HEROES.
| David Bowie
HEROES.
"Heroes" is the 12th studio album by English musician David Bowie, released on RCA Records on 14 October 1977. The second installment of his Berlin Trilogy recorded with Brian Eno and Tony Visconti, "Heroes" continued the ambient experiments of Bowie's previous album Low (released earlier that year) and featured the contributions of King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp. Of the three albums, it was the only one wholly recorded in Berlin. -Wikipedia
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Treble
A good portion of the album, like Low before it, is made up of experimental instrumental pieces that would confuse some and impress others.
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Pitchfork
"Heroes" is the second installment of David Bowie's Berlin Trilogy. The trilogy, and "Heroes" in particular, show all the signs of an artist growing up, shaking off the trappings of capitalist ego and success, and searching for a soul instead. It often sounds as if Bowie is conducting chaos, smashing objects together to discover scarily beautiful new shapes.
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Soundblab
Yes, I think Bowie was a genius. Part of being a genius is knowing what’s important and what’s not. And Bowie had that. Obtuse, weird and disjointed as it all is, ‘Heroes’ shouldn’t work but does.
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ALL MUSIC
Heroes develops and strengthens the sonic innovations David Bowie and Brian Eno explored on their first collaboration. The vocal songs are fuller, boasting harder rhythms and deeper layers of sound. Much of the harder-edged sound of Heroes is due to Robert Fripp's guitar, which provides a muscular foundation for the electronics, especially on the relatively conventional rock songs.
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altrockchick
“Heroes” has the feel of the artist resurrected, an oral history of a part of David Bowie’s life where he yanked himself out of self-doubt and found himself in touch with the world again
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RollingStone
Bowie sings in a paradoxical (or is it schizo?) style at once unhinged and wholly self-controlled. With a chill, the listener can hear clearly through Bowie’s compressed lyrics and the dense sound.
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SOS
David Bowie pulled off the rare feat of having a major hit with a highly experimental piece of art-rock, which featured among other highlights live synth treatments from Brian Eno, pitched feedback from Robert Fripp and a lead vocal with level-triggered ambience.
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Alex's Reviews
"Heroes" isn't unlike Low, though the differences are obvious. Both still have the same lyrical/instrumental divide, though the second album closes with a lyrical track (while the first album begins with an instrumental). It may be less dark.
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The Young Folks
It makes the entire experience feel like a glimpsed private moment, or an overheard conversation we were lucky to catch. It’s fleeting, which makes it magical.
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sputnik music
The new Bowie is finally accepted, and sets out the blueprint for electronic music for the next decade.
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APHORISTIC ALBUM REVIEWS
Heroes feels a little too much like a repeat of Low, and the instrumental material drags, but there’s still plenty to enjoy.
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John Mcferrin
It took me about two listens to decide that this was going to be my favorite Bowie album for the rest of time.
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Only Solitaire
Certainly one of the best, most mind-blowing examples of musical collaboration in rock history.
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Adrian Denning
A good album in its own right, yet not as structured as 'Low', without the stronger melodies of 'Low', even without the vocal delights of 'Low', the title track from 'Heroes' excepted, of course.
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Wilson & Alroy's Record Reviews
If anyone wanted to argue that this was Bowie's best period, they could build a good case around side 1 of Heroes. Take one cup Bowie, add rubbery disco bass, electrify with brilliant Robert Fripp guitar parts, sprinkle lightly with Briano Eno sound effects, serve with occasional sax, piano, cheesy backup vocals, or whatever you find in the cupboard, and you've got the ingredients for a clever and entertaining record.
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Don Ignacio
Of all the Berlin Trilogy I've got to assume that Low was the more influential album for the '80s since it sported a distinct new romantic flavor. However, I'm sure that the lush feeling of this album had a profound influence on acts like Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush who embarked on similar things in the '80s.
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Medium
More of “Low” but possibly better. The first half is conventional songs. The back half is ambient instrumentals. It also contains possibly Bowie’s greatest song. You can guess which songs I’m referring to.
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Mark Prindle
So the record sounds like a mature, layered, alternately mesmerizing and irritating rock and roll album (rather than the new wave/power pop focus of the last album) - UNTIL side two brings yet another 20 minutes of ambient instrumentals.
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