Station to Station

A good album but really pales in comparison to the other albums in his discography. The disco elements are nice and show his adaptability. 3/5

cocaína trás muitos malefícios. em contraponto, temos o station to station.

só pedrada. um album com o tempo perfeito, sem se prolongar muito. só a música de abertura que tem 10 minutos, mas ela pode pq é boa. tá no meu top 3 dele.

Another Bowie album, but this time he is a whiny racist?

Musically this album is much better than the others. The first track in particular started off really well before Bowie's vocals came in and ruined it for me.

I hadn’t heard this until Summer of Bowie and it immediately leapt onto my favorite albums list. It’s so good.

A bit weird..

The band is funky and very tight, the production is lush with layers and layers of synths, spacey effects, overdubbed vocals, disco beats, and fuzzy guitar solos and little neo-soul fills. The songs feel kind of baggy though, overlong and under formed and the vocals, delivered in the classic nasal Bowie style, don't really stand out to provide a catchy anchor point. Its post-pop/rock in its aspirations, more like astral psychedelic dance music that wants to ride the vibe and float around the groove.

Favorites: Stay, Word on a Wing, Wild is the Wind, golden years

The songs on this album are pretty cool, however many songs end by repeating the same line over and over which I don't really enjoy.

Overall I have enjoyed this album quite a lot.

Typical Bowie. Good but not the greatest. 3/5

Actually a pretty good one from him again. Stroong 3

Much better than the earlier Bowie albums that have come up on this list. This is the first thing I've heard from him that sounds organic and shows a real sense of ownership. Some of the personae stripped away.

This is a prime example of "It should not work, and yet it does."

After the commerical success of Young Americans, and starring in his first film The Man Who Fell to Earth, David Bowie transitioned into a new persona that would be dubbed The Thin White Duke. This character would be the embodiment of one of the darkest times of Bowie's life, where his diet of red peppers, milk and cocaine contributed to an unhealthly and depressing lifestyle. In fact, Bowie was so drug-induced that he couldn't recall the recording sessions for Station to Station. I couldn't begin to fathom what he was going through at the time, let alone attempt to make a new album in that condition. That could've been a recipe for disaster, right?

Yet in spite of the turmoil Bowie went through, this might be one of the best albums he's ever done. Six songs of various genres that end up somehow cohesive as he tows the line between drug-riddled and yearning for love. The ten-minute title track is ambitious in switching from a slow march to progressive disco at a different key and tempo, and it works. The singles for this album are superb, especially "Golden Years" with its uptempo groovy edge. Finally, the album closes on a cover of Johnny Mathis's "Wild is the Wind" and it might as well be one of the best vocal performances we ever got out of him.

I'm not saying doing cocaine made this album work, and I'm certainly not going to endorse that notion. Rather, this album works in spite of Bowie's at-the-time addiction. I'm glad he sobered up after this and continued to be ambitious with his music, but I'm also glad this album exists as a sobering reminder.

8/10 nice

I quite liked it. Bowie, like Queen, is really his own, singular thing. I haven’t really listened to a ton of Bowie, but this album was really good. 3.5 if I could, but I’ll bounce it to 4 because I wouldn’t have a problem listening to it again for fun.

PogCamp

Bowie is an all-time favorite of mine, but this isn't his best. There are a bunch of great tracks though.

Solid Bowie album

Bowie is one of those artists I've never found myself interested enough to really immerse myself in. I recognize the hits and I appreciate what I know of his catalog, but this is the first time I've sat down to listen to a full album. From the initial textured white noise intro, I'm sold. Station To Station starts off with a singular bass line and slowly builds the instrumentation into the complete melody before Bowie's signature vocals are injected. New Wave sensibilities are strong here! The opening track AND Golden Years both sound so much like Talking Heads songs to me. Stay brings that funk, in such a uniquely Bowie way I literally giggled. Wild in the Wind is an interesting choice for a closer. I feel it lacks the emotional power of the versions we've received from both Johnny Mathis and Nina Simone, but again it is arranged and performed in a way that is undeniably David Bowie.

It's a weird album. The songs seem long, but only 6 songs? I don't know. I think I realized David Bowie makes albums to actively listen to. If you are just listening to it while doing other things it's not very good? But if you are doing nothing but listening it's much better. Don't know how don't know why.

Bowie at his absolute peak is also him at his most humbly strong. Or something. Never not interesting to listen to.

Up there with Bowie's best. Can definitely hear the krautrock influence here, but it's also quite funky. I particularly love Stay