i have just got into this album recently having dismissed it a few years ago but how wrong i was...this is a huge grower...amazingly experimental sounding even now, 27 years after it was released, bowie was right at the cutting edge of music at this time, as he was for most of the 70s, and this album is up there with the greats.

yup - it's my favorite bowie album by a longshot.

Bowie had some really funky stuff on there, like Joe The Lion & Breaking Glass. It rocks!

Love that album as well..."Be My Wife" and "Always Crashing in the Same Car" are two faves.

This is my very favorite album by anyone ever. I can't even begin to describe how it makes me feel.

NWF said:

wellll, "joe the lion" was on "heroes", but it's a fine song all the same.

so, are y'all saying this should be my next Bowie purchase?


ps...I was just listenin to Diamond Dogs. GOOD STUFF!

also my favorite bowie cd right along with station to station.

endorphin74 said:

well, you could always wait three years for the ultra-deluxxxe 2-CD mega-30th-anniversary reissue of "low".

Anxiety said:

true! that seems more my speed

endorphin74 said:

You're doing it right so far. You've got the Ziggy, Aladdin Sane and Diamond Dogs ones right? Go ahead and get his soul period records next, Young Americans and Station To Station. He's like Prince. It's more exciting to see how he changed from year to year.

GangstaFam said:

SassyBritches said:

aye aye cap'ns!!!!

endorphin74 said:

You can thank me later.

endorphin74 said:

This for a long time was the ONLY Bowie album I ever needed.
It is mellow and moody. Fits me like a glove.

Great album-and still influential.

Artists like Trent Reznor simply wouldn't be the same without the impact of this one-The Downward Spiral definitely owes quite a bit to Low, as Trent has said in interviews over the years.

Albums like this and Diamond Dogs (heavy influence on Marilyn Manson) give me hope that artists like Bowie will remain to have an impact on the music that comes out.

The impact never ages.

Great album.

So many little highlights on there... just listen to the piano on 'Be My Wife', the vocals at the end of 'Warzawa'...

GooeyTheHamster said:

Mellow?

GangstaFam said:

i think it's awfully mellow...in places, anyway...the instrumental stuff, definitely.

Anxiety said:

co-sign

Anxiety said:

Side 2 is slow and beautiful. But I guess I think of mellow giving a calming effect. Stuff like Subteranneans and Warszawa are unsettling and freaky. Mellow to me is more like Sade or One Nite Alone.

Anxiety said:

Really? Wow. That's interesting. I dig the album alot too.

GangstaFam said:

You mean Prince is like Bowie.

"Always Crashing In The Same Car" is the shit, period.

GangstaFam said:

Ah, I understand. What I meant to say is that I play it when I am in a calm mood. Close to mellow.

I gotta be in the mood to listen to this album. It's not bad. Maybe I just need to give it a few more spins.

Anxiety said:

Yeah.... Uh.....I...I knew that.

But you know what? I don't like the instrumentals on there. What is it, uh, "Warsawzwazawa" or something??? Wasn't really feeling those.

Sorry, that's just how I feel.

blackguitaristz said:

Yes true. I feel like Prince mapped out his evolution using Bowie as a template.