Heroes

Two Bowies in a row! This one was better

Super wide range of cultural influences gives this a fairly unique sound, particularly towards the end of the album

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

I liked this Bowie album more than the first one I listened to

At the end of the 70s, Bowie still made great music even though he was sober. Gotta appreciate it

Heroes is the only truly great track on this album. Some others are decent. A couple are not good at all.

I found this album a little bit underwhelming. I liked Heroes of course and the sons of the silent age, but everything else a found a bit uninspiring. I liked the instrumental in Moss garden in the middle as a change in direction, but then felt the effect was lost when it moved into the next song. On the whole i was not entirely captivated by this album and it gets a standard 3 stars

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.

I honestly liked the songs without vocals better than the ones with vocals. Great production, but the Bowie melody and songwriting just aren’t there.

Iconic and a bunch of fire songs like Heroes

So good, not nearly his best, still 4 stars

At the time, I’m sure that collecting the sounds of a hoe down mixing it with blues guitar noodling and an over reliance on southern stereotypes was magic to a select group of young people who were inundated with the psychedelic sounds of the late 60s. There is no doubt that Sweet Home Alabama is Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Stairway to heaven and there are some remarkable similarities in the way both songs start pastoral and build to an anthem. The similarities stop there. This album is a rather boring and dreary affair and best left to those folks who thought the 8:33 of Sweet Home was the whole album.

Repetitive… not bad thought

Weird, fun, into it

Bowie never misses.

The seeeeeeecret life Of Arabia Secret secrets, never seen Secret secrets, evergreen I was running at the speed of life Through morning's thoughts and fantasies Then I saw your eyes at the cross fades ____ Would I rate this album as a 5 if not for the fact I've listened to it a million times? Probably no, not really. Hell, until recently and going through this list I had no idea about Brian Eno much and the type of his music. But I did listen to this album like a trillion times, laughed at the absurdity of some songs here, and "Heroes" uplifts the whole album, just like *One* does to *...And Justice For All*... except *...And Justice For All* actively tries to be boring, this one experiments. *"Heroes"* will forever be one of the most emotional and real tracks I have known, crazy good song, that could've been created at one city, at one time, and in one circumstance only. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFHC6t13hi0 Not the strongest 5/5, but probably we can't have it any other way.

The Berlin trilogy should've not been a trilogy honestly. 2/5

Great album. Love the “Berlin trilogy”.

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

I enjoyed this album for what it was. I'm not the *biggest* fan of David Bowie, but in an effort to discover music this was a nice first step. 9/11/25 - don't know if date is saved with this entry - was a decent day. Definitely a nice way to round off the evening while doing some writing for a game I want to make.

Atmospheric, industrial, gothic! It took a few songs for me to get into it but everything after Heroes was captivating. This album gave me a lot to “chew on” which I really enjoy. As Tristan would say, “it’s a sipper!”

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.

Bowie's best Best Song: Heroes Rating: 9/10 Stars: 5/5

The last third of it is very atmospheric.

Needs a revisit probably

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.

Apart from the peerless title track there is an awful lot of silliness on this record. Innovative Bowie was but sometimes you just want the tunes and the words to mean more. Its ok but there are other way better bowie albums than this mish mash

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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

Cool music. And especially like the B Side, even cooler music.

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

Great side 1. Not so great side 2.

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

Kyllä tämän ihan mielellään kuunteli, mutta Bowielta on parempaakin musaa olemassa.

Ei parasta Bowieta

Tasaista ⭐️⭐️⭐️. Bowien ääni on aina ollut karismaattinen.

Oikein kivaa musaa!

9/10

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

Bowie x Eno x Fripp. Perfection

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

Pleasant

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!

Bowie is Bowie innit.

Fuckin’ beautiful piece of art…

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"

It was pretty good in parts, but otherwise just alright

This album STILL did not open my eyes to the mystique of David Bowie. I don't get his music at all

I've never listened to a Bowie record from start to finish other than Blackstar. Heroes could be one of my all time favourite songs. As a whole album does nothing for me though. Some pretty interesting recording techniques were used and it's pretty innovative but that doesn't translate to an enjoyable listen. My feeling is people are seeing Bowie and some sort of bias sets in. No way this is a 5* album. 2.5/5. Raising to a 3.

Wait, David Bowie?! Oh, wait, Brain Eno…

Creative guy

Aside from the title track...nothing here for me. To experimental?

Jesus, the title track really does all of the heavy lifting here

I want to give this a 4 but it's the instrumentals that drags it down. They are wonderful atmospheric songs that sounds like a score for an unproduced Horror movie with Bowie but they don't fit the rest of the album. The rest of album great I really dug it.

Another Bowie/Eno masterpiece.

Favorite tracks - Blackout - V-2 Schneider - Moss Garden By far one of the best albums I’ve heard in my life

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.

Not my favorite Bowie album

Title song is the obvious standout. Struggled through the first half but was redeemed by a stronger back end. The instrumental songs were strangely therapeutic.

Strange side B, front was good background lol

I like Bowie, but other than the title song, this album ain't really it.

**** It‘s Bowie! Like it

Takie 2/5. Początek spoko, ale potem plumkanie niepotrzebne.

Oh good, I was worried that David Bowie might have coughed once near a microphone and that vital recording may have been left off this list. The cover art really emphasizes the importance of having people in your life who will say “Why are you holding your hands like that and making that stupid face? You look like an idiot. Stop that.” That type of person might also have said “‘Heroes’ is a good song, but the rest of the first side sounds like song ideas that you may be able to turn into something album-worthy if you work at them, and the second side is just Eno wankery. Take another pass at this one champ.” It’s sad that David Bowie didn’t have that person in his life. Then I would have gotten to listen to a better album.

Nothing short of revolutionary

Amazing

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!

I’m not a Bowie fan so I have nothing to compare it to but the Bowie album I listened to yesterday and I liked yesterday’s record better. It was fine. Or more to accurately to say between the first half of pretty neat rock songs that I liked more than average and the rather slow instruments that I couldn’t really get into it averaged out to fine.

good couple of songs, but otherwise, too much music and not enough Bowie

Not my favorite Bowie album, the first too songs are too dense to be enjoyable. V.2 and Sense of Doubt however are instrumental favorites.

the normal songs were alright. the instrumentals were strange. i don’t feel great about this one.

At first it was a talking heads album which was fire and then it wasn’t I might just hate music right now tho

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

Given the advances in cocaine purity levels over the last decade, it’s more likely that this album is the result of talcum powder withdrawal. It could also explain why we’ve not seen a real 10 record in the last decade.

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.

Incredible!!! All timer!!

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!

One of my favorite Bowie records while the ambient side is a bit weaker than Low I do prefer the a-side of the album.

Interesting experimentation in the final third, and Heros of course is a classic, but it doesn’t hit like some of Bowie’s other work.

I’m of two minds on how to rate this album. It seems like two albums to me — one part songs, another part ambient. With the exception of the title track, the songs are not good and feature a side of Bowie’s vocal style which i can only describe as “screechy”. The ambient music side is interesting and enjoyable. *As an album,* I’ll give it a 2. I didn’t hate it, but did not necessarily *need* to hear it (despite its influence on pop music that came afterwards).

Loved the ambient tracks!

After listening to the opening track, 'Beauty and the Beast' I was hopeful it would live up to the standards of the titular track. Unfortunately it seemed to just fall a bit flat after that, it picked back up again towards the end but the middle of the album was a bit of a let down to be honest.

Robert Fripp and Brian Eno really bring it together to paint a gorgeous masterpiece for David Bowie. 3.5⭐️

Meh. Kind of bland outside of the popular songs. And even those are a little bland. 3 stars.

Цікавий альбом, десь навіть неочікуваний для мене, з урахуванням попереднього досвіду з Бові. Багато ембієнту, арті, трохи експериментів. Не можу сказати, що сильно відгкнулось, можливо треба краще було розслухати, але бажання особливо й немає)

Ставлю традиційні 3 для Боуі.

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

Когда альбом блестящий и помимо титульного трека.

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

LFG

I'm a Bowie fan, but I struggle with this era. This album feels so underdeveloped. After one go, I feel like it's a 2 but am willing to give DB the benefit of the doubt for a 2.5 since I believe it could possibly grow on me with repeated listens. And I'll round that to 3 stars (since fractions aren't allowed). 2.5/5 #159

What a strangely mediocre album

adventurous rock, sometimes cold, album was meant to be experienced as a whole "Beauty and the beast"/"heroes"/"the secret life of arabia"

Rating: 2.2 Brian Eno needs to be sent to space prison and put in a cell with strange microorganisms that will invade his brain and kill any desire he has to ever record music again.

Some boring Bowie on this along with the obvious classic title track. V2-Schneider is great and the rest of the Eno stuff is cool as dark foreboding ambient goes. Doesn't need to be on the list

Was alright. Listened while mowing lawn so didn’t see all songs so don’t remember which ones, but a few good ones. Liked the instrumentals at the end. But definitely not my favorite Bowie album

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.

Felt not fully put together like if it was a demo album. Instrumentals are nice to listen to in the background.

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.

I love David Bowie! I feel like this is my least favorite album of his. I'm reading in other reviews about the strong influences of Brian Eno on this one. it's like the lyrics and voice are definitely Bowie - although even in that not his best work. and the music is not Bowie. you could've put any artist on top of these tracks. it was so disjointed. but then there's one of my favorite songs of all time - Heroes. it was the only good track on the album to be honest

What an unfocused mess. Some great tracks in there: "Heroes" obviously, "The Secret Life of Arabia", and mostly-Eno "V-2 Schneider", but the rest goes from okay ("Beauty and the Beast", "Joe the Lion") to downright terrible ("Blackout", and wtf is "Sense of Doubt"). The other ambient songs at the end are decent, but it really doesn't make sense to flow into a short dancy "The Secret Life of Arabia" with an abrupt fadeout ending to finish off the album. Besides the few great tracks, I don't understand the hype of this album even with the Brian Eno collaboration.. it would have worked better as a slimmed down EP. Speaking of the Berlin Trilogy, "Low" is a much more coherent and put-together package even with its ambient tracks on side B.

It's out there. It's different. It's fantastic. Through this project, I'm really appreciating Brian Eno's work and this effort with Bowie and Robert Fripp hits the mark. The title track is a classic but I dug the instrumentals as well. This makes me want to visit Berlin at some point.

There’s one exceptional track in Heroes and the rest of the album is flat. A low rating surprised even me considering my appreciation for Bowie, but this record as a whole just doesn’t cut it.

LOVE THIS ALBUM. This is a top 10 album in his discography for me, and he’s got like 40 albums (heard them all) so that’s high praise. Good mix of his signature rock sound with stunning instrumentals.

First full album i listened to by Bowie, i can appreciate it for what it is just not my style

Heroes impecable. El resto de la cara A me han parecido canciones ruidosas que no me dicen nada (cómo me atrevo a decir eso). Las instrumentales de la cara B, si bien me han dado paz, no es lo que me esperaba en un disco de Bowie, una especie de música sintética + sitar o theremin que no acabo de entender.

This is some weird Bowie! There's some synth in this album that will make you question decisions that were made. Heroes is just a different style than you'd expect. There's a very 80s almost industrial sound even though this came a few years before. There were even some kinda cool ambient noise tracks. Standouts were the title track "Heroes," I kinda liked "V-2 Schneider" and "Moss Garden" was nice and contemplative and had an old school sci-fi vibe to it. I didn't love Heroes, but I didn't hate any of it, which puts it squarely in the 3 star realm. I appreciate Bowie trying something a little different here and it was probably pretty out there for the times, but this is not my favorite Bowie by any means.

It wasn’t really my thing

Glad i listened but not for me, especially the end of the album where songs sounded like spa background noise..

I must be missing something... The video adds nothing.

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

Bowie's second album in his magnum opus that is The Berlin Trilogy is absolute perfection. Next time someone tells you that nothing is perfect play them this album and if they still believe in that old cliche after hearing "Heroes" give them the boot. Might want to change the locks too. Just saying!

Great album

Vocals didn’t hit. Didn’t feel any soul from any of the musical decisions.

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

I think this goes into the category where good art and something I want to listen to again are diverging. Songs: Heroes

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

One of the things I love about David Bowie is how much he changed up what he was doing. The downside of this, for me at least, is that when I'm listening to anything beside Ziggy Stardust, I kinda just want to be listening to that. Still, fucking legend.

hmm not vibing with the songs

Realmente no me parece el mejor album de David, pero bueno, me parecieron interesantes los tres temas instrumentales y obviamente Heroes es un clásico de clásicos.

i like bowie most when he doesn‘t sing and this had lots of that but it also seems really disjointed and nothing really sticks

Beside Heroes a bad improvisation.

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.

I really tried to like this, I did… But I just didn’t Bowie is obviously a legend, but I don’t think any of the tracks were very strong (the closing track was the closest imo), but I also didn’t think any of them were particularly bad either Part of why I rated it the way I did had to do with my very high expectations This is my first Bowie album and I know there’s plenty more left to hear so he’ll have more than enough chances to redeem himself Honorable Mention: The Secret Life of Arabia

Y’all, I struggle with Bowie. He’s got a great voice, the art is insanely interesting, the production is top notch. Why do I not love it? I want to love it, but it’s just ok for me and gets tedious after while. I don’t even know how to rate this very sane insanity.

Half rock album, half art project. All excellent

Man, I'm torn on this one. I had some high hopes going into this, because I know and enjoy a number of Bowie songs already. For the first half of this album, it was a pretty good, synth-heavy experience. However, from "Sense of Doubt" through "Neuköln", it was purely instrumental experimental soundscapes. Now, instrumentals aren't inherently bad by any means. These tracks, however, just stripped all the energy that the first half of the album had. Some of that energy returned in the last song, "Secret Life of Arabia," but the previous three tracks really killed the flow for me.

3.5 stars First half is classic Bowie, second half experimental. This was released after Low in the same year - I think Low is the better and more interesting album. I actually really enjoyed this but “for Bowie” I think this is a weaker album. Heroes is great - as a kid who grew up in the 90s, I heard The Wallflowers’ version off the Godzilla soundtrack first. They cleaned it up and re-established a more traditional song structure. I like both the Wallflowers’ pop-ified radio-friendly version and Bowie’s rougher-around-the-edges original. Oh and it’s part of the Elephant Love Medley in Moulin Rouge so of course I love it!

Before I start this review, I want it on the record that I love David Bowie. I'm a huge fan. He's amazing. He's influential. He's iconic. I fucking love the Ziggy Stardust record. A one of a kind artist. But... I have really mixed feelings about this album. I know it's one of his most revered albums. This and Low are always held up as these monumental achievements. I honestly have mixed feelings about both of them, but I'll save the Low thoughts for when it inevitably is picked as part of this 1001 review extravaganza. Listening to Heroes is a bit like going to watch the 1992 Chicago Bulls. In the first half it all makes sense, it's magical even. Jordan is out there, doing iconic basketball shit. It's what you came to see. Then you go get a snack at half time, hit the bathroom, you're having a great time. But when you go back to your seat for the second half, you realize they're sitting Jordan. He's just chilling on the bench, casually shouting plays to Scotty Pippin and all those other players history forget. And sure Scotty Pippin and the rest of the 1992 Bulls are great at basketball and they're enjoyable to watch... but they're not Jordan. And things continue like this until the last 3 minutes and 46 seconds when Jordan hops back on the court, does some magic and they win the game. Sure it was still a good experience, but you kinda wish Jordan played all 60 minutes. Just like how I wish there weren't 4 instrumental songs on this album (4 out of 10), where Bowie doesn't say a word. He is an iconic vocalist and lyricist. Having him not sing on a track is kind of insane. And sure, those instrumentals are very good... but I still wish he was there singing on top of them. There's just something missing without him there. You could slap a different artist name on those tracks and I wouldn't be able to say, "NOO those are clearly Bowie instrumentals, how dare you". Because Bowie's musical style shifts constantly throughout his career, he's a bit of a chameleon, jumping between characters and musical sub-genres. But the thing that holds his whole cannon together is his unmistakable voice. He can sing on anything, any genre of instrumental and make it his own. And if you get rid of that, all your left with is some cool instrumental psychedelic rock... that doesn't feel like a Bowie track to me. Now the songs where he does sing, are very good... but not my favourite Bowie songs. Heroes is truly incredible of course. I'm not a contrarian on that. It gave me chills the first time listening through the album for this review. The more i listened to it, the more i felt it was an odd song, yet somehow it works as this huge pop anthem. When he starts to scream the lyrics in the second half, it's incredible. His performance blows me away. i've tried to do this song at karaoke and it's so hard to make it compelling for 5 minutes. It seems like an easy to song to sing, but what he brings to it is so incredible and magical. It's so hard to recreate at all. The rest of the album is hard to compare to the song Heroes. Nothing gets near the heights of that track. Weirdly, on some of the other tracks it feels like he's slacking a bit on the lyrics/melodies. There are just some clunky phrases that even David Bowie has trouble selling like "The secret life of arabia" orrr "sons of the silent age." Joe the Lion has this weird vocal section about greasy pipes where the melody has this goofy improvised jazz vibe to it that throws me off every time. The verses of Sons of the Silent Age are underwhelming, which is frustrating because i love the chorus so much (baby i'll never let you go...), it gives Hunky Dory vibes which is my other favourite bowie album. Blackout is a bit of mess vocally... sort of all over the place. Buttt the instrumentals for all of these tracks are incredible, just so groovy and cool. I just kinda wish David honed the lyrics and melodies more. I realize i spent the first half of the reviewing complaining that he wasn't singing and then I spent the back half saying he needed to put more effort into these tracks. I stand by it. Even a half baked Bowie vocal performance is better than no Bowie at all. And even though some of these tracks have some weak vocal moments, they also have incredibly strong moments that makes it all worth it. Ultimately... this is a 3.5 for me. Even a frustrating David Bowie album is better than most other albums. I'm going to round down though because he didn't sing on 4 god damn tracks. Side note (and another hot take): I do kind of see Bowie as more of a singles artist than an albums artist. Yes, he has Hunky Dory and Ziggy Stardust... but the rest of this albums are a bit of a mixed bag for me. The singles though are so fucking incredible. Some of the greatest songs ever written. I could listen to Modern Love every day of my life. But i couldn't put on the Let's Dance album every day...

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!

Meu segundo disco do Bowie aqui da lista. Bowie, meu artista preferido. O que dizer sobre “Heroes”? Pra começar, este álbum não está nem no meu top 10 álbuns favoritos de Bowie. Ele se encontra, na verdade, na posição #15. Às vezes quando mostro meu ranking pessoal para amigos eles se impressionam com essa colocação até que baixa de um dos discos mais renomados dele. Mas rapidamente consigo explicar… Pra começar, esse disco faz parte da trilogia de Berlin, junto do maravilhoso e Top 2 Low e do medíocre e decepcionante Lodger. Heroes se encontra bem no meio da trilogia no quesito de qualidade e proveito que tiro dele. Na trilogia Berlin, Bowie se aliou com Eno na construção de planos musicais extensos e lindos. A produção de Brian Eno, assim como nos outros 2 álbuns mencionados, é de fato o highlight do disco. Tanto é que minha parte favorita deste LP é seu segundo lado, com as faixas instrumentais compostas por Eno, e com a fantástica faixa de encerramento Secret Life of Arabia, contando com o retorno de Bowie aos vocais depois de uma aventura sônica sem igual por paisagens devastadas pela guerra, pela incerteza do futuro, e pelos fantasmas do passado. Lindas palavras que digitei, vou até respirar um pouco. Nossa. Então por que ele se encontra em #15 no meu ranking?! É porque Bowie é realmente tão bom assim, que mesmo um disco tão lindo, intrigante e rico como esse ainda fica atrás de 14 outras obras do mesmo artista. Mais um mérito de Bowie do que um demérito do disco! Mas existem alguns deméritos aqui, sim. Pra começar, acho Bowie liricamente fraco neste álbum, especialmente em comparação com o antecessor Low. Suas performances vocais raramente surpreendem. E não ajuda que a faixa titular do disco Heroes, foi superexposta de uma maneira absurda, sendo a única música do Bowie representada em alguns bares mesquinhos por aí, o que fez com que eu ficasse verdadeiramente farto desta canção. Ela é linda, não se engane, mas eu particularmente não aguento mais ouvir sua progressão que agora é tão previsível. Dito isso, o disco não deixa de ser 5 estrelas. Se quiser, pode dizer que sou enviesado por Bowie ser meu artista favorito. A lista é minha! É engraçado que o maior defeito deste álbum é não ser o Low. É só isso! Eu diminuo ele comparado aos outros, mas ele por si só, é maravilhoso, fantástico, quase impecável. Superestimado na discografia? Sim, ele é superestimado sim. Mas tudo bem, ser superestimado não é sinônimo de ser ruim. Eu ainda o amo. 5/5

Title track (as great as it is) is the only notable track

Do you think shagging Mick Jagger gave this guy magical powers

Average Bowie. Not great Bowie, not terrible Bowie.

I get why this album is considered one of the top 1001 albums but when you dig into it and listen to it, there aren’t that many strong songs. I almost feel like it’s 50% music and 50% filler

Dominated by the title song. Can't hear what's so good about the album tracks. You can smell the heroin, though!

I thought the variety was better than some other Bowie albums that we have had.

Not my choice of music but it was ok

Another day, another Bowie album I don’t get.

another Bowie album & I still don't get the appeal

Not like I'm discovering this for the first time, but it's Bowie, obviously I like it. I like the last part especially for the instrumentals, that's what sticks out to me. But other than that, his music isn't for me unless I listen to it a lot, which I haven't with this album. It's alright.

Heroes es basicamente el unico tema, pero que temazo hermano

3.0 - Ok

What is the point to these instrumentals? Half of them album is 20 minutes straight of these. Makes it worse when they sound like utter gross The actual songs are pretty good, with my favourites being the opening and ending tracks. So why you gotta ruin it David?

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

The instrumentals felt out of place and unnecessary

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!!

What's with the last half of this album? (43 known/91 new)

Bowie at his best. Music at its best. Art at its best. A critical but hopeful expression of the human condition, delivered through genius arrangements and masterful production. Anthemic, abstract, articulate and astounding. ------- By the way, the "Berlin Trilogy" is a retroactive marketing term coined after Lodger. Low only had final touches in Berlin (but was directly inspired by the city) and Lodger was all done in France and the USA - I prefer to think of a four-piece "Berlin Suite" made up of Low, The Idiot, Heroes and Lust For Life. What a fucking run!

A bit of a weak start, but really strong middle and end.

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.

Bom álbum, as duas instrumentais no fim são bem legais

David Bowie's like the most 2.5/5 artist I've ever heard; he's constantly reinventing himself but he's never even all that good at any of his new guises. Still got seven more albums to go, ugh...

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

wow that was phenomenal, really liked it. Those instrumental songs really sold me on this, just a great start to finish album.

There's some good bops here but also some weird stuff which I guess is to be expected from Bowie. The more I listen to Bowie the more polarizing I find his music, is it good or is it just the Bowie effect?

I've always been fairly indifferent to Bowie, cherry picking some songs here and there. I was pretty indifferent to this album too.

Huh. That took a weird turn near the end. I felt like I was listening to a music soundtrack or in an aquarium or something. 🤭 all and all I will no return to this album.

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.

The song is good but I don't see what the fuss is about. Perhaps I just didn't get it.

I'm biased. 6/5

David Bowie is one of the artists that is very hit and miss to me. Like some of his music but most of it not so much. The track Heroes is alright but the rest not so much.

Started and ended very strong but a lot of the middle section was a bit too abstract for me to fully connect with it. I appreciated the experimental elements, but it didn't quite live up to my expectations overall.

hm ye

Want to love this more, but to my ears it’s not something I want to listen to.

I enjoyed the part where he stopped singing (not joking)

Need to listen to more Bowie to gain a better appreciation. Nothing boring about this album, but didn’t move me. Probably need to listen again and more intently. I know Bowie and this album was groundbreaking, but, with some exceptions, I don’t love this record. Recognize the great musicianship though.

Very hood but not his best

I have heard a ton of David Bowie's hits—and enjoyed many of them— but can't say that I've ever sat down and tried to listen to one of his albums. And after listening to Heroes, I'm not sure that this record was the best place to start trying to be intentional with David Bowie. Heroes meanders around a lot and never really seems to settle into a definite groove...or at least a particularly enjoyable one. Heroes, the title track, is enjoyable (though I would say that I've heard covers of this song that I enjoy more...I know, I know, that's sacrilege), and many of the songs where David Bowie sings are not what I would describe as "bad", but none of them really give me a compelling reason to start the record over either. There is also the back end of this album, which is just kind of a boring, extended soundscape. I didn't love this record, to be honest, and I've got to believe that he's put out much better ones. I hope I get to hear one of those at some point. 2.2/5

Bowie was obviously a genius but this is a pretty weird album. And that's speaking as somebody who has given five stars to Can and Zappa so far during this challenge.

Fantastic album, but not his best album or most influential album.

I had a Bowie phase pretty hardcore in college, though, and don't hate me for this, it was largely comprised of Ziggy Stardust, Hunky Dory (Later Low, and then Scary Monsters). Unfortunately, I often had the habit of sticking to one or two albums (sometimes two or three songs) and called my self a fan of such and such artist. Sorry! (am I?) But now I am listening to "Heroes". The title track is amazing--of course I already loved it. Bowie impresses you first with sonic flourishes--and then he punches you in the face with emotion--often paired with his voice going as high as it can. His result is incredible, and my result is crying. First two songs: In listening to the whole album, the energy is clear, though what is also apparent is the chaos underlying. Heroes: What more can be said? It's the sound of the future that's never been reached, while talking about the past we've never had--these two meet themselves in the present--an almost violent union. SOLID WALL OF SOUND! Sons of the Silent Age: Exhausted from the previous blossoming--both Bowie and his band hit an almost tired vulnerability. Perhaps a tinge of anger--yet, again, exhausted. Blackout: Starting with dramatic pulses. Bowie is your friend, back on your side, ready to help you go the distance. Anything is possible. V-2 Schneider, Sense of Doubt, Mass Garden, Neukoln, Secret Life: and this is why Bowie was a master. He can do anything.

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

Other than Heroes, I didn't really like any other song. Going to give it a 2 but that may be generous, maybe just expecting to be more like The Rise and Fall of Ziggy which is amazing...

This is a strange, experimental, at times impenetrable album. It’s also really good.

A solid Bowie construction. Complete with some of excellent composition, witty hooks, and distracting instrumentals. Overall, solid and interesting.

Not in my top 10 list for David Bowie only really liked 1 song a couple others were interesting but wouldn’t compel me to purchase album- sorry Ziggy

The second half of this album gave me anxiety but that was probably a combination of my own headspace and walking at dusk while listening. Solid album!

I found this to be kind of a lackluster Bowie album. Didn't feel particularly inspired and the tracks blend together. I was enjoying a track at the end until I found out that the album had ended and autoplay had queued up a track from Hunky Dorey.

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.

Not a big Bowie fan.

Should have ditched the instrumentals and combined this with Low.

cute David <3

I think David Bowie is ok, I understand his influence on music, but I don't get why you put this many albums by him on this list. This one is fine. That's it.

This was his TWELFTH album? Jeeze. The title track is the best track on the album and was my fave Bowie track for a long time. Sense of Doubt through Neukoln almost sound like they could have been included in a Daft Punk or ambient lyric-less Radiohead album.

I just can’t get into Bowie - 2.5/5: Standout tracks: Beauty and the Beast - 3.5/5 Heroes 3.5/5 Black Out 3.5/5

♫ Listening to ""Heroes" (2017 Remaster)" by David Bowie ("Heroes" (2017 Remaster), 1977) ♫

Heroes the song is amazing, the album was good but the instrumentals on the back half were a bit wierd and boring. I’ll try it again later, but I still love the production of Bowie.

One of the all-time best, Fripp is brilliant and the fact that it was basically an "on the fly" album just makes it that much more incredible. Should be on everyone's list along with "Low" and Lodger".

this is the first of the berlin trilogy that i’ve heard, the intro was great and the title track is obviously amazing, the disc 2 instrumentals didn’t really seem to fit in with the vibe and just felt a little bit in the way, it takes a lot away from the value of the album i found, i enjoyed a lot of the songs but as a whole album i wouldn’t say its bowie’s best, cover is beautiful 3.5/5

I hate to do it, but I couldn’t get into this one. I don’t like the cut up version of Heroes either. The long play is so much better. This version feels like a cd is skipping. Not for me.

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.

Girl the brit favoritism is off the charts here... it literally wouldn't have more than 2.6 score if it was any other artist

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.

I'm really sorry, but I don't really like this album. Yes, the title track is one of Bowie's best songs. But the rest.... No, I kind of like the experimental Eno-tracks but I can's stand the opening dup 'Beauty and the Beast' and 'Joe the lion'. My god, who thought these ugly choruses were a good idea? And Robert Fripp's guitar sound - mangled through a synthesizer, I think - is ugly as hell.

So good! I had never heard the second half of this album. I'd love to own this one on vinyl.

2, one great song Didn’t love the album

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.

Title track is one of my favorite songs of all time. So, so, so good. The rest of the album is a bit of a shrug. Liked the instrumental songs on the second side. A bit hard to remember what 1977 and a divided Berlin felt like.

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

Good

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

A remarkable record, Bowie displays his creativity and musicality throughout this record. It's ambitious, innovative yet cohesive. Musically it's excellent, full of ambitious compositions and bold ideas, the instrumental run from "V-2 Schneider" to "Neuköln" is Bowie and company at their boldest, building atmospheric and very expressive landscapes. Fripps' guitar playing is excellent, Eno's synths are super rich and the rest of the band are on point too. Bowie is of course the most remarkable here, his vocal quality and delivery are as great and excentric as ever, and he's also the driving force musically, with great sax lines, keys and other instruments, including a koto. Lyrically it's very diverse and quite ambiguous, but Bowie still delivers powerful and alive vocals. In terms of songs, it's difficult to pick because they're all excellent in their own way. "Heroes" is the obvious standout as it's by now one of Bowie's most renowned songs. "Beauty And The Beast" is super catchy and fun too, and a great opener. From the instrumentals, "Moss Garden" was the most remarkable for me, the koto that Bowie plays along with the synths make it such an eerie and atmospherically rich track. Finally, "The Secret Life of Arabia" is a superb closer, more rock oriented and more lively. Overall, it's a superb album. While it takes some processing mostly due to how innovative it is, and it's certainly not your average Pop album, it's a very rewarding project after a couple of listens, and showcases Bowie's talents, particularly his creativity.

Part of his Berlin trilogy and arguably this and Low are some of his best work. Full of electronic experimentation and the unforgettable title track. Classic

Timeless.

One amazing song. Otherwise - nah.

Bowie at his artsiest, not my favourite, but still great

There is a fair amount of David Bowie that I like. Unfortunately, not much of it is on this album. 2.

I almost wrote this album off until the instrumental tracks. Still not my favorite Bowie album, but can’t say it’s not interesting.

I still don't like David Bowie. I read that in the book 1,001 albums to hear before you die, he has 9 entries. Aaaack. That means I will have to listen to him a few more times.

There are too many Bowie albums on this list but this is great

Get rid of tracks 6-9 and replace with something more worthwhile (ie the rest of the album) and then you get 4 stars.

Good album, Heroes is the standout track here with Robert Fripps iconic riff

Didn’t love this … Bowie has just never been my cup of tea!! Heroes is a phenomenal song though, he really popped off with that one. I just don’t really get the rest of the songs and nothing sounds sonically capturing enough for me. I didn’t expect there to be a few instrumentals on this album but they didn’t really pop off either. Just kinda weird and that’s okay but like… I don’t think an album NEEDS sonic cohesion but this one hasn’t even heard of the concept.

Not my fave. Not my fave at all.

A bit confusing but beautiful. I’m not sure why so many songs were instrumentals but I enjoyed them. More unique and inspired music from Bowie. Most of them were totally new to me and I was grooving.

wow a bowie album i don’t immediately hate

Not the best Bowie, but...interesting.

I grew up listening to a lot of David Bowie as my dad is a huge fan. The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars has always been my favorite album of his and I’ve never really explored many others. I think “Heroes” is the only song I’ve heard from this album before today. That being said, I was blown away by some of the synth instrumentals on this album. Truly a work of art.

When I was in college, I got wine drunk, blacked out, and my only memory was sitting on the couch and crying while Heroes played in the background. David Bowie had only died a few months prior, and the song was enough to move me to tears. The song will forever hold a meaningful place in my life, however, ranking the album anything higher than a 3 would be blatant Bowie bias.

The unusual instrumental tracks were a welcome addition to this album, including electronic sounds and some unexpected instrumental choices. His songs are always creative and have unexpected twists. This album was definitely way ahead of its time.

Mostly good.

Ainda não chegou o disco da música dele que amo, rs! Mas falando propriamente desse disco, é inegável a capacidade deste homem.

"Ufff" fue lo primero que me salió decir apenas descubrí que hoy tocaba éste disco de Bowie, tanto por el trabajo como por el artista. Ayer tocó en el reto un disco de King Crimson y acá participa Robert Fripp: los hermosos azares de la vida. Canciones bailables, sutilmente oscuras y electrónicas, con un David Bowie siempre siempre a la vanguardia. Imposible no emocionarse con la canción homónima y no bailar o colgarse con el resto de los temas. Hasta el lunes, último día de la primera mitad del año.

Couldn't connect all that much with the sung songs however I really enjoyed the purely instrumental or snythetic songs!

I’m not the biggest Bowie fan but I can enjoy this album from time to time.

Interesting album, good instrumental tracks at the end. Definitely a vibe

Finally! My first Bowie album of the challenge! Heroes (the song) is my favorite Bowie song and one of my favorite songs of all time. The album itself is very good too, but man that song is something special .

Blind album? I dont think I've listened to the whole thing before but know the hits. The back half seemed to drag for me but decent.

Really not for me. Heroes was all right but I do not enjoy the vocals throughout the album, and the instrumental songs were downright bad.

Heroes är ju fantastisk men albumet är galet ojämnt.

Kinda boring at start. Last 3 tunes were pre good thi

ja conhecia

It’s not bad, but this is not my favorite work from Bowie. Parts of it feel a little sluggish, but there are definitely some enjoyable moments too. 2.5 rounded up to 3 stars.

Good album, I enjoyed it. Love the music for the song Heroes too.

Nothing wrong with the album just not too much that was compelling either!

David Bowie album #3 out of 9, and definitely his best work to me. His regular songs on this are amazing, his ambient ones are interesting and really textured, just an all around amazing work of art.

Well that's not what I expected. It's such a bizarre album that feels like a mix between Lou Reed and maybe Kate bush? Listening to the title track I don't think I ever realized how weird that song was either. Is it interesting? Sure. Would I have been pissed off if I bought it only hearing the single? Definitely. Drugs make you do some wild shit.

Joyaaaaa!!

I'm a huge Bowie fan, but I must confess this isn't my favourite, even among the Berlin trilogy. Too many instrumentals for my taste. Still, probably upper-middle of the pack when considering all his 70s output. And that is enough to give this album a 5. Heroes alone is worth 3 stars, and even though I'm not as into the instrumentals they do have a nice vibe. Reminds me of Disney's Space Mountain ride's queue music.

My hot take is that this is by far the worst of the Station to Station/Low/This trilogy. I can't get myself to care about the Eno noodling back half when I could literally just listen to Eno do it 10x better on his own albums. The two singles and closer are peak Bowie, though - Heroes is a top 5 song OAT on every single day of the week. 8.5/10

Okay, not the best David Bowie, but still a heroic album that got me into the grooves.

I didn't realize how much Preoccupations singer is biting Bowie until now. All the poppy songs I like on this are rendered redundant by the existence of Talking Heads. When it becomes a spacey freak jazz album I love it

2.33

I thought of this as a slightly more mainstream counterpart to Low, with the art rock first half and ambient second half Here the second half is a bit less eery than Low. I like it more than I remember (haven't listened to the album in a few years), I especially liked Moss Garden. The koto backed up by swirling synths and the occasional rocket sound (?) is nice and calming, the Japanese sound probably appeals to me as a dumb weeb as well Of course everybody knows the title track I like that they album ends on a bit of a more energetic note with Secret Life of Arabia, it kind of helps tie everything together a bit more than Low, where both halves feel very clearly segmented Probably battling with Station to Station for my favourite Bowie albums cover

This has given me a lot through the years.

On the strength of the title track ALONE, this is one of Bowie's better albums. I get the idea of the instrumentals, and putting them one after another gives the sense of a unified thing. But I always felt of them as filler, a little noodle-y. Even so, this is definitely one of Bowie's best albums although not my favorite, that would probably go to "Hunky Dory." That's the beauty of Bowie: EVERYONE has a different favorite album. Top tracks: "Heroes," "Beauty & The Beast,"

Not my favorite Bowie album, that's for sure. Still solid, but it felt a little manic. Beauty and the Beast and Joe the Lion were both energetic but a bit all over the place. The title track is the crown jewel for sure, though it seems different from those two tracks that come before it and the other two after it on side one - Sons of the Silent Age and Blackout. Now, those two have a more consistent style within the song, which is a plus. And then side two goes mostly instrumental, which I wasn't always sure what to do with. I think V-2 Schneider is really strong, probably the second best song on the album. It starts of spacey but then gets funky. Sense of Doubt to Moss Garden to Newkoln are spacey throughout. Not bad, and he segues pretty nicely from one to the other but I felt like I was looking for something more. And the last one in that sequence started to feel overdone. The middle one was the best. And then he finishes with The Secret Life of Arabia, which felt like a better fit for side one. Like I said, it felt a bit manic, or maybe disjointed, though there were a lot of strong individual moments.

Great album, with one of the best songs ever written (Heroes, of course - absolutely legendary - outstanding vocal performance from Bowie, especially when he starts screaming the vocals, and Fripp's droning guitar is iconic - everything on this track is amazing). This album is similar to Low, which immediately preceded it - rocking side one, more artsy side 2. I can see how some might not like the unhinged nature of a lot of his singing on side one and the ambient nature of the second side, but I'm a big fan of all things Bowie so that makes this an easy 5 for me. Favorite tracks: Beauty and the Beast, Joe the Lion, Heroes, The Secret Life of Arabia. Two additional thoughts: 1) My "TIL" is that Bowie plays sax on this album, and he's really good, too. Never knew that. 2) This is the last of his classic age albums on the 1001, so I'm going to use it as an opportunity to put in a plug for Scary Monsters (1980), one of my favorite Bowie albums. Side one of Scary Monsters is a murderer's row of amazing songs (including Scary Monsters (with more amazing guitar work by Fripp), Ashes to Ashes, and Fashion). I suppose 8 albums in the 1001 is enough, and I generally don't disagree with the choices but, if you like what you've heard there are plenty more great Bowie albums to hear!

Ganske bra, spesielt B-siden

Absolute favorit Bowie album! The song "Heroes" is fantastic!

The Brian Eno influences, especially on the back half of the album are very evident and is a very interesting glimpse of what he was going to create in the following years. Aside from that there's a few classic Bowie hits to be enjoyed on here Standouts Beauty and the Beast Heroes Sense of Doubt 4/5

Not my favorite Bowie album, but still really really good.

Not my favourite Bowie album. Overhyped due to Heroes.

I think my 16-17 year old self would've really fucked with the song "Heroes". I still think it's quite alright now... because Brian Eno co-wrote it HAHAHA Second half of this is basically and Eno ambient album?

Probably his best album so far

I just keep hearing the same guitar sound in each song.

Some of these are great, and others I wasn't able to really dive into. Truthfully there are only a few albums of his that do it for me, but I appreciate his art.

Don’t mind Bowie new wave, but not nearly his best album. Title track Heroes is the best song. Great synth production.

Eh.

I bought this album on cassette in the early 80's and probably got it in the bargain bin. As with many of the pre-recorded cassettes at the time (I have several Bowie tapes), the tape has tightened and only plays if you shake it and even then it warbles. I was hoping it for a more enjoyable experience, but at the time I felt it had only one good song and a lot of uninteresting and boring filler. Of Bowie's mid-late 70's albums this has aged well. Listening now, there are multiple songs I enjoy and recognize and though it loses steam towards the end, it has a sonic energy and mature songwriting I may have overlooked before. It resonates for me more now and though I don't consider this a must-hear, it is worthwhile and the title track alone is one of his best.

Sem condições...

Fun.

Produktionen lyder mere dateret end Low, et rigtigt 80’er album. Stadig godt!

Jeg synes at Low gør det bedre (både i de instrumentale ambient numre og i sangene), den plade er bare mere commited til sin produktionsstil. Men de store bangers her er også større bangers end på Low, og det er fanme hård konkurrence.

Really great songs, but the instrumental tracks felt a bit weird. Close to 4!

I haven't listened to much Bowie in the past - definitely not a full album from start to finish. This was vibey and fun. There was stuff on here that I definitely liked better than the main song "Heroes." Would listen again - and will try out some more Bowie. 4/5

Not my cuppa

Have never listened to this all the way through. The title song is an absolute banger, of course, but I see this as one of the weirder of Bowie's creations... Very "Berlin" (it was part of his Berlin trilogy) and pretty experimental sounding. Not wild about it but can appreciate it is 'clever'. This hasn't usurped 'The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars' and 'Hunky Dory' which are masterful.

2.6 Never been a huge Bowie fan

Talent, but not my jam

Cover: 3 Good experimental chill album. Not spectacular, at least on first listen.

One thing I’ve learned from doing this is I’m not as into Bowie’s Berlin trilogy as I thought I was. Heroes is a cracking song, and I really like the instrumentals that close out the album, but otherwise I found the rest of it quite lacking. Not bad by any means, but merely okay.

Mästerverket

Very forgettable album. Even the radio hit 'Heroes' is one of the weaker songs in his collection. 3 of the tracks sound like movie ambient music.

Really like the second half of the album and the ambient/experimental stuff. First half is great too. But I’d never heard that part of Bowie’s work before and glad I did.

Great listen. The second half is so good with experimental/avant-garde stuff that I never knew Bowie had made.

Class

Ostras, que bueno.

Love Bowie, but not my fave

It wasn’t too bad

ONE OF THE BEST SONGS EVER. ONE OF THE BEST SONGS EVER. ONE OF THE BEST SONGS EVER. ONE OF THE BEST SONGS EVER. ONE OF THE BEST SONGS EVER. ONE OF THE BEST SONGS EVER. ONE OF THE BEST SONGS EVER. ONE OF THE BEST SONGS EVER. ONE OF THE BEST SONGS EVER.

I love the title track of course, but hadn’t heard the rest of this album surprisingly. The instrumental tracks near the end were a vibe, but this one was a little inconsistent for me.