1001 Albums Summary

Made somewhat cliche by time and popularity but a great record, with far more complexity and nuance than maybe it gets credit for

Far from his best, but a decent record with a few of the tracks doing most of the heavy lifting. Quality and timbre of Bowie's voice does alternately grate against and work well with the music, but the overall production and composition is solid

Not taken by the narrative, front half perhaps too sparse/minimalist to help, but of course is voice and delivery is still very good Much more into second half with more lush instrumentation, particularly piano. Think missing the cultural context of dominant country stylings in the 70s that this record sat against takes something away, not to mention country being my least familiar genre, but I did like this record overall