Low - The Album
Songs (Time)
All tracks written by David Bowie except Breaking
Glass written by Bowie, Davis, Murray.
- Speed Of Life (2:45)
- Breaking Glass (1:42)
- What In The World (2:20)
- Sound and Vision (3:00)
- Always Crashing In The Same Car (3:26)
- Be My Wife (2:55)
- A New Career In A New Town (2:50)
- Warszawa (6:17)
- Art Decade (3:43)
- Weeping Wall (3:25)
- Subterraneans (5:37)
Bonus tracks on RykoDisc release
- Some Are (3:24) Previously unreleased track recorded
1976-79
- All Saints (3:35) Previously unreleased track
recorded 1976-79
- Sound And Vision (4:43) Remixed version, 1991
- Release details
- Original release by RCA, January 14, 1977
- Rerelease on CD by RykoDisc 1991 with bonus tracks
- Producer
- David Bowie and Tony Visconti
- Musicians
- Low was an experimental album with different musicians playing on
each track. They are listed below.
Musicians
- Speed Of Life (2:45)
- Carlos Alomar: rhythm guitars
- David Bowie: arp, tape horn and brass-synthetic strings
- Dennis Davis: percussion
- George Murray: bass
- Roy Young: piano
- Breaking Glass (1:42)
- Carlos Alomar: guitar
- David Bowie: vocals
- Dennis Davis: percussion
- Eno: splinter mini-moog
- Ricky Gardener: rhythm guitar
- George Murray: bass
- What In The World (2:20)
- Carlos Alomar: rhythm guitar
- David Bowie: vocals
- Dennis Davis: percussion
- Eno: report arp, rimmer E.M.I.
- Ricky Gardener: guitars
- George Murray: bass
- Iggy Pop: vocals
- Roy Young: piano, farfisa organ
- Sound and Vision (3:00)
- Carlos Alomar: rhythm guitar
- David Bowie: vocals, synthetic strings, saxophones
- Dennis Davis: percussion
- Eno: vocals
- Ricky Gardener: guitars
- George Murray: bass
- Mary Visconti: vocals
- Roy Young: piano
- Always Crashing In The Same Car (3:26)
- Carlos Alomar: rhythm guitar
- David Bowie: vocals, tape, cellos
- Dennis Davis: percussion
- Eno: guitar treatments, E.M.I. synthesizer
- Ricky Gardener: guitar
- George Murray: bass
- Roy Young: piano, organ
- Be My Wife (2:55)
- Carlos Alomar: rhythm guitar
- David Bowie: vocals, guitar, pump bass
- Dennis Davis: percussion
- Ricky Gardener: guitars
- George Murray: bass
- Roy Young: pianos
- A New Career In A New Town (2:50)
- Carlos Alomar: rhythm guitar
- David Bowie: tape sax section, harmonica, piano
- Dennis Davis: percussion
- Ricky Gardener: guitar
- George Murray: bass
- Roy Young: piano
- Warszawa (6:17)
- David Bowie: vocals
- Eno: piano, mini-moog, chamberlain, E.M.I.
- Art Decade (3:43)
- David Bowie: pre-arranged percussion, piano, chamberlain, guitar,
synthetic strings
- Eno: piano, mini-moog, chamberlain, E.M.I.
- Eduard Meyer: cellos
- Weeping Wall (3:25)
- David Bowie: pianos, guitar, vocals, synthetic strings, vibraphones,
xylophones, arp
- Subterraneans (5:37)
- Carlos Alomar: guitar
- David Bowie: piano, guitar, vocals, sax
- George Murray: bass
- Peter and Paul: pianos, arp
Bonus track details
Some Are and All Saints written
by Bowie and Eno.
- Some Are (3:24) Previously unreleased track recorded
1976-79
- David Bowie: vocals, ambient sounds
- Eno: instruments
- All Saints (3:35) Previously unreleased track
recorded 1976-79
- Bowie, Eno: instruments
- Sound And Vision (4:43) Remixed version, 1991
- Carlos Alomar: rhythm guitar
- David Bowie: vocals, synthetic strings, ambient sounds, saxophones
- Dennis Davis: percussion
- Eno: vocals
- Ricky Gardener: guitars
- George Murray: bass
- Mary Visconti: vocals
- Roy Young: piano
Trivia
- The first of the trio of synthesizer albums with Brian Eno in Berlin.
- There is a rumour that an alternate version of Low exists, which
contains the same music but different lyrics (perhaps more closely
related to the film, The Man Who Fell To Earth). If you know
anything about this, please email me at torrie@cs.stanford.edu.
- The album cover, with Low titled above Bowie's profile was
a subtle reminder of Bowie trying to keep a low profile.
- Philip Glass took three of these songs, and made his own interpretation
in the Low
Symphony.
- Chart Performance:
| Country | Date | Peak # | # of weeks |
| UK | January 29, 1977 | 2 | 18 |
| US | ? | 11 | 19 |
| UK | June 11, 1983 | 85 | 5 |
| UK | September 7, 1991 | 64 | 1 |
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