I'm excited to hear more David Bowie, though to be honest after liking Aladdin Sane I haven't really thought too much about the music on that album in the time since I listened to it. Not sure what to expect with Station to Station. It's 6 songs and nearly 40 minutes long. Hopefully that 40 minutes is spread out along all six songs. I can handle 6 long songs, but 5 normal songs and one 20-minute song... yeesh.
The title track starts off with an eclectic 5-bar repeating groove that takes a few minutes to get used to. Luckily it takes 3 or 4 minutes for David Bowie to start singing. After about 5 minutes the groove shifts to a more traditional hard-rocker. The album sounds awesome and has a great full arrangement with solid bass, piano, hard-hitting drums and crunchy guitar. I do feel like the lyrics on "Station to Station" are a bit repetitive and the song could have faded out a couple minutes sooner.
"Golden Years" follows. I've heard this song a million times on the radio, and I realize now how much better the album mix sounds. "Golden Years" relies more heavily on Bowie's excellent sultry tenor harmonizing with itself and has a great funky shuffle. "Waiting On A Wing" is a wonderfully self-indulgent slice of glam. "TVC15" is a normal but fun honky-tonky rocker. "Stay" has an excellent groove but the closing instrumental went on for too long without doing much. "Wild Is The Wind" is a smooth and sultry lounge ballad.
That's the whole album in two paragraphs. It went by pretty quick as 40-minute albums are wont to do. Anyway, I liked Station to Station, though it wasn't amazing. I felt the songs were stretched out needlessly with lots of repeated passages. The songs that kept it short and sweet were lovely. 3 stars.
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