Low

incredibly boring

not my kind of genre

1/5

Not my favorite at all. So weird. I didn’t mind some of the instrumental stuff but at the same time, it was very repetitive for the whole song. And I don’t really enjoy Bowie’s voice at all. Makes me think of a creepy clown at times.

No likey

You cannot tell me that there has ever been a time or place where a group of people have been gathered, having a good time, and individually or collectively thought that they should put this album on to keep the fun times going. This is a mash of half baked ideas on the first half and tine poems on the second half. At least when the Beatles put out their half baked ideas, they spent enough time to collectively work them into one of the greatest album sides ever. Here, I would not believe that Bowie did anything more but show up to sing some improv poems over song concepts that had not been fleshed out. I get that the second side was ahead of its time, but that doesn’t make it “good” just because it was first.

Im really not a big fan of Bowie. Some of his songs are good. Speed of Life: 5/10 Instrumental Breaking Glass: 4.5/10 Really short. What in the World: 4.5/10 Sound and Vision: 5/10 Always crashing in the same car: 5/10 Be my wife: 5/10 A new career in a new town: 3/10 Warszawa: 1/10 Fucking terrible. Art Decade: 2/10 Weeping wall: 2/10 Subterraneans: 1.5/10

I'm assuming this was added to show that even big stars can make a steaming pile

Sorry, but you're wrong. This one never overcomes its own inertia. The riffs wear on and on - suddenly you're two songs farther along but it still sounds like it did 15 minutes ago. You might need to hear every fourth song before you die, if you're a Bowie diehard, so this doesn't qualify. Sigh...

Experimenteel Bowie album, de eerste van de zogenaamde "Berlijn triologie". Er zaten wel wat leuke tunes in, maar werd er niet heel warm van. Be My Wife voelde als het enige 'normale' nummer, en die vond ik ook het leukst. Art Decade had wel wat rustgevends, en Weeping Wall had een coole creepiness. Maar als album, poepoe Likes songs: Be My Wife

Very explorative

I truly hate this.

A lot more instrumental than I was expecting... This might be a hard DNF, sorry David I'm just not rocking with it

The last of SEVEN Bowie albums on this list for me to rate and, sadly, It's the worst. As one review already says, "...for me this was too dramatic and artsy with too many random sounds and instruments... I just didn't like it that much." Ditto.

Up to Sound and Vision : Album might be the type you play to have good background sound. Pretty repetitive so far. Almost a synthwave vibe on some tracks. Up to Weeping Wall : I'm bored.

Didn’t enjoy this as much as I’d hoped

Another affirmation that I simply do not like David Bowie. 1/10

Almost unlistenable. I love Bowie, but...

Lowkey alienating.

Sad ab this one :(

Kinda rough compared the Heroes and Ziggy. Not a big fan, 2/10

Yeah, I still don't get David Bowie, but I did like one song on this album, so if I could, I would rate it 1.5 stars

I just don't like Bowie.

Not for me.

How many Bowie albums are on this thing....... Some of the instrumental stuff towards the end would have been interesting in a different context, but by the time it got there I was already done with the album.

I'll never understand people's obsession with Bowie.

Not a fan

Hmm, yes. This ambient track that sounds like a malfunctioning fax machine in a freezer? Profound.

I'm over Bowie on this list already. This one is the worst one so far. Only "Sound and Vision" is worth a listen. ~ No stars.

For being aan icon of music he can sure put out some bad albums.

Bad

Bowie blows...

So boring

like a 2/10 idk this david bowie album was just not really my style/thing like the album itself is probs not bad, but i just didnt like it

I tried really hard to like this. This was my second time listening to the album from start to finish. I think the thing about Bowie is that if you don’t like one album, his next album could be better. Hopefully, that’s the case.

I don't need to hear this again.

-this is some Weakass-Experimental-CashGrab Sauce right here... -maybe reedited/remixed there are some bones there, maybe?

Not a fan, too many instrumentals

This is garbage. There's nothing danceable or poppy on this. It's Avant Garde rock jazz noodling, but then it had like new age/ambient bits to it as well. Not what I expected from David Bowie, and it's no wonder why I had never heard of it. Also, David Bowie has too many entries on the list.

I still can't find the appeal of David Bowie.

If this had been my first Bowie album I’d listened to I doubt I would have tried another. Not for me

God so boring

Not for me, pretty low energy and lack of musicality.

Frustrating to listen to. Never know whats going on. Seemed like the early stages of people experimenting with your sexuality via a computerised keyboard. Make some actual fucking music, not weird instrumentals and 5 minute songs with 20 words worth of lyrics. Doesn’t make you cool, Dave. We get it. You’re edgy. Grow up you ginger lesbian

Boring

Among the worst! Probably deserves 1.5 for not being distinctly uncomfortable, but this album deserves a LOW ranking.

The last David Bowie album we endured on this list was, at the time, the worst album suggested within the 1001. It has since been matched by the likes of hipster Elvis impersonator Nick Cave’s bloated 2004 project, and Irish posers U2, who released an absolute zero in 1987. Suffice to say, I am not looking forward to this. No disco to start. That’s good. It’s not good per se, but I’m happy it’s not disco. It’s a lame guitar riff with some fairly interesting alien weirdness happening in the background. But! If he’s not singing, I’m a happy fellow. BLUES GUITAR?? It’s fine. I was genuinely thinking this was an instrumental album and was so excited. His voice hit like nails on a chalkboard. Lame vocals, but instrumentally, this album has been decent so far. Oh god no. This sucks. Again, instrumentation is unique and I feel like it’s not an everyday album in that regard. David Bowie is not a talented vocalist. He’s very important culturally, but musically overrated due to that importance. It’s the celebrity president phenomenon. Sound and vision eh? So far I am envisioning hell, as the sounds filling my ears seem to be hold music for a surfing resort and the only way I’d be hearing those sounds is if I was suspended in some sort of purgatorial state. It’s almost like he’s recording and doesn’t want to wake his mom up. Oh no there is the unfounded confidence. Ok, the vocals ARE interesting and weird here, there’s just an element of poor taste somehow. This time I think the actual music let us down. This song is a big nothing. Boring. Desolate without any accompanying atmosphere. Cringeworthy vocals and lyrics. Break for caterwauling. Garbage. Obligatory riverboat revival song. This genuinely sounds like Tim & Eric. Which would be great, if it was. Considering it’s not, I can only take it as a genuine attempt to be a good song, which it was not. What the hell is going on. David Bowie ambient track? Giving this one a chance. This one did NOT need vocals. A nice experience other than the ham-fisted lion king vocals. It sounds like Sid Meier’s civilization menu music at this point. Another pass. Meh. What the fuck is this? Don’t moan at me. You produce interesting atmospheres and sounds and then you wail over top of it, completely decimating any subtlety or intrigue. Medieval garbage. Hearing less singing HAS been nice. Although it makes it harder when he does pop in for a wail, just to remind everybody he’s still the premier artist of our time. To be fair to this album, it was musically interesting and as abhorrent as I believe David Bowie’s singing and lyrics to be (not sure if he wrote his own to be fair), there was more intrigue here. However, I just can’t jump into the 2 territory as there is not enough to actually enjoy for me. Even the atmospheric ambient portions seemed to be dripping with pretentiousness. David Bowie is a cultural icon and a musical mystery. This is another lacklustre project from a vastly overrated musician. 1.5 HIGHLIGHTS: Ambient portions in the final few tracks.

Why was the album mainly noise?? Weird choice. One good song on the whole blooming album. Thanks David!

1. zpeed - 1 2. glazz - 1 3. uuorld - 0 4. zound - 1 5. car - 1.5 6. uuife - 1 7. neuu touun - 1.5 8. uuarzauua - 1.5 9. decade - 0 10. uueeping - 1 11. zubterraneanz - 1.5

Sounds like I'm on a space ship. No thanks. "What in the world" indeed - my exact reaction Seems like whoever created this list had the biggest hard on for Bowie, because there is no way he should have multiple albums on this list. Shocking 1 ⭐️

Aptly named. This album is boring on first listen…and on all subsequent listens, I’m sure. Could be the soundtrack to a movie made by third graders, starring their cats, doing nothing. If this is Bowie drug-free, we are now better informed as to why musicians eat pills until they explode.

70’s

If I had purchased this album in 1977 it would have collected a lot of dust alongside my MC5 album. I am a fan of David Bowie but this album fails completely for me. One star or F as a letter grade.

Pretty daring to have a Bowie album with hardly any singing from Bowie (and the tracks that do feel really phoned in). The instrumentals seem to channel the worst of the Final Fantasy games, by the lesser composers, without any sense of theme.

fuck db

No by David Bowie

Honestly, getting burned out from all the albums before 1984

A little too electronic and esoteric for me, I did not enjoy it

I didn't like it

Not my style.

Nope. I don’t get it

Very strange. You can hear bits of what the future Bowie would become, but this has no redeeming value and is basically background noise.

Kinda weird, film music a lot almost, not for me

Heard and love some of Bowie's popular songs but never a full older album. I listened to his last album after he died and it was good for one listen. Let's see how this one is. Ok, not good at all. Unsure on when this was in Bowie's career but it is not for me. Sounds like a movie soundtrack or background music in a theme park. Can't recommend ever listening to this.

Really phoned it in on this one, Dave.

I really liked ‘Sound and Vision’ so was excited to hear this album. Wrong. Rubbish.

What a dreary, boring slog of an album.

Seichter Art Rock oder schlechtes Ambient.

Didn't like it very much. Too dreamy

I do not like Bowie

Was this album titled low because it was the lowest part of Bowies career? Cause I like Bowie, and this ain't it. 1/5.

I didn’t like it very much. I like Bowie’s other stuff, but this was when he was doing his new wave stuff or something; just sounded like random noise without a purpose.

Worst of his worst

Not for me. At all.

Not a fan. I felt like I should be watching a late night b movie with the second half of the album. This is not the Bowie that I like to listen to.

Not a fan. Maybe you had to be there to appreciate this album, but I will probably never listen to this again.

- I think his music is just not it for me - sounds like beach music but he has an annoying voice - I saved ONE song that was decent just so I have a reference of David Bowie 💀 - instrumental sounds a bit like old nature documentary music - production isn’t horrible but once he opens his mouth it’s game over

Very sleepy album. I did not like it.

Songs feel very unfinished. Lack of structure or even good timing. Many of them lazily fade out rather than actually ending. They are like half ideas for songs that got recorded and never went back to.

Not his best

One of my greatest personal embarrassments is that I don’t understand the appeal of David Bowie’s music. It annoys the shit out of me. Please don’t ever tell the High Council of the Gays, they will strip me of my bisexuality and condemn me to hell.

I don't feel like I 'got it'. This is the first Bowie album I've ever listened to and it was underwhelming.

Absolutely unenjoyable to listen to. Feels like a collection of incomplete thought starters as opposed to a cohesive album. Some of the atmospheric tracks at the end of the album start to feel progressive and interesting but go nowhere.

Sound and Vision is easily the best track. Sounds like a low budget sci-fi soundtrack for the most part. Absolutely not his best work. Low is right.

I ALREADY RATED THIS ALBUM YOU IDIOTS. 1 STAR.

This album sounded less a mess to my ears. Track 1 left me thinking “how long has this guitar riff been going?” Track 2 had me thinking “these lyrics are terrible - oh wait cool synth!” I liked track 3! The vibes were chill and the vocal was fun, though pretty basic. Was this album groundbreaking in some strange way? Maybe just being one of Bowie’s earlier albums? I don’t get why it’s on this list, not sure if I will continue listening.

I have heard the hype for David Bowie. Supposedly this is one of his best albums! After giving up halfway through I've become even more of a non-fan. (Sorry Dylan!) I usually pride myself in being able to enjoy many different genres and styles of music, and I almost never find nothing to like. But with David Bowie I just... don't get it, like, at all. Where others hear catchy pop songs, I hear unintelligible, uninteresting, cringe-inducing vocals set to disappointing and overwrought instrumentals. I sort of liked the experimental aspect of this album, the Brian Eno synthesizers and weird bloopy fun arrangements. But everything else was just barely listenable. Some of the songs I think were literally inducing a physical reaction of repulsion from my eardrums. I really would love to someday "get" David Bowie, but after listening to this one, I think that day is far, far away. The vocals make me feel like I'm sitting in a dirty diner bathroom about to throw up from eating too much corned beef. The instrumentals too, and the mix just makes me feel icky - I guess it's an acquired taste... Maybe it's just the 70s glam rock vibe that's putting me off. If you loved this album just ignore me, I'd never want to take away from someone's enjoyment of a piece of music. But I had to express my true feelings somewhere. DNF. Right when I got to "A New Career in Town," I had to turn it off.

I hated this album, makes me think I don’t like Bowie but damn. This one sucked, might’ve like Art Decade the best.

Wasn’t the biggest fan of this album, the fact it was just purely music with no singing let it down seeing as Bowie is one of the best lyrical writers there has been. Not my cup of tea.

Some of this just sounds like noise

Bleh

AWFUL

Meh.

🙁 Nothing I will remember 🙁

Nah.

Boring.

I hate David Bowie

Nope, inte min grej, mest mysko.

wasn't my thing, didn't recognize any songs

Man you wrote some amazing songs, also a ton of crap too.

Bowie shitie

2nd is ok Sound of vision's vibe is grade A

Some electro touches. Great atmosphere Proto Post Rock

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