David Bowie

Featuring brilliant art rock, organic instrumentals and the best guitar work Robert Fripp has ever delivered, this belongs in every marooned alien's record collection. The title track, a timeless pop masterpiece, is heard more in the new millennium than in 1977, while "Blackout" catches Bowie's unique mix of wounded romanticism and mad isolation better than any other song.

Heroes is the second album in what we can now hope will be a series of David Bowie-Brian
Eno collaborations, because this album answers the question of whether Bowie can be a
real collaborator. Like his work with Lou Reed, Mott the Hoople and Iggy Pop, Low, Bowie's
first album with Eno, seemed to be just another auteurist exploitation, this time of the
Eno-Kraftwerk avant-garde. Heroes, though, prompts a much more enthusiastic... More >