Rock icon David Bowie has passed away after an 18 month battle with cancer, but his music and influence will live on forever. Over the years, Bowie transformed his style and sound many times, and every time he did, he managed to innovate new & fascinating sub-genres of music; he was truly a man light years ahead of his time. Check out our Top 5 David Bowie Albums list to see our five favorite times when Bowie rocked the music world to its very foundations with his mind-bending songwriting skills!
Considered one of the Top 100 Albums of All-Time by Time Magazine
Ranked 107th on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time
"A kaleidoscopic array of pop styles, tied together only by Bowie's sense of vision: a sweeping, cinematic mélange of high and low art, ambiguous sexuality, kitsch, and class."
Pitchfork Media placed it at number 1 on their "Top 100 Albums of the 1970s" list
Ranked 251 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time
In a retrospective review, The Rolling Stone Album Guide gives Low a 5 out of 5 star rating and states "it's the music of an overstimulated mind in an exhausted body [...] sashays through some serious emotional wreckage"
The vehicle behind Bowie's last great character: The Thin White Duke
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"
Ranked 323rd on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time
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