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Heroes (Remastered)

David Bowie

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By 1977, David Bowie has passed through his Ziggy Stardust and Thin White Duke personas in search of ever-more exotic inspiration. Late that year, Heroes found him in an experimental musical zone, where he put aside hit singles in favor of something more challenging. Recorded in Berlin, Bowie and co-producer Brian Eno fill the tracks with an ominous Cold War mood, laden with bleak synthesizer atmospherics. These clouds of sound are slashed by Robert Fripp's maniacal guitar, adding bursts of wild color to "Beauty and the Beast," "Blackout", and other songs. Amidst the shadowy sonic architecture, Bowie emerges to deliver passionate vocals, particularly on the anthem-like title track. Heroes is a world unto itself, a forbidding vision punctuated with desperate cries from the heart. Bowie has gone on to record many other fascinating works, but few as startling and compelling as this one.

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In a certain light...

Identifying a high point in Bowie's oeuvre is ultimately a fairly pointless exercise in Hornbyism, but for those who persist in scoring album like exam papers, there is a plausible argument to be made in favour of Heroes. Its close contemporary Low gets the cool kids' vote of course. Looking back a bit further, Hunky Dory better exemplifies out-there Bowie's offhand and still slightly naive elegance, whilst Ziggy Stardust has to merit consideration for anyone capable of forgiving the woeful It Ain't Easy. For fans of the questionably well advised micro-genre coke-fuelled megalomaniac literate white soul, Young Americans has it virtues. Diamond Dogs, Station to Station? Just possibly. By Scary Monsters Bowie's self-consciousness has begun to take an unappealing turn. Maturity ill becomes him, and uncertainty undermines his creative powers. It will never be quite the same again. But heroes has a certain majesterial command, no doubt assisted by Eno's grey eminence presiding. If Low scores higher, it is perhaps in its concision and restraint. There may be one warble too many on what was Heroes' second side in the days of vinyl, but the whole point about Bowie when he was good is that he looks different from different angles. In a certain light Heroes holds its own among his best.

Standing by the Wall

A certain pomposity and swagger here. But great songs. 'Blackout", Secret Life, Blackout and of course 'Heroes'. So this is the Berlin period - Low - Iggy Pop's albums. The experimentation into Krautrock perhaps - by being by the wall makes this a great record. It has a coldness. But it has moments that still sound modern after 30 years.

Masterpiece

This was unbelievably challenging when it came out. By the 50th listen it all falls wonderfully into place. Easier to get your ears around are Heroes and Secret life ..Very sweet that the youngsters weren't aware of the instrumentals. Caused the same reaction in '78. Know what you mean though. I got Beethoven's 5th. No singing on that either. He must have been deaf or sumfink.

Biography

Born: 08 January 1947 in Brixton, London, England

Genre: Rock

Years Active: '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s, '00s, '10s

The cliché about David Bowie says he's a musical chameleon, adapting himself according to fashion and trends. While such a criticism is too glib, there's no denying that Bowie demonstrated remarkable skill for perceiving musical trends at his peak in the '70s. After spending several years in the late '60s as a mod and as an all-around music-hall entertainer, Bowie reinvented himself as a hippie singer/songwriter. Prior to his breakthrough in 1972, he recorded a proto-metal record and a pop/rock album,...
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