David Bowie... Low

Released January 14,1977
Recorded 1976 at Château d'Hérouville, Hérouville, France, and Hansa Studio by the Wall, West Berlin
Length 38:48
Label RCA
Producer David Bowie, Tony Visconti
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Intro, intro, yeah yeah, not everything comes in a nice package that you expect, and sometimes the unexpected can be a game changer. Just like David Bowie's Low album when it just jumps in with "Speed of Life". It starts off like a mess, but as it progresses it cleans up and starts to feel like a story, hence the Speed of Life.

Somewhere around a decade ago, was when I left school and became a working man. And during that time I could hear a track in my head, that my friend had sent me a few years prior, and that tracks name was "Sound and Vision". There was nothing written about my future to be, and it seemed fitting as an unwritten book. Back then I wasn't a fully realized person, where I wanted to be, or how I was gonna get there, so this song if you listen to it you might catch what I'm implying.

During that decade I bounced around allot being some kinda moron or maniac, and everyday that I woke it was like living out the lyrics to "Always Crashing in the same Car". Nothing was ever stable, with money, relationships, or emotions, but it was always the same story every couple of months, just like the lyrics say.

And whenever there was a new frontier I always felt that "A New Career in a New Town", was my song that was written and performed for me. Its an instrumental, but the soul of the song is what was always pushing me, like waking up in the morning and not wanting to get up, so you have to force yourself, so that you can live. I could never understand that as a kid, but as an adult, I truly believe that you gotta wake up every morning, so that you can even have that choice, instead of just being nothing.

I really love this album and I hope that you at least give it a chance. And hell maybe you might see what I see in this album. So that's why I gotta say to PASS IT ON and shit maybe even subscribe to this madness.



Also Check out Pinata Hour this week with my friend LEE, another friend of mine that I haven't seen in a minute will be on the show
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All lyrics written by David Bowie; all music composed by David Bowie except where noted.

"Speed of Life" – 2:46
"Breaking Glass" (Bowie, Dennis Davis, George Murray) – 1:52
"What in the World" – 2:23
"Sound and Vision" – 3:05
"Always Crashing in the Same Car" – 3:33
"Be My Wife" – 2:58
"A New Career in a New Town" – 2:53
"Warszawa" (Bowie, Brian Eno) – 6:23
"Art Decade" – 3:46
"Weeping Wall" – 3:28
"Subterraneans" – 5:39