Station To Station - David Bowie Reviews

Whatever your preferred phase, if you even have one, David Bowie’s mainstream career is pretty fascinating, and for fans who were around at the time (I guess), nicely consistent. Releasing an album every year but two from his optimistic, folky debut to the electronic minimalism of his Berlin detox, Bowie’s discography chronicles the rise and rise ...

After the death of Ziggy and the last rites of Bowie's sojourn to the States vomiting up the Philadelphia Sound, 1976 saw him rediscovering Europe and the fascistic image of The Thin White Duke, as an eerie precursor for what became known as his Berlin song cycle, spawning Low, Heroes and Lodger over the following three years. For all that ...

David Bowie has always been the original chameleon or rock/pop. From his early days as a teenage mime performer and early conceptual artist, he when through a number of pop personas, Major Tom, Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane until in 1975 he became the ‘Thin White Duke’ and in 1976 adopting this persona ‘Station to Station’ ...

This is a great album even though it only contains six tracks. This album is based around Bowies Thin White Duke persona. The title track is excellent displaying great guitar solos and sound effects although the lyrics are difficult to comprehend. Golden years is a fantastic single displaying Bowies vocal prowess, this song starts out with a blues ...

This album should have been called "Wild Is The Wind" because that's the best song on the album. Station To Station comes in fourth best in my opinion on this CD, with TVC 15 as second best and Golden Years third. They put Golden Years on the "Changes" album because it's the shortest one! This is the first David ...

Bowie was just coming out of his largely ill-advised venture into disco when he recorded this album, but he had also just finished making the oddball SciFi film THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH, and STATION TO STATION shares that film's sense of alienation. Almost every track is musically lush (there are plenty of strings and piano), yet also ...