Low
David Bowie - CD
- Artist: David Bowie
- Format: CD
- Year: 1999
- Number of Discs: 1
- UPC: 724352190706
- Item Number: EMI219070
- Release date: 09/28/1999
- 1. Speed of Life
- 2. Breaking Glass
- 3. What in the World
- 4. Sound and Vision
- 5. Always Crashing in the Same Car
- 6. Be My Wife
- 7. A New Career in a New Town
- 8. Warszawa
- 9. Art Decade
- 10. Weeping Wall
- 11. Subterraneans
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Low by David Bowie on CD
Following through with the avant-garde inclinations of Station to Station, yet explicitly breaking with David Bowie's past, Low is a dense, challenging album that confirmed his place at rock's cutting edge. Driven by dissonant synthesizers and electronics, Low is divided between brief, angular songs and atmospheric instrumentals. Throughout the record's first half, the guitars are jagged and the synthesizers drone with a menacing robotic pulse, while Bowie's vocals are unnaturally layered and overdubbed. During the instrumental half, the electronics turn cool, which is a relief after the intensity of the preceding avant pop. Half the credit for Low's success goes to Brian Eno, who explored similar ambient territory on his own releases. Eno functioned as a conduit for Bowie's ideas, and in turn Bowie made the experimentalism of not only Eno but of the German synth group Kraftwerk and the post-punk group Wire respectable, if not quite mainstream. Though a handful of the vocal pieces on Low are accessible -- "Sound and Vision" has a shimmering guitar hook, and "Be My Wife" subverts soul structure in a surprisingly catchy fashion -- the record is defiantly experimental and dense with detail, providing a new direction for the avant-garde in rock & roll. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi
- Artist: David Bowie
- Format: CD
- Year: 1999
- Number of Discs: 1
- UPC: 724352190706
- Item Number: EMI219070
- Release date: 09/28/1999
- Label: Virgin
- Genre: Pop/Rock, Avant-Garde
- Style: Contemporary Pop/Rock, Experimental, Proto-Punk, Experimental Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Album Rock, Dance-Rock, Art Rock
- Album Time: 50:08
- A Reality Tour
- Aladdin Sane
- Aladdin Sane
- Aladdin Sane
- Aladdin Sane [30th Anniversary Edition]
- Best of Bowie
- Best of Bowie [Germany/Austria/Switzerland]
- Best of Bowie [Japan]
- Best of Bowie [US/Canada Bonus CD]
- Best of Bowie 1980-87
- Black Tie White Noise [Expanded]
- Bowie at the Beeb: The Best of the BBC Radio Sessions
- Christiane F. Wir Kinder [Original Soundtrack] (Import)
- Club Bowie: Rare & Unreleased 12" Mixes [Enhanced] (Import)
- David Bowie (Import)
- David Bowie Box (Import)
- David Bowie: Glass Spider [DVD/CD]
- David Live [Virgin]
- Diamond Dogs
- Early On (1964-1966)
- Earthling
- Earthling [Japan]
- Heathen
- Heathen (Import)
- Heroes
- Hours [Japan Bonus Track]
- Hours...
- Hours/Earthling
- Hunky Dory
- Hunky Dory
- Hunky Dory
- I Dig Everything: 1966 Pye Singles
- I Dig Everything: 1966 Pye Singles
- Inside Bowie and the Spiders 1972-1974: The Definitive Critical Review
- iSelect (Import)
- Let's Dance
- Let's Dance
- Let's Dance (Shm-CD) (Import)
- Live in Santa Monica '72
- Live in Santa Monica '72
- Lodger
- Lodger
- Low
- Never Let Me Down
- Never Let Me Down
- Never Let Me Down
- Never Let Me Down (Import)
- Outside
- Outside
- Pin Ups
- Pin Ups
- Pin Ups
- Pin Ups
- Reality
- Reality
- Reality [Bonus Disc]
- Reality [Bonus Disc]
- Reality [Japan]
- Scary Monsters
- Scary Monsters
- Scary Monsters
- Sound + Vision [2003 Box]
- Space Oddity
- Space Oddity
- Space Oddity (Import)
- Space Oddity [40th Anniversary Special Edition]
- Stage [Virgin]
- Stage [Virgin] (Import)
- Station to Station
- Station to Station
- The Best of David Bowie 1969/1974 [Japan Bonus Tracks]
- The Buddha of Suburbia [2007]
- The Collection [EMI]
- The Collection [EMI]
- The Collection [EMI] (Import)
- The Deram Anthology 1966-1968
- The Man Who Sold the World
- The Man Who Sold the World
- The Man Who Sold the World
- The Man Who Sold the World [Japanese Version]
- The Platinum Collection
- The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
- The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
- The Singles Collection [UK]
- Tonight
- Tonight
- Tonight
- Tonight (Import)
- VH1 Storytellers
- Young Americans
- Young Americans
- Young Americans [Bonus DVD/Pal]
- Young Americans [CD/DVD]
- Young Americans [Japan Reissue] (Import)
- Ziggy Stardust [Japan]
- Ziggy Stardust [Japan]
- Ziggy Stardust: The Motion Picture [30th Anniversary]
- Interview Picture Disc
- Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf (Import)
- The Deram Anthology 1966-1968 (Import)
- David Bowie : Live Santa Monica '72 [limited]
- I Dig Everything: 1966 Pye Singles
- Changesbowie (Import)
- David Live [Virgin]
- Ziggy Stardust [Japan]
- Best of Bowie 1980-87 (Import)
- Glass Spider (Import)
- DAVID BOWIE : I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR YOU
- Heathen [Japan Bonus Track] (Import)
- Slow Burn
- Never Get Old
- Outside (Import)
- David Bowie : Earthling (Ltd) (Ltd) (Mlps)
- London Boy
- Hunky Dory
- Diamond Dogs
- Space Oddity
- Best of Bowie [Japan] (Import)
- Diamond Dogs [Japan]
- Low
- Ziggy Stardust [Japan]
- Aladdin Sane
- David Bowie : Diamond Dogs (Jpn LP Sleeve)
- Heroes
- Scary Monsters
- Let's Dance (Import)
- Live in Santa Monica '72
- Space Oddity (Import)
- The Man Who Sold the World (Import)
- Hunky Dory (Import)
- Ziggy Stardust
- Pin Ups (Import)
- Diamond Dogs (Import)
- Young Americans (Import)
- Station to Station
- Low
- Heroes (Import)
- Lodger (Import)
- Scary Monsters (Import)
- 1966
- I Dig Everything: 1966 Pye Singles (Import)
- Outside (Import)
- Outside [Import Bonus CD]
- Earthling (Import)
- Earthling
- Hours [Import Bonus CD]
- Golden Years (Import)
- Golden Years [EP]
- Space Oddity [40th Anniversary]
- Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust - 40th Anniversary Edition
- Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust [40th Anniversary] [Remastered] [LP/DVD]
- Starman
- David Bowie : Station to Station
- Station to Station [Deluxe Edition/+DVD/+3LP]
- Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars
- David Bowie [Deluxe Edition]
- David Bowie: Deluxe Edition (Import)
- David Bowie (Import)
- Hunky Dory (Import)
- The Deram Anthology 1966-1968 (Import)
- The Best of David Bowie 1974/1979
- Pin Ups
- Heathen
- All Saints: Collected Instrumentals 1977-1999 (Import)
- Best of Bowie [UK]
- Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars [30th Anniversary Edition]
- Best of Bowie [US] (Import)
- Ziggy Stardust: The Motion Picture [30th Anniversary]
- Let's Dance
- Diamond Dogs [30th Anniversary Edition]
- Aladdin Sane [30th Anniversary Edition]
- Live in Santa Monica '72 (Import)
- The Best of David Bowie 1969-1974 (Import)
- Outside
- Earthling
- Stage [Virgin]
- David Live [Virgin]
- Survive
- David Bowie [PGD Special Markets]
- London Boy (Import)
- Little Wonder + Remixes EP
- BOWIE,DAVID: BLACK TIE WHITE (IMPORT)
- Rarest Live
- Best of Bowie [US]
- Club Bowie: Rare & Unreleased 12" Mixes [Enhanced]
- The Collection [EMI]
- Tonight
- DAVID BOWIE : NEVER LET ME DOWN
- The Document Unauthorized
- David Bowie : Rock Review / (dts)
- Rock Milestones: Ziggy Stardust [DVD]
- Reality
- Reality [DualDisc]
- Reality
- Earthling [Extra Tracks]
- Hours [Remastered]
- Outside [Bonus Track]
- Hours / The Collectors Edition
- DAVID BOWIE : TONIGHT
- Glass Spider Live (Import)
- Glass Spider Live (Import)
- Bowie,David: Birthday Celebration-Live in Nyc 1997
- Birthday Celebration: Live in NYC 1997 (Import)
- Heathen (Import)
- Excerpts from Outside (Import)
- Original Album Classics (Import)
- Outside/Heathen (Import)
- Outside/Heathen (Import)
- The Next Day (2LP)
- The Next Day
- The Next Day - Deluxe Edition
- Starman/Suffragette City (Import)
- Composers:
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Performers:
- David Bowie - Pump Bass, Brass Synth, Various, Tape, Chamberlin, Xylophone, Arp, Harmonica, Horn, Vibraphone, Cello, Strings, Percussion, Vocals, Keyboards, Piano, Saxophone, Bass, Guitar
- Carlos Alomar - Guitar (Rhythm), Guitar
- Eduard Meyer - Cello
- Eduard Meyerm - Cello
- Iggy Pop - Vocals (Background), Vocals, Piano, Organ
- Mary Visconti - Vocals (Background), Vocals
- Ricky Gardiner - Guitar (Rhythm), Guitar
- Brian Eno - Chamberlin, Mini Moog, Moog Synthesizer, Multi Instruments, Guitar, Vocals, Piano, Keyboards, Synthesizer
- Dennis Davis - Percussion
- George Murray - Guitar (Bass), Bass
- Mary Hopkin - Vocals
- Peter Himmelman - Arp, Piano
- Ricky Murray - Bass
- Roy Young - Farfisa Organ, Piano, Organ
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Credits:
- Brian Eno - Composer, Mixing, Engineer
- Christian Simonpietri - Photography
- Clive Anderson - Photography
- David Bowie - Composer, Main Performer, Mixing, Producer
- David Richards - Mixing
- Dennis Davis - Composer
- Dr. Toby Mountain - Mastering
- George Murray - Composer
- Jonathan Wyner - Assistant Engineer
- Kevin Cann - Design
- Nigel Reeve - Remastering
- Peter Mew - Remastering
- Steve Shapiro - Photography
- Tony Visconti - Producer
- Wall - Engineer
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