“Often described as a transitional album, from the plastic soul of Young Americans, to the “Berlin trilogy” of Low-Heroes-Lodger, Station to Station is so much more than that. One of my top three Bowie albums; it stands out as one of his most creatively daring and musically distinctive. . It does, however, retain the rhythmic funk and melodic tunefulness of Young Americans and its recent predecessors (Diamond Dogs and Aladdin Sane in particular), whilst with an ear to the motorik beat of Kraftwerk and Neu! It is a quintessentially ‘European’ album, and Station to Station is Bowie’s Trans-Europe Express. . Released shortly after Bowie’s role as the earthbound alien in Nic Roeg’s film The Man Who Fell To Earth (a still from which adorns the album’s cover) it had given him time and space to thoroughly detox from the effects of Ziggy Stardust and develop a new persona: The Thin White Duke. . There are only six tracks on this album, and astonishingly five of them were released as singles – there’s confidence for you. The one omitted is Word on a Wing, which is one of his most beautiful ballads, one that spoke to me a great deal in my early 20s. . Station to Station, the song, is over 10 mins long, an epic composition, encompassing three distinctly different musical styles and taking us on that imaginary journey across Europe’s hinterland, and through a miasma of coke-fuelled references to the occult and the Kabbalah: “one magical movement from Kether to Malkuth.” It’s a long way from the jaunty pop of Golden Years, the pre-album single release. It’s my favourite on the album, although all tracks are exemplary, and its Bowie’s Bohemian Rhapsody, his Stairway to Heaven, and his Apocalypse Now and Kubla Khan...” FOR FULL REVIEW & PLAYLIST CLICK LINK IN PROFILE: . #davidbowie @davidbowie #stationtostation #thereturnofthethinwhiteduke #wordonawing #wildisthewind #goldenyears #tvc15 #vinyl #recordcollection #nowplaying #nowlistening #randomrecordreview https://www.instagram.com/p/B9zSVo4pYB1/?igshid=t1j6qzm79607
