David Bowie - Heroes
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Artist: David BowieEdition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced, Original recording reissued
CD Release Date: 1999-09-28
Music Label: Virgin Records Us
Soundtracks:
- Beauty and the Beast
- Joe the Lion
- Heroes
- Sons of the Silent Age
- Blackout
- V-2 Schneider
- Sense of Doubt
- Moss Garden
- Neuk?ln
- Secret Life of Arabia
Music reviews of Heroes
Music Review: Captures Its Time and Place
Rating: 5 Stars
David Bowie's "Heroes" captures its time and place like few other albums of the 1970s. The Cold War angst of a divided Berlin permeates the album; however, Bowie offers hope in the classic title song, "Heroes." The combination of Bowie's eclecticism as a composer and lyricist (and as a singer, since he adopts several different voices) with Alomar, Eno, and Fripp's work as programmers, players, and co-writers made for music that is progressive, with strange, eerie sound effects interwoven with pop-ish melodies. The sound quality on the CD reissue is quite good and well balanced throughout the spectrum. There have been so many highly detailed reviews and analyses of this fine album over the years, that I won't detail all the songs. Suffice it to say that it is an album of its time; however, it is also an album with timeless enough themes and intriguing enough music that it remains highly relevant.
Description of Heroes
Limited Edition Japanese pressing of this album comes housed in a miniature LP sleeve. 2007.One of Bowie's more stellar moments working with Brian Eno, Heroes again sees the artist moving into barely chartered waters (at that point, 1977), creating moving, emotive rock and putting it right up against some very detached and futuristic synthesized sounds. The collection opens with a ferocious rocker, courtesy of Robert Fripp's taut, snarling guitars ("Beauty and the Beast"), and then slides into the roar of "Joe the Lion" without missing a beat. Bowie's vocals have rarely sounded as desperate as they are on "Heroes," the anguished "Blackout" rages on a peculiarly up beat, and suddenly the listener finds they've slipped into a parallel world of icy soundscapes. The next four tracks present glassy synthesizers, stark piano, the ping of Asian-styled guitars, and other styles presumably left over or influenced by the Low recordings. The delicate "Moss Garden" is particularly beautiful, and "Sense of Doubt" is brooding and ominous. The closer, "The Secret Life of Arabia," moves with the rhythm of a snake charmer, and Bowie's vocals are irrepressibly intoxicating. Challenging, and worth the effort. --Lorry Fleming
The second disc in the late-'70s Bowie/Eno trilogy, Heroes essentially repeats the form of Low--half rock songs with darkly cryptic lyrics and bizarre mixes, half foreboding instrumentals--but the songs are better realized (especially the weirdly dramatic title track) and the non-songs are more richly textured. The album's tone is muffled and desperate, like screams from the next room. As on Low, Bowie plays hide-and-seek with his slithery voice: songs have backing vocals and nothing more, or shift into German and French, or never quite move past an introduction. Eno's treatments make the instruments sound gluey and sluggish, especially in the proto-ambient second half of the album. This is mood music for an execution day. --Douglas Wolk
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