Reviews (page 5 of 15)
Mid-tier Bowie
Superb!
-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
Very eclectic and off-kilter, mostly fun. I like the tone shift of the last few songs Highlights: "Heroes", "Moss Garden", "Neuköln"
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.
moss garden najzen pesma ikada. SAKSOFONNNN. neukoln je ludilo. ovaj album... nije ni gotov ali vec njusim 5 zvezdica im not even kidding. ok sad je gotov. WOOOW! ovo je drugi deo berlinske trilogije, i apsolutno se primeti kroz ambijent, zvuk, produkciju, uau. pocetak albuma je vise "tradicionalan" sa pesmama gde dejvid peva i instrumenti su otprilike ono sto se ocekuje da se cuje na "pop/rok" ploci, ali brzo skrenemo u neki zavijutak gde je glavna stvar koju cujemo zvuk iste one melanholije i misterije (ne mogu jos uvek da nadjem prave reci) koji cujemo u drugom delu albuma low. saksofon i sintisajzer i sta vec ne, prave takvu atmosferu da bukvalno vidim sebe kako idem lose osvetljenim hladnim berlinskim ulicama 1977. i uau, prosto uau. heroes kao najjaca pesma ikada, the secret life of arabia je tako neocekivano funky, mnogo mi se svidja. sve pesme od otp v-2 schneider do kraja albuma - peak.
Je confirme : Bowie, c'est non. +1 pour Heroes.
Heroes is obviously the best song. I liked a few of the instrumental only latter tracks. I like it but don't love it.
I love everything about this album. Starting from the backstory of Bowie living in Berlin, convalescing from his period of putting everything and anything into his system, the iconic cover and the pose, and in the end, the music present on here. In my humble opinion, David achieved peak muzak with this release. With this album, he did not only walk the tightrope between commercial success and avant-garde trailblazing, but he glided all the way. Side A is where he shone the brightest: amazing and unique music with a lot of character and influences that were present around him, ranging from remnants of his experimental funk era to zany krautrock that seeped through every crack in the art sphere in Germany, and side B is a highly competent ambient experimentation. It's not in the level of Low's side B, but it's still good, with it being a much better representation of his surrounding than Low.
The title track fucking cha-cha-cha-changed my life. apart from that i even wrote a short story based on it and adapted it into this indie song thats possibly gonna be 10 minutes long. the only problem with the album is the B side. generally if you cut every ambient track, put the secret life of arabia after blackout, and put the title track as the last song, you have a perfect 6 song ep. 5/5
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.
Overall pretty boring... I STILL don't like Bowie's style. Some songs are "normal", though : Beauty and the Beast is a nice addition to my playlist and I already knew Heroes (by far the most popular track of the album) Under Pressure is still his best lmao.
3/5 not biggest bowie fan but solid album. not my cup of tea for a full album listen.
song i went back to first after first full listen: v2 schneider
is good!
"Beauty and the Beast" and "Joe the Lion" are just... ok... I don't think they're anything amazing but they're just alright. 3/5 for both "Heroes" is by far the best song on this album. It's lyrics, instruments, the feeling, the mood, it's all peak. It's simply amazing! I will always have this on my playlists, it's just so peak. 5/5!!! "Sons of the Silent Age" got better than the first two, and more enjoyable. 3.5/5 "Blackout" is also alright, I enjoyed the instrumentation more than anything else. 3/5 Tracks 6-9 are all ambient, and they are all about the same quality for me. They are just all "ok". I would rather listen to actually better ambient songs rather than these, so I can't really give them all higher than a 3/5. And "Secret Life of Arabia" was also just Ok. 3/5 Idk there's just nothing that really sparked for me in this album other than Heroes, which upsets me because I really wanted to like more songs, but this is already me being pretty generous with the ratings 😭
Heroes is a fantastic song, but the rest of the album isn't great. It's a similar problem to the one I have with Hunky Dory, in that there's only one or two songs that actually have any meat on their bones, and then the rest is just filler music. Except this time, the filler music wasn't greatly enjoyable to listen to, being moderately boring throughout. Still a serviceable album, just one that can't quite maintain its momentum. 6.5/10
This album is only 40 minutes long???? How??? Anyway always have been a big fan of Heroes (the song), and in 7 songs I'll be able to tell you if it's the best song on the album. Beauty and the Beast is a great opener. Joe the lion might start slow, but the guitar solo feels like a kiss from a beautiful woman. Horrifying comment, but Sons of the Silent Age should've been in Stranger Things. Re: Blackout- What is this heavenly melody that entrances me??? V-2 Schneider continues to remind me that I don't like music without lyrics, crucify me (or should I say nail me to your car). Sense of doubt is a joint smoked, but you're crossfaded and it's bad, but kinda peaceful (all of this is a compliment). Moss Garden is 5 minutes I'll never get back from my life and I think they play it at every spa ever. Oh no, more noise with the next one. 4 songs with no words will bring my rating slightly down because I make the rules. Yay words are back. Overall some skips, but would've loved to get wine drunk with my friends while listening to this.
Not for me:(
thought i would like it more. heroes is still a highlight and an outstanding song. i think im not that into an experimental / instrumental rock genre
Some of Bowie's finest tracks, but perhaps not his finest overall package.
A great composite album, you can listen to it in its entirety.
Absolutely cinema
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.
First half of this album is very very good - not perfect, but Bowie does a fantastic job of making weirdly beautiful music, especially in the title track, "Heroes". Although many often tried to imitate him, no one could truly recreate what made Bowie, Bowie Not sure if it was his heroin-addled brain, or him smelling his own farts, or both, but the second half of this album completely falls off. Although some of the atmospheric instrumentals do well to save this from being a total disaster, Heroes really goes from a great album to faux-artistic crap
Even better than Low. A really good record with amazing guitar lines by Robert Fripp, amazing arrangements, amazing productions, and super-good writing.
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.
The absolute nosedive this album takes halfway through is crazy
this album has such an interesting shape to it. way more taken in by the instrumental tracks in the back half though, and the last track is a nice melding of the two styles for me - prob my fave apart from Moss Garden. can see how it is an iconic one.
listened while cleaning the house so wasnt fullyyyyy paying attention but it was great only one or two songs that weren’t personally for me but other than that i loved this album and love bowie <3
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.
I’m giving this 3 stars because I can appreciate it on an artistic level, but God help me, I just don’t think I’ll ever be able to stand David Bowie’s voice.
“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.
The A side was a bit rockier than Low, which I didn’t prefer as much. I liked Sons of the Silent Age, but that was the only song from the first half I really liked. The ambient side of the album was cool with its use of a lot of world instruments, but I really only liked Moss Garden, but the ambient tracks were fairly repetitive and a bit more harsh-sounding than I would like.
байлендгейм
Would listen again, not his best but really solid
Classic
5/10 First half had me thinking "Why am I so harsh on David - he can rock, he writes great songs - why do I doubt him? WHY???" Second half had me thinking "David is so overrated, I cannot contemplate his popularity. Surely those who love him can not defend this absolute gumph. I knew I was right to doubt him " And so I give it (7/10 + 3/10) / 2 = 5/10. Feels about right
4.20
Love art rock
with an open heart and an open mind this nearly got a 5. the attitude adjustment is ongoing.
Heroes set the floor at 3.
I like. It’s 02:43 am so that’ll be all for this one
pretty mid
Enjoyable, definitely a recognisable style, but the tracks were still quite different from each other. 90/100
Absolute fire 5 stars light 9 out of 10
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.
It's Bowie, so it has a high floor. But, this album didn't really keep my attention too much. It's good, but I don't think many of the songs will stick with me.
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"
More experimental Bowie that I don't care for. Some good songs
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
Absolutely not a fan. Don't understand the hype. Heroes is a good song.
Now I understand why did Bowie play a role as an alien in the movie The Man Who Fell to Earth.
Excellent as always, i feel like this album sort of has 2 different styles, one being a slightly more traditional Bowie sound, and then he goes on to the great more ambient/krautrock stuff towards the end. Instrumentally it’s incredible, some really ahead of it’s time stuff, I’ve always thought the start of heroes sounds like slowdive a bit, but I guess Brian Zeno produced this, and some of souvlaki. But yeah songs like moss garden are really incredible, totally unlike anything made up to this point. And I also think he’s singing more experimentally on quite a lot of these. Favourite songs: all but the beauty and the beast. Overall around 9/10
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.
꺄 보위당
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).
I like this less than Low. It had a stronger A side. B side was less immersive than the former. I do however like the A side of Low much more than the B. Collectively I liked the album as a whole better than this. I’m contradicting myself as I argue for or against Bowie. Bowie only competes against himself. It’s an easy five.
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.
Didn’t connect with every track, but it’s a classic album.
it’s classic
This album got better and better as it went along. Most of the songs moved into the next seamlessly.
harder edged than I remember
La mítica canción homónima y lo demás cosas que no conozco y alguna fumada instrumental que desconocía. Disco prescindible.
ok
I like moss garden, sense of doubt, and kinda the secret life of Arabia. But some of the others just feel noisy. I was also listening while studying so maybe a different mood may have changed my perspective.
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.
not a fan. I liked one or two songs, but overall, this was distracting to listen to while working.
Another Bowie album. Heroes was great, took an unexpected experimental turn on side 2.
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
Everything that needs to be said about this has already been said. Iconic Berlin album, masterpiece, love David ❤️
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.
The first album given to me by this little website, and it's one of my all-time favorites. I first heard it on an BMG music club CD freshman year of college. It confounded and fascinated me then, and (even after reading some of the community reviews on here--yowza) it still does. Who sings like this, ever, in rock? Bowie is singing like a man being chased by howling wolves while trying to audition to join the pack. Yes, it's an art rock album: the lyrics are fashionable, fashioned experiments. Joe the Lion makes absolutely no sense, unless, idk, you google it and read about the performance artist Chris Burden. Made of iron, he must have been. But despite the artsy backgrounds and the side of instrumentals, it's a blatantly emotional album with beautifully unhinged, passionate vocals and hepcat honking sax played (by Bowie, I believe) over those fragile synth landscapes.
álbum perfeito amor da minha vida
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.
Irgi nezinau ka pasakyt, viaai neblogas Favorites: "heroes" "joe the lion"
I really enjoyed the first part of the album. Beauty and the Beast, Heroes and Black Out are goooood. The instrumental half gets kind of boring but maybe it's just me. I was going to give it 5 stars at first but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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.
Loved it. I think the production is great and feels all-encompassing as well.
Rich enveloping sounds, crazy that they improvised in the studio.
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
Same vibe as Low but not as successful for me.
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?
I always think it’s a low 5 until i remember how much i love the instrumental pieces on the b side, so it’s actually a solid 5 for me
meh
Love and need to revisit again to fully capture the album uninterrupted ✨
The title song is amazing but all the avant-gaurde German keyboard stuff is a chore to listen to. Cocaine is one hell of a drug.
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
Besides heroes, everything else sounded less than.
I'm somewhat obsessed with a lot of 70's rockers - Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Steely Dan, Springsteen, Neil Young, etc - but man David Bowie has never done it for me, even if I realize he is probably the most complete package of musical talent in comparison to all of them. He's just too weird, which I know is the point, for me to get too into. Heroes is a great song, the rest felt like art history homework.
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
Not my favorite DB album but Heroes is the stand out song. The rest is abstract.
Eno, Fripp, Visconti & the Thin White Duke...Making magic in Berlin.
Honestly, the only criticism I have about "Heroes" (if you can call it a criticism) is that 'Low' and 'Station to Station' are slightly better. Now, with that out of the way....WE CAN BE HEROES, JUST FOR ONE DAY! 140 albums in and I finally draw a David Bowie record, and it's easily one of his best. The only album of his Berlin Trilogy recorded entirely in Berlin, Bowie and Brian Eno make stellar use of guitars (some parts from King Crimson's Robert Fripp), synths, ambiance and all-round studio wizardry to craft a work of art in its purest form. Bowie had taken plenty of inspiration from Krautrock masterminds Kraftwerk and Neu! by this point, and executed what he learned to dramatic effect on "Heroes", especially on the back-half (mostly) instrumental pieces: 'V-2 Schneider', 'Sense of Doubt', 'Moss Garden' and 'Neuköln'. But even the more conventional songs are genius. 'Beauty and the Beast' struts in to open the record with a disco-heavy beat and Bowie sounding as charming as ever. His endearing charm continues to shine throughout 'Joe the Lion', 'Sons of the Silent Age', 'Blackout' and 'The Secret Life of Arabia'. But the title track....f***ing hell. The moment I first heard this song (quite drunk at a house party when I was probably living with Don Li), it hit me in a way few songs have before or since. The song is essentially about finding joy, love, success etc. in situations where you know there's clear barriers at play, or reasons why things won't pan out the way you hope. The way that Bowie so eloquently croons that "we can be heroes just for one day" is simultaneously triumphant and soul-crushing, all inspired by the real life division of West and East Berlin. Apparently a couple from opposite sides of the Berlin Wall inspired the song, which goes to show how uncomfortable situations only bettered Bowie's creative vision. "Heroes" truly is an extraordinary work of art, and Bowie's Berlin era would have a profound impact on the direction of popular music in the 1980s. "Nothing will keep us together." Best songs: The whole thing, especiallly the title track. One of the best songs ever written, hands down!
Listened to driving to the airport. Favourite song: Heroes.
Interesting but not to my taste
I can't believe there are 8 David Bowie albums on this list and that's way too many. I think Ziggy Stardust is pretty flawless and I'd like to give more of his albums 5 stars, but there's always some shit that doesn't make sense. This album was great until V-2 Schneider which...fine, okay. But then the following song Sense of Doubt was just a waste. It's filler. I didn't want to listen to a David Bowie album today and hear some soundscape bullshit. I'm assuming this is what happens when you make an album blasted out of your mind on cocaine. And while I'm sure it's good to create and experiment with things as an artist, these soundscape songs just feel like a cop out. Didn't have to write lyrics, didn't have to sing anything. Is he even playing any of the instruments on here? Is he controlling the direction of these pieces? It ends with The Secret Life of Arabia which is another filler track but at least it's got a beat and he's singing. I can't remember which other album of his I listened to that followed the same pattern...first half, great...second half just instrumentals and soundscapes. I don't think when someone wants to listen to Bowie, that's not what they're intending to listen to. I don't think anyone's ever said "Man, V-2 Schneider and Moss Garden are my favorite tracks off Bowie's Heroes album."
Did I know prior: No Favorite song: Heroes Not particularly memorable. Was surprised by all the instrumentals in the back half.
Nostálgico, no es para mí
Points for originality, but I won’t make a point of listening to this one again
I've always considered "Heroes" to be my favorite of the Berlin Trilogy. The title track is an obvious classic and Blackout is one of my favorite Bowie songs of all time, but Sons of a Silent Age is kinda a stinker. Plus the second half is loaded with instrumentals and regardless of their quality, it makes it feel like half an album. ...I do love Blackout though.............5
Of course the title-track is an eternal anthem and one of Bowies greatest songs ever. But alongside "Heroes" the rest of the album seams even weaker than it already is. Only other highlight for me is "V-2 Schneider".
This has the "heroes" song from the end of JoJo Rabbit. This album seems good for driving or active listening - a little distracting for work on the computer. But I liked some of it. Some was more instrumental than I like. Got bored toward the end.
Fun!
Didn’t listen
Not a big Bowie fan and this hasn't done much to persuade me otherwise. Apart from 'Heroes', which is still pretty ordinary IMHO, there's not much to catch your attention on this record, except the other tracks co-written by Brian Eno, like 'Moss Garden'.
Though I have a high level of respect for Bowie, and his influence, I find that while some songs are absolutely great, many others bore me. Some annoy me. But this album has none that annoy but not enough great ones to offset the boring.
Bowie in an unbelievable run at this point, everything he released was just fantastic
One cracker, rest very mixed
bowie was the man
Love it!
Didn’t get the vibe. Not impressed. Also I don’t like the titular song
4.6/5 Stars Top Songs: Heroes, Sons of the Silent Age, Neukoln
So good and also so bad
Great!
There’s exactly one good song on this album
Die Instrumentalen Lieder fand ich gut gelungen.
Bei mir persönlich der größte Fall von "sollte eigentlich was für mich sein, aber zündet nicht". "Blackstar" mag ich, zu allen anderen Sachen finde ich keinen Zugang. Auf diesem Album hier mochte ich diese Ambient-Suite sehr.
Fantastic album However I want to (should) explore it further within context of Bowie's Berlin Trilogy. That and add to it two Iggy Pop albums he made during this time as well. The guy had a lot going on in the late 70s; Heroes is just one thing.
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.
YES.
Начали за здравие, закончили за… Первые 6 кайф, 3 следующих непонимаемы for me. Закрывающий трек огонь
As a (non-MTV) Bowie latecomer, I really think the first version of the title track I ever heard was the Wallflowers cover. And that song has been in the news lately from the Stranger Things finale using the original (after the Peter Gabriel cover had been previously used in the series.) Anyway... Ah, the Berlin trilogy. I have never listened to this album start-to-finish so here goes... I guess he ran out of lyrics about halfway through? This is OK, but not really my cup of tea. 2.5 stars.
I didn’t like this one as much as other Bowie albums I’ve heard, Hunky Dory, Ziggy Stardust. It felt less funky and had less zeal. Seemed like the precursor for a lot of new wave stuff to come though.
yummy
Apart from the title track, not much to recommend.
3 of the greatest musicians of all time get too high in berlin and fuck around for a bit
I never liked the title track much and what the hell are those instrumentals?
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
Good but different. I may need another listen or two before fully appreciating it. Sadly that means for now it only gets a 3.
Det er 9 (!) David Bowie-album på denne lista. Så bra er det faktisk ikke. Gir dårligere karakter på trass.
Tittelsporet er en banger, resten fløt litt sammen uten at noe stakk seg sånn voldsomt ut. Jevnt over helt ok, 2/5
Synes noen av låtene er fine, men som album vet jeg ikke helt
This album is a weird hodge-podge of some David Bowie songs then some background music. Bowie is my favorite solo artist but this is not a good enough album to be on the 1001 list, despite the title track being exceptional. Top tracks: “Heroes,” “Beauty and the Beast”
--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
5/10
Freaking incredible that Bowie could still crank out bangers on his 12th album. What a talent.
Really cool
Jag förstår inte hypen faktiskt
Good and fun
classic, didn’t like the two instrumental (?) songs
Really enjoyed this. Had only heard the song Heroes before giving the whole album a spin. Beauty and the Beast and The Secret Life of Arabia were also great songs. Really enjoyed the ambient section later on too, which isn’t normally my vibe.
Loved heroes of course but was not a big fan of this album unfortunately
Yeah, I guess Bowie is just not for me. I understand it is intentionally weird, but it’s a kind of weird that can’t appreciate. Love Heroes, will never listen to the rest again.
when Bowie went straight. Smh
Classic Bowie Ahead of his time
still not for me but so far my favorite bowie album, heroes is just so good
David Bowie is named David Bowie.
I enjoyed it pretty well
Went in expecting to love this, but it was kinda a bit rubbish?
Heroes as the title song did drag this album into an ok score. There were some highlights but a lot was very average.
This was the album I had in my car CD player for a few weeks in c2013, and I don't think my opinion has changed since then - the middle drags the album from some fantastic pop hits into something more arty and I'm not sure that that the result is better than the sum of its parts.
just some nonsense
moss garden was so beautiful
...
I really liked the second side in particular.
I gave this one two listens because it felt so disjointed and scattered. It doesn't feel like a cohesive album in the way other Bowie albums do. Other than the title track, which is phenomenal, transcendent and age-defining (and the reason I'm ranking this as high as I am), I couldn't find much to cling onto. Maybe it needs more than 2, listens... While I appreciated the instrumentals, and recognize this as a big step for Bowie's development, the whole thing doesn't quite resonate for me. Some of the songs stood out on their own, but overall it was missing some fluidity and cohesion I'm looking for in a "perfect" album. 5/10
Cool, some of the instrumentals were rad but not one I'm rushing back to, I don't think
Very poor apart from the title track.
I'm sure that it has never occurred to Mr. Dimery that there might be a portion of the population that doesn't actually enjoy David Bowie's music all that much. To him, it must be inconceivable that someone who doesn't bow at the altar of the Thin White Duke even exists. Well...here I am listening to yet another batch of Bowie songs that all sound the same as the last batch. It would almost be tolerable if one of these mid-70's Bowie albums were replaced by one of his significant later works, like the chart-topping "Let's Dance" or the almost-posthumous "Blackstar".
Kinda boring, he has way better albums
I liked it but not too mich
85 but I'll give it 5 stars.
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.
Stunning. No notes, just 10/10
Did not listen :/
I liked this, but not as much as Ziggy Stardust.
just tired of david bowie
it's fine, i just dont care for bowie
"The majority of the tracks were composed on the spot in the studio, the lyrics not being written until Bowie stood in front of the microphone." BOY does it show!!!! this songwriting is so vapid and empty. the main highlight of this album to me is robert fripp's guitar and brian eno's synthesizers across the whole album, though even then the ambient tracks in the second half are quite uninspiring to me. it's frustrating that tracks like "secret life of arabia" or "sons of the silent age" have such lovely instruments that feel somewhat spoiled by the banality of the writing even if bowie's distant singing is expressive. the title track is the only thing even slightly memorable here.
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.
i don’t think this album was quite my speed, but it was an enjoyable listen! it was also very nostalgic for me, since my mom loves david bowie. my top three songs were: - joe the lion - heroes - blackout
Perfext
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
10/10 no comments
Over stays its welcome
its pg
Didn't connect with it unfortunately
Incredible. Only thing that could’ve made it better is maybe less instrumental on the second half but that’s my personal preference.
mejor que el de ayer, tiene varios temas genuinamente buenos, especialmente de los primeritos pero me parece que el artista es un poco disney con sus temas full instrumentales que no me gustan tanto, no me gustó el orden al final con la última canción pero en general me pareció un buen album
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.
David Bowie is hit or miss for me and this was more of a miss.
Genius
A really good album, I liked Heroes and V-2 Schneider the most.
Love it.
Har de samme problemene som Low, men med svakere låter. Bortsett fra tittelsporet, da. Men Low har Sound and Vision. Den er kanskje ikke like iconisk som "Heroes", men omtrent like sterk. Som på Low synes jeg den instrumentale B-siden er sterkere enn A-siden, men her er også komposisjonene svakere enn på Low.
Et litt mer klaustrofobisk album enn Low. Det føles litt crowded, men de ordinære låtene her mer gjennomarbeidet enn Low. Etter to intense låter er det en ganske deilig følelse når "Heroes" åpner opp og tar det ned igjen. Robert Fripp er et utrolig bra tilskudd til plata. Det er kjedelig å hylle tittelsporet nok en gang, men jeg syns Fripp virkelig gjør sitt for å løfte den. Ja også "Blackout" da. Det er dessverre litt for mange fillers på albumet til at det når helt opp hos meg. Det er vel egentlig en del av det instrumentale på B-siden som føles litt umotivert, samme problem som Low. Hvis jeg ville hørt lange krautrock-inspirerte instrumentalpartier så er jeg mest keen på å gå til kilden. Selv om ikke Berlin-trilogien er peak Bowie for meg, så har jeg tenkt at Heroes har vært min favoritt av dem, men etter å ha hørt Low igjen i går så begynner jeg å helle mer mot den. Ikke at det er så mye som skiller dem.
Dette albumet hadde jeg faktisk ikke hørt før. Jeg lurer på hvorfor de valgte å referere til dette albumet i The Next Day, siden de albumene er så forskjellige. I motsetning til The Next Day så er dette et bra album. Veldig bra! Jeg syns også todelinga funker bedre her enn på low. Selvom ambulant partiene i seg selv er bedre på low
ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh The title track is great, obviously. But I didn't really get anything else from the rest of the album I feel like I should give this at least a 3, come on, it's David Bowie! But I've had three Bowie albums in this project so far, and each one of them I've wanted to like more than I actually do. And I think this is my least favourite of the bunch 2.5, with at least one of those points for Heroes (the song) alone Rounded down, soz Song added to playlist: - Heroes
incredible
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
liked the beginning but that’s it fave from the album beauty and the beast
A good album and I liked how it ended in some instrumental songs. I didn’t find something that was dragging me into the music but it was still good but maybe not something that I will continuously come back to.
This is very different from Ziggy Stardust. Where that was fairly standard classic rock, this is more experimental and artsy. It's perhaps very akin to Iggy Pop's The Idiot, which isn't surprising as that had Bowie all over it. Now, onto the actual album: the synth sounds are fairly interesting, and the guitar is good. However, the lyrics aren't excellent(Ziggy Stardust was only slightly better in this regard), and neither are the vocals(though Ziggy Stardust exacerbated the nasal quality of Bowie's voice to a greater extent). It's not as accessible or tuneful as Ziggy Stardust, nor is it good as an experimental record(Tago Mago by Can was better in this regard, though that's likely to be expected). "Heroes" ultimately is a fairly weak record that doesn't really do anything it tries to well. If I wanted a synth pioneer, I would listen to Can. If I wanted a Bowie record, I would pick Ziggy Stardust.
Experimental, avant-garde, aromatic.
Not my favorite Bowie
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
I rate this album 6/10 This album mostly contains instrumental music, plus gives count Dracula, jazz and a hit of Egyptian vibes Has some catchy lyrics and gives 80’s vibes
Love love looooove Bowie, what a classic !
Super good album, unique music and voice. I love bowie
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
J'aurais mis 2 si ce n'était pas pour la chanson Heroes
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
This album feels like a perfect depiction of David Bowie‘s classic sound with range from more poetic rock to the ending where it was mostly instrumental session. If somebody were to ask what David Bowie’s music was like this would be the album. I would probably show them first.
Title track an all time great — otherwise not a top 10 Bowie album. Low better for Eno/Berlin phase
Pretty good
Not what I expected, visionary
I was not familiar with any other songs besides the album's namesake, Heroes, so this was a new listen for me. I've honestly always been a bit on the fence about Bowie and this album was no different. There were definitely parts of several songs that really caught my ear, but none were added as new faves. Overall a cohesive album.
perfection <3 tan innovador para la época, realmente único
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.
Third Bowie album in as many weeks, and it's starting to feel a bit repetitive. I'm really not sure we needed that many on the list. A very typical Bowie album. Vocals are decent but unsurprising. Instrumentals are great, but not as original as in Low - there are more pop elements and less krautrock weirdness, which disappointed me. The three ambient tracks on B-side were much more interesting (especially Neukoln) than the rest, but also too short ; it felt like an unfinished experiment. I'd rather listen to Kraftwerk or Eno's solo work from the same period. It was reasonably pleasant overall, but I probably won't come back to it. 6/10
Encore un album de Bowie, oui c'est un grand artiste... mais de là à en avoir toutes les semaines....
Coming right after Low, it’s hard not to compare the two. I prefer the rock side of Heroes, which grabs me more straight away. Still, I was more taken by Low’s instrumental tracks than by the ambient parts here. Eno-style ambience has never really been my thing. Overall, though, it’s an interesting and surprising album, and you can tell it really shook things up at the time. Like Low, it’s one I should probably spend more time with.
Ughhhh not my thing.
★★★★☆ (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.
Bowie at his brilliant best - establishing a genre
Recorded at Hansa Tonstudio, facing the Berlin Wall, “𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘦𝘴” feels like an album suspended between isolation and possibility. Bowie leans into a colder, more angular sound, yet the record never loses its sense of motion. Robert Fripp’s razor-edged guitar work slices through the mix, giving the music a raw, electric intensity, while Brian Eno shapes the album’s emotional climate — his ambient textures stretch the space around Bowie’s voice, creating a world that feels both industrial and strangely dreamlike. The title track anchors everything: a song built on hope held up by tension, as if the landscape outside the studio seeped into its DNA. The rest of the album moves between sharp rhythms and drifting instrumentals, balancing human urgency with experimental detachment. What makes “𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘦𝘴” extraordinary is how confidently it fuses art-rock, ambient atmospheres and emotional sincerity without softening their edges. It’s Bowie at his most focused and forward-thinking — a record shaped by a city, a wall, and a moment in time that still sounds timeless.
I really want to like David Bowie‘s music, I just need to get over his strange voice. Plus, the ambient music in this album was weird as hell
secret life of arabia was new to me and super awesome
This guy cannot sing and not in a cool Bob Dylan way but a cringe way also ur not cool for half of all ur albums being ambient music fuck you David Bowie
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
Some good tunes, let down by poor singing and over indulgence in the last few songs.
Nice
крутий альбом. багато пісень додала собі в грайлист, але були і ті що було якось не комфортно слухати. думаю варто буде переслухати його якось пізніше
It is possible to understand and appreciate what an album is going for while not enjoying 90% of it.
Album 998 of 1089 Heroes - David Bowie (1977) Rating : 3 / 5 Going into this one, I expected more, especially given how strong so much of Bowie’s catalog is. Outside of the title track - which absolutely earns its reputation - this album just didn’t land for me the way others have. There are moments where the experimentation and sound work are interesting, and you can hear Bowie pushing boundaries, but for me that never fully translated into songs I wanted to come back to. A few tracks simply didn’t work at all, and others felt more like ideas than finished statements. That said, this is still Bowie, and even a “lesser” Bowie album has thought and ambition behind it. I respect what he was reaching for here, but respect doesn’t always equal enjoyment. I guess even the greats don’t score every time. Outside of Heroes itself, this one just didn’t connect.
Interesting first half. Oddly boring 2nd half
Very synth 80s power ballad, would be truly experience on a very specific type of acid
Love Bowie. Unfortunately biased here. Super clean unique soundscapes. 9/10
"Heroes" is the 12th studio album by English musician David Bowie. Art rock, experimental rock, electronic and ambient are the Wiki-listed genres. The album was the second release of the Berlin Trilogy and was recorded entirely in West Berlin and in collaboration with musician Brian Eno and producer Tony Visconti. It builds on his previous album "Low's" electronic and ambient approaches. Most of the same musicians as "Low" contributed with the addition of guitarist Robert Fripp. Those musicians were David Bowie (vocals, keyboards, guitars, saxophone, koto, tambourine), Brian Eno (synthesizers, keyboards, guitar), Carlos Alomar (rhythm guitar), George Murray (bass), Dennis Davis (drums, percussion), Tony Visconti (percussion, vocals) and Antonia Maass (backing vocals). Commercially, the album reached #3 in the UK and #35 in the US. The album today is regarded as one Bowie's best and most influential works. "Heroes" has a similar structure to "Low" in that the first side has traditionally structured rock songs with the second side mostly instrumental. "Beauty and the Beast" starts the album with a weird synth, piano notes, a pounding bass and loud, distorted lead and backing vocals. A noisy, fluttering guitar enters. It's a very busy song with an air of paranoia as Bowie sings about internal struggles and societal tensions. The self-titled "Heroes" is slower and opens with wonderful Fripp guitar loop (apparently fed through a synth). The underlying synth melody. More prominent bass and drums. Bowie's vocals start with a whisper and build emotionally and in intensity as he describes two lovers up against it, facing reality and trying to make it. One of Bowie's best. Shit, one of rock's best. "V-2 Schneider" opens the instrumental side. A reverbing sax and synth. Rocket synth sounds. An ode to Kraftwerk's Florian Schneider as the vocals repeating his name. "Neuköln" has a purposeful off-key sax. Both Middle Eastern and movie picture sounding. A dramatic synth. About a Berlin district and the despair of Turkish immigrants. The first side of this album starts out loud and more aggressive than "Low." Both the music and the vocals. Bowie made up the lyrics as he stood in front of the microphone and this gives some these vocals an improv feel. Fripp's guitar is unique, weird and great. As is the core band with their instruments loud in the mix. The second instrumental side is at times dramatic and at times ambient. This album is so similar to "Low." I'd give the slight edge to "Low." I think it took more chances and the second instrumental is better However, "Heroes" is a great, great album and a must have and listen.
As part of the "sacred" Berlin trilogy, I think I'm supposed to just swoon over it. Honestly, short of the title track, I don't care at all, in the least little bit, if I hear this again. This is part of Bowie's art-rock electronic phase, heavily influenced by Brian Eno.
Another Bowie album that just doesn’t really grab me, it’s so odd. I really want to love him, I just find so much of it jarring almost.
8/10
Heroes is noisy and uneven, rarely reaching a resolution, especially in its first half. The title track is a fleeting moment of joy—two anxious lovers seeking meaning in an oppressive world, aware it won’t last. Then the album shifts into instrumentals that feel like a disjointed world tour, from the horror-film dread of “Sense of Doubt” to the delicate, Zen-like stillness of “Moss Garden,” before spelling out its destination with “The Secret Life of Arabia.” Scattered and uneasy, the album lacks cohesion and seems to have a tension and dislocation at its core.
One of Bowie’s best, although a step behind Low from the Berlin albums.
that sneaky bastard of an album catches on quickly, at least the second part!
not really my style, but overall good
Good, a lot of long instrumental songs, love heroes
Feels like a Talking Heads album. I found compelling sections in the first few tracks with Heroes being an obvious standout. I felt it was starting to drag at the end of Blackout but V-2 takes the energy back up and starts a totally instrumental section that seems pretty experimental. King Crimson similarities in the foreboding Sense of Doubt and Neukoln. The saxophone in Neukoln is a particular standout. Closing track is good but not overwhelming. 40 minute length felt very appropriate but overall, it felt like a less polished Remain in Light. 7/10
Some very interesting soundscape stuff on here that I did not expect. Apart from that some experimental ish stuff that i appreciated. Heroes is a great song as always. Honestly got a bit of a Zappa vibe with some of the instrumentation and vocalizations.
"Heroes" doing a lot of heavy lifting on this album. One of my favorite songs of all time, not matched by the rest of the album.
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.
Not a big Bowie fan and this album doesn’t change my opinion. It’s fine but I wouldn’t go out of my way to listen to it.
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
3/5
Liked up through the instrumental tracks. It felt jarring
Masterpiece.
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.
Not for me.
Album of two halves. First half is really good Bowie, second half is too out there and kind of forced experimental. Overall the album is good, just could have been better. 3/5 Might listen again
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
Heroes the song isn't just my favorite Bowie song, it's an all timer for me. I knew there were a dozen Bowie albums on this list. This was the one I was looking forward to the most. Man, what a disappointment. I didn't know about the German trilogy before this album generator. I guess for historical reference one of them could have been on here. But I don't vibe with any of them. Heroes was the standout. The opener was pretty good. But the esoteric weirdo instrumentals on the back half just weren't fun at all. Fuck Moss Garden. I appreciate Bowie as an artist, but this challenge has taught me that I'm really just a singles guy with him. (Without Heroes, this album would be a 2, I'll bump it up one star but even on the strength of the song I can't give it more than that ).
To be honest I was pretty disappointed with this. The title track is of course an all-time classic and The Beauty and the Beast one is ok. Other than that I found it unremarkable. I’d been looking forward to hearing some Bowie albums in their entirety, having familiarity only with his multitude of hits. Hopefully some of the others on the list are more to my liking
i like david bowie but this album just isn’t my favorite. that being said, i love heros, it reminds me of stranger things.
Eh. Bowie is not my cup of tea. None of the hits he's known for were on this album. All filler in my opinion.
One great song + many good songs = 3.
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.
Not my cup of tea but I did like a couple songs
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
yet another bowie album. wow please be more selective with the bowie i need to hear before i die. most of these i have distinctly not needed to hear, i assure you
I'm sorry if I'm a little biased, but for me Bowie is Bowie and this is a 5-star record. Probably nostly because of Robert Fripp, but still... Whenever there's groove, it's amazing. Whenever there's ambiance, it's hauntingly beautiful. "Blackout" is one of my Bowie's favorites. "Heroes" is quite simply one of the best songs of all time, maybe top 3.
I really wish I liked the first half of this album more than I do. Maybe with a few more listens it would grow on me but it feels less inspired than other Bowie stuff I've heard. Really love the Brian Eno stuff at the end, beautiful stuff 3.5/5
good
moss garden is delightful
I've always really wanted to like Bowie, but have never really gotten into him. Side A of this record didn't help. Heroes is a big track obviously, but nothing else on Side A did much for me at all. However, Side B rolled around and Moss Garden hit and I was in. It says something that my favourite tracks are the ambient tracks where Bowie doesn't sing, but I'll take it.
I enojoyed some of the tracks, I assume not his best album?
Was fine, I liked the experimental vibe.
Another Bowie album just two days after Ziggy Stardust? Being awfully generous, aren’t we? It was cool to finally give “Heroes” a spin, as The Next Day was the first David Bowie album I ever heard about and I always wondered why it had a second title that was crossed out. I only later learned that he had a different album called “Heroes” that had its art repurposed for The Next Day and I’m still not entirely sure why, even after reading up about it – maybe it’ll make more sense once I actually listen to the latter. Coming off of The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, “Heroes” kinda comes across like a contractual obligation. I know it’s not, but it sounds like a collection of singles that Bowie didn’t know how to package as an album, so he just made a hard pivot into ambient instrumental music during the second half to fill space. I wish I liked songs like “Sense of Doubt” and “Moss Garden” more, but they just don’t add anything to the album experience for me. “Heroes” certainly isn’t a bad listen – it’s got a lot of great tunes (some of which feel very proto-1980s) and I enjoyed the overall experience more than Station to Station, but I’m struggling to understand the vision here. Again, maybe Bowie’s 2013 followup will add some context and give me a greater appreciation of this project! Highlights: Beauty and the Beast, Joe the Lion, Blackout, Neuköln, The Secret Life of Arabia
Heroes
Nice one. However no every single song is extremely unique. I would propably come back to this album, cause it's classic one just as David Bowie. Overall 7/10.
Bowie attempts to justify humis inarticulate brutality as the effect of growing up in "soulless" Corby, to which the track Welcome to Shitsville is dedicated, but it won't wash. Scratch the nihilistic surface of opening track The Hate Song ("We hate you all! Bleurgggh!") and you find workaday beer boys on a 120-decibel bender. This second album seeks to position them as six men avenging the underclass, but they have yet to construct an intelligible platform. Their forte is soundbites ("We are the chronic youth", "Fuck the evil inside"), and while that might be all that is needed to complement their wannabe-Zeppelin heaviness, real class warriors wouldn't waste an opportunity to rant, which the Speedhorns never get around to. The barbiturate sluggishness of Heartbreaker is pretty good; shame about the rest, because Raging Speedhorn is the best name of the millennium.
Ah... Heroes the song is beautiful and I like the run from V2-Schneider to Neuköln in a totally different way, but otherwise it just feels overrated to me. A shame this is on here and not Lodger imo, which may not have a big hit but is a better album overall.