie. I get that it’s him experimenting with electronic music but almost half of it is instrumental. Not exactly what I’m looking for from a Bowie album.

Im sorry but i really dont like david bowie idk why maybe its too experimental for me idk

only liked subterraneans.

didnt connect with this at all. started to appreciate it more on the backhalf, but it was a slog to get there for me. could see it being a 3 for some point, but i can't give it on merit

Gotta be honest, that was kinda boring. I'm starting to question why Bowie was so famous, sure he had a few cool songs, but....

It's Bowie, which means it has to be great, right? Except for when it isn't. This was a mediocre album. Interesting in that there were two distinct sides to this record, but the front half was vastly superior to the second half. He was pretty experimental on the back side, but this didn't really hit at all for me. Just long, drawn out tunes that didn't have a whole lot to them. Frankly, I found them all to be wastes of space. The actual songs on the front of this record were decent, but nothing was spectacular. Pretty average. So 1/2 X 3 + 1/2 X 1 = a 2-star record. He's made much better music than this.

lots of interesting sounds in this album, but didn't enjoy quite that much

1. Speed of Life - 5 It's an instrumental but there's nothing overly fantastic about it. There's some interesting but defintiely out of place sounds used on the track. The guitars are in that classic Bowie style though and they're probably the highlight of the track alongside the drums. 2. Breaking Glass - 3 It's a really short but very dull track. Lyrically it's nothing phenomenal and instrumentally it's not very good either. 3. What in the World - 4 Not a very good track. Slightly better than Breaking Glass but it's still lyrically all over the shop and there's some instrumentals used on the track that are unpleasant. 4. Sound and Vision - 5 It's okay. Nothing about this is anything extraordinary. Instrumentally it's a lot more enjoyable than the previous three tracks but it's overall still missing the spark a normal Bowie track has. 5. Always Crashing in the Same Car - 5 It's another okay song. Lyrically it's the strongest so far but it's still nothing overly phenomenal. A lot of this album so far has been very bang average. 6. Be My Wife - 6 I love the way this track starts, especially with the piano. Outside of that it's okay. Not the best love song you'll ever hear. 7. A New Career in a New Town - 4 Fluff of an instrumental track. 8. Warszawa - 7 Much better instrumental track. Very moving at times but also sounds quite dated now. It's still a decent track overall. 9. Art Decade - 3 Like a bad 80s futuristic movie track. Almost like something that belongs on a Blade Runner soundtrack. 10. Weeping Wall - 3 Exactly the same problem as Art Decade. 11. Subterraneans - 4 I like the sax on here but that's about the only redeeming thing on the track. Average Rating: 4.45 Adjusted to 5-Point Scale: 2.23 Rounded Down: 2 Stars

Listened to it while unpacking the suitcase after coming home - was more irritated by the indsrumentals than anything else. I‘d expect the album could grow on me by listening to it more carefully. As background it‘s more creepy than enjoyable.

I don’t know what to say about this one. Bit disappointed. Strange album although not entirely sure what I was expecting.

Very different to his mean stream things, listening in the car mostly. More instrumentals than I expected, and didn't enjoy it that much. I think he has better albums.

interesting

It is a good Bowie album but I am not a fan of Mr. Bowie.

Marginally okay

I am so tired of David Bowie!

I like Bowie a lot. I did not care for this album

I just do not understand Bowie. I'm trying, but I just don't get the appeal.

Not his finest work in my opinion. Nothing else to say really.

Love sound and vision, can that one track make this an essential album? Side A is good, carried by a great backing band, however some songs seem unfinished. The B side is rough with a lot of experimental plinking and plonking.

Some of the material on here blew me away considering this was made in the 70's, especially the last song, however a lot of it felt kinda boring.

I hold Bowie in fairly high regard. Lots of people hold this album in very high regard. I'm not one of them. It has a few good tracks, but the Eno-influenced/-provided keyboards overall don't do it much good. My least favourite of the Berlin trilogy.

Just not a Bowie fan…

I can't say I'm the biggest Bowie fan, I need to do a deeper dive on him one day but it doesn't grip me at this point in my life

This one was pretty experimental. Not sure that it was for me.

I'm in the extreme minority as someone that doesn't get/like Bowie and this is the center point of my reasoning. This album is a very niche approach to making music. 2.5/5

A bit too abstract for my taste.

Not a big fan.

Não gostei muito mas pronto

Bowie is a music god but this felt like Temu Bowie!

just struggle with bowie. always have, sadly i presume i always will

Not really this one

A low point in David Bowie's career. Favorite Track: "Speed Of Life".

A couple of decent songs and some good guitar work. "Low" is an apt title for this album as I felt lower than a snake's belly in a ditch after listening to the second half of it.

Nettamente peggio dell'altro. Non so il perché

1,7/5

meh

I love Bowie but man what a snoozer. Why listen to a Bowie album when it does not highlight the best part of listening to a Bowie album which is Bowie himself. Instrumentals from a pop singer is dumb.

Name reflects my opinion of it.

I’m instrumental part of the album was great.

Sorry Bowie I just dont like your music

Bowie took more risks on this album than his previous ones I’ve gotten, and it does not pay off for him in my opinion

Bowie has better albums!

Meh. Didn't need to hear this before I died tbh.

Indeed a low!

I bit too jittery for my taste

5/10

An interesting listen without having any stand out classics. You can feel the influence on later works here, especially in the latter half of the album, but there wasn't a lot to really hold my attention. Minus one star for a needless sax solo.

Weird is all I can say. I can appreciate wanting to experiment with different sounds, but this one fell flat for me.

Not his best album, but it was interesting

really boring sounds like something that would be playing in a star wars scene. not my thing i almost fell asleep.

Can't say I loved this

it wasn’t too memorable! I think David Bowies songs/singles stand out. plus a lot of instrumentals that didn’t vibe with me

This album feels very incoherent. Not sure what his head space was during the making of this one. Some good individual tracks but they don’t vibe with each other. The mood is all over the place.

Not one of his good albums.

It's kinda like if David Bowie did a soundtrack for an indie movie and he had a sore throat so he couldn't sing at all that day.

Complex album. First listen I did not liked much/at all, sounded like some rolling stones the opening track, then some instrumental, too much too flashi.. however, I gave a secong and even third listening, and it grows on you. It will not be more thatn a 3,5 starts. But to be frank with the other records I judged on a first listenint this is a 2 star. Definitely not my favourite Bowie album.

Never a huge David Bowie fan and this album confirms my general sentiment. Was hoping to find at least one “new” song that I’d want to listen to again. Favorite track probably “A new career in a new town” but purely instrumental, which is really not my thing, and repetitive. C-

Disappointed with this album

Overall quite disappointed with this one. Definitely my worst Bowie album so far. The instrumental tracks at the end genuinely bored me. Top Track - Sound And Vision

Low as in a low point for Bowie. This didn’t work for me.

Overrated

dårlig bowie

Pretty low on my list of Bowie albums tbh Best Song: Be My Wife Rating: 4.0/10 Stars: 2/5

Oh, it's THIS David Bowie album. Sound And Vision is the first track I recognise, good tune (first on the album), like it. Everything else is ok at best. The second half of this album seems dominated by the Brian Eno / Krautrock sound, but I like both of those things more than I like this take on them. Wikipedia has a very long article on this and then every individual track on it bar one. I think that's too much attention.

Weird even for Bowie

Zuhause, Heidenheim, Deutschland. Ja, geht so.

This album was like walking back to your car with your wife after eating dinner at a restaurant. Your car is in a parking building and you're not 100% which level you parked on. After about 10 minutes, you find your car, only to realise your wife has been talking to you non-stop along the way. You haven't really been listening to her conversation.

This album has enough standing and history for it to be genius. But I didn't get it at all.

Crazy that this dude is a pedophile.

This is Blondie's favorite album. The arcade noises on What in the World are not a welcome addition. They sound like sped up King Hippo noises. Just when I think I'm liking this album more, it has a track like Warszawa and I feel differently. I get the video game noises now. Art Decade could be the score for Final Fantasy VIII. These mostly instrumental sides on Heroes and Low just aren't great. The whole second side is like an emo video game soundtrack.

Weird. But not what I normally think of Bowie weird to sound like. Ambient boring weird. Wasn’t offensive weird, mostly just forgettable. We hit another Low moment with this album

Weird and hard to listen to

feels like im listening to the dune soundtrack with no lyrics

Just didn’t click for meeeee

Sound and vision is a good song, wasn’t aware that the second half would be part nature documentary and part blade runner soundtrack. Kinda cool but not something I think to be great

I don't know - I just never click with this album at all

as with anything involving brian eno, synths are ever present. i normally am a bowie fan, but i just don’t get this album.

As much as I love David Bowie this is definitely not one of his better albums

Not a huge Bowie fan, couple good ones though

I'm a fan of Bowie, but I just couldn't get into this album. The ambient tracks are pleasant, but in my opinion, overstay their welcome. I have no problem with instrumental tracks, but the ones on this album felt like they went nowhere and had no payoff or catharsis. fav track: "Sound and Vision" 2.5/5 Great musicianship as always, but not my favorite era of Bowie.

I do not get the David Bowie thing

I'm just not a Bowie guy unfortunately, not my fav

This is like my 500th Bowie album on this list and my patience is worn thin with him 1. Terribly repetitive atonal noise and not worth my time 2. By the time I decided to skip this track, it was already over, so that was kind of a blessing 3. More of the same. Skipped 4. A worse version of Hand Jive with coffee dripping on the burner. 5. Just plain not interested in this 6. There was no point going past the first verse/chorus and I don't know why I did 7. Not offensive, so I listened all the way through 8. Um, alright? Skipped ⅔ of the way through 9. Skipped. No value for me 10. This wasn't bad, but at this point I'm really looking forward listening to something else 11. See 10 I just can't with this guy anymore. After my album ended yesterday, it started a station based off the last track. Mississippi Kid by Lynyrd Skynyrd was the first track on that station, and I had a great time remembering that song. That's where I'm headed now ⭐⭐

Ears ringing from the feedback

Weird… weird … weird!

No me gustó. Nada

This is my first listen for this particular Bowie album. I wasn't particularly impressed with this effort by Bowie. The side A songs didn't really do anything for me personally, like other works by Bowie have. Side B was an interesting foray into an ambient experience with Brian Eno. Interesting in the sense that I was unaware he made ambient soundscapes with Eno at all. The songs themselves however are not. ....Is what my initial impression was of this album honestly. This morning I relistened to the album. Same thoughts about side A of the album...but I enjoyed side B much more this time around. Though Weeping Wall didn't seem like it really fit with the other 4 tracks. Maybe Eno and Bowie should have just done a full length ambient album together.

Not my cup of tea at all, really struggled to finish this. Sorry.

Kind of whack ???

Bowie - stick with rock and roll man. You are not to write ambient stuff. The first half is OK but then you get into that ambient back half and while ambient music can be enjoyable it seems Bowie doesn't really know how to make it interesting in any way. If half stars where an option this would be a 2.5. Since I gave this a 3 the first time around I'll average it out by giving it a 2 this time. Give me Byrne and Eno over Bowie and Eno any day.

Warszawa through the end of the album was nice. The journey to get there was painful.

I can see why he called it Low. Listening to this is a bit like doing maths homework - I know it’s important, and making the effort now might lead to greater things, but, ugh, do I have to? At times, it clicks into place and makes glorious sense, and I can hear how it influenced those post-punk, synth-pop records that I love, but for the most part, it just gave me a headache. Can I have a snack?

Not for me

That was an unexpected Bowie album. A lot of it was very ambient, and therefore, not very interesting.

im sorry isaac and david

not my fave david bowie record!

It was mid af

Didn’t connect with me 4/10

Second album in the Bowmeister chronicles. It's been a while since the last Bowie album, though I've been sidequesting in the bowntiful fields of his musical legacy in the time since then. I listened to the Bowie-produced Lust for Life along with Brian Eno's debut album, the style of which apparently informed Eno's approach with the Berlin trilogy. My first Bowie album - Heroes - surprised me with how quickly the pop rock sound shifted towards an ambient/electronic jig. I was also surprised to learn that this album... does the exact same thing. Is he like this on every release? For what it's worth, the ambient stuff is pretty competent, even if the sheer abundance of it loses me. "Warszawa" is a good song - I like the grandiose feel and the music is surprisingly intricate during the second half. I can see the Eno influence peeking through, especially on "Weeping Wall". Glad to know that this list is actually teaching me something about music. That being said, I think I prefer the ambient material on Heroes over the showings of this album - especially "Moss Garden". The beginning of side one is incredibly slow. The first three tracks slog along and don't really go anywhere thanks to their short runtimes . I do appreciate "Sound and Vision", however. That song was a good cut. "What In the World" is also a song I respect. The jittery sound doesn't quite work for me, though it's certainly unique. Gotta study for the millennium album pop quiz that I just know Mr. Dimery is gonna hit me with. That's right, I'm voluntarily committing time to reading the book like a true lame ass. Let's see. A left turn in his discography and an album which came from adversity. This was the album in which Bowie adopted a krautrock influence. Bowie considered it a high point. I mean, it belongs to one of the most famous "eras" within an artist's discography. I can't knock the inclusion of this album, even if the entry didn't do much to sell me on it.

David Bowie is a hero. I think Low is far from one of his best albums. I'll go for Scary Monsters

not one of his best

I feel like I don’t like this album but I’m probably wrong. Also this list not picking the best album by artist is 10 out of 10. Cool cover bad record.

Maybe in some setting I would like this one. Didn’t work for me in rush hour.

Much more instrumental than i had expected from him

Van de 11 nummers vindt ik enkel 'Sound en Vision' mooi. Misschien moet ik het album nog een paar keer horen om tot me door te laten dringen, maar ik vindt het nu pretentieus en saai....

Rating: 2 Notable songs: Sound and Vision Strange album. Lack of songs with words. Not my cup of tea.

The ambient parts were the best. 2/5

Not his best album. Not really my style.

Just because it’s david Bowie does not mean it should be on this list

This is not the Bowie I like and I’m not a Brian Eno fan. This is an album I’ve listened to for the first, the second and the last time. Warszawa is such a drag to get through!

Not my fav

Like it, but didn't love it enough to relisten to it, if i had to choose a favorite it would be breaking glass, but again, it would not be a first choice to listen to in any circumstance

Not the Bowie for me. Moments I liked, but other stuff felt like theatrical filler. Prefer when he is on drugs.

The Starman gives us more score than pop music album on this as he began his sobriety with a new approach to music. It doesn’t come close to his prior work (Station to Station) which is one of my favorite albums of his.

- Ach David.. weiterhin werde ich nicht so richtig warm. Aber das Album war insgesamt immerhin sehr entspannt

Never really listened to much david bowie, and I went into this wanting to enjoy it, but I just didn't really get it. It wasn't unpleasant, but none of it was very memorable. There was maybe one or two songs that I was vibing with while listening.

No, just because it's Bowie doesn't make it OK. Sound and Vision might be my favourite Bowie song but the experiment should have started and ended there.

Disappointing! The best Bowie feels modern despite its age - this does not stick out in the same way. One reasonable bop (S&V) does not a top 1001 album make.

Perhaps I am too obtuse to get understand Art but I just did not get this at all. I'm sorry Bowie 😭 too "experimental" for me

Started strong, knackered by the end.

what

Very instrumental. The problem is I want to hear bowie.

A couple good songs but not something I'd listen to again

I liked Warszawa and the car crash one, but I don't think I'd relisten to this album.

I’m ok with an instrumental album, but this didn’t do anything for me.

When this one came out, it was probably a new low for Bowie in more than one sense. Can't convince me this album would have anywhere near as many listens if it weren't for the name.

could use more cocaine

Low is an accurate description of this album.

I actually kinda liked the bits where it got all spacey, but then he started singing again and I'm just too predisposed to hate that at this point.

There were a couple of good tracks early on, but it was really start to grate on me by the end. I had a look at the contributors and sure enough, Brian Eno was there. I'm a bit like those people that can smell cancer, in that I can hear when Eno is involved in album with a 99% success rate. That's mainly because the album sounds fucking awful. Anyway, I don't get the whole Bowie thing really. A couple of his other albums were good, but the bulk of it is just tosh to me. I amde it all the way through.... just. So it gets 2 stars.

It just doesn’t feel like anything particularly special. Its a lot of soft instrumental which sure is nice but doesn’t feel like particularly memorable and doesn’t evoke much other than the fact it would make decent elevator music

gostei menos desse que dos anteriores então vou tacar um 2,5

You can see it is well done but nothing leaps over to me.

I enjoy David Bowie’s works but this album just didn’t land with me.

This doesn't do it for me. I'm glad Bowie got himself to a better place, rehabbing and working towards taking care of himself. But this album isn't good. The beginning was too short for anything to really stick for me, and the ideas in the second half would have been done better by someone else. Favorite Song(s): none

Side A was okay but definitely not my favorite work from Bowie. I liked some of the experimental sounds like in the beginning of What in the World, but I wish they leaned into that more. It would’ve been more interesting to me if the wubs and zaps were more present characters throughout. Side B was fine - some exciting moments, and I liked the cross-cultural soundscapes. It’s actually pretty beautiful. But really no idea why it’s paired with the first half, or even why this album is even on the list The stark contrast between the halves makes me feel like I’m missing some context to the album Since I’m not doing this for a history lesson, but rather purely on how I enjoy listening to the music, this is gonna be pretty low for me.

More boring Bowie. I know it’s chalk vs cheese but he’s a comparison for you: Low is the eleventh studio album by the English musician David Bowie, released on 14 January 1977 through RCA Records… with his friend Iggy Pop to rid themselves of their drug addictions. Rumours is the eleventh studio album by the British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac, released on 4 February 1977, by Warner Bros. The band members dealt with breakups and struggled with heavy drug use. Maybe huffing copious amounts of cocaine is beneficial to the creative process? Dunno, either way, why would I want chalk on toast?

Sound and Vision is kind of transcendent. Something Lynchian about it. But I'd rather listen to The Sea and Cake all day.

de dave isch zrugg und was hetter eus echt dasmal debi? mit neuem wind segleter es witeresmal ah mir verbi und hinterlaht nöd viel de typ wo die liste gmacht hett haltet so wies usgseht sehr viel vom herr dave meh chuntmer zudem au nöd in sinn, ich warte mal ab was eusen inhouse spezialist zu dem album zsege hett drum gibichs wort grad gern witer ah eusen dave korrespondent, de tymen goetsch nemed sies weg bitte!

I really don’t get Bowie

David Bowie is hailed as one of the greatest, I don’t see/understand it. A couple songs on this album were good, the rest didn’t really interest me, I’m going to give it a (probably too harsh) 4.8/10.

too ambient? like I didn't even notice this on in the background? So much bowie on this list and this is the first one I get?

Yet another Bowie album. I think we are getting them at an unsustainable rate. My least favorite one we've gotten so far, no real hits and a lot of songs with not much going on. High 2.

So far I think the only one I've really liked is "Be my wife".

Bowie is obviously an icon, but this album just did not do it for me. It was bordering on just... noise. 2.

My first listen to this Bowie album. Prior to this listen, I had never made the liaison between Bowie and Franz Ferdinand (the band), but it is evident with this album.

2/14/25. Love Bowie but this one wasn’t my favorite. Good songs, but a lot of forgettable gaps. I can try listening again in the future.

Not my favorite Bowie album. Couldn't really get into this one.

boring :/

Not bad!

First half was ok but not interested in the ambient stuff

Didn't really seem all that "Bowie-y" to me. The songs were some indistinct from one another and they quickly got shoved to the background, not good not bad but also not memorable.

Some songs are brilliant. Some are really annoying, though. Those that are not really songs but noise.

Didn’t feel this one.

Mid (2.5/5)

the first half, perfectly fine. the second half is a pretentious asshole’s fantasy

I actually liked the first half of the album, which I wasn't really expecting. I thought we were heading toward a solid album. Side two strikes me as mediocre at best, though. It's experimental and a little different, but it doesn't work for me. 2.4

David Bowie has made a lot of great music and some songs on this album are definitely included when I say that. Even to a lot of this album doesn't have a lot of singing the ambiance it brings is great. Not something I would listen to every day but it certainly has its place when the mood kicks in.

pretty boring wanted to go to sleep imo

Didn’t get it

Like half of this album is just noise.

Not my favorite Bowie album

I was excited to get a David Bowie album, because my exposure to him has been minimal hearing little beyond what was played on the radio, but I have always been curious about his music. I was a bit disappointed in this album. A bit too electronic for me, and many of the cuts were instrumentals or near instrumentals. Hope they have me sample another one before too long.

I mean, I guess it's good for what it is, but this is not the David Bowie I expected. Can't see myself listening to this again.

Butt. A few tracks would probably be better if stoned.

Experimental et pas ouf

A bit boring album i must say

no lyrics lol

I typically listen to music for lyrics and half of this album was instrumentals. There were some interesting sounds but not my preference.

Not as good as I was expecting.

On first listen I was not having fun, the second listen was much better and the third accidental listen was also enjoyable to a point. It’s just not my cup of tea, I appreciate the cool ethereal instrumentals but I’d rather listen to something with lyrics, unless it’s Bob Dylan. The songs with lyrics weren’t doing it for me either. I don’t think it’s a bad album but it’s certainly not my kind of music. I’m neither high on drugs nor a space cadet, the man simply didn’t make his music for me I hold nothing against our dead David, I’m sure he’s got a couple of other albums on here and I may enjoy those more

I appreciate the artistry of this album. It wasn't particularly well aligned with my mood, so I had a hard time getting into it.

Love Bowie but this one was too experimental for my tastes

David Bowie ist nicht meins.

One or two good tracks but ambient electronica just isn’t my idea of a good time.

I am a selective fan of David Bowie in that I do like a few of his songs. This album sounded a little weird for me and it is not something I would listen to regularly.

Weird album. Not my favourite from Bowie. Felt like there were only a few actual songs

I don't think many of the songs come together as an album. The whole thing feels somewhat disjointed as a straight listen-through. It's actually a 2.5* but i'm dinging it mostly for personal taste.

Yeah, another one I just don’t get. David Bowie is very talented, I just don’t like this album.

The first half sounded grating to me (and not in a good way) with the only relief being Sound and Vision. The second half improved greatly, especially with Warszawa. I could imagine these songs as an epic score for an 70s sci-fi film. Unfortunately, I'm not the biggest fan of listening to movie soundtracks in my free time.

I love Sound and Vision. The minute I hear the beat it makes me so happy. I hadn't spent much time with the full album and it's a little hard to get into. A lot of instrumentals I could probably do without. Not as great as some of his other albums in my opinion.

after years of cultivating a vaguely continental European vibe, bowie boldly declared "actually I'm just a german guy now"

Not very good.

Can I give two ratings for this please? The first load of tracks are pretty good and I could see myself getting into the album fairly heavily, and then ouch you hit track 8 and it’s utter ballbags from then on. So it’s a 4 until 7, and a 1 from then on. I’m going to give the album a 2, because you just can’t have 4 such dire tracks to end a good album.

Not great.

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.

Very different from what I expect from Bowie and not my favorite.

Interesting but not super accessible

2.09

Good background music but nothing extravagant 2.5 stars

Almost an instrumental. Pretty boring.

I love David Bowie but Low is a correct assessment for this albums rating.

Not my favorite Bowie album, quite a few instrumental only songs. Typical unusual and experimental sounds from Bowie, but definitely less "punchy" than some of his other work and overall less exciting for me.

Not my cup of tea...most of them were instrumentals which I'm not really into...

Loved this album until the second half which was boring and weird. 2/5

Ok, I acknowledge that David Bowie is a genius. But this album wasn’t it.

I do like Bowie's music, but this one wasn't doing it for me. It's his 8th album in the list I've run into, and making me think the author should've had a limit on albums from a single artist.

I wasn't connecting with this and what's with all the instrumentals? This album gives me a forgettable soundtrack vibe.

Not really into that much especially the last tracks.

Quite bad and overrated, as usual from Bowie. "Be My Wife" at least caught my attention for a while, so he gets a star for that.

Too weird for me. Just overall a bit all over the place

By and large, I can't get much into David Bowie aside from a few tracks here and there, so I'm always curious to dig into a new Bowie album that I haven't heard before. Having said that, I was even more underwhelmed by this album than what I've heard previous. Almost all the songs seemed half-baked to me. As if the foundation for a good song was there, and then they just stopped building on it and said "that's good enough". I do like that there were a few more experimental instrumental tracks in there, but for an album that's already less than 40 minutes, if nearly half the tracks do not have words, there's not much else to speak of. I'm already about half out on Bowie in general, and this may push me fully into the "out" column. Notable Tracks: -Be My Wife 3/10

Lot of background music. Hardly noticed it was there. Great for working or relaxing, but not much substance.

Very disappointing! I was hoping for better! I don’t get it! Much ado about nothing!

I’m sure for its time this album was very “ahead of its time”. I can understand how it influenced many future New Wave/Alternative bands - being a big fan of that music I appreciate that aspect of the album. That being said…..it was OK to me. Could be good background music while chilling, especially the second half of the album.

I appreciate his music now more than back then

5/10, скучно это все

Strange thing. The B-Side offers some Eno-inspired soundscapes. Sound and Vision is an uber-hit but as an album that should be on the list it offers too little to make it exceptional.

First listen Saved 3/11 Top track: Speed of Life

Boring

This was pretty boring, probably would not listen through again. I liked the stretch of "Sound and Vision" -> "Always Crashing in the Same Car" -> "Be My Wife", but that's about it. Not sure why I had to hear this, idk maybe people just really like all of Bowie.

Worst Bowie yet

6/11/24 not bad, never been able to get into bowies music but i’ve tried over the past year or so. enjoyed most of the songs on this one but there would be points where a song is just dragging on too long or there would be an annoying high pitch synth just blaring. 5/10

Best Song: Warszawa. Brian Eno's influence is really appreciated here. Delicate and ethereal. Worst Song: Subterraneans. Nothing brings the hype like closing the album with a meandering sax solo. Overall: I don't get the hype. Are people really falling over themselves for this from Bowie? Sure it's kinda weird, but not excitingly so.

Not much of a David Bowie fan. I know a lot of people like him but he just doesn't quite do it for me

nowhere near bowies best

Not sure what that experimental Weeping Wall was towards the end... first six songs or so were all similar to me.

Not his best effort. And what is up with all the instrumentals? I am not here for David Bowie instrumentals. Was he trying to make instrumentals a thing again in the 70's?

This is like heady topper, I can taste that it is great, good quality, well crafted but also that I do not like it.

Not the best. Background listening

Medio down. Raro.

Not my favorite Bowie album.