How would you rate "Heroes" (1977) by David Bowie?

Essential - a true classic.
I remember hearing previews of the album, late night on the John Peel show and being mesmerized.
It was strange that "Heroes" was structured so similarly to Low. In hindsight, it's as if Low (brilliant as it was) was merely a blueprint for what was to follow. A testing ground.
"Heroes" is a far more confident and finished album with more songs and what songs they are: Beauty and the Beast, Joe the Lion, Heroes, Sons of the Silent Age, Blackout, The Secret Life of Arabia, terrific stuff. Those in bold are among my favourite Bowie tracks of all time. Thanks to this album, he reigned supreme at the close of the 70s.

 

I love Heroes, but I don't view it as one Bowie's absolute classics. I'm more of a Lodger fan.

 

It's No Game Part 1 and Joe the Lion are two of my all time favorite Bowie songs.

But I've never been too wild about anything on this album outside of JtL and the title cut. Those two songs make it "pretty great." In general, a step down from Low.

 

'It's No Game Pt. 1' is from "Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)".

 

It's a CLASSIC!! One of his best works! And I kinda feel honored he recorded this album near my place (but decades before my birth). lol

 

Essential listening. It's one of my favorites. I love Sense of Doubt/Moss Garden/Neuköln.

 

I love that experimental stuff he did with Eno (on Low and "Heroes"). 'Moss Garden' is fantastic, so japanese-like, it's a dream!

 

I keep waiting to listen to this whole album on vinyl and I haven't seemed to come across it in a really long time. I feel like I have listened to most of his surrounding this album but never dove head first into Heroes. Need to check this one out.

 

A masterpiece from beginning to end. My favorite Bowie.

 

It's not often I praise Bowie's sax playing but that Middle Eastern/Turkish thing he gets going on "Neuköln" is so eerie and haunting.

 

I have 3 COX DVDs. Love them live, esp their bassist

 

This track alone is a masterpiece.

 

I sometimes think of side 2 as one long piece from "V-2 Schneider" through "The Secret Life of Arabia".
Absolute brilliance. I see some people hate it, but I'm glad this side is getting some love here. Makes me not so strange.
Or maybe strange, but not alone.

 

It's really the apex of the eerie / instrumental thing he began on Low (or as the wordless vocal approach on the song "Subterraneans" from the same album). Probably a reason he moved away from that type of composition afterwards (Lodger contained no instrumentals), because he got it perfect here.

 

'Subterraneans' is another very nice one! I love Bowie's improvised vocals there. Very moving.

 

I know. Somebody else compared the two songs.

 

David Bowie ~ "Heroes"
One of his all time apex albums.


"THE BERLIN TRIFECTA" ~ Rare photos recording "Heroes" LP c., 1977





Some of these shots I had never seen before .. Enjoy!

 

My favourite Bowie album. Essential!

 

A heroic effort.

 

Hansa Studios ~ where it all happened!



David Bowie's Berlin apartment building ~ Haupstrasse 155

 

Essential listening - a true classic. One of his best works really. I love it.

 

It's absolutely essential. I rank it among my top three favorite Bowie albums, with Low and Scary Monsters.

 

Great album with his greatest song. Unreal, but I don't think either charted in the US?

 

Merci beaucoup!

 

Same. I can only go by how many times I pull out certain albums, and this one does not get played a lot. No arguments about the stellar title track, but I've reached my lifetime quota of hearing it.