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Bizarre Bowie album
Love side A, but side B isn't for me.
Listened to it twice. The first time i was a bit pre-occupied and the second half just kind of drifted away, but on the second listen I paid more attention and i really enjoyed the second half. It really kicks in from warszawa and very much a break away from traditional bowie. I felt like it was a good mix of familiar and experimental. Reading the reviews I see that it was Eno produced and that makes lots of sense. warszawa and Sound and Vision are the standout tracks. 3.5 upgraded to 4 stars
Not for me. 1/5
It’s amazing to see how Bowie was anticipating two upcoming trends in this album: new wave and ambient. In Low you can hear when Eno and Talking Heads would do in the next decade compressed in 40 mins. Foundational and influential. Doesn’t get old!
Eh
Bowie goes to Germany and learns how to make funny sounds on synths, Part 1. The first seven songs are fine, they feel pretty standard for Bowie other than the funny synth sounds. The ambient half, on the other hand, is some of Bowie's best music. Genuinely my biggest complaint about this album is that Bowie made me wait about 18 minutes to listen to Warszawa and Weeping Wall. This album also has a pretty interesting relationship with Heroes to me. Heroes has significantly better non-Ambient songs and Low has much better Ambient songs. Heroes is still by far the better of the two, but damn it I'd pay for an entire album of outtakes from the Ambient half of this one.
wow! beautiful, just him, his soul, his voice.
Not my favorite from Bowie, but possibly his best. I don’t have much to say, the album just rules and I give it 10 or so listens a year.
wierd but kind of nice
Not my fav
I liked it. Would like to hear it on vinyl. I listened to the remastered version on Spotify and it seems like the dynamics got reduced.
just fuckinnnn loveeee this vibe heaux play that guitar yessssss
ten album brzmi jakby nagrał go spongebob, ma bardzo kańciaste brzmienie posypane szczyptą głupotki skład zespołu: Sandy wiewiórka przygrywa na tym pianinku z rurą do dmuchania Gary ślimak gra główne skrzypce w "Warszawie" Spongebob na gitarach Córka pana kraba Perła na perkusji tylko Skalmara brak....
Listened a couple of times and the songs grew in me. Less bothered about the ambient tracks, may well have been ground breaking at the time but found them a bit dull.
I really enjoy DB overall but I will admit this wasn’t a fav of mine.
Good stuff
it's alright, it hard for me to get into Bowie
A delightful surprise for someone who doesn't care much for Bowie
this album was so ass i couldn’t even finish the last 2 songs
Warszawa - ciekawy utwór Tak to mi nie siedzi
Not his genre
There are many David Bowie albums on this list. Many of them are deservingly so, but for 'Low' it feels to me as if this list could have done without it. There is just too little on this album which is standing out. Tomorrow pretty much all of this album will be forgotten. 'Sound and Vision' is the most famous track on this album and the most memorable one. In addition to that one there is not a lot here. 2/5
great album. mostly instrumental which must have been jarring for bowie fans up until this point.
есть вайб но я ниче не добавил
It got better as the album progresses. The first half was personally just not my taste.
I guess I just don’t get it.
600 albums in and I’ve realized there are seven phases of waking up to a Bowie album on the generator: excitement; wonder; befuddlement; dismay; indignation; exhaustion; acceptance. I am currently at exhaustion. The Berlin trilogy of albums always sounds to me like what it was - Bowie cleaning up and just playing studio rat with his new friend Brian Eno. The sounds are super interesting. (I LOVE pre-FM synths.) It's just too bad that Bowie, one of the great songwriters of the 20th Century, was taking a break from songwriting during the period. Because imagine if all of these super interesting sounds were packaging Bowie SONGS, instead of just meandering around for the better part of three hours. Or don't imagine, just listen to Heroes - one of the best tracks of his career - buried in the middle of all that cool noise. Alas, I hear nothing here but the cool noise.
I guess I never realized how much of Montreal ripped off early Bowie.
Cool! but not my fav of Bowie
First Listen; 3.5; Herky jerky and nervous, the first half of this album has an angular new wave sound that is fun. The second half is ambient, instrumental tracks. These are interesting, and while I enjoyed them well enough, there's just something about them that doesn't put it into the "great" category for me. I really enjoyed the first half of this album, and thought the second half was interesting. Favorite Track: Breaking Glass
a masterpiece, specially in the bass department.
Fav- sounds and visions 4/5
Real sci-fi, space feeling music. Lots of songs without lyrics. Surprised me that Jez may be fond of this album, wouldn’t expect it from him.
Unexpected instrumentals featuring synth pads and some vocals. Other tracks groove but also feature synth textures maybe experimental at the time. Enjoyed the album. Favorite tracks: Subterraneans, Warszawa, Art Decade
Not terrible. A couple songs that weren’t bad but overall a bit inconsistent.
Really cool and fun album from the legend himself. Not every album can be Ziggy Stardust but I really enjoyed this one
Ok, another Bowie album! Speed of life was a nice opening instrumental track! Breaking Glass and What in the World were good opening tracks for this album. Sound and vision seemed slightly out of place as it was another mostly instrumental. I didn’t love Bowies vocals on this one. Be my wife was a banger and the vibes of a new career in a new town were immaculate. Warszawa had a really cool tone to it. Art Decade was another cool instrumental track. The last two tracks fit well within the vibe. I expected more vocals but I was not disappointed. 3.5/5 ⭐️ 108/1089
I just realized that this is the EIGHTH Bowie album I've gotten here. Already, I can tell that this wasn't one of his most commercial albums, despite being the start of his "Berlin Trilogy" in which tony Visconti and Brian Eno came together to help collaborate. That should pretty much tell you the story here. This is a very artsy and more electronic album that sort of zips by in the first half, then takes strange directions and opts for more melancholic ambience in the second half. Vocally, this is the least present Bowie has ever been on one of his own albums. That honestly soured me a bit. Bowie's vocal presence is what captivates us, not a bunch of moody synthesizers. The instrumentals were fine, don't get me wrong, but this was hardly a Bowie album in my eyes (despite his instrumental presence in the latter half). Can't help but be overly critical here.
Have obviously heard of Bowie but never a full album. Right off the bat I’m locked in. That production to open is so cool, doing things with a guitar that I didn’t know was possible. Sweet bass line. Kept wait for the lyrics to start but honestly it didn’t need any. Very interesting vocals on breaking glass. The songwriting is good but the sound engineering is off. Which seems like is intended because eventually the vocals get a lot louder. Doing too much. Another really good bass line/guitar combo tho. What in the world is fone. Definitely ahead of its time but a little choppy. Great guitar. Sound and vision was fine. Had higher hopes for it but didn’t blow me away. I like always crashing more. Really good production and lyrics on this one. Love the piano on be y wife. Works so well with the guitar. This is a banger. New career is so ahead of its time. This sounds like a late 80s/early 90s electric pop Madonna type beat but you ca tell it’s done all on real instruments. So cool. Another one tha just doesn’t need lyrics. From the beginning of warzawa you can tell your listening to something great. It 70s classical, I’ve never heard a blend like it. And then it goes to an African type tone. This song is crazy. Art decade is also good but not as good as the others. I can’t believe how many songs without lyrics there are. Everything I thought I knew about Bowie told me it’s b over the top lyrics and dance anthems. This album is not that. Much more musically impressive. I can’t believe weeping wall is another one without lyrics. This is another really well produced song. Probably would be even better with a catchy chorus but I digress. But at the same time I’m realizing that that’s the theme of this album. It’s not about glitz and glam and big choruses but just good well produced songs. It’s the same on subterraneans. The instruments do the talking. So many Layers. It’s not my favorite album but the fact that it’s so untraditional and I still enjoyed it as much as I did speaks volumes. Listen to this, it will make you feel something. 3.9 stars.
What is this, Bowie album #5 for me? They've been all over the spectrum rating-wise, let's see where this one lands. Low lives in the world of mediocre Bowie. It's a very ok album. Nothing in this album really hooked me and it was a pretty quick in and out adventure. Low lacked the really good lyrical songwriting you see in other Bowie options, and it felt a little phoned in. I get the whole Berlin Trilogy thing, and this is a "piece of art," but it's not doing it for me. It's an album split down the middle and it doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Standout tracks were "Sound and Vision" and "Weeping Wall" I really don't think this list needs 5+ (because I'm sure there are more) Bowie albums. Damn. It does sound a bit ahead of its time, but that doesn't pull it up from an average 3 for me.
👍👌
Not a Bowie guy.
This album was very interesting, and it was not what I expected it to be. I wasn't a fan of the first half, it's just not for me, and that's ok. I really enjoyed the second half however. There's just a certain atmosphere that the electronic instrumentals created that really resonated with me. It felt as if time had stopped moving while I was listening.
This is my first Bowie album. I would describe it as having some classic rock sounds mixed together with lots of synths and other sounds. I also hear some pop sentiments. It's weird, of course, because it's Bowie and all I've heard about him is how unique and eccentric his music is. It's not too weird for me, though. There are several instrumental songs that are sonically interesting and at times, beautiful. I actually preferred them to the lyrical songs. "Warszawa" sounds like a piece from a film score, and I thought it was lovely to listen to. I liked the atmospheric feel of the music, for the most part.
After multiple tries, I guess I just don’t like Bowie
I thought I didn't like David Bowie, and then I listened to the first half and was like "maybe I do" and then the last few songs were "wait no" so i'm very confused
pretty good, again its david bowie he cant really miss, not an insane find tho
Still very cool of him to Trojan horse these ambient tracks into his pop records
gotta be the best non death related bowie album right? gonna listen to the drum and bass album next
I feel like this album is very underrated cuz how did I not know about it before, and nobody even mentioned it. Favourites: Subterraneans, Warszawa
This was pretty good. I really enjoyed the first half of this record, but the second half was a bit disappointing. Prefer his other records thus far. I give this a light 4, as I think I’d rate it closer to a 3.5. Certainly not bad though. Good album overall.
Album 168. Low (https://open.spotify.com/album/2de6LD7eOW8zrlorbS28na?si=7nPh9lhHTj2MBoWZ8wDAKw) — David Bowie (1977) That's why David Bowie matters. You're listening to Warszawa and you can't even imagine it's Bowie's music. (Yeah, I must mention Brian Eno, his work as co-producer is undeniable in the whole Berlin Trilogy.) That's his greatness. Throughout his life, he kept going, kept experimenting with everything. Listening to Bowie, you're not just listening to Bowie, you're listening to everything basically, because he, pain in the ass, stuck his nose everywhere he could. This is the first album of the Berlin Trilogy, sober, clear head and ready for experimentation. His first experiment was with electronic and ambient sounds. Low words, a lot of instrumentals. It's a strange choice, unexpected and very risky, I mean, RCA refused to release it initially, but it was worthwhile. Low definitely isn't my most loved Bowie album, I don't really know where to put it in Bowie's album hierarchy, but it's fucking great. Hope to relisten the whole Berlin Trilogy while exploring the city someday. 5/5 Liked: — Breaking Glass — Sound and Vision — Always Crashing in the Same Car — A New Career in a New Town — Warszawa — Art Decade — Weeping Wall
I really appreciate David Bowie but I’ve never been a huge fan of his music. The last half of this album resonated more for me. 2.5
Interesting! Very atmospheric, not much singing. The synth felt very 70s/80s in a mysterious and whimsical way, but also sort of eerie and ominous. I haven't seen Labyrinth, but I noticed myself imagining that kind of high-concept fantasy landscape. Sad undertones made me wonder what was up in his life at this point. Ask Max what he thinks!
I loved the album!! Some of these were such an interesting listen. Got me in a daze. Would recommend it.
The first half didn't do much for me. The second half is what elevated this album in my mind.
The first of the Berlin trilogy! Low is a classic that needs no further introduction.
Influential electro-rock album, but didn’t hit the sweet spot for me. I am again guilty of not having the best audio set-up, but still, this album felt very meandering and random to me. I’m a David Bowie fan, but this one just felt quite random and disjointed, and I couldn’t settle into its mood. Not my cup of tea
Not the best Bowie album. Some sounds phoned in a bit. It's still definitely worth a listen. He's definitely experimenting with his sound here. It's interesting, but overall not great.
Dreamy, wavy, psych. This record sounds like a movie soundtrack and I really dig it. Bowie's vocals are the usual level of greatness, but they are sparse on this album and he allows the music to run the show. The creative sounds that are used is really awesome, setting such different moods throughout. The sequencing works so well together. I like this one a lot.
I guess I am just not so much of a Bowie fan. Second record, now an older one, and it is also fine but not something I would return to.
Wow
Me gusto bastante. Me sorprendi. No escucho tanto a David Bowie y algo que siempre sentí, es que me cuesta su tono de voz. Me sirvió para escucharlo desde otro lado, musicalmente. Y si bien los temas parecen cortos, es un disco corto, me parece que cada uno habla un idioma o cuenta una atmosfera. Mi favorito: Always Crashing In The Same Car.
From the upbeat, swinging rhythm of Sound and Vision, to the dark, otherworldly ambience of Subterraneans, the tone shift in this album is absolutely stunning while the tracks stay fresh. Another David Bowie banger.
Interesting sounds
I know Bowie was weird, I just wasn't expecting so much instrumental synth music... I know people love this one, I got bored.
En del småmærkværdige instrumentalnumre, men jeg kan egentligt godt lide det legende element i albummet.
I have limited knowledge of Bowie, perhaps just four albums I know well, and about the same again for others I have listened to at least once, but this has become my favourite in the last couple of years. Perhaps not quite perfect, but so close I am definitely rounding up.
Heavy, moody, really nice. I loved every part of it.
This wasn't what I expected, but I really liked it. Ambient, emotional, musical.
i’ve only listened to 3-4 most popular bowie’s albums, so didn’t expect something distantly reminiscent of ambient, but it was great! not the best thing i’ve heard from him, but still awesome
I've never truly just sat down and listened to a Bowie album before, so this one was my first one. It was a very interesting one to start with, consisting of nearly the same number of instrumental tracks as songs with lyrics. I am unsure if this is the norm for Bowie, but I have never heard an instrumental track by him before today. I personally enjoyed these more than the songs with vocals on; They were easy to get lost in and just played in the background. Really lovely instrumentation throughout, and such a unique vocal delivery from Bowie himself. Favourites: A New Career in a New Town Art Decade Sound and Vision
Side A is arguably Bowies finest hour and goes toe to toe with any other work he produced Side B is groundbreaking, however it is definitely more influential than it is enioyable. An album that would warrant a half star feature, but will round up as I didn't round up for Aladdin Sane and this is better
The start of an amazing trilogy and it shows. The dynamics soundscapes Bowie and co are able to produce are incredibly experimental and fascinating in its implementation. Can't wait to listen to the rest of the Berlin trilogy
Speed of life, 1# track, probably the best one. Different from what davie had done. I think it inspired the joy division band, which is one of my favourite band General overall, its a good album. Lots of guitar synthesised sounds, wich is not to my taste. Overall 11 out of 20.
Pretty far out, man.
Era partito bene, ma la seconda parte è supernoiosa. Quasi tutti i pezzi sono strumentali.
My Rating 3.6.
A Bowie album that I have never listened to, it was ok
I feel like I'd want to experience this album live in a small, intimate venue.
4/10 I enjoyed this significantly less then the first Bowie album, the standout parts for me where the songs without lyrics.
This album starts off so strong but I don’t love all the ambient songs. Still one of Bowie’s better albums. I adore Sound and Vision.
some nice sounding stuff, but i dont quite think it comes together as neatly as id want
Awful
The worst thing for an artist is reaching a status where "your record starts working for you": you can do anything, journalists will approve, and the public will go wild. David Bowie also succumbed to this sin. While the first half of this album is short, somewhat understated, but still pleasant songs, typical of the glam-funk Bowie, the second half begins the "Experiments" section: oppressive ambient interspersed with throat singing in an invented language, sounding like the soundtrack not just to a film, but to a David Lynch film. As expected, Brian Eno "did a favor"; he'll still confuse many good artists with his gimmicks... And yet, years later, the album is considered practically the peak of Bowie's creativity! Basically, Low is Kid A for boomers. Both decent albums, but would anyone have praised them so much if the artists' names weren't on the covers? Of course not.
i feel like there’s been enough david bowie
sound and vision rocks. Hard to hate a bowie album!
no me gusto
Que genio 🙂↕️👏
I think this is the third Bowie album that's come up and by far my least favorite. Feels like a movie score to a movie I haven't seen. I guess you get to a certain level and you can experiment as much as you want but this one doesn't do it for me
This really surprised me. I've never listened to these Eno/Bowie records and I have to say--I'm a fan.
The back was actually ok but the voice just isnt enought, and all around boring
I was once walking with a friend to a Bowie tribute show and we started talking favorite albums. He’d been a music writer in another life and he said, “This is where I’m supposed to have a whole speech about how it’s so hard to choose, but who am I kidding, it’s Low?” And it is for me too. There are so many reasons, but the most important one is that it’s the pivot from the many personas of early Bowie to his later career when he could simply be himself (despite occasional costumes and characters). Early Bowie was Major Tom, later Bowie was “we know Major Tom’s a junkie,” but to recover as a junkie, you first have to hit your low. There are plenty of times when I have wondered why any of the songs on this record have words at all. But “Sound and Vision” aside, they are the texts of the junkie trying to make sense of his scattered experiences. “Always Crashing the Same Car” grew out of a Bowie between Bowie and his dealer. “Breaking Glass” is obvious. “Be My Wife” is pretty clearly the words of someone who is going to be unmarried soon. Yet somehow none of those songs are about those topics. The words of Low are as ambient as the sounds. I think the first side is better thought of as one long composition made of fragments, like the second side medley of Abbey Road. They are junkie moments broken down and reassembled like a mosaic. The second side is so transcendent that it’s hard to discuss. It’s a kind of classical music from another reality. I think it’s the final statement of Bowie on being an alien. In “Space Oddity” he imagined being an alien, in Ziggy Stardust and “Starman” and The Man Who Fell to Earth he played an alien, but in the second side of Low he is truly, finally, alien at last. Kraftwerk and Eno inspirations acknowledged, but there is nothing like it. I’ve heard it a hundred times, but giving it the 1001 headphones listen, I still heard sounds I hadn’t heard before. I don’t know if I believe in the legend of the Berlin Trilogy. Most of this album was made in France. It’s pretty different from “Heroes” and Lodger to me, as much as I love them. I see them as closer to Let’s Dance and Heathen and Blackstar, artistic statements of the finally liberated Bowie. But Low is the process of liberation itself. Like Patti Smith’s Horses and the Radiohead oeuvre, it has always been there when I needed that liberation, and I’ve needed it a lot. There are plenty of times I’ve wondered about the value of my life and where it is going. It is incredibly reassuring to know that Bowie felt those things too, and music this great was the result.
no thanks lol
A bit disappointed by my enjoyment of this album. I normally like Bowie a lot, but this project had a big background-noise vibe unfortunately.
meh. doet niet veel voor me
zo grappig dat ie dit niet eens getourd heeft en gewoon als toetsenist bij iggy pop ging chillen. god ja de berlin trilogie... alles van bowie is eigenlijk gewoon goed. deel van de inspiratie is dus neu! wat we al geluisterd hebben. kijk je moet geen cocaïne doen. maar als je dan eenmaal gaat stoppen met drugs en met je homoerotische bestie twee albums gaat maken (bowie produceerde in deze tijd ook iggy pop's solo debuut), dan is dat toch wel wat waard heerlijke sfeer dit 10/10. if the berlin trilogy has no lovers assume i am dead
Classic.
warszawa was my fav. pretty cool and i enjoyed listening but i wouldn't put it on again
seran muy buenas melodias bla bla bla, yo necesito letras acompañda a la musica perdon david bowie canta la proxima
Very different from his album hunky dory, well, Bowie is still there with his sound, with some rock track, but also some experimental one.
Way more instrumental then I was expecting
A classic one, Brian Eno’s giving too much
I like Bowie. A bit different while still sounding like music.
Nothing particularly noteworthy here by Bowie standards.
His best
Kul!
Not my favorite Bowie album. First 1/3 not bad, wanes through the second 1/3, closing 1/3 just super melancholy instrumental work that does nothing for me. Could be a 2 but I can't bring myself to do that.
I've been aware of how Bowie never had any limits to experimentation when it came to his entire discography, although I can't say I found everything he created to strike my interest in full. However after listening to this album in full, I think this might be one of my personal favorites from him. The song 'Sound and Vision' I've heard multiple times beforehand and made me believe this wasn't going to be too different from his more accessible albums. Surprised by how simplistic yet oddly mixed the first few tracks are, the distorted snare and guitars grabbing my immediate attention. Then the vocals appear and fit in oddly well with the rest of the instruments. Gave me an unusual feeling of both relaxation and anticipation. Lots of instrumentals than expected, then the later part of the album started playing. Not sure how to describe it, but it was nothing that I could have predicted. Soothing synths and chanting's that could work well with some early 80s fantasy setting. The entire album was full of surprises and can't believe I missed this marvelous piece of music. Highly recommend to those who want to witness some beautiful yet surreal composure of rock and ambience.
It was too much plain music for me. I really appreciate something more lyrical and storytelling rather than just music.
Se sintió tranqui. Buen instrumental y como acompañamiento mientras leo. El David? Un vato con un teclado y un sueño. Hubo temas que se sentían nostálgicos o como cuando estás tratando de darle sentido a la vida a través del ahora después de una depresión severa que te prohibió apreciar las pequeñas cosas. Me gustó, pero a la vez me pregunto dónde está la liRicA
great background music
Some of this album is great, the rest is very forgettable. Not bad, but somewhat uninteresting.
A good mix of familiar early 70s bowie and experimental bowie. Its a very interesting album, eerie and mysterious at points, jazzy, ethereal... Fav Tracks: Speed of Life, Be My Wife Sadly, didn't care too much for the back third of the album. It honestly seemed a little out of place compared to the first 2/3rds
Sound and vision elite. More so an Eno album for side B, for better and for worse
Definitely better than alladin sane Some really good fun pop tracks on the first half of this, somehow I’d not heard sound and vision before but that slaps. The second, more ambient/instrumental side didn’t really land as well for me though 3.5
Está bueno, tiene buena instrumental aunque no tanto canto pero está bueno
Its bowie thays for sure but it might be the least interesting bowie for me at least. Like i turn it on and get a tiny bit of the man who's name is on the cover but not alot. Sure he arranged all this and wrote the songs but having 97% of this without him singing makes me feel a bit ripped off. But the songs are almost all interesting in some way or another. Alot of them are pretty and do have some motion. But its too much of this intumental stuff for me. Im sure there are a million people who would say this is their favorite bowie album and I get it. This thing has to be your thing though. And its not mine. When it was over and it played the next song like the closer it was Brian eno and that put the whole thing into context for me. Of course its like him. And I dont hate eno but im also very weary every time I put on a new eecord of his. Sometimes its a great record with compelling songs and sometimes its droning nothingness for an hour. And this bowie record sits somewhere in the middle of those highs and lows. The low here isnt all that low but do many other bowie records are much much much more engaging.
Honestly, I just got tired of Bowie and didn't want to listen to this expecting it to be his usual kacke, but this really surprised me. Mostly the second half
>Deep in your room >You never leave your room Very true. I liked the instrumental part in the latter half a lot. The sung parts in the first half not as much.
if you wanna feel like you're dissociating in an extraterrestrial world, listen to this one
Not as good as Hunky Dory Seems a bit meandering at times
5/5 banged Michael in the back seat of my car today to this album. Easily my new favorite Bowie album😍
The first album of the Berlin Trilogy. This takes place in a challenging period for David Bowie's life, he had recently quit cocaine even though he was a full-on addict he still managed to see how badly it was affecting him (especially during the previous album, Station to Station) he also decided to leave the U.S. on top of quitting. Which I'm sure the withdrawal symptoms had a heavy influence on the sombreness present. He brought some friends along, like for instance Brian Eno who had a big hand in the creation of this album, mainly the ambient stuff. For the A-side has these simple-minded rock and pop songs with new wave, krautrock and electronic elements and it even has instrumentals, which I'm sure was very shocking for contemporary casual listeners of Bowie as well as for the critics. For the B-side it focuses more on instrumental, wordless vocals (if there are ANY vocals present,) full on ambient music, stuff that you might hear in a soundtrack album and not something you would expect from a big name rockstar like David Bowie. Literally everything about this album I love, the tone, the emotions, the bleakness, the execution, etc. Definitely safe to say this is my favourite album ever. Possibly because it exemplifies Bowie's left-field nature and him always trying to re-invent himself, which I like the mentality of and all of the above which I just mentioned. Highlight Song/s: "Breaking Glass", "Sound and Vision, "Warszawa" and "Subterraneans"
I’m surprised, didn’t think I would like this much as I do. Really was not a fan of heroes, but this one’s being in the same trilogy, it’s awesome. All of the ambient tracks are great, five stars.
La segunda mitad me gustó mucho, Warszawa mi favorita
An interesting concept for this album with the back half being so abstract. I didn’t particularly enjoy that though.
Exceptional album! I liked the route Bowie took in this album because it’s still within the realm of psychedelia/ glam rock but it’s a bit polished. The tracks that stood out to me were ‘Sound and Vision’, ‘Be My Wife’ and ‘Warszawa’. I was going to write about Art Decade but then I remembered it’s an electronic tinged instrumental track with droning guitars and synths. The track to me sounds like I’m in an inspector gadget themed fairy world. All in all it was a great album. Rating: 4.5/5 GEMV (31.03-01.04.2026)
Eno!!! my favorite. This is my jam. Subterraneans sucked me in as I was working. Stopped, rewound, soaked it up.
Ok
actually really good I could see people interested in all genres listening to this
Feels like the most non-Bowie Bowie album. Got a sense of what's to come.
I really liked it
I think Davids later stuff was a lot better most of this is just ambient sounds and for the 70s it was fine but it aged like milk.
An album of two parts. Both thoroughly enjoyable in slightly different ways. Less of Bowie's voice than I was expecting. High 4.
Classic Bowie until track 8 (Warsaw) with some of his best ever songs. Then Eno takes over - albeit less ably then on his solo work - which I love. High 4
Mostly excellent, but could lose a track or three to be even better.
I’ll admit that after recently listening to “Heroes” and Station to Station I was worried that while I really enjoyed Bowie’s discography outside of the his most famous works, they didn’t inspire in me the same level of intense enjoyment as Hunky Dory or Ziggy Stardust. It turns out I didn’t need to worry, as Low might be his best album. Low is a completely different kettle of fish. Bowie takes us on an incredible journey with no weak spots. It’s astonishingly free and melodic, only snapping into a more organised shape when you reach the big single Sound and Vision. It stretches itself into something even looser, smoother and abstract on the back end, which is where some of the biggest and most satisfying surprises are. Closing track Subterraneans completely reshapes my image of Bowie and what his music is capable of. A masterpiece.
Going an *ahem* Low 5 for this Bowie - sometimes its higher for me but generally i think him and Eno nailed what Eno tried to do with less success on Another Green World (unpopular opinion). The songs here are great and the soundscapes are great, but I could do with just a dash more cohesion to make it a solid 5. Sound and Vision is my favourite Bowie song 🙏
Very experimental, I liked it very much. I was very positively surprised by the last 4 tracks & by the track "Warszawa" and had to check twice if that's the real title
OK, not his best work
Entry #4 from David Bowie (not to mention the Iggy Pop ones). All these songs are new to me. The first part of the album includes standard rock songs, and the last part includes instrumental/electronica music, which would be perfect for a museum or planetarium. I enjoyed the planetarium music more than the rock tunes, but none of it is memorable.
This is good! Way better than its sibling album (Iggy Pop Lust for Life). The first track might as well be Kraftwerk! Lots of dissonant electro-y instrumentals. Highlights: 'Warszawa', 'Subterraneans' Wiki highlight: 'Jasmine might also be a metaphor for the flowering creeping flower rather than a "girl".' Commentary continuity: 'Weeping Wall' is apparently another pre-1989 Berlin Wall song.
Much more ambience than I expected. Wonderful and full of depth, definitely one of the best atmospheric albums I've heard. Art Decade is a favorite. Invigorates the body is a good way to describe this album. It's rich with energy and presence. Subterraneans is also stunning. I can feel myself floating through the earth.
Very ethereal and atmospheric for much of it. It's not at all what I expected when I saw that it was a Bowie album. It wasn't my favorite, overall, but it's far from the worst in this list. Very middle of the road.
Firsy half a bit dull, nothing standing out Barren second handful, some nice sounds Ideal length
Well clearly this was a forgettable album because I don't really remember much of it. I remember Warszawa being very weird and not pleasant to listen to.
the generator must have been listening to me last night when I said "I guess I do like Bowie" and said now wait a second! Let's show you some of the stuff you won't like as much. Here we are. Third Bowie album and I am sure it won't be the last on this list. Least favorite so far and I think it'll get more and more 80s from here.
Idk not a huge fan tbh, i like the saxophones in some of the songs like subterraneans
Genius
always thought to be one of the loveliest albums from David Bowie, I don't know how it fits into his whole artistry, as I haven't listened to him religiously enough. But it just feels me with magic, of the Twin Peaks variety.
Has some of the best instrumental tracks of all time
An album of two very distinct parts. The first side is Bowie in his mystical, dark magic phase “don’t look at the carpet I drew something awful on it” but as always the mysticism sits on top of well tooled complex pop and the second side is the travelogue to a Europe that never actually existed. Rich and complex stuff
Experimental Sinfónico Electrónico Distinto
I did not like this album the first time I heard it. Though I didn't know it, it was likely Brian Eno's influence. I was also not a fan of "Remain In Light" by Talking Heads because I felt like he had his hands too much in the production. Anyway, once I spent more time with Eno's music from his early glam days to his ambient era, I fell in love with pretty much every thing he's done. So when revisiting this, it was a lot more palatable for me, and it was such a great marriage of Bowie's sensibilities with Eno's ambient production. Still not my favorite Boeiw, BUT I liked it a hell of a lot more this time around, and I can imagine it growing on me the more I listen to it. Will be in my regular rotation.
I know plenty of Bowie, but wasn't familiar with most of this. Great stuff! Experimental, weird, and enjoyable.
incredibly boring
album rock klasik yang mungkin cocok bagi pecinta rock 70an
I've heard some other David Bowie albums and they are a lot better, but i still enjoyed it. Sound & vision the highlight track
Very vibes based, went a bit odd at the end.
Bueno, que decir de esto, inconmensurable Bowie, creado ambientes etereos, tremenda obra de arte, de principio a fin, te amo David
Efter 8 albums med David Bowie er det ok at erkende at han bare ikke er noget for mig... Lige meget hvor meget jeg gerne ville passe i kassen af Bowie fans. Det er ikke godt, det er ikke specielt, men heller ikke dårligt. Desværre bare fint nok..
Bowie bliver nok aldrig en albums artist for mig. Bundniveauet er for lavt, der er for mange ligegyldige numre på mange af pladerne. Men det er helt okay når man har været så produktiv over så lang tid som han var. Og så kan der jo samles en Greatest Hits med rent guld.
Sound and Vision // Be My Wife //
je me disais bien aussi ça faisait longtemps
I understand where he is going here, and liked the sonic landscape overall, but I gotta have more David Bowie on a David Bowie album.
Я знаю Дэвида по старому паблику ВК с названием "Дэвид Боуи и салатники". Мне нравится его стиль, но музыка никогда не нравилась, просто не находила отклика внутри меня. Вот и здесь ничего не отозвалось. Когда я вижу в описании что-то вроде "11 альбом британского исполнителя", то мне заранее становится страшно. Дэвид, мне очень жаль, правда.
Nota mental: puntuación Low, como el título del disco 😑
די משעמם
הקטע אמביאנט היה יותר מגניב
Too much ambience. I don’t think every Bowie album needs to be on here.
This is my seventh Bowie album, and my favorite (so far?). I think it's because he doesn't sing much in this one.
Rich imagery, excellent music, somewhat dark
Not a listener of Rock, but the album is very interesting and since it's not really lyric, it's an enjoyable moment
I like the mix of instrumental music between the songs, but this CD I think falls flat more than I want. Maybe it is because I was listening to it in the gym, but the songs were slow and none of them jumped out to me as highlights when I finished the album.
Feels colder and more detached than previous work and with the exception of “Sound and Vision”, lacking what sounds like hits. I can imagine this one growing on me upon further listens, but not as immediately compelling as the albums recoded with the Spiders from Mats.
Once again a Bowie album that suffers from not being hunky dory, but I like the first side of this one better than yesterday’s.
Enjoyed this slightly more than the last! Some bangers, some clunkers, overall good.
I didn't get it....
Low is a good album. It has a mix of rock and more ambient than his other music. Definitely influenced by Brian Eno.
Great
His best album
Yum yum, best of the Berlin wans
I love the weirdness. Peak Weird Bowie
Good David
Interesting album! Not my fave, I was surprised by the amount of sound tracks but there were tracks I liked.
I mean it’s ok
Except for Sound and Vision, doesn't do anything for me. It was experimental, and I guess he liked the results, because he did the same thing on Heroes.
(4/7) c'mon dude you can do better
More a collection of sketches, but those instrumentals are worth the admission price alone. Subterraneans in particular sounds utterly timeless.
159/1001 First listen. Better than expected. Love Bowie’s hits but haven’t explored much beyond those songs. Maybe I’ll branch out from here. 5/10
I did not knoe David Bowie made this kind music at some point (Sven was shocked that I didn't). Not my personal favorite, but interesting!
This album lost me on a wave of phase. Not sure why this is thought to be the first time any of the sounds were heard on an album. Countless UK prog bands were experimenting with various early synths, Be Bop Deluxe used phasers on guitar. Don't get the praise for what is to me maybe experimental for Bowie, but not for the general music of that era. Not an unlistenable album, but way overrated by some, as is most of Bowies work.
Good start, not sure what happened on the back half. Terrible
Tracks 2 and 3 are decent. The second half of the album is atmospheric but not engaging. Maybe it was good at the time?
Great album, i love the vocals especially on songs like sound and vision
I know that Bowie changed his sound a lot throughout his career, so I was kind of excited to hear what direction he went in for this album. It was interesting, but I just felt sort of meh about it overall. I wasn't expecting there to be so many instrumental songs. There were a couple of songs I liked though.
Less silly-goofy than more popular Bowie, not quite as dramatic (but still plenty of course). Great soundscape, very atmospheric. For active listening perhaps drags a little in the middle.
not my kind of genre
Love a good David Bowie Albumn, enjoyed this one and might listen again
Pretty good for the first David Bowie album I’ve listened to Some songs I could skip because they were kind of boring but overall pretty good
Sound and vision 👌🏼
01) Speed of Life - 8,5 02) Breaking Glass - 8,5 03) What in the World - 8,5 04) Sound and Vision - 10,0 05) Always Crashing in the Same Car - 8,5 06) Be My Wife - 9,0 07) A New Career in a New Town - 9,5 08) Warszawa - 8,5 09) Art Decade - 8,5 10) Weeping Wall - 8,0 11) Subterraneans - 8,0 TOTAL: 8,68 (87/100) Current ranking: 116/856
How????? Genuinely how was there an album that sounded like this in 1977 I don't get it. I'd dare say this is Bowie's best album due to the insane production on it. 10/10
Went by to fast need to listen 2-3 more times to fully get the hear this album.
I'm not sure I had ever heard this all of the way through. Giving it 4 instead of 5 since if it wasn't Bowie I'm not sure I would have been quite as enthusiastic but I can seem myself returning to this one.
A couple good hits in this album ‘sound and vision’ being the main highlight, the other sons with vocals were still decent enough. There were quite a few instrumental tracks, whilst they sounded kinda cool as soundscapes I was hoping for more vocals from Bowie. Overall, a good listen but just felt a bit average.
Pretty good. Not for me.
Love David Bowie but this cup of tea ain’t mine.
Mysterious sounding. Very movie soundtrack.
Surprisingly a lot of instrumentals. But still a good album.
David Bowie is David Bowie so its good. Had it on working on some assignments so it helped me cruise through it.
A really good album. Will definitely come back to it.
Possibly my favourite Bowie album. Both sides offer such interesting music and sounds. It is weird to have a peak Bowie album with so little lyrics, but that's just how it worked out! 5 Heard before? Yes Owned: Yes 59/234 (24%) Will I get: Already have
I know they share a producer and all, but I never realized until today how much this album sounds like Fear of Music in places. Unfortunately Bowie, though he may be rock music's most well-known chameleon, just isn't as interesting to me as David Byrne. It's above his typical standard, but it still leaves me cold.
third Bowie album for me and still not a fan of his style - but the ambient part of the album was really enjoyable
David Bowie, britischer Musiker, veröffentlichte Low 1977 als elftes Studioalbum. Die Aufnahmen entstanden hauptsächlich im Château d’Hérouville in Frankreich sowie in den Hansa Studios in West-Berlin; einzelne Vorarbeiten gehen auf Sessions in den Cherokee Studios in Los Angeles zurück. Produziert wurde das Album von Bowie und Tony Visconti, mit wichtigen Beiträgen von Brian Eno. Musikalisch bewegt sich Low zwischen Art Rock, Avant-Pop, elektronischer Musik und Ambient. Die erste Albumhälfte besteht aus kurzen, fragmentierten Songs mit klaren Pop-Strukturen, während die zweite Seite stärker von instrumentalen Klanglandschaften geprägt ist. Synthesizer, verfremdete Schlagzeugklänge und reduzierte Arrangements prägen den Sound und markieren einen deutlichen Bruch mit Bowies früheren Glam- und Soul-Phasen. Zu den bekanntesten Stücken gehören „Sound and Vision“, „Be My Wife“ und „What in the World“. Daneben stehen instrumental geprägte Titel wie „Warszawa“, „Art Decade“ oder „Subterraneans“, die eine kühl wirkende, teilweise melancholische Atmosphäre erzeugen und stark von elektronischen Experimenten beeinflusst sind. Das Album wirkt wie eine bewusste Neuorientierung: kurze Songskizzen treffen auf ausgedehnte Klangflächen. Gerade diese Kombination aus Popfragment und atmosphärischem Experiment macht Low zu einem eigenständigen Werk innerhalb von Bowies Diskografie. Ein großartiger Meister seines Fachs und Visionär!
my favourite zavid zowie album
I'm about to give my first 5 to David Bowie of all people - did not see that coming. I like Tangerine Dream - so the B side is right up my alley. It is worth it to go read up on the history of Bowie at this point in his life and the events that inspired some of these songs (like "Always Crashing in the Same Car"). This album is the sound of a man hitting rock bottom (thus the title) - disillusioned with his career, on the verge of losing his marriage, low in inspiration and strung out on too many drugs. And this is how he processed that. This is gorgeous. I mean I liked it the first time through but each time after I appreciate something new about it.
Album #91 David Bowie: Low Well, it only took 91 albums, but I am finally graced with an appearance from the single greatest musician of our time, the one and only David Jones. Since this is the first David Bowie album I have received, I am incredibly tempted to wax lyrical about his career in its entirety and how much he means to me and to music as a whole; however, Low is an album that deserves my undivided attention. As someone who considered myself a Bowie fan for years, despite only listening to his glam era, by the time I listened to Low, I had already established him as one of the GOATS. Because of this prior affinity, I was willing to give his more experimental works a chance, such as the iconic Berlin Trilogy, despite being some way from embracing ambient and experimental music. Some tracks on Low took no adjustment period; whether you only listen to Bowie’s hits like Heroes and Space Oddity, or you really just prefer his eclectic albums like Earthling and Blackstar, you can immediately, after one listen, acknowledge that "Sound and Vision" is a banger. However, like on the albums Heroes and Station to Station, Low contains some tracks that are entirely without Bowie’s iconic voice, and for a David Bowie album, this can be a hard sell. So for a while, Low sat on a podium of the appreciated but not adored, and I continued to stuff my face with Ziggy Stardust and Hunky Dory (which I still do). But eventually, you grow, you hear the name “Brian Eno” associated with one too many albums that you love. Naturally, your curiosity turns into discovery, and from the first listen of “Another Green World”, you immediately understand Low. Eno and Bowie are one of the great musical collaborations of our time, up there with Eno and Byrne, Eno and Ferry, Eno and Bono, Bowie and Iggy Pop, Bowie and Reed, well, you get the point. Taking David Bowie’s inherently astral vocals, which have long inspired listeners to dream of life beyond our planet, and Eno’s synthesizers and production, which practically invented ambient music and redefined sonic landscapes, you get what is perhaps the most transformative and magical album of all time. Since I was a child, all I’ve wanted was an escape. I have come to realize in my life that the only true emotion and inspiration I experience comes when I consume art. When I walked into Kokiri Forest for the first time and watched the first episode of the Pokémon anime, these were moments as a child when I truly escaped and dreamed of more. As a young adult, these moments become fewer and farther between, as your mind grows numb to whimsy and your spirits break at the ever-revealing bleakness of reality. But when those moments come, like a sprout in the desert, they hit harder than ever before. And if you give Low a chance, it may not be the first listen, it may not be the tenth, but one night you will be lying in bed listening to Warszawa, you will start to see the light and feel the warmth, a world will open up before you, and I will meet you there. Best Songs: Sound and Vision, Warszawa, Always Crashing in the Same Car Worst Song: None Score out of 10: 10
Super compelling sound, Bowie as usual is doing something weird and different. But this isn't one I'll be interested in revisiting soon
it was pretty good.
Love the first half - yeah, "that" drum sound is great, especially on the sublime single, Sound And Vision. The second half, with it's mostly instrumental synth tinkering, I can take or leave, to be honest. I'm listening to this straight after Autobahn, so I'm a bit "pioneering electronic shit"-ted out at the moment. Not Bowie's best long player for me, but probably the best of his "Berlin" trio.
1/5
Hadn’t heard this before. Too bad, because I really liked it. So it’s a good thing… I will listen again!
1: Be My Wife 2: Breaking Glass 3: A New Career in a New Town
I liked the first half but not the second. If I’m listening to Bowie I want to hear him sing.
Arguably Bowie’s masterpiece. A superb mix of quirky pop and abstract soundscapes, a work of genius in every sense of the word.
Yeahhh. little too artsy for me like i just like a simple little song with words and energy but i grt why somrone would rly like this. maybe if i listened more id like ti more. i like sound and vision
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.
Better in second listen but still lacking grooves.
5/5 sólo porque es Bowie ❤️
What an interesting ride.
Side 2 was really cool At various points on the album I was reminded of Roxy Music, Iggy Pop, Kraftwerk, Dead Can Dance, and XTC.
Never gets old. "Warszawa" still haunts me after all these years
Very interesting album, lots of textures and fun ideas. This Eno + Bowie collab is one of the best.
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.
honestly really good and now i’ll have sound and vision stuck in my head for the rest of the day
I really wanted to love this album - and indeed the second half instrumental section was engaging - but overall just sort of feels mid as my kids would say. It's nice but not great. Perhaps those feelings will change on further listens but rating this anything more than 3 right now would be a disservice to my other 4s. 3/5
I fucking love this album. It's the original "Kid A" moment - huge star basically torches their old style and releases something super weird. Honestly, even the more typical sounding tracks on the first half are themselves pretty weird. Oddly low-key. Sort of a progenitor for the indie rock sound. Really really cool. Must-listen #307.
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.
Not the best but I like the experimentation
No likey
probably my least favorite of 70s era bowie.
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.
The more I progress through these 1001 albums the more Bowie stands out as one of the all time greats.
Artists being artsy.
3/5 Surprisingly its mostly instrumental and has a lot of Vangelis Blade Runner vibes to it, especially in the last track. I like it
I think one that needs multiple listens. Amazing to see how influential it was.
Like most Bowie, i like but don’t love it. It’s sometimes challenging but i like this era with the back end of the albums being instrumental. I think i need to spend more time with Bowie, to “get it”
Not a bad album by any means, just very instrumental heavy. I think I just missed Bowies voice.
It took me a while to properly enjoy this album, now it's one of my favorites of Bowie's.
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.
It was great to hear some of these songs again
Not the Bowie I was expecting but mucho original for its time i would suspect
My heart says two stars but my brain says three. I like David Bowie. I like Brian Eno. But this was a challenge. Still I can recognize some brilliance here.
Weinig bekende hits maar geweldige plaat. Die 70’s synths!!
This was an odd one and not my favorite by Bowie.
Bowie forgets how to sing and instead plays synth. Kinda vibey, and ahead of its time. No bangers tho
this was l8ser bowie where he forgot how to write a lyric, was recovering from being a bung-destitute-cocaine loving L.A. dropout. I think in and amongst that haze, he had some sense of purpose though. he must've. this album still has meaning, albeit tragic. 3.5/5. highlight: sound and vision.
Bowie's first of the weird Berlin stuff, which took a few years to land with me. There's some really good, interesting experimental tracks, and some oddities. 'Warsawa' is amazing. I have 17 Bowie albums on my shelves; they can't all have 5-stars. Heard before ✅️ Listened this time ✅️ Revisit ✅️ ★★★★☆ (8/10) Total reviewed : 247 Already owned : 57 Purchased : 13 To buy list : 3 Nope : 174
gran álbum!
My favourite Bowie I want to be cool and say I like the second side best but actually it is tracks 4-6 that form my favourite sequence on any Bowie album. Sound and Vision is a brilliant single with the confidence to leave the vocals until half-way through, knowing it has enough rhythmic interest to keep us entertained. Then I love the way the guitars and synths weave in and out of each other on Always Crashing in the Same Car, a woozy masterpiece on the verge of collision. I kind of like his voice here too - sometimes he is a bit too theatrical but on this song he sounds completely washed out and distant. It was obviously a bad time for him, but it works for me. Be My Wife is a forgotten single that is actually one of my favourites of his. As a rule, sad songs are slow songs. This one is achingly lonely but still keeps up momentum with a propulsive piano riff leading into some gorgeous weeping guitars. The rest is very good too, but that section is the highlight for me
This............is disappointingly bad. 2.
Pleasantly good
It was solid, but a bit to hippy dippy for me
sound and vision is great, but a lot more of the album is just sound. Not my favorite Bowie.
Loved the first half, especially What In The World with its silly sound effects. The instrumental second half lost me. They feel separate.
Liked it more than Station to Station, but still doesn’t do much for me
26# Interesting pull, huge fan of David bowie last project Blackstar, but never had that kind of feeling towards another project by him, let's see if this sticks. Nothing to read, nothing to say, I'm blown away. Feel good psychedelic rock till the mid part, its up my alley, not in Berlin though. Warszawa.. IS beautiful.
A couple of good songs but quite forgettable
Bowie. Eno. Germany. Band members changing instruments. Beautiful complex art under novice construction.
Étrangement, un des albums les plus en avance sur son époque qu'une des oeuvres les plus "meh" de Bowie. C'est la graine plantée pour les Strokes ("Sound and Vision" par exemple) ET Franz Ferdinand (via "Breaking Glass") sans être une des oeuvres phares du bon David. Faut quand même le faire!
No bangers :(
David Bowie try not to ruin the back half of a great album with drug-fueled introspective music challenge (impossible) (Ok, the cliff that this album fell off of was not quite as steep as the one that Heroes did, but it was still enough to take this album from a 4 to a 3)
I liked this and parts are really great. I just don't like the Eno amd Bowie as much as I like the 3 or 4 albums that immediately preceded that period.
Very extraterrestrial sci fi vibes
this is unlike anything bowie released prior, and i'm kinda happy he never went back to this style.
amooooooo
Slay
I relistened to this recently and it all clicked, what an album.
adore Bowie with all my heart, but im a bit biased 'cause it's not my favorite album of his. still legendary though
Quite okay
Schwächeres Bowie-Album. Gegen Ende wird's nochmal stärker. Sonst ist "Sound and Vision" das Highlight. Ergänzung: Das ist von 1977, klingt aber fresher, als ALLES, was bis 1987 rausgekommen ist. Außer Kraftwerk und JMJ war '77 niemand so weit, was elektronische Musik angeht. Hatte Bowie das von Eno oder umgekehrt?
Erste Hälfte super, zweite ein wenig langatmig - Das Album wirkt damit länger, als es eigentlich ist
Sound and Vision slaps. Fun vocals throughout, very interesting changes throughout with electric sound mixed with classical vocals? Can be very ethereal, and cool ambient style at the end. but not really my style.
Very good album
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
I never understood the appeal of Bowie, vocally he's just ok and lyrically he's fine I guess but overall he's very mediocre this album highlights that a lot
2 stars, first few song are ok. The ambient synth shit at the end was crap.
It does get a bit low at the end
Один из моих любимых альбомов Боуи, гениальный, опередивший время и сильно повлиявший на пост-панк, нью-вейв, пост-рок, индастриал и многое другое. Просто не верится, что это было записано в 1977м. Электроника здесь очень органично сочетается с живыми инструментами, создавая уникальный и абсолютно новаторский для тех лет звук и вайб. И бэнегр Sound And Vision, и инструменталы второй части альбома мне очень заходят, поэтому оцениваю эту работу по максимуму.
Второй альбом Дэвида Боуи за месяц в этой подборке (лол а завтра будет третий). И до сих пор ни одного альбома oasis…. Первая половина очень классная. Во второй началась крафтверчная шиза с добиванием от Брайана Ино. Ну в целом норм, но первая часть понравилась больше. Все равно поставлю 5, так как я добряк.
После Ханки Дори боялся, что этот альбом тоже разонравится, но нет, все еще база. После прослушивания осознал, что ловлю одинаковый вайб от Low и Another Green World Иныча, так как это, наверное, лучшие примеры микса арт-рока и ранней электроники.
Лучшая песня: Always crashing in the same car Худшая: - Отличный альбом, в сотни раз лучше Ханки дори
По итогам этого месяца я прослушаю в 3 раза больше альбомов Боуи, чем за всю жизнь (раньше слушала только последний). В отличие от прошлой попытки этот lp понравился значительно больше, вторая инструментальная половина поразила. Все же здорово, что раньше большие артисты могли творить всякую дичь, даже ожидая коммерческого провала, и стояли на своём в творческом смысле. Где - то даже бьорк повеяло
Первая часть на 4, вторая на 2 - в среднем получаем 3.