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Station To Station

Station to Station
Station to Station cover.jpg
Studio album by David Bowie
Released 23 January 1976
Recorded September – November 1975
Studio Cherokee Studios (Los Angeles)
Genre
Length 37:54
Label RCA Records
Producer
David Bowie chronology
Young Americans
(1975)
Station to Station
(1976)
Low
(1977)
Singles from Station to Station
  1. "Golden Years"
    Released: 21 November 1975
  2. "Station to Station"
    Released: 23 January 1976
  3. "TVC 15"
    Released: 30 April 1976
  4. "Stay"
    Released: July 1976
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic 4.5/5 stars
Blender 4/5 stars
Chicago Tribune 2.5/4 stars
Christgau's Record Guide A
Encyclopedia of Popular Music 4/5 stars
The Independent 5/5 stars
Pitchfork 9.5/10
Q 5/5 stars
The Rolling Stone Album Guide 5/5 stars
Spin 5/5 stars

Station to Station is the tenth studio album by English musician David Bowie, released by RCA Records in 1976. Commonly regarded as one of his most significant works, Station to Station was the vehicle for his performance persona, the Thin White Duke. The album was recorded after he completed shooting Nicolas Roeg's The Man Who Fell to Earth, and the cover artwork featured a still from the movie. During the sessions Bowie was heavily dependent on drugs, especially cocaine, and later claimed that he recalled almost nothing of the production.

Musically, Station to Station was a transitional album for Bowie, developing the funk and soul music of his previous release, Young Americans, while presenting a new direction towards synthesisers and motorik rhythms that was influenced by German electronic bands such as Neu! and Kraftwerk. This trend would culminate in some of his most acclaimed work, the so-called "Berlin Trilogy", recorded with Brian Eno in 1977–79. Bowie himself said that Station to Station was "a plea to come back to Europe for me". The album's lyrics reflected his preoccupations with Friedrich Nietzsche, Aleister Crowley, mythology and religion.

Blending funk and krautrock, romantic balladry and occultism, Station to Station has been described as "simultaneously one of Bowie's most accessible albums and his most impenetrable". Preceded by the single "Golden Years", it made the top five in both the UK and US charts. In 2012, the album was ranked No. 324 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.


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