Heroes

I get where indie sleaze came from.

Such an enjoyable experience, start to finish

Have I said I usually dislike the late 70s and 80s sound scapes? This is a huge exception!!! Bowie for president. 4.4

Still not a huge fan of Bowie, but I (mostly) found this enjoyable. The “mostly” is due to a couple of the instrumental tracks on the second side that really dragged. 7/10 Quite Likeable

I LOVE THIS ALBUM!

El album estuvo bueno en general. Para mi las mejores fueron Heroes, Sons of the Silent Age y The secret life of Arabia.

I love Bowie. I named my orange cat after him. But I’ve never tried his full albums. This was excellent but I think they may need some getting used to. I added the awesome title track to my playlist.

I really enjoy the ambient music that's feature in the album. Heroes is a pretty solid song too. David Bowie is one of those artists that I know I'm supposed to love. And I do enjoy his stuff on this album, but not to the extent I would've been expected to.

Really enjoyed the mostly instrumental second half but not really sure how it all fits together. ‘Heroes’ the title track is incredible, it’s well-known. ‘Moss Garden’ was my highlight.

I think Low is my favorite album from the Berlin trilogy, but they are all fantastic and Heroes has some great songs and some realy interesting experimental pieces as well. This is my favorite era of Bowie’s music for sure.

good

Weird pretty groovy and what a voice! Love the ambient interlude and like this album more than Low which was my fave I had heard until now

I like the first half a lot better than the second, but I still enjoy it all and I love David Bowie.

+1 for Heroes song. I cannot get this album out of my head.

Yep. That's an 8/10.

3.5 rounded up

Interesante

Very good, has such a good nostalgic feeling, I feel like this has been the soundtrack to every movie to ever exist. I feel like there may be other Bowie stuff that I may love more!

Very good I really liked the ambient songs

I kind of wish the title track closed the album out. It absolutely devastates me. What an impassioned performance from Bowie on that song. A true all-timer. Eno’s production and Fripp’s guitar work are welcome here, and it’s certainly a worthy entry in the Berlin trilogy. It’s not my favorite from that era (I think that’s still ‘Low’), but the improvisational nature of Bowie’s writing and Eno’s astute studio work make for a solid, singular album.

apart from Heroes, there are some interesting songs here. Like really unexpected for someone that doesn't usually listen to him. And that speaks lots from Bowie and his ability

Great

노래가 어떻든 보위가 좋으니까 베스트: Beaut and the Beast

Was a vibe ,some classics did not enjoy the instrumentqls

79/100. Some of the tracks are absolutely fantastic. The ambient-heavy last stretch of the album is especially stunning.

I'm not the most ardent David Bowie fan, but I certainly recognize his genius. Every time he comes up on this project, I'm reminded of just how unfamiliar I am with his deep catalog (it's mostly just his "hits" that I know). That said, this is probably the best of his albums that I've listened to on this so far.

Not Bowies best work but still a provoking listen

Well my first Bowie album on this journey. Have listened to other Bowie but not this. Lets het it out of the way Heros the song is one of the greatest rock songs off all time. Does the rest standup well nearly enjoyed the first half. Entered side 2 not expecting the ambient instrumentals. Not my favourite thing however as it went on really enoyed. Think ill give a 4

No es mi fav de david, pero esta lleno de bangers

I enjoyed this one. I somehow was not expecting it to get into the more experimental music at the end, but I blame that on my unfamiliarity with Bowie.

Quite great

only heard the title track before this, excited to listen beauty and the beast: immediately funky start to the album joe the lion: fun guitars if a bit messy sounding, interesting to read about chris burden's works while listening heroes: desperately hopeful/bittersweet esp as he starts yelling as the song progresses sons of the silent age: singapore moment... so bleak black out: this one makes me want to jump around instrumentals v-2 schneider: plane passing by sense of doubt: impending sense of doom, haunted house moss garden: unexpected japan moment??? neukoeln: impending sense of doom pt 2. i feel like im lost with nowhere to go the secret life of arabia: movie end credits super fun listen, nothing felt redundant, would listen again (at least the first half)

Fair play actually liked this one, -1 for nonce

bowie’s worst

Too much Bowie! Good album but drops off too much in second half to be five stars

For me Heroes is a 4/5 — a masterclass in mood, atmosphere, and Bowie’s ability to merge personal narrative with sonic innovation. Side 2 is the album’s heart, and its songs are among Bowie’s most enduring. I like the song Neukolln as I was living near there back in 1989 and the song sounds like a Turkish Doener Kebab combined with a few puffs of hash. Good stuff.

Title track here is honestly one of the greatest songs of all time, the other songs are some cool instrumental ambient stuff but nothing all that memorable

I’ve never thought of myself as a Bowie fan, but I enjoyed this. And I guess I’d better get used to it, as I understand he has nine albums in this project …

Nice work David Bowie, if that even is your real name. Heroes is an absolute classic and if, hypothetically, it was placed on to a 1977 playlist, it would almost certainly be one of the best songs. Much of the rest of the album is pretty new to me though so giving 5 stars might be reserved for further listening.

what the hell sure

Started out beautiful and weird as usual. Then instrumental in later tracks. Beautiful album and the cover doesn’t do it justice for what it is.

I'm listening to this for the second time and I don't know how to do album reviews because I just listen without thinking but I can be King and you can be my Queen, still. The first half got me dancing around my room and bopping my head, I don't know if it was a performative urge or something but I did feel it. I also had a synchronicity moment when Kings came on when I finally found a TMNT(2003) episode that has been imprinted into my memory where Donatello (purple eyeband with wooden stick) fights a guy who can make his drawings come to life with a brush of his pen, and I found that pretty cool. Anyways, I really do like listening to Yoshikage Kira's voice and I bet you do too, and the end of the album just being pure instrumentality was also a nice surprise so like get a 8.5/10 Edit: other reviews don't say that many good things about it, but that's probably because I haven't really listened to any other albums of his but I'm not taking this back lol

As a Bowie hater....I had a lot of fun and maybe shouldn't have pissed on this dead man's grave as much as I have....save a lil piss for the freaks in berlin, Bowie's tellin me

Combatting the urge to 5 star for Heroes alone.

Good album. I see the hype

This kind of Bowie is right up my alley, but what isn't?

Love the first half of this album. Incredible composition, especially Beauty and the Beast. Didn’t love the second half of the album so much though.

I'd never heard this before and ended up liking it quite a bit. I fell asleep on the plane listening to the album amd woke up mid-extended instrumental sax song. That it didn't sound at all a) like Bowie or b) like 70s/80s pop saxophone made me wonder if I'd slept through the album. But no. It was just a great song. So yeah, this was good.

The title track -- an all-time great, of course -- and V-2 Schneider do all the work here.

Yup great, I’ll come back to it muchly. Weird but not off putting. Clever, interesting.

One of Bowie's innumerable talents is his inventiveness - doing something new and exciting with each album. But doing something new with each release does, in turn, mean that some releases are better than others, though. I like this album a lot, and while I think Bowie can do no wrong, it is weaker than his other, more notable works.

Love Berlin

The first half is filled with infectious grooves, almost rock opera harmonies, and feels about a decade ahead of its time both sonically and technically. By contrast, the last half of the album morphs into a swirling, ambient soundscape - if the rock starlings in the first half felt like they hailed from 1987, then this second half feels like it was unearthed from a capsule sent from 3000AD. Bowie's voice is like 5000 gigawatts jammed right through the speakers: this is a bible for the rock religion, the new testament of the electronic age.

Rv

Sophisticated

Pretty good album with some moody instrumental stuff at the end.

I liked the shift in tone

I love the instrumentals and Heroes, the song, is obviously absolutely essential.

Not my favorite Bowie album. But Heroes is an all-timer song.

Listens: 3 Standout Tracks: "Heroes", Sense of Doubt, Moss Garden, Neuköln I can definitely hear the Brian Eno influence on this album. It's all moody and atmospheric and ambient, and there's, I think, two or three fully instrumental tracks, which I would not have expected (in my limited experience) on a Bowie album. I liked this album.

Great album, still sounds fresh.

Typical Bowie ahead of his time and misunderstood. This is a good Bowie album though not great.

Gran disco de la trilogía Berlín Sigue sonando fresco

7/10 David Bowie, Tony Visconti, Brian Eno *and* Robert Fripp? There’s certainly a wealth of talents and skillsets in play for this one. The title track is one that many would put close to the top of their list of favourite Bowie tracks and, while it has been overly present in endless montages, it still does have that great blend of otherworldliness and uplifting, engaging charisma about it that makes it get hold of people. The thing is, that track isn’t actually very representative of this album. It’s kind of hard to view this album as a whole, actually, because it’s not the most free-flowing or structurally coherent of records. There is some really great stuff on here, but it does feel a bit like they couldn’t quite tame everything into a completely coherent whole. The first side, Bowie is on avant garde rock form, and there are moments when his ear for a hook and his charisma shine through, but also moments where things become a little too cacophonous and impenetrable. There are definitely moments to hang one’s hat on, and the use of interesting tones and production techniques add an intriguing air to things, but to me it struggles a little with balance and cohesiveness. The second half is actually where this record shines for me. There are fingerprints of Eno (and some from Fripp) all over it, as he began his experimentation with ambient music, and some of the soundscaping work is simply gorgeous. There are tones in here that sound both very much of their era, but also staggeringly ahead of their time in that beautiful way that you can’t quite place them, listening 50 years into the future. The flow of this second half is way more consistent too, with the tracks organically flowing into one another, creating a shimmering, pulsating and evolving series of works that, while not typically Bowie, provide a really interesting twist on his work, and one that I found really engaging. With all that being said, and the splitting of the two LP sides actually working in favour of coherence, I did feel that, while there were bits of flickering brilliance scattered across the album, it’s one that to ultimately feels like a record that is both good and interesting, rather than a completely consistent and great one. Beauty And The Beast - It’s certainly a slightly wacky start. There’s good drive and intensity to the underlying direction of the track, but it’s a slightly obtuse blend of tonal layers over the top of it. I quite like it though, it feels like a bit of a manic fever dream, but there’s enough hooky moments in there to give things a bit of a centre point to hang the more avant garde choices around. Joe The Lion - Carrying on from the opener, this feels a bit more cluttered and noisy, but doesn’t have any of the same melodic hooks to hang itself on, so it feels a little more impenetrable. Bowie is going for it in a “Bowie turned up to 11” that’s maybe a little too much for me and drifts a little into shouting rather than singing. There’s some interesting blends of tones in the production, but it doesn’t quite gel for me, unfortunately and feels a bit too messy. "Heroes" - It’s a classic. The overlapping feedback of Robert Fripp’s guitar is a really cool, atmospheric device within the song that actually elevates what is a fairly run of the mill composition into something with a bit more depth and interest, as does the slow build of layers as the song progresses. Bowie’s increasing vocal intensity also helps it work as an evolving, building piece. The melodic hooks don’t hurt either. While it’s not one of my personal top Bowie tracks, it’s a classic for a reason. Sons Of The Silent Age - The production and soundscaping of this are really cool and some of the techniques that Visconti used are really apparent here, particularly the three mic technique. It’s quite a psychedelic experience and I think the vibe is fantastic, but I do find it a little too vocally meandering in places. It gathers things up elsewhere, but again, I don’t find it completely connecting with me. Blackout - This feels a little disorganised, in a similar way to Joe The Lion. Again, there are bits that I can pick out as being really good, and I appreciate the production direction, but it manages to fall somewhere between being completely wacky and avant garde and sometimes straying towards something of a more standard rock song and that “foot in both camps” style just doesn’t quite hit the spot for me. Bowie seems in places to be more focused on the bite in his delivery than the tonality and it makes it a little more difficult to parse. V-2 Schneider - Moving on to the more instrumentally focused side of the record now, melodically, there feels like there’s a bit of a recall back to Beauty And The Beast in a couple of places. The vibe and wash of sounds are really cool, and there are some interesting blends of sounds. It could probably do a bit more to develop that sound, but it’s only three minutes, so still works pretty well. Sense Of Doubt - This is pretty atmospheric and another interesting blend of sounds. You can hear Brian Eno all over this, even if he doesn’t get a writing credit. It’s kind of like if Eno and Boards of Canada worked together in some ways; restrained, tonally captivating, but with a sense of unrelenting dread about it. It’s sparse and doesn’t significantly develop on a musical level, but from a production and vibe point of view, it’s great stuff. Moss Garden - And we drift straight into this from the previous track. Again, it’s got more than a sniff of Eno’s adventures in ambient music that were happening around this time, with Discreet Music predating this by a couple of years. It’s really lovely stuff that sweeps and drifts along with evolving synth pads that shimmer in and out of focus. There are some really tasty pieces of saturation and rumbling or discordant tones that seep in here and there, giving it great depth and the Koto gives it a focal point that pulls attention while the underlying musical bed does its job. Love it. Neuköln - This is more cool soundscaping stuff. It feels a little less connected and coherent than the last couple of tracks, but there’s still some really good stuff in here. It does drift a little into self indulgence with the sax parts by the end though, starting to feel a bit like Bowie’s trying a bit too hard to be quirky without it necessarily serving the song completely. The Secret Life Of Arabia - There’s a good groove to this. It definitely references back to some of the more funk and soul influenced stuff that Bowie was working with a few years before, but there’s a layer of synth and guitar work over it that helps it to blend in more tonally with the rest of this album. There are some decent hooks in here and the underlying pulse is engaging, with the piano and guitar work adding a nice swing to the rhythm. This one kind of comes out of nowhere after the rest of this side of the record, but it’s definitely got something about it.

I was going to rate this one as "okay", because the first couple songs are not my favorite Bowie. But then it got weird (complimentary).

Para la época en la que salió (e incluso ahora), es un álbum muy transgresor. Resulta ser un soplo de aire fresco después de tantos álbumes de rock de los 70.

outstanding variety and exmperimenting

Awal-awal aneh rasanya. Cuman di akhir mulai paham kalau ini sinematik. Tapi, masih merasa kalau beberapa lagu didn't stuck on me. Land, but not stuck

It's Bowie so there's a good chance that I'm gonna like the album. Listening to Heroes takes me back to when I first heard it as a 10 year old and totally misunderstood it. I'm not as sold on the instrumentals but still a really good album

Thought it was the version of heroes sung by Peter Gabriel and I was aboutta sob

*listened before the project* Nothing else to this classic one

Definitely one of Bowie's better albums

A strong 8 to light 9

art rock a la vena, experimental vocal y musicalmente pero nada muy fuera de lo común como para no disfrutarlo. "Berlinesque", clarísimo mi real Robert Fripp en todas las pistas. Que rico sonido. Las canciones instrumentales como "Sense of Doubt" y "Moss Garden" generan una atmósfera única.

Album étrange parce que très irrégulier. La face A avec les chansons de Bowie pas vraiment inspiré - excepté la chanson éponyme qui est probablement l'une des meilleures de tous les temps - et la face B avec du Eno pur et simple. Peut-être est-ce une métaphore du Berlin de l'époque, des deux côtés du mur ? C'est au final cette deuxième partie qui se révèle la plus intéressante, avec une ambiance qui donne vraiment une sensation de Guerre Froide. On se retrouve donc à subir le début, apprécier Heroes, attendre ensuite, profiter d'une partie instrumentale intéressante, puis une dernière chanson sans rapport et c'est fini. Malgré tout on y revient par curiosité, et en ajoutant à ça tout le lore de l'enregistrement - les œufs crus gobés par Bowie et les bouillons d'ail d'Eno, avec le passage éclair de Fripp qui tournait avec PG et qui enregistre toutes ses parties en un après-midi en impro - on est quand même sur une œuvre complète. Un 3,5 qui bénéficiera donc ici d'un arrondi supérieur, parce que Berlin, Fripp et Eno, et parce que "Heroes" évidemment.

Overall Rating - 3.75/5 (7.50/10). This is very definitely David Bowie in the late 70s. Good, other than Heroes, which is one of the best David Bowie songs of all time.

Album #69, David Bowie, Heroes, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ I don’t love this album or hold it in the same kind of reverence that a lot of Bowie fans seem to. With the Berlin trilogy, and especially here, it feels like Bowie is more interested in the sonics and soundscapes than the actual songs. It’s quite a messy album to me. There’s a lot going on, and while I know the recording process was spontaneous and experimental, it feels unfocused. But, that’s probably the point! That said, I do like it. It’s a four. I just don’t think it’s one of the best albums ever made, or even one of the best of the 70s. The positives are that some of the songs are very good. Not all of them, but a few really stand out. Obviously Heroes itself is incredible. Not just one of the best Bowie songs, but one of the greatest songs ever recorded. It’s such a huge track that it kind of dwarfs everything else on the album, and almost does the rest of it a disservice. I also think the tracklisting is a bit off. I feel like Heroes should have opened the album. If it did, everything after might have benefited from that momentum. As it is, Joe the Lion and Beauty and the Beast feel a bit lost with Heroes sitting third. From Heroes onwards, I actually think the album improves. Sons of the Silent Age is great, and V-2 Schneider is a really fun, quirky track. Then it moves into the ambient side of things. I’m not a big ambient music fan in general. I do like Brian Eno, but more for his earlier, vocal-led work and Roxy Music rather than the ambient stuff. So the second half doesn’t do much for me. Moss Garden is lovely, but Sense of Doubt feels very basic, not in a good minimalist way, just not that interesting to listen to now. Maybe it was more impressive at the time, but it doesn’t really land for me. I feel like I’ve been quite negative, but I do still think it’s a four. It’s still Bowie. His voice is amazing, the ideas can be strong, and you’ve got Robert Fripp doing really inventive things on guitar. I just wish the songs were a bit stronger overall. It’s an album that could do with a few more hooks. I actually think I prefer Lodger to this, and definitely Low. And I’d take albums like Station to Station, Ziggy Stardust, and Blackstar over the Berlin trilogy. In fact, my favourite album of the “Berlin trilogy” is The Idiot by Iggy Pop. That might be a bit sacrilegious, but that’s just where I land on it. Still a four, just a light one.

Really nice album, with one half of pop songs and one half really good instrumental. Nice improvised vibe to it, makes it feel free. Well done Bowie love.

I'm 637 albums in and listened to 6 Bowie albums but I finally have a 4 star album for him. I still have to listen to Ziggy Stardust, The Next Day, and Hunky Dory but the first 5 were all 2 and 3 stars. I would legit listen to this one again. The guitar parts were sharp, Beauty and the Beast was a banger, and the title track was really good, too. Even the weird, ethereal instrumental portion was relaxing instead of annoying. Favorite song: Heroes As I side note, I still want to say it pisses me off that his second S/T album and The Man Who Sold The World got left off this list because I would enjoy those too.

Marcianada de Bowie con impresionante sonido para el año en el que se produjo.

Not sure how it why I slept on Bowie for so long. Maybe it's because I knew all the hits, and thought that's all there was to him. I could not have been more wrong, but the second half of this one list me a little. The extended instrumental section was okay, but kind of broke the mood for me. Still, a lot to like here and it has whetted my appetite for more Bowie.

Great except for the antepenultimate and penultimate song.

luv u david - this was pretty but not a fave x

2026.04.21.

I adore Bowie! this album in specific is so banger

Liked a lot, like Bowie a lot

Pretty good! Solid '70s Bowie.

Love the bass lines, esp beginning of blackout and v-2 Heroes makes me feel emotional Sense of doubt, love this intro, predator sounds, felt longer than 4 mins…., oh shit that was three songs, I’ve been bamboozled. 3.5/5 easy listen, good basslines, heroes is a great single.

Enjoyed this a lot, felt it was really fun to go into work mode while listening and easy to focus to. Love the sound and voice on the album. I do think it starts really strong and kind of goes out on a whisper, but sometimes that is by design. 3.5 rounded up.

Simplemente bowie

3.5 - not patriculary my vibe but there some bangers here

I am somewhat puzzled by this album's near-universal acclaim at times, as it's by no means perfect; its low spots are quite good, but they are still low spots that bring down consistency. Nonetheless, it has some absolute classics in Heroes and The Secret Life of Arabia, and the two out of three ambient tracks this has were quite impressive.

fun album, but enough songs I didn't like to remove 1 star rating. I loved the experimental ending, akin to some flink poyd

Side 1 is a 5. Side 2 is a 2 or 3. So it shall land at a 4. I never realized how much influence Josh Homme from Queens Of The Stone Age takes from Bowie when really it's so obvious. On Sons of the Silent Age, especially. I'm in love with the croony, slapback reverby vocals on this record and I can really hear where Josh finds inspiration

Heros is a seminal song. Like rump shaking, defiant anthem representing a mentality and mood that makes my heart soar. Pure ecstasy. However, I like his voice and lyrics, and the litany of rock instrumentals makes me just wish his funky fresh lyricism was there. Keeps it from a 5

I preferred earlier David Bowie music.

Un autre que je suis persuadé d’avoir déjà eu, je me trompe sans doute avec The Next Day vu qu’ils ont le même cover. Bref, un autre super Bowie d’album, Beauty and the Beast et Hero sont dans mon top 5 de ses meilleurs tracks. L’album se gâte dans la partie plus expérimentale (qui l’eusse cru??!) du side B, mais se reprend dernières minutes avec The Secret Life of Arabia, super closer. Je recommande malgré tout

Incredible album, and this was my first listen through since moving to Berlin - it takes on a whole new meaning.

Heroes / The Secret Life of Arabia.

Classic Bowie. Moss Garden is such a trip.

Has some really amazing songs. Not quite the best bowie through, but solid.

Incredible. Absolutely genius. First of all, beauty and the beast, what a start, made me want to break out in a dance. Heroes. My all time favorite song, and I would venture to say one of the best-if not the best-songs ever made. It makes me feel so many feelings and it’s just incredible. Then we have these three eerie, ethereal, even a little haunting tracks-sense of doubt, moss garden, neuköln. Absolutely love the transitions into the songs and the mood they bring. Moss garden is my favorite of the three so far, it sounds like it sparkles to me.

What a strange but fun album. Didn't really feel much about the first two songs, but the title track pulled me right back in and I was hooked from there. Things then got very weird and experimental at V-2 Schneider and I continued to dig it. Sense of Doubt was mesmerizing and then I enjoyed how we ended it on a more traditional musical sound with Secret Life of Arabia. Good stuff all in all for an album I apparently didn't know a single track on.

Ok. Me gusto. Muy bueno, muy experimental, me gusta lo distinto q siena bien. No me MATO, pero si me genero ese “que es estooo?” Positivo

El segundo disco de la Trilogía de Berlín sigue en la misma senda marcada en los trabajos anteriores de vanguardia y experimentación, aunque la inspiración melódica en algunos momentos no termina de encajar. Apoyándose en Robert Fripp (King Crimson) y Eno publica un disco mítico, que precisamente por ello me hacía esperar mucho más. Prefiero Low, o la etapa Glam, o la final. Ya en Low incluia Always Crashing In The Same Car antecedente de Heroes. V-2 Schneider lo usaron Queen para su Radio Ga-ga. Neuköln anticipa a Disidenten, al margen de otros pioneros de sonidos sintetizados y world music.

I see this was the second in the Berlin trilogy, I don't think this was as good as "Low" for me. Heroes is a good track. Again, got the more classic sounding Bowie, followed by the more ambient Eno stuff towards the end. I'm going to come back to this but 3.5 for now

I definitely didn’t expect an ambient instrumental last half of the album and it was a welcome surprise. Definitely catchy songs, interesting instrumentals. A great rock album

Really good. Like really good. Second side especially. But only four cos a couple of tracks on the first side don't quite do it.

(5/7) i'm not sure where this lies in his chronology but I assume it's after he was famous enough he could get away with weird stuff

was so happy to get this one yay! half way through though i was like wait did it go onto a different album bc it was just instrumental and i was so confused. no i didnt! it was the same one. fun. i apparently had not already listened to a lot of bowie bc i only knew heroes off this album :)

What a joy. I should have known it was more like Low than the title song suggests.

Strano, non mi aspettavo un album strumentale per metà

Yes, bitch! I have been blessed this day. Super začetek z "Beauty and the Beast". Pa nadaljevanje z "Joe the Lion". Sam pol, pol pa en mojih najljubših komadov ever, "Heroes". "V-2 Schneider" je kr amazing. "Sense of Doubt" pa uspe evokat točno to. Plus, dread. Potem bl optimističen in pomirjajoč vajb z "Moss Garden" (spet, as the name would imply) in pa "Neuköln", k z zanimivim saksofonom (?) zaključi the purely vibes & nič vokalov del albuma. Ful je ambientalen ta del albuma in verjetn novega poslušalca kr preseneti. Je pa pol tazadn komad "normaln" Bowie spet. Not my fave album, ampak I still love it.

Rating: 7.5/10 The ambient tracks bring it down a bit, still a very good album.

I loved it cause it have a lovely vibe and a pretty enjoyable style.

If you told me that David Bowie collaborated on an album with Brian Eno , while channelling influence from his roommate Iggy Pop I wouldn't know what to expect but it makes total sense that's what this album is. I think heroes is one of Bowie's best singles, it captures the dark and the more pop oriented Bowie in one track. The only real critique to this I have is that it doesn't really feel coherent as an album. Maybe listening to this on vinyl with an a and b side it might make more sense but it sort of feels like two different albums in one to me.

Really underappreciated Bowie album

Portrait of the artist as a young human.

I can’t believe I’m giving a Bowie album 4 stars.

More of a high three than a full 4 stars. Heroes is a classic and the ambient songs of the second half are interesting.

In contrast to other reviewers, I prefer the 2nd half of this album. If the whole thing was new wave pop I’d absolutely question this albums place on the list. But the back half saves this album. There are however far too many Bowie albums on this list overall. As I approach my finishing my first 100 albums, I keep coming back to the thought this list really could have been called “500 albums you must hear before you die.”

The first half is a pretty radical departure from what he had just done on Low, but boy does it work. Favorite track: Heroes

This is an album that takes multiple listens to really open up. It’s a good Bowie album, which means by any wider measure it has to be a 4

i liked it, and i like david bowie

A classic album. I love Bowie and this is an incredible album.

had never really found My Bowie Record - a song here and there, sure, a few listens through Ziggy and Low after he died 10 years ago, but i've never been a proper fan. this thing, though, is just wonderful - title track obviously great but its precedent jam, Joe the Lion, an uptempo freakout about suicidal depression, is even more my speed. all of side a calls to mind the same face of the Walker Brothers' Nite Flights, another gated-drum and funky-bassline chronicle of life under fascism (although Scott and company allow themselves to get a little more pointedly political). unlike side b of that record though, which is Some Bullshit, the second half of "Heroes" is analog-synth brutalist-chic goodness, gorgeous crunchy greyscale ambient, the perfect soundtrack to finding a cold and ugly place very beautiful. and then there's the last track, which is, in tribute perhaps to Nite Flights, also some bullshit. down a star for that one, Dave

Nice follow up to Low with more on an edge to finish the Berlin albums. Heroes still a great sounding album today.

Sons of the Silent Age and Heroes are two of my favorite Bowie songs. This album is fantastic but it loses me on the avant garde Eno bits.

Favorite Track: “Heroes”

Tiene sus altibajos. Me gusta la transición entre lo instrumental, el exitazo de Heroes y sus temas menos conocidos. Pero, la secuencia entre un tema y otro es un poco confusa. No pareciera tener una relación narrativa entre tema y otro. Aunque eso no le quita mérito. Es un buen disco con temas memorable y temas entretenidos.

This is an interesting listen. The title track sticks out to me as by FAR the best pop song. I really like the experimental / ambient stuff on Side B. Songs like "Joe the Lion" and "Beauty and the Beast" leave me wondering what he's on about. I would probably appreciate these songs more if I knew, but I'm not intrigued enough to find out more. "Sons of the Silent Age" by comparison has a similar mystique, but I actually want to know more about it. I mean, what a legend. Guitars getting pretty noodly, like Low and Lodger, which in the past has been sorta off-putting for me but I found myself appreciating the guitar tones on these listens.

J'aime bien ça devient hyper bizarre en plein milieu vraie ambiance quand tu pete un cable sur un pdf hideux

My most slept on Bowie album. Obviously "Heroes" is perfection, but there are plenty of other great songs here as well. A great addition to David Bowie's legendary album run of the 70s. Favorite track: Heroes

Bowie can do little wrong in my eyes. However, I’ve often found the first half of this album to be a little goofy. It’s filled with pop songs covering slightly childish themes and doesn’t quite land for me. The second half is a different story, weird industrial synths conjure up a dark post apocalyptic city scape, its brilliant!

One of Bowies best songs - and a largely great, albeit slightly inferior set up to Low

I've seen this album cover, but I've never actually listened to the album until now. Everything on this album from Bowie is relatively un-remarkable. Good, just not remarkable. The three Brian Eno tracks are phenomenal though. I actually thought to myself "Hmm... these sound like Brian Eno." Before googling it lmao. Anyways tracks 7-9 could be their own EP, and I'd be happy.

Didn’t listen to them all but loved heroes

Heroes itself is too good of a song. I don't love the experimental turn he takes at the back half but the front half is just an absolute master class.

Bowie was never complacent. He would often explore new territories and personas with each album.

I'm biased toward this album because of The Perks of Being a Wallflower, but it's also just good!

No me esperaba que el final del álbum fuera así! Nunca decepciona

3'5

V good, Berlin Bowie is the best Bowie. Not quite as good as Low though.

Great album, the ambience bit was a nice touch. Maybe I wouldn't be in the mood for this album some days but today I am

The best Bowie album so far but draws on towards the end

Primer album que escucho de Bowie, Heroes es una cancion muyyy bonita, la cancion Sense of Doubt me encanta y es toda una experiencia escucharlas

-David Bowie gets it -I am imagining the guy from labyrinth singing all of these and it’s awesome -idk what he is talking about, but it’s real -the songs in the middle without lyrics are so nice -the flow of the songs throughout the album is super cool, but I wish the last song also didn’t have lyrics

Bowie's music is often considered as the perfection of art rock. It's singable, danceable, but there's more underneath it all that is prog rock to some. I think he mastered this approach on "Heroes" which is, no doubt, one of his best albums. Especially the title track and the contributions of the greatest guitarist of all time, Mr. Robert Fripp, is marvellous. Interestingly enough though, the second, more experimental half is something people don't associate that much with Bowie anymore. It's there though and sometimes it's hard to make sense of it. It's great, but not perfect and hence I can only give it 4 stars.

Not my favorite Bowie, but pretty good.

Great Bowie

Album started unexpectedly funky, and then transformed into an experimental soundscape. My mind was wandering, but not unpleasant. Bowie was a genius, and I like his voice most in this era.

The first of Bowie's Berlin Trilogy and probably his best collaboration with Brian Eno. Has the now huge hit Heroes and some nice instrumental songs. Musically very interesting lyrically minimalistic.

Le début de l'album est très sympa mais pas transcendant. Mais la fin, Moss garden est un chef d'oeuvre

For me I don't think anything else on the album matches the rush of the title track, except for hearing "Moss Garden" and realizing Brian Eno is really about to hit it big on ambient music.

Love Bowie, Heroes is one of my favorite songs of all time. I enjoyed this album overall but could do without Neuköln. I think there are better Bowie albums so this gets a 4 for me.

“My-my Someone fetch a priest You can’t say no to The Beauty And The Beast” Few artists can boast a discography that morphs so effortlessly through genres whilst simultaneously pioneering every style they attempt. David Bowie is one such artist and this record feels like the perfect next phase following on from “Low” which precedes “Heroes” by less than a year. The instrumentals here feel much more electronic heavy and there are a couple of instrumental tracks on the back end of the album that wouldn’t have sounded out of place on “Low”. The title track actually stands out not just as the biggest hit from the album but certainly as the most distinct and conventional of all the songs. If you go into the album familiar only with the title track then you will find yourself (hopefully pleasantly) surprised. “Heroes” is just one chapter in a career that defined how pop music sounded for decades. Bowie constantly had his finger on the pulse and this record is a fantastic example of that.

Would listen again, not his best but really solid

top5 bowie 4.5

with an open heart and an open mind this nearly got a 5. the attitude adjustment is ongoing.

I like most of David Bowie's music but I hadn't heard most of this before, Heroes being the only song I actually new. I enjoyed listening to this whilst studying, some good typical Bowie songs with enjoyable instrumental pieces at the end which may have been some of my favourite songs of the album. Not a five star album as it doesn't compare to Ziggy Stardust but still very good. 77/100

A good one. Nice to have on in the background, but I don't think this is Bowie's best work. Personally not a fan of some of the instrumental stuff, found it a bit meaningless and jarring at times.

Wow, I'm only 18 albums into my 1001 Albums journey and I've already heard two Bowie albums. That being said, I enjoyed heroes much, much more than I did with Aladdin Sane. It feels much more coherent and emotional, and of course has one of Bowie's greatest hits, "Heroes". The first three songs were really amazing, and while I do feel like it fell off for a little bit, I also really enjoyed the ambient portion of the album with "Sense of Doubt", "Moss Garden", and "Neuköln". That part was really interesting, and I honestly would like to hear more of that kind of music from them. Favorite Song: "Heroes"

214/1001 David Bowie 'Heroes 1977 As punk morphed into post-punk, Bowie was just doing his thing, creating his own genres. it's on my shelves. Heard before ✅️ Listened this time ✅️ Revisit ✅️ Timeless ★★★★☆ (8/10) Total reviewed : 214 Already owned : 49 Purchased : 10 To buy list : 4 Nope : 151

Klasse. Heroes er en 10/10 sang, og resten er også ganske bra (med noen unntak). Men det er dessverre ikke jevnt godt nok til å rettferdiggjøre 5 stjerner.

Yes, Bowie has too many albums on this list, but since I'm here, I might as well enjoy a day free of all the country, jazz, and 15-minute progressive tracks we've had to endure lately. Overall, this is a good album, with the B-side being notably stronger than the A-side. It reminds me of 'Low', which is probably his best album. As before, comparing Bowie to most other things would be unfair (he'd win nearly every time), so if I compare this to only his other works, it lands around a 4.45 - brought down only slightly by the somewhat mediocre non-singles on the front half and that dreadful sax on 'Neuköln' (what can I say, harmonica and sax are like salt and pepper to me: a dash can make the dish, but any more than that, and I'm ordering take out).

This one certainly got me through some rough times.

There's the title track, obviously, which nobody and nothing will ever be able to touch. Besides that, the first half is a bit of a mixed bag for me. It starts to get really interesting and rewarding from V-2 Schneider onwards, though.

This album got better and better as it went along. Most of the songs moved into the next seamlessly.

3.5/5. Essential for Bowie fans but maybe not for this list. If you are going to listen to one album from this era of his I would recommend Low. Outside of Heroes the vocal tracks here do sound a bit dated, unlike on Low.

Has one of the greatest songs OF ALL TIME, and he’s filled the rest of the album with instrumentals. Honestly I fuck with it

4.5

A bit of a one-hit wonder album, but as a full listen it works incredibly well. The songs flow into each other well, a chunk just instrumental, so it's easy to put on and just listen through. You can sense the influence on the 80's New Romantic genre.

Pretty good, "Heros" is a fantastic song obviously, and I really appriciated the ambient/instrumental songs too. I do wonder if this wasnt David Bowie would I like it as much, if the name itself makes me give it more of a chance then it would otherwise. I guess we'll neva know.

This is such a great era for Bowie. The title track obviously hits hard. The sound he achieves on this record is so weird.. sterile yet soulful. A great time.

For some reason the atmospheric tracks don’t quite hit me as hard as they should. Still it’s Bowie, so it beats most things. Low 4/5

Heroes is one of the most naturally expressive LPs of Bowie’s career. It has a misleading title track as it is in no way an album of anthemic hits. In fact, a couple of instrumentals make this an unexpectedly calm, even meditative experience at points. At other points it's the most Bowie has ever sounded like Bowie - have the idiosyncratic elements of his voice ever been more distilled and than on Sons of a Silent Age?

David Bowie is such an enigma to me, and this album highlights exactly why. The first six tracks are flawless. They feature his vocals and mysterious lyrics; spectacular instrument work showcasing influences from pop, rock, industrial, and jazz. A little bit of interstellar rock ala Ziggy Stardust shows up from the spaceman. They’re genuine bops! Then Sense of Doubt starts, and shit gets weird. David was a true artist, and with that comes him making some artistic music, frequently leaning into the avant- garde. It is just not thematically connected to the first half of the album. It begins invoking emotion and settings without lyrics, and, frankly, it’s jarring. I’m enjoying a boppy album from a brilliant musician, and suddenly I’m listening to the emotions of a man staring out a rainy window. I am not knocking the talent at all because I definitely felt what he wanted me to (or, at least, I felt something which is all any artist can ask of an audience). But the complete 180 in tone hurt my overall enjoyment. Then again, this album is from a time period when b-sides were still a thing, so there’s every chance that this was where the b-side started, and it just doesn’t translate to the streaming era.

Still not quite as good as Low

First Side: Eno + Bowie + Heroes (maybe his best song)= A fun listen that feels great and maybe a bit to much like Talking Heads. Not Bowie's best album but a fun one none the less and with Heroes on it...how can it be anything less than 4. 2nd Side- Ummmmmmm

bowie was the man

Die Instrumentalen Lieder fand ich gut gelungen.

Overall rating by me: 8/10 Songs added to the playlist: ,,Beauty and the Beast”, ,,Joe the Lion”, ,,V-2 Schneider” Notes: Bowie’s genius truly does transcend above and beyond. Normal songs, as well as the pure instrumentals in this album are fantastic - very lively and fun; so much so that you can actually feel his soul in his music.

gut

Heroes is the 2nd album of David Bowie's Berlin trilogy, with Brian Eno and Robert Fripp in the studio. Lots of experimentation ahead of its time, as one would expect from these artists. The title track is a poignant love song about a couple separated by the Wall, recently featured in the finale of Stranger Things.

Moss Garden and Neukoln are ambient experimental cinematic pieces that take you to another place, kind of an unexpected shift to then transition into the catchy The Secret Life of Arabia, my favorite song in the album I think

As a Bowie fan of pretty much all of his work, especially including his maligned later stuff, ive never been massively attracted to Heroes as an album. Some of the tracks are just weak and not the best Eno collab in that Trilogy. A strong 4 slightly let down by too much cocaine

Least favorite of the Berlin trilogy

--Beauty and the Beast...my kind of weird. my kind of funky --Joe the Lion...a little insane but my kind of insane (I'll stop now) --"Heroes"...Bowie really goes for it here. falls just short of a true classic for me. probably hits harder if you grew up in Europe during the Cold War --Sons of the Silent Age...retrofuturism? --Blackout...Bowie always knew how to bring the funk --V-2 Schneider...a funky and fun instrumental --Sense of Doubt...foreboding piano with synthetic trumpet chords(?). interesting dynamic --Moss Garden...is that a koto? --Neukoln...Wir lieben es, deutsche Angst. or something --The Secret Life of Arabia...While I appreciate Bowie's ambient diversions, I really appreciate that he delivers an actual song to close this one out. love the handclaps. great bass once again

Not a huge fan of Bowie, but this,album surprised me with its variety. It seemed to improve after the Heroes track. . I like the Asian theme and I strumentals

Was great until that weird trip in the middle but gained a lot of songs for my usual listening from this

Really cool

Good and fun

classic, didn’t like the two instrumental (?) songs

Classic Bowie Ahead of his time

David Bowie is named David Bowie.

I enjoyed it pretty well

moss garden was so beautiful

I really liked the second side in particular.

4.5/5. Worth it for the title track alone which is one of the greatest songs of all time. When he starts screaming in the second half of the song, it just hits every time. The rest of the album is mostly great too. You get the rocking first half and the more ambient spacey back half similar to Low. The only thing really keeping this album from a 5/5 is that its just not my favorite Bowie record, I'm more partial to Low and Station to Station.

I liked this, but not as much as Ziggy Stardust.

HELL YES ITS BOWIE TIME. I do prefer Low over this for the berlin trilogy, but damn I do really like a lot of this album. There are no less than 9 Bowie albums on this list and this is one of my least favorites despite having the incredible Heroes, the wild Beauty and the Beast, Robert Fripp and Brian Eno collaborating. That's not a dig against the album, but the quality of Bowie's work in my eyes. Overall it's great, but I think most David Bowie albums are. Its funny that Heroes is such an anomoly on this album compared to every other song. The issue is, I know Bowie can do better then this. It feels lacking in the consistency of other albums as well as the high highs (with exception to Heroes and maybe Blackout). So take this as a very high 4.

This was great! Some fantastic tracks and I loved just floating away into the instrumentals as well.

• first song was really good !! • pretty lit ngl

Potentiell 5

its pg

DAVID BOWIE OH MY GOD😻😻

😍😍

really good songs, classic - i didn't really like the instrumentals though -> 8/10. really loved this album and felt really nostalgic. heroes, very popular for a reason, is by far the best song on the album.

Genius

A really good album, I liked Heroes and V-2 Schneider the most.

4/5 stars

Not Bowie’s best album but still a great album on it own, has the iconic Bowie sound with a mix of Glam, psychedelic Rock and a tiny bit of funk. 7/10

Experimental, avant-garde, aromatic.

My favorite from the Berlin Trilogy. Favorite tracks: Heroes Joe the Lion Beauty and the Beast Sons of the Silent Age The Secret Life of Arabia

Love love looooove Bowie, what a classic !

I find this record a little disappointing. Bowie's got Eno and Fripp with him - but if you think about what those two were up to in the early 70s (No Pussyfooting), and what Bowie's albums earlier in the decade were like, this is a bit anticlimactic. It's not even the best of the Berlin trilogy. However, Bowie's voice sounds great here. At its best, the music has a dark New Wave, dystopian pop kinda feel. I enjoy the instrumental/ambient tracks, even if that's not what I look for from a David Bowie album. The title track is an absolute classic. Overall, this is a solid album, but it doesn't quite match up to my favourite Bowie (or Eno) records. 4*

I love how this album just completely veers off into ambient sound in the second half, overall really nice album

Bowie has been on my list for a while and this project has gotten me through multiple albums at this point and I've come to the conclusion that I enjoy Bowie, but love Bowie/Eno. Favorite Song: Blackout

really good album, love the instrumental songs

Not what I expected, visionary

I was just talking about Bowie on my previous album review and here we are. I actually mention Bowie a lot, most likely when I’m listening to a British 80’s band. This album is more like it in what I’ve been looking for from Bowie. He just seems to fill his albums with weird, not even b side friendly music. Right up until his last album. I just don’t get the waste of time. I am only 2 songs in but I have a good feeling about this album. I predict it will be up there with Space Oddity. I’m lost on Moss Garden. I thought I was in a Chinese buffet for a second. And the song after that? Forget that one too. Like a made for tv soft core porn soundtrack. That’s too bad those 2 songs are on this album. That loses the 5 star vote for me. Choice cut: Heroes

Den ambienta sidan av albumet är fantatisk. Heroes är en av hans absolut bästa låtar. Men de andra låtarna på sidan A håller inte. De är sådana där Bowie-utfyllnadslåtar, som han spelar in när han har skrivkramp. Tyvärr. Det blir en fyra ändå, för Bowie lixom, och för Heroes.

★★★★☆ (4/5) Heroes is David Bowie at his most stark, experimental, and emotionally distant—and that’s largely its strength. Side one delivers some of his most enduring work, balancing icy European art-rock with flashes of raw humanity. The title track remains monumental: restrained, obsessive, and quietly defiant rather than triumphant in a conventional sense. The surrounding songs feel angular and anxious, perfectly capturing a sense of alienation and urban tension. Side two is more challenging. The instrumental pieces are atmospheric and conceptually interesting, but they can feel austere and emotionally remote, especially compared to Bowie’s more immediately rewarding albums. Still, they reinforce the album’s identity as a product of a specific place and moment. Heroes may not be Bowie’s most accessible record, but it’s one of his most coherent and influential—an album that rewards mood, patience, and context. Not flawless, but undeniably essential.

The A side is probably a 5 but the ambient ones on this one were a bit spooky! Listened to this album twice and the B side never got better

8/10

One of Bowie’s best, although a step behind Low from the Berlin albums.

Good, a lot of long instrumental songs, love heroes

Fun production, doesn't get me going like some of his other work. Really love the direction of the back half. Fav tracks: "Heroes" RYM: Y (#186) Saved a song: N

I have a weird relationship with David Bowie, not exactly love/ hate but more really like/ not really like. Yup, he was massively experimental, and yes, that would mean I could not love everything he did. On the other hand, not only does this album have some of his all time biggest hits, it also ends with some jazzy gems I had never heard and are amaze! Yet, as my whole relationship with his music is, some of the other stuff was.. kind of "I wish this would end for the next song." So it is really hard for me to rate him. This album IS worth listening to, as is ALL of David Bowie's catalog. I think I will slightly overrate my own feelings here just for that reason alone.

I think I preferred Low, but this was still a great listen. Title track was my fave. The second half was cool but I kind of lost interest after a bit. This seems like one you need to listen to a few times.

This isn't my personal taste, but it is certainly ambitious and well crafted.

This is brilliant but Nuekoln fucking sucks. I get that it is artistic, but it doesnt fit the rest of the songs and its a chore. You cant go from that to a disco number like The Secret Life. Chalk and cheese Great though

Can David Bowie sing? Yes Is this album produced well? Yes Is this album experimental ah? Yes

David Bowie deserved all the accolades and recognition he received. He was a master at so many musical styles, and this album is a great example.

Berlin pt3. Turns out milk and cocaine makes you pretty productive

An iconic and magnificent album, but one that I never quite got into. Against the backdrop of the film adaptation of Christiane F., Ir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo, some of the tracks were part of my constant playlist during my youth. I still can't get into a few of the other tracks. 4/5

Quelques bangers, moins fan de Heroes que ce que je pensais alors que c sa chanson connue ?? Mais genre beauty and the beast j’ai eu envie de danser à 6h50 c pour dire Franchement sympa ! Quelques bangers que j’écouterais

I liked it, although I think I need to listen again completely.

Heroes is an iconic song, and honestly, the instrumental side of this album is also really good. I generally need to be in a mood for instrumental music, and I'm not really feeling it today, but it's good enough to recognize that I would enjoy it, if I were looking for that kind of music. Even if the instrumental tracks aren't for you, the rest of this album is really good. I think this might be my favorite Bowie album? But I think I need to re-listen to Low before deciding that. Favorite Song(s): Heroes

Already knew it, liked it

el final es bastante random solo instrumental lol, HEROES ES PERFECTA ME ENCANTA

Love bowie

The second album in the Berlin trilogy is a gem. Lyrics written basically on the spot, Eno, Visconti, Fripp......I mean come on! You are missed, David.

0 songs added to my favorites. Not my style.

I would qualify myself as a fan of Bowie, the Berlin experience was an interesting exploration and this is a fine record, if you come in thinking an album around the lines of the single then I guess you might be a little disappointed by time you get on side 2 . 4.5 Stars

Fantastic album, my second favorite from the berlin trilogy

Love the change in mood on the second half. Loads of different styles and influences on this one.

Początek albumu wbija w fotel. Jest funky, taneczny, pełny chęci do życia jednak w drugiej części albumu momentalnie zmienia się nastrój na ambientową podróż po przestrzeni kosmosu. Nie wiem nie wiem czy mi się to podobało. Pragnąłem więcej tej radości z początku słuchania ale dzięki temu każdy utwór słuchałem z uwaznoscią bo nie widziałem kiedy znów zostanę zaskoczony!

One of Bowies greatest...creative sound, ahead of his time

Tittelsporet skiller seg klart ut som det sterkeste. Veldig svak fôr instrumental låtene.

love bowie, not my favourite album, but still appreciate his work

I think this is my last David Bowie album on this list. 300 more albums and none of them by David Bowie. I do have a better appreciation for Bowie after listening to all of these albums and I wonder sometimes if I properly rated the albums, because I think it takes some repeated listens to "get" the album. I am a fan of an artist putting out music and not becoming overly concerned with the idea of the music being "perfect." I do have exceptions though, and I promise that I do not hate instrumentals, but when half of the album is an instrumental then maybe you should find some words to put to that music before you release it. This is the second album from Bowie's "Berlin" trilogy that has a second half with primarily instrumental tracks. They are not bad by any stretch of the imagination, but I find it difficult to rate an album by an artist not known for instrumentals as a "5" when half the run time has no lyrics. My favorite songs were: Beauty and the Beast Heroes Sons of the Silent Age V-2 Schneider

We Could Be Heroes 1001 Albums Generator 181 (12/11/2025) Recorded around the same time as my favorite Bowie album, Low, and it shares some features with that album. There is kind of generally a split between a first half of all art rock tunes and a second half of ambient. But unlike its predecessor, Heroes does not split the album as cleanly down the middle. Let's start with the rock songs. They are pretty much perfect. The opener Beauty and the Beast is quintessential Bowie, featuring weird electronic elements and soaring female backing vocals, while also being kind of glammy at its core. The title track is of course one of the most iconic songs ever. Some may say it predicted shoegaze almost two decades before it came around, but whichever side of that argument you fall on, there is no denying its status as an all-timer. Joe The Lion and Blackout are two of the strangest Bowie songs I've heard, both featuring some punky elements while also being experimental. V-2 Schneider transitions us into the ambient half of the album by serving as a rock song that nonetheless has ambient influences in it. Bowie's sax work here is kind of strange, but still catchy. Then we get to the weakest part of the album. The three-track mini-suite starting with Sense Of Doubt is just not not very memorable. Moss Garden is kind of interesting with its Asian flares, but there's not much else here. Luckily, the album ends with one of its best tracks in the funky The Secret Life Of Arabia. Overall, not as monumental as his previous effort, Heroes still earns its spot in the top part of Bowie's discography. 4/5. Favs: Beauty And The Beast Heroes The Secret Life Of Arabia Least Fav: Sense of Doubt

Weird and wonderful

Album molto bello, soprattutto la prima metà. Grande opening track e poi vabbè "Heroes" vale tutto l'album. La seconda metà un po' più sperimentale ma in quel periodo Bowie era un po' crazy.

nice vibe, already knew some songs. Would listen again for a chill day were I'm baking or wanting to relax.

The back half of this album goes crazy.

Super cool too cool for me

уже не первый раз замечаю что у чела вторая часть альбома преимущественно интрументальная, необычно...

Farligt nära en femma... Bowie + Eno + Fripp (!) = 🤯🫠🤩🤤

Inte alla som vet det men jag är ju Bowies största fan….sch. Min topplista: 1. Bowie 2. Morbror Ågren 3. Bob 4. Steely Dan 5. 6. Pål Simon och Alpha Pet. Okej, pranks åsido - Fan vad bra han är. Tycker jag. Förstår aldrig ens vad det är som är bra. Jag borde liksom inte gilla det men jag älskar det ju.

rivigt och elektriskt! jag äälskaaar honom

De fyra album som i min bok räknas som Berlintrilogin ligger mig mycket, mycket varmt om hjärtat: Low, Heroes, The idiot och Lust for Life. Jag har till och med farit på pilgrimsfärd till Hansa studios bara för att ta reda på om den, och Bowie och Iggys Berlinår verkligen hände. The setting, som man säger i Skottland, har ett mystiskt, dystert romantiskt skimmer över sig. Två geniala knarkare på flykt i en omringad stad, byggd för miljoner människor men som bara huserar ett par hundra tusen. På andra sidan muren: DDR. I hansa studion: Brian Eno. Heroes har kanske den bästa låten av de fyras trilogi. En låt jag inte klarar av att lyssna på för ofta pga den omkullrunkeliga kraft den har över mitt känsloliv. Låter Heroes till trots är albumet Heroes det svagaste albumet av de fyra. Svagt? Nej en stabil fyra.

Easily the weirdest Bowie record of the ones churned out by this book for me so far. The title track slaps hard, and the power with which he belts out some of these vocals is unparalleled. Weird but gold. As always, I hear Bowie so that's an easy 5 waitwhat? 3 tracks, 15+ minutes of Bowieless ambient noise?? The fuck??

Great but not the best

Oh, cool. I wonder if we’ll manage my third 5 or if it’ll be a 4 and my friend will hate me for underrating it. — Okay, so it turns out that my girlfriend also adores this album and considers it an all time favorite. Great. No pressure. Look, here’s what we’re gonna do. It’s 9:17 pm the next day (pun on a later Bowie album title with a cover that referenced “Heroes” actually somehow unintended) and I still don’t know what to do with this. I want to be discerning with my fives, and this hasn’t earned it for me yet, but I can tell there’s so much more to explore. If this review still looks like this, it means I’m still listening to and considering Heroes and will eventually give a better review. And possibly 5 stars. Sorry.

Apart from Heroes, not much on the album I knew. Liked the sound, but not really any others I would call absolute bangers.

It’s Bowie. Some great songs here. Overall a 4 out of 5 probably.

Good stuff. Even the second half instrumental stuff.

This album made be a Bowie fan. I liked what he'd done before this, but this album clinched it for me. Perfectly constructed and executed songs on Side 1 and Fripp and Eno's electronics on Side 2 make for a stellar album.

It's not quite perfect, but still a joy to listen to and revisit

This is a great album. It’s like rock that you can dance to on side one, but then takes a totally different path on side two. Side two is almost like an ambient, jazz fusion-y, twisting path. It’s kind of like two albums in one, and I love the duality of it.

I like Bowie’s Berlin trilogy but prefer low to this record. I find this phase of Bowie’s career where he is working with Brian Eno and Robert Fripp to be amping his most interesting. Like the cold industrial sound and use of synths and electronics. Also find it interesting that the album has a vocal side and an instrumental side. Adventurous work from someone who was a massive star at the time

Love the sax track

Not my favorite album of the Berlin 3, but still a special album nonetheless. 4.5/5 for me.

I'm visiting Berlin right now and this album hits differently when you can see Communist era housing out the window. Chills.

First Bowie I quite liked

It's Bowie

3.5/5

One of Bowie's most classic albums. Great listen!

I didn’t realize Heroes was that different than the rest of the album, really liked the ambience of the second half

Right on 3/4 border. Title track was great and mostly instrumental second half (especially contrast between Sense of Doubt and Moss Garden) was good

It’s funny, outside the title track and the opener, this is probably not my favorite Bowie. Even from the Berlin era, I prefer “Low”… But he’s such a visionary and exciting artist that I still enjoy it, even if it’s occasionally too experimental for me.

Magical. Another artist I've always wanted to hear more of. I've heard the track Heroes before, but never the full album. Definitely wasn't expecting the second side of the album, I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Classic album Fave track: Heroes (of course)

At first 5 songs I thought it was some ordinary album. But after 5 it was so good and connected I really liked it.

Je ne vais pas prétendre comprendre quoi que ce soit au Krautrock... peut-être un jour, mais pour l'instant c'est bien opaque. J'aime bien la pièce Heroes que je connaissais avant, et le bout plus expérimental vers la fin de l'album avec Moss Garden et Neuköln. Le reste me parle plus ou moins, mais je pourrais quand même pas donner 3 étoiles à Ziggy/Thin White Duke...

Moins convaincu par celui-ci. Beauty and the Beast et Heroes sont excellentes, mais le stretch de musique ambiante à la fin m’a perdu.

The title track is one of the greatest songs in rock history, but I don’t think I ever gave the album a good listen though. Wow this is some candy wrapped in barbed wire. The rest of the album is not nearly as accessible as the title track. Intentionally obtuse with this sense of claustrophobia and weirdness. Pretty awesome. Is it fun? Is it danceable? Is it off putting? Is it getting on your nerves? Do you just love it? You kinda don’t know. Bowie also has a bunch of distinct voices here, sometimes it’s these chants, other times it’s this weirdo voice, and this make the honest soulful voice that he also uses that much more powerful. Oh yeah and Fripp’s guitar work is incredible. One of my most favorite guitarists of all time. Great album four stars.

Not my favorite Bowie but it's undoubtedly a good album. That said, 9 Bowie albums is egregious.

119/1089 really quite enjoyed this record, in some ways it might even be my favourite of the 3 bowie’s i’ve heard so far (This, The Next Day and Hunky Dory) I really like having instrumental tracks in albums in the same way i love intros and interludes, my one criticism on this front is that having 3 different tracks like this with no vocals back to back was a bit much and made me lose focus a little faves: Beauty and the Beast, Sense of Doubt, Heroes, The Secret Life of Arabia 75/100

Megvolt

I think I liked this more than the last Bowie album this list gave me, but I looked back and I gave that 4 stars, too...

I wasn't familiar with this album before listening yesterday. I need more time with it, and, frankly, I just want my next album today. I listened twice. My initial impression is that the album has two halves. The first has more conventional songs, in David Bowie terms, of course. It was ok. Heroes is a great tune. I keep thinking about a documentary I once saw (on Trash Theory, maybe?) cited the song as a primary influence and touchstone of the New Romantic movement. The second half of the record is quite experimental. It was awesome, bordering the work of Eno, etc. I was impressed by how weird but accessible Bowie was in these tracks. Bowie rocks, but I'm more of a Ziggy Stardust guy myself. Four stars.

For many years, Bowie was a black spot in my musical knowledge. Obviously I knew him and many of his songs, but it wasn't until my 30s that I started through his full discography. My conclusion is that I'm more of a fan of the idea of Bowie than the reality. No doubting his talents and his achievements, but more a large swathe of his music the songs are, gasp, not very interesting. Not very good either. Limited. He seems to have only a couple of gears. I didn't like his Glam work, he uses way too much brass for my tastes, and his vocals are not sweet to my ears. And yet, when he makes something I like it'll be a banger. "Heroes" has a great first half, a weaker second. The instrumentals are not as shite as on other albums, and there's a higher ratio of good over balls. It's one of his albums that I could listen to again, or at least has more than a couple of songs I'd gladly put on many times.

Always thought this was the weakest of the Berlin trilogy despite having arguably the best song of all time on it- now I can see I am probably wrong (although I do remember Lodger being pretty good). The three song ambient run on Side 2 is super underrated.

I enjoyed it!

I did not Know Many of the songs on this album but I liked it a lot.

joethe lion .

Very out there and I love it!