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Low by: David Bowie List Price: $16.98 CD-Charts Price: $14.99 You Save: $1.99 (12%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0724352190706 Format: Enhanced, Original recording reissued Label: Virgin Records Us Manufacturer: Virgin Records Us Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Virgin Records Us Release Date: September 28, 1999 Studio: Virgin Records Us Sales Rank: 15302 MPN: 21907 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: Amazon.com: Always up for messing with the formal expectations of rock, Bowie teamed up with Brian Eno for three frustrating but compelling albums, starting with Low. Treated instruments are claustrophobically crowded together, and Bowie's voice leaps in and out of the mix seemingly at will. Where it seems like it might show up, it's replaced by wailing synths or nothing at all, and it vanishes altogether from most of the second half-- a series of long, menacing, barely mobile synth explorations. To prove that they could make pop out of these herky-jerky mix tricks, they pull off "Sound And Vision" in the middle of the disc, but the essence of Low is that the "star" is either absent or alarmingly in your face. --Douglas Wolk Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - The most original album of the 70'sDavid Bowie is quoted as saying "Cut me and I bleed Low," which is a very ironic statement considering the fact that Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders from Mars is considered his most famous album. Bowie is one of the most often quoted and bewildering figures this side of Madonna in all of pop and this quote is truly a head-scratcher. What could he mean by that? I think it is because of all his albums, Low is probably the one Bowie album that is most ahead of its time. At the time it was made, Bowie was recovering from his cocaine addiction and the title Low is very fitting since low is the opposite feeling a person gets when they snort cocaine. Low is the sound of a man struggling with his demons. Back in the late 70's, artists sometimes recorded ... Read More: Rating: - A classic that has been largely forgotten.LOW is an album that is a "must have", especially for those unfamiliar with the "Berlin" period of David Bowie's career. This album confidently straddles a number of music genres (most of which hadn't been identified yet at the time of the original recording's release) like electronica and techno and even one schlocky genre I can't stand like New Age (I'm specifcally referring to the track "Warszawa". There are some instrumentals on this CD that will challenge many listeners but like all of his work, it merits close listening. Enjoy. Rating: - Bowie's Cool MasterpieceDavid Bowie's "Low", his first collaboration with Brian Eno and also the first of his famous so-called "Berlin Trilogy" is probably the apex of Bowie's career. The album is one of the most successful fusions of popular music a major artist has ever attempted. The album is a fusion of many musical genres: rock, jazz, electronica, ambient, pop, funk, etc. but it remains as cohesive and clear and pristine as possible while at the same time being a truly avant-garde work that was ahead of its time that influenced many artists, from Talking Heads to Radiohead's most adventurous phase (Kid A, Amnesiac) and most importantly, a truly sublime musical experience that envelops the power, diversity and reach of pop music in a way that's truly remarkable. ... Read More: Rating:  - Eastern Euro Chill!David Bowie has had various watershed albums, I think 'Low' is one of them. It has to be said that at the time of release it was not received as well as previous works - his label being disinterested in sufficiently marketing it must have definitely contributed to the situation, forcing him to change contracts. It was a difficult period for Bowie, living a year in LA, alienated, troubled with drugs. 'Low' is a powerful result of that mid 70's era finding Bowie as always, willing to experiment with new ideas, to twist the expected. Together with Brian Eno he produced a David Bowie masterpiece which I for one still find exasperating considering the period it was done in and its context amongst other contemporaneous music being produced and retailed by major ... Read More: Rating: - Best of a career Fascinating and unique album that topped Pitchfork's list of the greatest albums of the 70's. I don't rate it quite that highly, but it remains Bowie's masterpiece, even as marked a departure from the sound, texture, and attitude of much of his earlier work. Bowie shows a largeness of spirit in his ability to work with and through Brian Eno, and Eno shows that he is comfortable in a supporting role; the album could not have been made without Eno, but the credit belongs to Bowie. The vocal tracks are uniformly strong, and two of them, the shimmering "Sound and Vision" and the warped, disembodied "Always Crashing in the Same Car" are truly classic. The four instrumentals that close the record are various shades of Eastern block grey, all interesting, and ... Read More: |
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