Cocaine, peppers and milk are cool for a while and all, but in 1976, the Thin White Duke and his friend James decided enough was enough.
The pair moved to France to get clean (where David helped James write and record a staggeringly good solo debut) before arriving in Germany; where the true story of our intrepid former Starman’s Berlin Trilogy was about to unfold.
Let’s talk David Bowie, Low!
This album is certainly interesting and worth hearing, but it’s not my jam. I’m sorry that the pretty pop/rock star got hooked on cocaine and had to go to Berlin and listen to ambient music and krautrock while getting clean, but that doesn’t make him an ambient musician or a krautrocker. It just makes him a strung-out tourist. He does well when he is making his pretty pop/rock (“Sound and Vision”) but the rest of this is Bowie doing something other than what Bowie does best. So it’s just not that great, despite the music nerds overhyping it for the last decade.
Also, hey late-70’s David Bowie: https://youtu.be/-E3dwBabYBY?si=meE0-IpG0H4__NT3
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