Album of the day (#869): Low by David Bowie

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Today's album of the day

Low by David Bowie (View album | Buy this album)

Year: 1977.
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Overall rank: 91
Average rating: 85/100 (from 459 votes).

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Tracks:
1. Speed Of Life
2. Breaking Glass
3. What In The World
4. Sound And Vision
5. Always Crashing In The Same Car
6. Be My Wife
7. A New Career In A New Town
8. Warszawa
9. Art Decade
10. Weeping Wall
11. Subterraneans

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[Jasonconfused]

Gets better every time I listen to it. My second favorite Bowie album, after Ziggy Stardust.
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[Romanelli]

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Low is an awesome album. I need to listen to it more often.
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[drakonium]

Just listened to it today lol. It's good.

[Mercury]

This record really grew on me. As of now it's the only Bowie record I really like a lot. The second half is spectacular, I love the gorgeous atmospheric instrumentals. The first half is also really solid.

Anyway, yeah, very nice album. Pitchfork naming it best album of the 1970s is what got me interested a few years back. I don't agree with that high of praise, but stil great.
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-Ryan

ONLY 4% of people can understand this chart! Come try!

My Fave Metal - you won't believe #5!!!

[Norman Bates]

A legend of an album, and quite deservedly so. God it's so good.

[Guest]

My favourite Bowie album, just about. Absolutely stunning.

[Guest]

Amazing album. One of Bowie's best.

[useless]

It begins quite lovely with Speed Of Life, and up until A New Career In A New Town is at the same level with, say, Ziggy Stardust, hell, probably even better. But those four instrumentals... Well, I just don't get them. Sure, they've got a lot of things going on, you can't classify them because of their variety regarding styles. But this is where the album loses me: To me they sound like dated "experiments", and they don't even sound edgy or interesting enough. By no means they are awful or unlistenable or mediocre, but they give me an underwhelming feeling, they don't match with the tone of what came before and overall they provide a somewhat weak closure to a great work. That said, it's really enjoyable, and Be My Wife is incredible, by far the greatest track if you ask me. It has quite a lightweight tone, which is a pleasant change from, say, Ziggy Stardust's "heavy" and sometimes overambitious glam rockers (not to say they don't share anything common). Also I remember Pitchfork calling this best album of the '70s. Well... According to my personal interpretation of the criteria this magazine uses to call a certain work as the greatest of its decade (which is how well it predicted what will become widely popular during the next decade and paved the way for it to walk; e.g. Daydream Nation "predicted" the mainstream outing of indie rock, Kid A "predicted" the development of electronic music and so on) I guess they say it influenced synth-pop? Still, there was Kraftwerk before that.

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