The album is perhaps the best Bowie album because:
- Next to Station To Station also Word On A Wing, Stay and Wild Is The Wind are sure that absolutely all belong to my Bowie song favorites.
- Not a song - not Golden Years and TVC 15 - interfere.
- Because this album is very compact and coherent.
- Because it is extremely fascinating to see how a man who was physically and mentally so damaged during the formation, could make something as powerful and expressive to pass. One gets really feel that every ounce was put on life energy in this album.
- Because Bowie's voice on this album sounds so deep, full, expressive and emotional and bolted from dizzying heights into the abysmal depths, like no other in his career.
The title track is actually outstandingly good because:
- I really like anyway very long pieces like. This song takes about three minutes until the first line is sung. Thus, it creates the song to capture the listener completely into his world with.
- I think it's great when pieces are very dynamic and a downright "epic" development or structure can be read within a piece. So if the usual pattern of verse-chorus-verse is broken by changing tempos, rhythms and harmonies. The voltage and the oppressive threatening atmosphere from the beginning of the piece ("Throwing darts in lovers' eyes") gives way to the end of a boisterous, defiant cheerfulness ("It's too late - to be late again / It's too late - to be hateful"), as if to tell the lyrical ego of the world: "Of course, the situation is hopeless, but hey, what the heck, Raise your glasses, let's celebrate!"
- The piece of very strong emotions stirred in me awake.
The line "It's not the side-effects of the cocaine / I'm Thinking That It Must Be Love" are great because:
- In spite of distance, the Bowie usually preserved in his lyrics towards the listener / reader / audience here actually once Bowie himself seems to speak and his deepest fears and feelings tells the listener.
- These lines show a high degree of self-reflectiveness and self-irony. The phenomenon of cocaine addiction, which was certainly determinative live in this time when Bowie is actually named. Likewise, the conflict between addiction and identity. Here speaks someone who only "believe" or "think" can that feeling (Love) is actually genuine and not a mere side effects of cocaine addiction. It can be really sure is not. This openness to the listener makes Bowie very vulnerable. At the same time you as a listener the feeling by Bowie to be a little closer and to have finally get an insight into his innermost being.
