David Bowie - Heroes
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Free Music Review: This album is a paradox...
Hit: 3 Stars
This is album is a complete paradox! The title track is one of my all-time Bowie favorites and on this cd we get it in all its 6 minute glory (shame on EMI/Virgin for butchering it on the lastest Best Of-collection).
The other stand-out track is "Blackout", a fun up-beat rock/pop/disco song, however, the live verison on "Stage" is superior to the album version in my option.
The problem is, the rest of the album drags. I dont enjoy the other songs all that much. The ambient tracks are not as good as the ones on "Low".
Summary: the track track rocks, but the rest of the album does not. Still, worth getting I suppose. Ps. Check out the under-rated "Lodger".....
Free Music Review: The title says it all
Hit: 5 Stars
This album certainly does take a bit of getting used to; the songs here sound unusual and rather unconventional but still brilliant thanks to Bowie.
Blackout has a great, pounding intro with thumping, upbeat pianos and Joe the Lion is the most raw and rough sounding track. Bowie's vocals are their best in Heroes and Sons of the Silent Age. Even the instrumentals add to the eerie ambience of the album, the best being V2 Schneider, a great combination of strange sax playing with electronic sounds. The Secret Life... adds a much needed funky ending to the album.
Before buying Heroes, I was quite cynical about listening to instrumentals and electronic sounds. However it has convinced me otherwise and it seems more accessible than Low.
Free Music Review: Desperation.
Hit: 5 Stars
When I bought "Heroes" I was twenty years old and in the middle of an emotional breakdown. I didn't know it at the time. In this period I became obsessed with David Bowie, I also bought Station to Station, which is probably my favorite of his. I was falling into mania, unaware I had bipolar disorder. l pulled away from my friends and stayed at home, listening to this album. I couldn't sleep, I was tense and nervous, and songs like "Blackout" seemed written for me: "Get me to the doctor, get me on my feet, give me some protection." The production seemed beautifully hopeless, and Bowie's famous vocals on the title track illustrate his own anguish. I developed a fantasy that Bowie and I were going through the same pain. To me this album is cold and compelling. I will always think back to that time when I first heard it. The Berlin Trilogy is one of the most fascinating series in music history. I'm sure this record was colored by the harsh Communist atmosphere that permeated Bowie's studio near the West German border. If you're expecting something like "Let's Dance", look elsewhere. "Heroes" is a statement and a challenge, well worth undertaking.Free Music Review: total abandon
Hit: 4 Stars
This music sounds like it was recorded with total abandon. Far less melodic in most places than its immediate predecessor, Low, Heroes is strange, alive, and difficult to categorize.
You'll hear everything from chaotic disco to nightmarish ambient.
Recommended.
Free Music Review: Bowie and Fripp!
Hit: 5 Stars
I've heard a good share of the Bowster's albums and this one is only eclipsed by Ziggy and possibly Hunky Dory. It's basically Bowie's hard rock album(even the most hard-rocking numbers on Man Who Sold The World probably couldn't quite be called hard rock...well maybe one or two...I dunno) and is not nearly as experimental as Low or as everyone says it is.
1. Beauty and The Beast(9/10) - This song is great but it took a few listens to grow on me.
2. Joe The Lion(10/10) - Rough sounding and one of Bowie's most hard-rocking songs. Great riff courtesy of Robert Fripp and powerful singing by Bowie. The lyrics are pretty much nonsense, but who the hell cares.
3. Heroes(10/10) - The album's best song, pretty far up on my nonexistent "Best Bowie Songs" list, probably Bowie's best and most powerful vocal performance, and one of the best all time vocal performances in rock history.
4. Sons Of The Silent Age(10/10)
5. Blackout(10/10) - A pretty strange sounding song but great.
6.V-2 Schneider(9.5/10)
7. Sense of Doubt(9.5/10) - A nice brooding instrumental.
8. Moss Garden(10/10)
9. Neuk?ln(10/10)
10. Secret Life of Arabia(8.8/10) - Not quite as good as everyone says but still very good.
Overall - 10/10
One of Bowie's best and among the best of alltime.