Station To Station [Remastered] - David Bowie

Advantages: It's David Bowie
Disadvantages: None

...fuelled recording session the album Station to Station, which had the original title "The return of the Thin White Duke" and was originally released on the 23rd of January 1976, the album lasts only 38 minutes and 10 seconds and only has 6 tracks. This album effectively divides the 70's off for Bowie as it ties up the era of Ziggy Stardust and plastic soul and introduces the first taste of the new music that was to follow and it also uses for the ...
...the album features the last great Bowie persona "The Thin White Duke", Bowie also abandons his song writing method of 5 years, and is the last album recorded in America until 1980's "Scary Monsters". This album is both Bowie's most impenetrable and accessible, musically it presents a synthesis of power, simplicity and grandeur, and a dark cold surface where Bowie is flailing in his own alienation and loneliness. The album itself begins with the ... Read review

Advantages: Daring, intriguing and soothing.
Disadvantages: Overlong, repetitive and confused.

...in that order. 1. Station to Station 2. Golden Years 3. Word on a Wing 4. TVC 15 5. Stay 6. Wild is the Wind Partly because of its eccentric oddness, I have long considered this among my favourite Bowie albums, though it tends to fall quite far down the list once I start thinking about it. There are only six songs, one of which is a cover song and almost all of which are far longer than necessary, but fortunately Bowie's accumulated diversity ...
...There's no real consistency through this album, from the disorderly sound effects and studio trickery of the first few minutes to the unpredictable high wails and deep croons that alternate on the choruses, but it's all been arranged in the most satisfying fashion possible. 'Golden Years' was the obvious choice for a first single, the only song to restrict itself to a mere four minutes and retaining the inoffensive soul pop sound of the last album, ... Read review

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...Track listing: 1.Station To Station (10:08) 2.Golden Years (4:03) 3.Word On A Wing (6:00) 4.TVC15 (5:29) 5.Stay (6:08) 6.Wild Is The Wind (5:58) *7.Word On A Wing (6:10) *8.Stay (7:24) *Bonus tracks on CD release ‘Station to Station’ is quite different from Bowie’s previous work. The exuberance of the glam era had given way to a new colder, mechanistic sound. Gone were the black American influences as he started to embrace an earlier 20’ and 30’s ...
...European futuristic sound. In this record we can clearly hear the influences, which would lead him to the later Berlin period and his collaborations with Kaftwerk and Brian Eno. Originally Bowie had planned to release a soundtrack album for ‘The Man Who Fell To Earth’ but as that project fell through he put together some songs he had been writing during the making of the film to produce ‘Station To Station’. Bowie didn’t want to tie himself down ... Read review

Advantages: A Classic
Disadvantages: None

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 the sound and the image was relentlessly European, Bowie had built an All American collection of musicians around ...
...pianist Roy Bittan and the wonderful bass-drums axis of George Murray and Dennis Davis. This was a classic band who provided tremendous support to Bowie after his bizarre Young Americans episode when he had sported the oddest of haircuts and allowed BBC’s Omnibus to film a revealing documentary about him. They gave his career a new impetus and provided the core of his support over the next few years, although it was only with the arrival of Brian ... Read review

Advantages: Every single track
Disadvantages: none

...the "Scary Monsters" album. Station To Station: Clocking in at a mammoth 10.08 running time, this starts as a slow burning introduction to the Return Of The Thin White Duke, who's making sure white stains - and I don't think he means Ariel Soap Powder. Gradually building to the stop/time gap, then the guitars kick in with a vengeance, and "it's not the side effects of the cocaine, I'm thinking that it must be love", wow what a record this is, mere ...
...shivers up my spine. Please tell me if you know a better album opener, because I cannot think of one. Golden Years: Dave gets his groove on in this faberoonie funk number about superstardom and all its (side) effects, coming up with another DB classic lyric "run for the shadows, in these golden years", and even before the Duke does his whistling thang, the bosses at Soul Train are on the phone faster than you can say "would you like to be the first ... Read review