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  • Release Date: 09/28/1999
  • Original Release: 1977
  • Sales Rank: 19,901
  • Label: VIRGIN RECORDS US
  • UPC: 724352190706

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1LISTENSpeed of Life 2:46
2LISTENBreaking Glass 1:51
3LISTENWhat in the World 2:23
4LISTENSound and Vision 3:03
5LISTENAlways Crashing in the Same Car 3:29
6LISTENBe My Wife 2:55
7LISTENA New Career in a New Town 2:51
8LISTENWarszawa 6:20
9LISTENArt Decade 3:43
10LISTENWeeping Wall 3:26
11LISTENSubterraneans 5:39

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Following through with the avant-garde inclinations of Station to Station, yet explicitly breaking with David Bowie's past, Low is a dense, challenging album that confirmed his place at rock's cutting edge. Driven by dissonant synthesizers and electronics, Low is divided between brief, angular songs and atmospheric instrumentals. Throughout the record's first half, the guitars are jagged and the synthesizers drone with a menacing robotic pulse, while Bowie's vocals are unnaturally layered and overdubbed. During the instrumental half, the electronics turn cool, which is a relief after the intensity of the preceding avant pop. Half the credit for Low's success goes to Brian Eno, who explored similar ambient territory on his own releases. Eno functioned as a conduit for Bowie's ideas, and in turn Bowie made the experimentalism of not only Eno but of the German synth group Kraftwerk and the post-punk group Wire respectable, if not quite mainstream. Though a handful of the vocal pieces on Low are accessible -- "Sound and Vision" has a shimmering guitar hook, and "Be My Wife" subverts soul structure in a surprisingly catchy fashion -- the record is defiantly experimental and dense with detail, providing a new direction for the avant-garde in rock & roll. Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide

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11 wonderful songs!by Anonymous

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June 14, 2004: I still can remember the day that I bought this masterpiece. I fell in love with this LP, jeje, and I listened it twelve times. Three years later, I am still enjoying this album like a child. Perhaps "Low" is the truly "Bowie's masterpiece" of the "post-Ziggy era".

Totally SWEET!by Anonymous

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September 12, 2002: This album was EXCELLENT! Total 5-star quality. Any one who doesnn't like this album is an idiot. My compliments to the artist. I am very much into this artist, but this is the best album I've heard. The picture on the cover ( for those of you who didn't know) is the same as the one on the cover of the movie, "The Man Who Fell to Earth", which I thought was the worst movie I've ever seen (including "Birdcage"), but the album was totally sweet. Ciaou.


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