Put The Needle On The Record - Week #90

Put The Needle On The Record Week #90 David Bowie - Low

For this weeks feature we go back to January 1977 and the David Bowie album "Low".

"Low" was the 11th album released by the sadly missed David Bowie. It is part of the "Berlin trilogy" albums record in Berlin, Germany, the other 2 albums being "Heroes" and "Lodger" and is my favourite album from the three released, because of it's electronic sound. The trilogy was also produced by Tony Visconti, who worked with Bowie of many years.

Amazingly Bowie's record label, RCA, refused to release the album for 3 months as they felt it would be a commercial failure! It was an album that divided critical opinion and received very little promotion by the label and by Bowie himself......it is now regarded as a "classic" Bowie album and one of his best ever album releases.

My favourite tracks on the album are, "Sound And Vision", "Speed Of Life", "Breaking Glass", "Warszawa" (my favourite track overall), "Art Decade" and "Always Crashing In The Same Car". It really is an amazing album that was way ahead of its time.

Three singles were released off the album "Sound And Vision" (which reached number 3 in the UK Singles Chart and number 69 on the Billboard Hot 100 in America), "Be My Wife"/"Speed Of Life" (which reached number 57 in the UK Singles chart) and "Breaking Glass"/"Art Decade", which was only released in Australia and New Zealand.

The album, reached Number 2 in the UK album chart and number 11 in the American Billboard chart.

Track Listing

Side 1

Speed Of Life
Breaking Glass
What In The World
Sound And Vision
Always Crashing In The Same Car
Be My Wife
A New Career In A New Town

Side 2

Warszawa
Art Decade
Weeping Wall
Subterraneans

If you have this album in your collection, dig it out and give it a spin!