Taking the detached plastic soul of Young Americans to an elegant, robotic extreme, Station to Station is a transitional album that creates its own distinctive style.
Abandoning any pretense of being a soulman, yet keeping rhythmic elements of soul, David Bowie positions himself as a cold, clinical crooner and explores a variety of styles.
Everything from epic ballads and disco to synthesized avant pop is present on Station to Station, but what ties it together is Bowie's cocaine-induced paranoia and detached musical persona.
At its heart, Station to Station is an avant-garde art-rock album, most explicitly on "TVC 15" and the epic sprawl of the title track, but also on the cool crooning of "Wild Is the Wind" and "Word on a Wing," as well as the disco stylings of "Golden Years." It's not an easy album to warm to, but its epic structure and clinical sound were an impressive, individualistic achievement, as well as a style that would prove enormously influential on post-punk.
| Title/Composers | Performer | Listen | Time | Size | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Station to StationDavid Bowie | David Bowie | Play | 10:14 | 23 MB | 68 MB |
| 2 | Golden YearsDavid Bowie | David Bowie | Play | 04:00 | 9 MB | 28 MB |
| 3 | Word on a WingDavid Bowie | David Bowie | Play | 06:03 | 13 MB | 38 MB |
| 4 | TVC15David Bowie | David Bowie | Play | 05:34 | 12 MB | 36 MB |
| 5 | StayDavid Bowie | David Bowie | Play | 06:15 | 14 MB | 41 MB |
| 6 | Wild Is the WindDimitri Tiomkin, Ned Washington | David Bowie | Play | 06:00 | 13 MB | 39 MB |
| 38 mins | 87 MB | |||||
| 38 mins | 251 MB | |||||
| Artist | Job | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Carlos Alomar | Guest Artist, Guitar |
| 2 | Roy Bittan | Guest Artist, Piano |
| 3 | David Bowie | Composer, Guitar, Mellotron, Moog Synthesizer, Primary Artist, Producer, Programmer, Sax (Alto), Sax (Tenor), Vocals |
| 4 | Dennis Davis | Drums |
| 5 | Tony Kaye | Guest Artist |
| 6 | Harry Maslin | Mastering, Producer |
| 7 | George Murray | Guitar (Bass) |
| 8 | Warren Peace | Vocals (Background) |
| 9 | Earl Slick | Guest Artist, Guitar |
| 10 | Ray Staff | Mastering |
| 11 | Dimitri Tiomkin | Composer |
| 12 | Ned Washington | Composer |
| Quality | Format | Encoding | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| CD Quality | FLAC | 16bit 44.1kHz | FLAC is an audio coding format which uses lossless compression. Digital audio in FLAC format has a smaller size and retains the same quality of the original Compact Disc (CD). |