Heroes

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

4.20

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

First vibes is this man look like a skin walker, not that is affects Music making. Pretty cool initially then okay then it picks up again. Completely Acceptable a couple songs like Blackout I'd listen to again.

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!

Definitely thought I’d heard this before - and at the beginning was like yeah, ok, this is p good - but if I have, then I definitely didn’t remember the ambient turn this takes at the end. Very nice, I like it!

i mean... its just like me bait honestly. I do think "heroes" is potentially the best song of all time and its really to cool to me that brian eno... my hero had such direction on this album and the two before it. anyways i sometimes think bowie sucks cuz he was a genre hopper but he had really obscure taste to be honest... making a krautrock album in berlin in the 70s is just like the coolest thing anyone could ever do... and he got to do it with brian eno... come on... my only issue tho is a lot of bowie music is samey to me and i get a lil bored ..

Front-loaded but still great.

David Bowie is really bad, technically at singing. I don't really understand why Bob Dylan is the poster child for classic artists with bad voices. His is at least on key, Bowie is perpetually flat, that's almost his brand. People try to pretend it's just his accent, but you aren't really doing a good Bowie unless you're half a semitone flat on every note. Anyway, it was good.

Starting off strong. 3.5/5

The man himself. I love Bowie. Classics all around. I also really enjoyed the instrumental tracks.

Low better but much better than lodger. I love Heroes the song and also the the instrumental on the backend is v solid.

Always iconic, pushing boundaries, surprising that there was so much instrumental on the album!

Great album, obviously, but its second half was a bit weaker than its first. Favourite song was Sons of the Silent Age, despite Heroes being in the album.

Another banger from bowie

Heroes might not be David Bowie's best work but i still enjoyed it quite a fair bit. This one really finds it's mix between being both a typical rock out album from Bowie and leaning way hard into the art rock style especially with the last 3 songs. For the most part, this album was a really enjoyable ride. The guitars are distinctly as Bowie as i would ever want them to be and all the other elements of this album had that style too. I even enjoyed the more artsy songs on the album even if they were just 4-5 minutes of the same thing. I still think that Bowie has done better but this is still a really good album that is a very worthy addition to his lineup. Best Song: The Secret Life of Arabia Worst Song: Sons of the Silent Age

Not my favourite Bowie-album, but it is still very strong. More disco/synth-influence than I had expected.

This album deserves its place on the list. The title track is overrated, to be frank. "Heroes" was played a bit too much. I enjoyed the instrumental second half, which feels almost like a different record. The second song is a hidden gem. 4 stars for "Heroes".

9/10

8/10 Favourite: Heroes Least Favourite: Sense of Doubt

Nie jestem fanką tych instrumentalnych wstawek, ale całość mi się podoba. Jest odważna, wierna sobie i taka inna od wszystkiego, co wtedy wychodziło. 6.5/10 równane w górę.

Hører det er noe. Kjedelig er det i hvert fall ikke.

Another great Bowie album. A little darker and more industrial than previous Bowie albums. The long instrumental interlude of "Moss Garden" always throws me off a bit, but he more than makes up for it with "Heroes" Highlights: "Heroes" and "Blackout"

Yep, it was alright

This was my first experience listening to a full David Bowie album. I'm familiar with his hits, but didn't really know what to expect from the deep tracks. And man, is it weird in the best possible way. This album goes from Bowie rock (for lack of a better descriptor) and does a 90 degree turn into soundscapes. I thought I was listening to Blade Runner background music. And yet it didn't bother me for some reason. It's weird and out of place, but also not. And then he presumably said, "maybe I'll throw this Secret Life of Arabia track in here at the end just cause." I actually listened to this twice to make sure I did actually enjoy it, and yes, yes I did. 4/5

Not his best but some great songs. Gets a bit weird at end

What a wonderfully weird time

It's probably not Bowie's best album. But it is still great. The title track alone is probably worth 3 stars, and the rest of the album features some great instrumentals and production work from Brian Eno.

Underrated

Ganske bra, spesielt B-siden

Having the song of the same name pretty much guaranteed it 3. Just about enough other stuff I liked to make it a 4

4.5/5

Used to be my overall favorite Bowie album but over time it's slipped to being my least preferred of Bowie's late 70s output. The thing holding this back, if anything actually holds it back, is that V-2 Schneider is a wildly good instrumental track that perfectly synthesized the mood of the album but after its conclusion, the listener sits with some nice, appreciable soundscapes. This isn't so bad but on the whole, the Brian Eno compositions were more consistent and/or abrasive on Low.

Much more avant garde than I was expecting. Lush and full of adventure. I was reading up on this album and didn’t know how much Bowie had an appreciation for and friendship with Syd Barrett, but totally makes sense and I can hear that inspiration here.

Had a lousy start to the day, so it was nice getting something good and moody and evocative. I love his lyrics/vocals on this, and I wish the instrumentals took up less of the run time. It is pretty good ambient music even though that's not my thing. Hard to rate, ultimately a strong four point something. This is a good era but it's sandwiched between Station To Station Bowie and Let's Dance Bowie, which are my two favorite Bowies.

The second installment in David Bowie's Berlin trilogy is definitely worth checking out. 'Heroes', the title track is of course an all time favorite and the rest is at least interesting, with some phenomenal moments all throughout. Heroes is almost as good as Low.

loses a point because it's not Low

Has one of my absolute favorite songs of all time on it but didn’t enjoy the whole album as much as ziggy stardust which is a high high bar. Still a great album

9,2

tinham uns 9 anos que esse não passava por aqui... a ultima vez inclusive eu tenho uma memória fortíssima de ter 18 anos e estar saindo de uma festa na madrugada com a galera... me ofereceram carona num uninho lotado e eu fiquei espremido enquanto a gente dava volta na cidade sem nenhum motivo. era uma noite bonita de outono, e eu tinha acabado de passar uns 30 minutos (que na minha cabeça foram 6h) deitado de cabeça pra baixo num quarto escuro, conversando sobre as dores e belezas de envelhecer, com alguém que depois disso ia se tornar um grande amor. num dado momento a gente tava passando pela praça da liberdade depois de dar uma volta na cidade e heroes começou a tocar no som, a memória que eu tenho é muito feliz! das luzes da cidade, das pessoas vivendo a vida na rua, da sensação de liberdade que eu só fui sentir de verdade uns 2 anos antes porque eu finalmente tinha amigos que compartilhavam gostos, desejos e medos comigo, e eu compartilhava de volta com eles... o ano anterior tinha sido uma desgraça de marca maior e ainda tinha um gosto amargo na minha boca, meu futuro era completamente incerto e a sensação de fracasso tomava conta de mim. mas nessa hora, enquanto tocava heroes e um tanto de coisa passava pela minha cabeça, acho que foi o primeiro momento que eu parei pra perceber que valia viver a vida e que as coisas podiam melhorar. claramente eu nunca esqueci disso e nem acho que dá, mas é isso eu passei o último ano reclamando do bowie, mas esse tem um valor emocional fortissímo pra mim xD (além da própria música heroes né)

é, tem jeito não. me lembra bastante o inicinho da adolescência, na real. 2012/13, vi perks of being a wallflower e li o livro em sequência. foi bom pra me entender enquanto um ser pensante e um adolescente angustiado e chei de noia. também foi bem importante pra entender que rocky horror picture show eh o melhor filme do mundo. mas é, fui lembrar dele depois só em 2016 mesmo. aquela sensação de que nós era tudo infinito e que o futuro, apesar de assustador, tava distante demais e nem importava tanto. enfim bem importante pro meu crescimento como pessoa. DITO ISSO, eu gosto bastante da berlin trilogy dele. dá pra ver o quão o brian eno influenciou e ajudou ele nessa época. só não dou 5 estrelas porque o ambient desse aqui não eh pra todo dia não. mas de resto, eu poderia ouvir esse album pro resto da vida. das coisas mais bonitas que esse véio fez nesse mundão.

Pretty good but not his best by a long way! The song Heroes is a masterpiece however and gets the album an extra star.

Classic album with relaxing vibes. I can find the good quality in production for this album but I didn't feel like it blow my mind.

An excellent album, really a work of art.

nice vibes, warm tones, I will listen again

I prefer Low I think but this album is great. Still think this list has too much David Bowie

There is a song or two that aren't my cup of tea, and that's the only thing that is keeping this from 5 stars.

This is literally Low but like 75% as good. Still a damn good album though. Heroes is probably one of the 50 greatest songs ever made that song makes me emotional every time I hear it.

I did not expect the back half of this album to be mostly ambient-type instrumentals and that did not bode well as the soundtrack to my fatigued commute home

When Bowie is good, he's good. When he's bad, he's schizophrenic and decides to end an album with instrumental music when it started with rock. But if I'm honest, there's nothing else I'd want or expect from him.

grading this one on a curve a bit - it's great but it's nowhere near as good as Low so I gotta dock marks a bit

Heroes follows a similar structure as it's predecessor, and my unpopular opinion has always been that this is a better album than Low. Both sides are better on this. The rock side contains some of Bowie's most sonically interesting material, with rhythmic songs that grind away and so many cool things going on at once. That includes his best song, the title track; that piercing synth that permeates the whole song and those beautiful lyrics ("cuz we're lovers, and that is that") build to an amazing climax. The second side is mostly ambient-adjacent electronic, bookended by a Kraftwerk-sounding song and a rocker to close things out. I like that ending - it makes the album sound more like a rock album with an ambient interlude and less like two albums smushed together. Overall it's not one of Bowie's very best, but the highlights are enough to push it to a 4.

From the first note, it's very clearly Ahead Of Its Time. Or maybe it's out of time - a mix of everything from the past, present, and future of 1977. That doesn't make it good, but does make it prescient and sprawling. Of course, Heroes is a GREAT song and it settles nicely into this album. The closer I listen, the less I like it, but the more barely tuned in I am, the more I like it. Weird one. I was prepared for Eno's bullshit at the end, pretty good. I think I was too harsh on Low, but it was early in my 1001 albums career. Like it, I think this album might be more than the sum of its parts.

Really good songs. Weird sequencing.

I enjoyed this album! Lots of elements that made this sound pretty ahead of its time. Sounds more 80s than 70s for sure. Pretty solid.

Heard it before. This album really takes you to Berlin in the 70s (I say although it's something I've never experienced). Call me weird but Sense of Doubt is one of my favourites from the album 4/5

It's Bowie. What more is there to say?

It's funky, in a fun 80s kind of way. David Bowie will always have a special place in my heart and this album surely set me on a fun journey. We started off a little disoriented with Beauty and the Beast (was thinking Disney after reading an article), so had to listen to it twice to properly enjoy it. My favorites are 3 out of the last 4 songs of the album. I love instrumentals and those three songs were such a fun ride to keep me focused on my work.

Is it weird that the synth-instrumentals on the back half of this album might be my favorite part of it? Of course the title track, Heroes, is iconic and a great song. But the things that made me sit up and take notice were Sense of Doubt going into Moss Garden. Ah, and Neukoln continues it. I'm sure these are not the most popular tracks, but I'm really enjoying the the soundscapes they're creating. I also enjoyed The Secret Life of Arabia.

The surprise here is that it's the instrumentals that I really like, which is the opposite to what I expected. Apart from the title track I am not fond of his vocals, he has that lack of discipline whine and the recording of them has too much echo and effects, it's just unbelievably pretentious and annoying, stopping me really here any song or tune, like vocal masturbation. What I like is very good and it would be churlish to give it 3 given how amazing the song Heroes is and how much I like the instrumentals, so 4 it is.

I enjoyed this Album especially the song Heroes

- grande liricista e compositor - album conceitual, traz estéticas interessantes, mas um pouco monótono - influenciou bastante os anos 90, principalmente o som ethereal das bandas alternativas do uk

Bowie does so many small things so well. There’s so much going on that you have to listen hard for but the little things are what make the songs. The Berlin trilogy is some of the coolest rock music I’ve ever heard.

Iconic and a bunch of fire songs like Heroes

So good, not nearly his best, still 4 stars

Weird, fun, into it

Bowie never misses.

Great album. Love the “Berlin trilogy”.

yeah, Heroes is good, but have you heard that Weird Shit at the end of the album????????

I only knew the title song so this was much ODDER than I was expecting, but cool! I especially liked "Beauty and the Beast" and "Blackout." Probably would have been a 4.5 if not for the streak of spacy noodly instrumentals. Even those I liked better than *most* spacy noodly instrumentals, but lord they did go ON.

He was so good he released two great albums in a single year. While this one is usually considered the less acclaimed one, it still produced one of his most famous hits in Heroes. While I have listened to Bowie's Berlin period of music, I have not heard this album, and I enjoyed the ambient tracks at the end. He simply made all kinds of great music in the span of a decade.

Weird weird album. Lots of experimental things all throughout, the banger that is the title track, and then 3 instrumentals all in a row at the end. But I guess that’s to be expected for Bowie. And also, just like Bowie, this is another one of those albums that the more times you listen the more it grows on you. I really wonder at times how this man was the cultural phenomenon that he was because his albums are not very accessible haha. Like most of his stuff that at least I have experienced is just plain strange. Good of course, but strange.

The trick of Low that manages to shock repeatedly is the omissions, the caesuras, the moments of unexpected less. In comparison, the songs of "Heroes" are much fuller. More complete and, in that way, conventional. Whereas Low shuddered into instrumental abstraction, the collection of wordless tracks on Side 2 of this album suggests an absence of ideas: failure to complete an album of more conventional songwriting and repeating the model of the previous record. Absence of ideas is the enemy of absence as idea: when you have no ideas, you throw everything at the problem. Bowie, Eno, Fripp, Visconti, Alomar, Davis, Murray, and Maass are massively talented and a lot of what they throw sticks. It is still, after all, an incredible record. But is also after Low. And, after hundreds of listens, the only thing that still surprises me every time is the second iteration of "Get me to the doctor!" on Blackout. The first iteration is followed by a slew of verbiage, but, after the second... nothing, no vocal, just forgotten rhythm section. Unexpected less. Four stars. One star absent. 4 No matter how familiar this album has become over the years it is difficult to judge “Heroes” without thinking ‘Low’. “Heroes” side 1 songs are musically leering and thick with lyrics - grand, only that Low’s side 1 seems to achieve more impact with less. Sound and Vision is a masterpiece of concision - a paragon of pop music; the title track of “Heroes” has its bloviation fatally underlined by the release of a single edit which is not only entirely sufficient at almost half the length but is on a par with Sound and Vision in its sublimity. Then “Heroes” ambient side actually has less musical detail than Low’s and yet feels heavier. Moss Garden’s 5 minutes go on far longer than Warsawa’s 6 1/2. With all that podium-placing out of the way - the conceit of a ‘pop’ side 1 and an ‘ambient’ side 2 aside, these albums really aren’t alike. And, by any other standards, “Heroes” is really very good. I’d like to praise it in more detail but I have to go listen to Low now. 3.5/5

Yeahhhhhhhgh. I had only heard Heroes before, the rest of this was moodier than I was expecting but real good.

Outside of the stand out title track, there is much to love on this record from the experimentation and gorgeous guitar work by Fripp.

Oikein kivaa musaa!

Not my favourite of the Berlin albums but still a very enjoyable album.

Pretty phenomenal! The weirdness of the second half was fuckin awesome!

Theatrical and effervescent. Big The Wall/Shine on You Crazy Diamond vibes mixed with The Phantom of the Opera.

Дэвид Боуи

Judging only by side A, this would've been another 5/5 for Bowie. However, the instrumental tracks on side B are hit and miss for me. They're good, but they really break the flow of the album. This is still a really strong 4/5. Bowie was incredible!

I love getting the chance to revisit David Bowie. I have no idea what he was thinking on those first two tracks, but the rest of the album is a tour-de-force. High Point: Most of the album Low point: "Beauty and the Beast", "Joe the Lion"

Creative guy

It's Bowie. It's awesome! Not much to say. I'v listened to this album many times before, but didn't think much about the instrumental tracks. Very cool.

**** It‘s Bowie! Like it

Bowie rules, everyone knows its true. This is a great record. Heroes is an iconic song and the highlight of Side 1 - although Sons of the Silent Age harkens back to classic era sounds in an enjoyable way. Side 2 is where I think this thing really starts to sing. You get some lovely ripoff Kraftwork, a modern-ish German Expressionist soundtrack, pan-Asian sounds and a moody track reflecting urban unrest before an anthemic closer. Big ups to Eno as well!

It’s typical bowie for the most part, maybe less iconic than ziggy stardust, but the ~3 song stretch of atmosphere was really captivating for me in my opinion. And all that into secret life of arabia makes it click SO much more

Probably the more accessible of Bowie's Berlin Trilogy, mainly because Side A has more of what you'd expect in a pop song structure. Not all of Side A works for me (Joe The Lion is maybe the weakest track here) but you get some real winners in Heroes and Blackout. However, Side B is the stuff that really elevates the record. Some fantastic instrumentals, and maybe a bit more cohesive than Low (though that remains my favourite of the Berlin Trilogy)

Really cool, although I don’t love the title track. Not the greatest Bowie, but it’s still Bowie.

David Bowie: Had sex with two underage girls. Accused of sexual assault. Made comments lauding Hitler and fascism.

Berliini-trilogian mielestäni se eniten luukutettu levy! Tykkään muistakin mutta Low ehkä oma suosikki. Tyhmähän sitä olis jos ei tästä tykkäisi. Neljä bongoo selkeesti. Hienostuneempaa Bowie-osastoa. 4/5

Erinomainen platta taas Bowielta! Ei ihan hittimateriaalia, ja ymmärrän ettei heti myynyt, mutta jälkikäteen helppo arvostaa.

Like any good Davie Bowie album, it's got some strangeness tangled in with the rest of his more "tame" music. Once again I'm surprised that this is the Bowie album selected out of all his other albums. Personally I think Ziggy Stardust or Spiders from Mars are better albums. A great listen nonetheless!

fun and super funky. didn't love the instrumentals. opening track is a certified banger.

this might be one of my favorite bowie albums on this list (though it's no ziggy stardust). heroes is a massive tune, the opener is great, and for once i actually enjoyed david's weird genre explorations toward the end. favorites: beauty and the beast, heroes, sense of doubt, neukoln, the secret life of arabia

8/10

An awesome album. With songs that still fresh to this day and a experimental part to the end. 9/10

Day 5 Bowie a big gap in my knowledge, only knew the title track, listened to it several times today, liked it more every time, a great sign. 8/10 Highlights Heroes Blackout Secret Life of Arabia

Quite good - I feel like smarter people than me have probably written loads on Bowie's orientalism and while I have some thoughts and feelings I'll let it slide given the time frame and the technical skill in his music.

Would be a 9 if allowed! Heroes is one of the greatest songs ever written, especially the 6 minute album version which allows the tension to build and build. The rest of the album is some of the most experimental in Bowie's discography, heavily influenced by Kraftwerk, krautrock and avant-garde jazz. Beauty and The Beast, V2-Schniederand sons of the Silent Age are wonderful tracks. Gets very out there towards the end with the experimental and dark Moss Garden and Neukoln.

It wasn’t really my thing

Solid album. Some experimental tracks that I didn’t need.

Great album

I wish Wallflowers hadn’t been my first exposure to “Heroes”. I enjoy the entire Berlin Trilogy. Almost a 5 for me.

Kinda liked this, classic Bowie at the start then into the Eno synth mode by the end.

Sitting right in the middle of the two best albums from the Berlin Trilogy it's like most middle children not as good as the other two but still unique in its own right.

Half rock album, half art project. All excellent

Love it! Own It.

So-so start gets better towards the end, the instrumental songs make it on the upper end of a 3.5 so its a 4 but a very low 4

Haven’t heard almost any of the songs on the album, surprisingly, they weren’t what i expected, many of them where just musical with no singing. It made them very interesting, a bit uncomfortable and unsettling but I did enjoy them!

Do you think shagging Mick Jagger gave this guy magical powers

This was better than Low. I’m still not a fan of the instrumental stuff but overall a much better album!

I really really didn’t like the start of the album at all… though it definitely made up for it in the end! I can’t tell you if I absolutely love or hate this album… all I know is Moss Garden is absolutely amazing! I do not understand how a song like that with no words can be conveyed into so many! But then again the start didn’t have me! I don’t think I would relisten to this album but I will be relistening to Moss Garden!!

pretty good album. feels similar to 'low' in the sense that there is a more rock-ish half and then a more ambient half. the title track is great, and there are some other great tracks - really i like the entire first side of this one. the second side can be a bit dull in comparison. still interesting in its own right, but not something i would go out of my way for, unlike the first side. because of this dichotomy, it feels like it lives somewhere in-between a great first side and an alright second side.

So weird, so good. I love it. Those few instrumental tracks near the end were *chefs kiss* Fave song: Heroes Honorable Mentions: Joe the Lion, Blackout, V-2 Schneider, Moss Garden

David Bowie is insane, the instrumentals are great and the vocals mix so well. Favourite Song: Heroes Honourable: V-2 Schneider

Endless soundscapes don’t interest me at all. Good for studying I suppose. The rest of the album took me a minute to get into but on the second listen I really enjoyed it.

Nothing bad. Everything felt good, but nothing really called to me (except title track)

I enjoyed this thoroughly as there was just enough fun weird Bowie stuff in the beginning before becoming a great Brian Eno album at the end. And Heroes, the single, is a great song anyway.

Bowie is a weird dude who makes weird music. Solid album of spacey tunes. Rounding up a whole ⭐️ because Heroes is a fantastic tune.

Yea it's pretty fucking weird....but quite normal for a Bowie album. "Heroes" (the track) is an all-timer, for sure. Love the last 3 ambient songs with Brian Eno's fingerprints on them, but feel like they don't totally fit? Still about a 3.5 or 3.75 in my book.

So much cocaine went into the making of this album. I love him, but this is not my fave. Still fun.

Beauty and the Beast - Great disco feel. Joe the Lion - Love the backing vocals, cool beat. "Heroes" - Reminds me of Oasis in a way, Synth ties it together. Sons of the Silent Age - His accent fits in well, Good for a psychedelic ish tune. Blackout - Creative drums, my personal favourite song on here. V-2 Schneider - Solid song, sax kind of carried. Sense of Doubt - Ominous, the deep and heavy piano helped but it isn't the best of songs. Moss Garden - These instrumentals are starting to bore me, it is relaxing though. Neuköln - Sax is nice, I miss vocals. The Secret Life of Arabia - Finally vocals!!, I enjoyed the bass in this one. Great for my first impression of David Bowie.

Heroes, the title track is just an amazing song. I've always loved that song from Bowie. I'd never heard a lot of these tracks, Black Out is also good. I love Brian Eno as well and I can hear his influences for sure on Moss Garden and Neokoln. Definitely a strong 4 for me.

Title track is a classic. The rest of the album isn't as memorable, but it's really strong proto-New Wave. I tend to run hot and cold with Bowie's music, but this was solid throughout. 4 stars.

I was gonna give it a 3 but the song heroes is so good it bumped up to a 4.

first 3 songs are incredible then it goes a bit weird but it's all still great