David Bowie: 'Low' | Loving the Alienation
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- This is the first installment of Bowie's Berlin trilogy and a highly influential album, a great collabaroative work with Brian Eno.
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Station To Station is my favorite. But Low is outstanding. The only album to ever put me in a parallel universe. Drug free too.
Station to Station is my favorite too.
I bought this as a 15 year old in 77 on release , I never got it until years later , love it more than ever !
My favorite Bowie album
My favourite Bowie album by some distance
For me Low is one of the four masterpieces from David Bowie. The others are Hunky Dory, The Rise and Fall and Scary Monsters. I also like other records from him, but those four are in my opinion the best. David Bowie really changed me from listening to songs to whole albums.
Very thoughtful analysis, sir. I also favor Scary Monsters, as it marries the Berlin-scapes and Euro-futurism of the Low/Heroes/Lodger trilogy to tighter songs. "Ashes To Ashes" is the most poignant of all, with Bowie watching the 1970s recede into the rearview while looking hopefully, if dubiously, forward into the new decade.
Mid-70s Bowie was Bowie at his (drugged-out) best.
It's a bit funny to define Low a classic record because it was so innovative and out there when it came out to the point RCA (Bowie's record label at the time) delayed it's release because they didn't like it and they thought it was commercial suicide which was basically true since the now so celebrated "trilogy" (Low, Heoes and Lodger) didn't sell big numbers at the time. Anyway in my opinion those records are still unusual to this day in terms of writing and sounds. My favourite Bowie's song is Look back in anger from Lodger (which is still a "difficult" record to listen to).
Eno's After the Heat (same year) shared the same, space-between alienation. remarkable year.
my favourite album of all time.
I love this record.
This album gains more status as time passes. Had it for years - thanks for your great contextual analysis, you have fun putting these together, don't you.
Great analysis Barry. By this stage of his career though I was missing the choons and Bowie's lyrical sweep and flair. It was all there in the prophetic Space Oddity but we didn't know it at the time.
George Murray was a great bass player who worked with bowie and then basically quit the music business. Rarely mentioned but he was a real unsung hero or bowies music and of bass playing in general.
I like to loop Art Decade and immerse myself in a future that never was…
I really love this album.
Just had a test listen of this. The best song on here is Sound & Vision. The rest of the album meanders between dreary instrumentals and songs that should've been instrumentals, given the lack of lyrics.
His finest hour
Great review 👏
Interesting overview of a fascinating album.
Thank you for such a wonderful review .....interwoven threads of a tapestry that continues to enchant and enthrall the true believers!.....my top 3 is Scary Monsters/Station to Station and Low....I seem to recall that Nick Lowe put out an E.P called BOWI......funny!
Heroes is his masterpiece
Well-said! Though his persona at that time was the extra-terrestrial, the man who felt to earth, the Berlin Trilogy is a masterpiece, Low & Heroes are some of his best albums ever.
You must consider the first Tin Machine album for dissection.
Always thought it was an overlooked gem. Crack City is a particular highlight 😎
Love that album. The second one... not so much.
@@lordslothrop365, I like both albums , both brilliant apart from Hunt Sales on vocals on TM2 !
My favorite Bowie Lp. 👍
Never loved Bowie but I drove a long way on a rainy day to get this album. I still think it is his most interesting and best album and I have no idea why I think that. It was cool and an answer to NYC punk. It was pretentious and sincere at the same time. Something like that. Thanks for the analysis.
To me, the trilogy is Another Green World, Low, and Heroes.
This album established Bowie's mannerist credentials, not an original, but a stylist following his white soul play. It was something Bowie said, but his fans never understood.
When Sound and Vision came on the radio in 77 (being still a kid) I used to stop whatever I was doing and just sit and listen. It was spellbinding. A Wonderful single. When I heard the entire album I hated it. What happened? Where's the new 'Fame', 'Golden Years' or 'Life on Mars'? :-) I had no idea what to make of it. As the years went on and I got into music making myself I kept coming back to Low (much more than Heroes). It's become one of my all time Bowie favourites. The first half of the 1980ies would 've sounded completely different if not for this album (and Heroes). By the way, I've probably said this before, the language you use in these videos is always wonderful, well versed and witty. :-)
Another wonderful review. As a testament to Bowie’s prescience, the sort of syncretism of electronica and rock present on Low and Heroes, with Bowie’s voice sometimes functioning as little more than an element of the mix, would later be explored on Radiohead’s 2000 masterwork Kid A. A truly remarkable artist.
I agree
Im trying to figure out where your teleprompter is? Usually i can pick it up.
I would recommend the film Christiene f for any one interested in his kraut rock period
Great album. Not for everyone, which makes it even more appealing.
The comment about Eno not being able to amass a band as “hot” as Bowie’s is debatable, given that musicians like Robert Fripp, Phil Manzenera, Phil Collins, Percy Jones, Robert Wyatt, Andy Mackey and John Cale had played on Eno’s earlier albums.
I think the first side tunes are overrated, quite honestly - enjoyable certainly, but simple pop tunes; shallow stuff really. Nothing to compare to Changes, Life On Mars, Aladdin Sane etc. It's the second side that makes this album special but it leans heavily on the talents of Brian Eno. I think I'll always consider Diamond Dogs to be Bowie's most stellar achievement.
Sound and Vision easily.
Another great review.
However what do you mean by "stay safe?
Safe from what?
From the scary monsters and super creeps
Can someone please explain to me what exactly the appeal of Bowie is?
I’ve tried and tried but just can’t see it
o_O
He was an intrepid adventurer in music and performance. It didn't all come off, but I'm glad he made the journey because he leaves a great legacy of tunes, ideas and mystery. A great interview subject, and saw the impact of the Internet way back too.
He took a lot of musically esoteric or cult ideas from other artists, ( good ideas that didn't quite work), and popularised them? He also challenged male social stereotyping re the caveman.
For me Bowie as an artist gets going properly from Diamond Dogs through to Scary Monsters. Big shout outs though for Alamor, Eno and Fripp in his work though. Also Simon House on electric violin nicked from Hawkwind/Lords.
Had to ask Barry , about the second album you're brandishing to camera . Can't quite get a bead on it.Maybe a proggy one ?
van der graaf generator 'h to he who am the only one'
@@classicalbum Thanks Barry.Will duly investigate.
I don't like one single song on this album. It may be influential but where are the melodies that are pleasing to the ear?
Theres lots of melody on side 1 for sure. Have another listen.....
They're all on Songs for Swinging Larvae, very McCartneyesque.
@@markriney5223 im a big macca fan so thats fine by me!
Bowies "Berlin Trilogy" is highly overrrated.
Very few good SONGS,the rest is mabye....Art???
@@Kunta_Kinte478, Low , Ziggy and Hunky Dory are overrated for a very good reason , they’re great !
This record? I like the songs that sound like songs. The rest, what I think of as "sound track music" and which sounds incomplete since it lacks its visual accompaniment, I don't care for.
First?