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The Lowdown by David Bowie released in 2013. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
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Low is the eleventh studio album by the English musician David Bowie, released on 14 January 1977 through RCA Records. The first of three collaborations with the producer Tony Visconti and the musician Brian Eno that became known as the Berlin Trilogy , the project originated following Bowie's move to France in 1976 with his friend ...
- September–October 1976
- David Bowie, Tony Visconti
- 14 January 1977
- Let Me Sleep Beside You
- I Would Be Your Slave
- Loving The Alien
- Jump They Say
- The London Boys
- Fantastic Voyage
- Lady Stardust
- Seven Years in Tibet
- Something in The Air
- Joe The Lion
A rejected single finally released on a 1970 cash-in compilation, Bowie’s first collaboration with the producer Tony Visconti is better than anything on his debut album. Driven by acoustic guitar, its sound points the way ahead and there’s something appealingly odd, even sinister about the lyrical come-ons: “Wear the dress your mother wore.”
Uniformly strong, the songwriting on Heathenstretched from the prosaic – the letter-to-adult-son of Everyone Says Hi – to the baffling. Its highlight sits somewhere between: ostensibly a love song that gradually reveals itself to be about God. The melody is beautiful, the arrangement – very Visconti strings over electronic beats – perfectly poised.
The solitary moment that sparked on 1984’s inspiration-free Tonight. A strange, genuinely great song about religion smothered by overproduction. A 2018 remix helps matters a little, and the stripped-back 00s live versions available onlineare better yet. The demo version – much talked up by Bowie in later years – remains unheard.
Hailed as a return to peak form on release, Black Tie White Noise was nothing of the sort, but its first single was authentically fantastic. Jittery but commercial funk is undercut by a dark lyric that returned to the subject of Bowie’s mentally ill half-brother Terry, this time brooding on his 1985 suicide.
Tellingly, Bowie’s first great song centred on outsiders. A stark, brass- and woodwind-assisted depiction of those – like Bowie himself – left with their noses pressed against the glass of the Swinging London party, it feels like a monochrome kitchen-sink drama compressed into three minutes.
The album Lodger opened with that rarest of things in the Bowie canon, a protest song. Inspired by the ongoing cold war and its attendant nuclear paranoia, its combination of anger and fatalism still sounds pertinent. The music meanwhile is essentially a gentle reworking of Boys Keep Swinging: same key, same chords, only slower.
Ziggy Stardust’s most emotionally affecting moment is one of its most straightforward songs. Driven by Mick Ronson’s piano, it paints a poignant picture beautifully: an overhyped gig by a hot new band, one man in the crowd sadly looking on as his younger ex-lover becomes a star. “I smiled sadly for a love I could not obey.”
There was something charming about Bowie’s enthusiastic drum’n’bass experiments on Earthling, but its finest track had nothing to do with them: Bowie suggested it was inspired by 60s soul and the Pixies. Either way, its leaps from eerie atmospherics to blasting, wall-of-noise chorus are really exhilarating: an overlooked triumph.
Another overlooked 90s gem, from the coolly received Hours, Something in the Air is both limpid and melancholy. The lyrics are filled with regret, the vocal parched and pained behind a liberal sprinkling of electronic distortion – and, when it hits its chorus, anthemic in a way that hints at All the Young Dudes.
Joe the Lion defies explication. Once you get past the opening lines about the transgressive self-mutilating performance artist Chris Burden – “Tell you who you are if you nail me to my car” – the lyrics make virtually no sense at all. The music – arcing, frantic atonal guitar and gibbering backing vocals – sounds deranged; Bowie sings like a man o...
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- Alexis Petridis
Moving to West Berlin to kick cocaine in 1976, Bowie- along with Iggy Pop met with the English conceptual instrumentalist and producer, Brian Eno. Low marks the first of three albums the pair...
Low è l'undicesimo album discografico dell'artista inglese David Bowie pubblicato nel 1977 dalla RCA. Low è considerato anche il primo album della cosiddetta "trilogia berlinese" composta da, per l'appunto, Low, "Heroes" e Lodger. Dei tre album, però, solo "Heroes" venne registrato interamente a Berlino. La definizione data a ...
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- 14 gennaio 1977
2013 — Europe. Vinyl —. 7", Single, Limited Edition, Picture Disc, Remastered. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2013 CD release of "The Lowdown" on Discogs.
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