david bowie – station to station

how many records did david bowie make in the seventies? eleven. and how many of them are totally awesome? i would say all of them except pin ups which is just a record of covers. many of us have the disadvantage of not being alive in the seventies, so we’ll never know the feeling of hitching a ride downtown on the trolley, stopping by the local record store, picking up the new david bowie record and then riding all the way back home before listening to it on our hi-fi systems. but i prefer now. since we now have instant access to almost all music ever recorded, we don’t have to wait for the next mind-blowing david bowie record, the record finds us when we’re ready for it.

station to station falls right after young americans but just before the berlin trilogy (low, “heroes” and lodger). due to a diet of red peppers, milk and cocaine, bowie doesn’t remember anything about recording this record. supposedly bowie had spent the year in a drug-terror sharing his home with egyptian artifacts, having his semen stolen by witches and receiving secret and possibly satanic messages from the rolling stones.