COLD WHITE MENS SOUL

Shortly after the end of '74 Diamond Dogs / Soul Philly Dogs tour appeared the album, Young Americans', which was recorded under the tour musicians great participation, and with which Bowie final of Glam rock broke. The soul and funk of the album is then also on, StationToStation 'audible, but already enriched here to the rhythm of electronic music, because the then eternally restless wanted to stand musically under any circumstances.

StationToStation provides only 6 songs with the central, self-redefining over the text again Bowie, 10-minute title track, which also reflects the cool aesthetic of the accompanying tour at the same time. Actually, it would have been a very homogeneous album, if it were not, TVC15 'plan. This song sounds with its honky tonk piano part actually almost to, Hunky Dory 'and has the supercooled radiance of white mens soul songs, which determine the rest of the album, nothing in common. It seems almost like a foreign body, because even the ballad, Wild Is The Wind 'still fits into the concept, because the soul of, Young Americans' transported. , Stay 'is a radio piece with great guitars (s) lick, Golden Years' and 'Word On A Wing' are not the best pieces, the Bowie ever written, but at that time were something quite new, and certainly important for the further development of his music.

That Bowie the sound of he had in mind only with Brian Eno and the successor album, Low 'found, is rightly heard clearly compared and perhaps he would have been better advised to take equal a pure radio album, because the supercooled-motor, musical substructure this panel has never something compelling, and the compositions are not the most successful. , Sister Midnight 'it would fit well here, but it was enough unfortunately continue to Iggy Pop.

That the songs live still lit, was due to this tour then incredible guitarist Carlos Alomar aufspielenden and Stacey Heydon, as generally at, Raw Moon 'touring band of 1976. nachzuhören this will finally be officially published in the next year Deluxe Edition StationToStation of his, which is almost all include Nassau Coliseum concert as a bonus - one of the best Bowie concert that has ever taken place.

Knappe 4 stars but still. For this album, because Bowie also thus once again proved his obsession to reinvent itself again and again, to constantly develop and because you got hardly ever served again by anyone other such Atmo