Joe Mac
Well-Known Member
I'm going to admit, Bowie is a big blind spot for me. What's the deal with this album? Why is the cover a pasted over cover of Heroes? Are the 2 albums related?
I think it was more a statement of a sort of wistful nostalgia as such. There isn’t much of musical or thematic link. It was his first album in 10 years that was released as a surprise and he came out a self imposed retirement to make it. The lead single and other parts of the album have almost a sort of backwards looking slant to them.
Edit: It’s one of his better latter day albums as @jamieanderson1968 says but I’m not sure that I’d be going to it as a Bowie introduction to someone. For that it’s be more his crazy 70s run of brilliant albums. You could pick any but I’d probably personally start with Hunky Dory and work my way through them chronologically. It’s fun to almost discover him in real time and see the stylistic and thematic jumps as they happen.