Station To Station
David Bowie
Station To Station
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Tracklist
| Track | Duration | Listeners | ||||
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Station To Station (1999 Digital Remaster) full track | 10:10 | 78 | ||
| 2 |
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Golden Years (1999 Digital Remaster) full track | 3:59 | 136 | ||
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Word On A Wing (1999 Digital Remaster) full track | 5:59 | 620 | ||
| 4 |
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TVC 15 (1999 Digital Remaster) full track | 5:29 | 743 | ||
| 5 |
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Stay (1999 Digital Remaster) full track | 6:11 | 146 | ||
| 6 |
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Wild Is The Wind (1999 Digital Remaster) full track | 5:58 | 767 |
About this album
“Station to Station” is the tenth studio album by English musician David Bowie, released by record label rca in 1976.
Commonly regarded as one of his most significant works, “Station to Station” is also notable as the vehicle for Bowie’s last great ‘character’, The Thin White Duke. The album was recorded after he completed shooting Nicolas Roeg’s “The Man Who Fell to Earth”, and the cover featured a still from the movie. During the sessions Bowie was heavily dependent on drugs, especially cocaine, and recalls almost nothing of the production.
Musically, “Station to Station” was a transitional album for Bowie, developing the funk and soul music of his previous release, “Young Americans”, while presenting a new direction towards synthesizers and motorik rhythms that was influenced by German electronic bands such as “Kraftwerk” and “Neu!”. This trend would culminate in some of his most acclaimed work, the so-called “Berlin Trilogy”, recorded with Brian Eno in 1977–79. Bowie himself has said that “Station to Station” was “a plea to come back to Europe for me”. The album’s lyrics, meanwhile, reflected his preoccupations with Nietzsche, Aleister Crowley, mythology and religion.
With its blend of funk and krautrock, romantic balladry and occultism, “Station to Station” has been described as “simultaneously one of Bowie’s most accessible albums and his most impenetrable”. Featuring the single “Golden Years”, it made the Top 5 in both the UK and US charts. In 2003, the album was ranked number 323 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
Commonly regarded as one of his most significant works, “Station to Station” is also notable as the vehicle for Bowie’s last great ‘character’, The Thin White Duke. The album was recorded after he completed shooting Nicolas Roeg’s “The Man Who Fell to Earth”, and the cover featured a still from the movie. During the sessions Bowie was heavily dependent on drugs, especially cocaine, and recalls almost nothing of the production.
Musically, “Station to Station” was a transitional album for Bowie, developing the funk and soul music of his previous release, “Young Americans”, while presenting a new direction towards synthesizers and motorik rhythms that was influenced by German electronic bands such as “Kraftwerk” and “Neu!”. This trend would culminate in some of his most acclaimed work, the so-called “Berlin Trilogy”, recorded with Brian Eno in 1977–79. Bowie himself has said that “Station to Station” was “a plea to come back to Europe for me”. The album’s lyrics, meanwhile, reflected his preoccupations with Nietzsche, Aleister Crowley, mythology and religion.
With its blend of funk and krautrock, romantic balladry and occultism, “Station to Station” has been described as “simultaneously one of Bowie’s most accessible albums and his most impenetrable”. Featuring the single “
Golden Years”, it made the Top 5 in both the UK and US charts. In 2003, the album was ranked number 323 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
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Shouts
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PhamilyJules wrote:
During this period David Bowie's diet consisted of "red peppers and rice, cocaine and milk"...
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clowne88 wrote:
*sigh* so stunningly beautiful, but very icy.
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phillipefrosti wrote:
i think this is the best bowie album.
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Feather_x wrote:
If this is mediocre, we might as well blow up the globe.
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prosopagnosia wrote:
Amazing in every possible way!
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LordGK wrote:
I prefer the LP cover, with the picture in Black and White and the white border. One of my Bowie's favourites, of course.
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spacefaceinfurs wrote:
what a great album! love it!
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szafi19 wrote:
And one more time he's ahead of artists of the 70s. My favourite next to Diamond Dogs and Berlin Trilogy.
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janelesque wrote:
Word on a wing sweeps me off my feet. how I love that song.
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EuroPimp wrote:
Takes a bit of time to get through. But oh my god, it is so rewarding. His best album after Berlin trilogy.
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IAJP wrote:
best thing about this album is how frenzied it is..stay especially encompasses how fucking hectic it must have been to make such a ground-breaking album whilst in the haze of so much ridiculous drug intake..
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licoricepizza wrote:
Between the cocaine and the bouts of schizophrenia, am really surprised (and glad) that Bowie survived through this period of his life. Pity he has little or faint memory of producing this masterpiece.
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RaffetCaca wrote:
Great album
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davlyn123 wrote:
a frav of mine this album i have some good memory's from it very splendid indeed
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AFMLopes wrote:
The title track is genius.
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Bolshevized wrote:
Tagged as cocaine (which Bowie was high as hell on during the making of this album).
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kingdaniel wrote:
My favorite album by my favorite artist. As a matter of fact, this and Low might be my two top albums of all time. They still sound amazing, even with all the techno out there.
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GothicBowie wrote:
The more i listen too this album, the more i love it. ''Golden years'' '' station too station'' just amazig, and woow "TVC 15" great album
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Pinkfloydbeck wrote:
Hmm... is this better than my two favorites, Low and Ziggy? Man, these three albums (and Scary Monsters, Lodger) are... Wow.
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BrotherWright wrote:
Hmm...what's left to say? Outstanding album by Mr Bowie who spend the production phase of this piece of art in haze of cocaine in L.A. It's loosely based on Young Americans' "Blue-Eyed Soul" particularly recognizable when listening to "Golden Years" and "TVC 15" and eventually the funky bottom of "Stay". The 10min title track is an early indicator of the course to be taken soon with the Berlin Trilogy. A rather experimental, sweeping opus with various changes of texture and keys, resembling Bowie's fondness of Krautrock rhythms. The album closer is a beautifully sung ballad and showcase for Bowie's vocal abilities. Conclusion: One of Bowie's finest albums as well as a transitory one.
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