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lovingboth) wrote2022-01-20 07:34 pm
lovingboth) wrote2022-01-20 07:34 pm
This morning's heresy...
Because we've just had the 45th anniversary of its release, there have been a number of articles about David Bowie's 1977 album, Low.
One of the greatest albums ever, they say.
Erm, no.
All of David Bowie's 'Berlin' albums - Low, "Heroes", and Lodger are crap.
They each have one truly great single - Sound and Vision, Heroes, and Boys Keep Swinging - but almost all the rest is rubbish.
Some of it's clearly influenced by early 70s Kraftwerk and their German contemporaries, but they'd moved on to much better things: it's as if Autobahn never happened.
The covers of the first two are very good though...
One of the greatest albums ever, they say.
Erm, no.
All of David Bowie's 'Berlin' albums - Low, "Heroes", and Lodger are crap.
They each have one truly great single - Sound and Vision, Heroes, and Boys Keep Swinging - but almost all the rest is rubbish.
Some of it's clearly influenced by early 70s Kraftwerk and their German contemporaries, but they'd moved on to much better things: it's as if Autobahn never happened.
The covers of the first two are very good though...