Every Bowie album is completely different style-wise. The next album "Low" is his most experimental. The track "Subterraneans" is masterful.

The Duke was a hollow man who sang songs of romance with an agonised intensity, yet felt nothing-"ice masquerading as fire" First, there's the content, which nobody's actually been terribly clear about. The "Station to Station" track itself is very much concerned with the stations of the cross. All the references within the piece are to do with the Kabbalah. It's the nearest album to a magick treatise that I've written. I've never read a review that really sussed it. It's an extremely dark album. Miserable time to live through, I must say.

After the Beatles, I believe that Bowie was the second most important artist in rock. He was conceptually ahead of other artists by a long time. With every transition he would come out with an album and it would take years for other artists to pick up on what he was trying to do music-wise and then they would get it and emulate. His character in the movie "The Man Who Fell to Earth" (pictured on the album cover) - and other than the sci-fi elements, I believe is a close analogy to his real existence at that stage. It ties into my first assertion. Aside from the drug use and societal overstimulation parallels shown in the movie, his bringing to the populace advanced things that just filter into public consciousness naturally mimics his music contribution. Well that's my take. Really liked your assessment. Like others have said, the rest of this album's songs are worth reacting to and Low.

Station to station, low, heroes, lodger, scary monsters... My youth, my key to music

I was 16 years old when I bought this album. At the time, this was really outside the box. Most kids just thought this was weird and wondered what the hell are you listening to. It was great to be a devoted DB fan back then because each album release was a new surprise.

I saw Bowie’s Station to Station tour in 1976 at Robert’s Municipal Stadium (now gone) in Evansville, IN. Between 1975 and 1980 Bowie was drugged out living on cocaine and milk. Emaciated and paranoid, he really was the Thin White Duke. It’s a wonder he survived this period. The staging for this concert was devoid of color…he wore a white shirt with black slacks and vest. All lighting on stage was stark white. He broke free of this addition in 1980 and is landmarked by the Ashes to Ashes album.

A fine album and well worth exploring. But Bowie is a real rabbit hole, particularly his 70s and 80s albums, so be prepared for a long stay on Planet Bowie!

One of my favorite songs from one of my favorite Bowie albums. God the man was so brilliant. I miss him terribly

The sleeper on this album is “Stay”:::::love this whole album. I saw him on this tour in Detroit, and it was AWESOME. Stay on this album, please!

Bowie was basically 90% cocaine at the time

One of the greatest achievements of the 70's. That someone as paranoid, screwed up and absolutely insane (as Bowie was at the time) could make something this

Can’t beat old Bowie.

In my humble opinion this is Bowie’s masterpiece. God I miss him.

Perfectly executed by musicians at the top of their game.

Terrific overview. I once told a girlfriend she was like a poem I loved to read because it had such nuances, but that I could not fully understand; she took it as a compliment and the song is is like that for me. Bowie's compositional skills are so original and he breaks away from conventional verse chorus structure in a way that really makes one feel we are on a train going from one station to the next. The thin white duke is a sort of ghostly presence in white whose purpose is inconclusive and both weirdly angelic and yet demonic at the same time. So I can never come to a conclusion about it, but somehow when I hear it I am THERE. If I turned this comment in as a class report I'd probably get a C, but the song is an A for sure. I think a companion piece to this song is RICOCHET off his LET'S DANCE album, my personal favorite song of his if anyone asks.

Well, his previous record was Young Americans,where he tried to pay tribute to soul and RnB artists that he admired by making an album in that style. Station To Station as an album still has a lot of soul and RnB influence,but it mixes it with influence from krautrock scene. After that,he would collaborate with Brian Eno and make Low and Heroes,albums that both have experimental but radio-friendly songs with long ambient compositions.

Excellent album from start to finish. It was recorded in David's heaviest drug days...you'd never know it. He was very pale and thin. He is the Thin White Duke. He had said he doesn't remember recording much of this album. He sounds so great though...His voice is beautiful on Word on a Wing and Wild is the Wind saw him when he was touring for this. It was My first time going to a concert. And a great one to start with.

One of His best songs Defintely and its one of my favorite albums by him. This is the point when he changed and introduced one of his famous characters The Thin White Duke

Bowie is a great artist to add to anyone's collection...Pull him out when you just want to hear something unique and cool...He's hilarious with Ricky Gervais too...God rest his soul...

I love telling this story. A friend of mine back in the day invited me to go with him to the midnight Special at NBC studios in the San Fernando Valley in the Los Angeles. As we came into the studio a Sound System that could level a small village was playing this Song. I had never heard this song and stood transfixed at what I was hearing. This turned out to be the highlight of the evening for me. The Show consisted of Helen Reddy (ick) and Gordon Lightfoot (not Ick) .