"Heroes"
by David Bowie

Heroes is an underrated record. It's got some familiar elements from Low but overall is more of a pop record. The instrumental tracks may need multiple listens to appreciate. Title track is of course outstanding but I also think Secret Life of Arabia is wholly underappreciated and deserves more attention.

There is one truly outstanding song then a few pretty decent tracks and the rest I would argue is filler or skippable. Once you get past Sons Of A Silent Age there is a slight drop off from the great tracks we have just experienced and then there is a larger one once you finish V-2 Schneider. It might be that I really can't stand the song Sense Of Doubt and I unfairly zone out of the rest of the album as that song is tough to get through. The piano and noises that happen on that cut are not dark or mysterious at all and they are just annoying and overbearing in my opinion. The second half really lets this release down. Despite this, the first 4 track run is one of my favourites on any Bowie record. Overall, this album isn't consistent enough to be amongst the greatest in his discography but it still shines in moments and has a lot of greatness which elevates it a lot.

This record contains Bowie's best track: Joe, The Lion





jkjk The title track is the best he ever made

Great Bowie album, I especially like Beauty And The Beast, title track, Blackout and The Secret Life Of Arabia. I think that instrumentals in the second half are mostly good too and they intenify haunting atmosphere of a record.

There are some real highlights on this album - obviously the title track (which is one of Bowie's best), Blackout, Joe The Lion and The Secret Life Of Arabia. But the rest of the album is just filler - the string of boring instrumentals in the middle of the album really turn this into a bit of a drag. And some of the tracks on the album are annoyingly similar to each other. But the highlights of the album save its rating for me. It's just about tolerable.

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Great album, never understood the mass appeal of the title track, it's great but not amazing in my opinion. The album still holds up as one of the strongest in Bowies catalogue.

Great album, instrumentals and all. Easily the best of the Berlin trilogy.
Best song(s): Beauty and the Beast; Heroes; Blackout; Neuköln; The Secret Life of Arabia

The conventional and the experimental sides are more balanced than in Low.

Such a mysterious, dark ambient, yet it's an incredibly entertaining record. My fav Bowie album, to me it really goes beyond music.