Side One
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 Two
Warszawa
Art Decade
Weeping Wall
Subterraneans
DISCOVERY; The year is 1977, keep up! Change is afoot! What be the first album you bought in 1977? What do you mean you weren't even born yet? Silly thing... well, Bowie fans all over the world would have rushed out (as I did) to snap up the new album, puzzle over the new direction and hail the master ushering in the sound of 80s three years early! Of course we had no idea how horrible the 80s were going to be but we could have guessed based on the sound of this record. Not blaming Bowie, far from it, Bowie was genius (Eno too). This album sits outside of time because it sounds like the 80s but it's clearly still the 70s, more than that it's a bloody cool album with the half finished songs on side one and the sci-fi moonscapes of side two... and if you remember back in 1974 after hearing first Bowie and then Eno I said to myself "wouldn't it be cool if they did a record together?" Low and behold here it is!
WHERE & WHEN; Of course no one knew it was part one of the mighty Berlin Trilogy. No one knew Philip Glass would make classical cross-over music from these themes (blah-blah and bloody boring blah) it's just a cool record with an oddly annoying drum sound.
HIGHLIGHTS; Every note!
STATUS; CD
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