Stationtostation: proof that Cocaine can, on rare occasion, produce a good album

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The whole album, assembled perfectly in editing, was the result of no sleep, milk and red peppers. Oh, and cocaine. Lots of it. Way more than should kill a grown man.

But it is an amazing album.

I think it's my favorite Bowie album.

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1. All hail the Colombian Marching Powder!

Stationtostation is a great disc, no doubt. But I still maintain that "Heroes" and "Ziggy Stardust" are Bowie's best records to date. :)

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2. Those are both awesome albums

Consider the run too - Space Oddity to Scary Monsters. 1968-1982. One helluva run. You give me another artist who had that kind of run.

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3. Totally agree. There's not a bad one in the bunch.

That even excuses the atrocity that is Tonight, but just barely. :D

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4. That one sucks

But it was after Scary Monsters - and so there's no excuse for some of those (Glass Spider anyone?)

But even Tonight has a few good tracks - Bowie's versions of Tonight and Neighborhood Threat for example.

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5. I saw Bowie on that Glass Spider tour

The sole highlight was seeing Peter Frampton as his musical director. The whole production was hokey as hell. It got good once he moved off the "Never Let Me Down" shit and started playing the back catalog. I remember a particularly ripping version of "Jean Genie".

Even "Let's Dance" (which I'm not overly fond of) had a few things to recommend it, and that was after Scary Monsters too.