Another Bowie Classic

This, along with most of Lodger, is the best of the Berlin Trilogy. It has some of the Philadelphia R&B of Young Americans in Sons of the Silent Age and the synth-pop of Low and Station to Station in V-2 Schneider and most of the second half. It also closes with a cool, pop song The Secret Life of Arabia. Overall, the best of the three by far. I can't give it a 5-star rating because that belongs on Ziggy Stardust or Hunky Dory. But this, along with Station to Station and The Man Who Sold The World, does deserve 4 and 1/2 stars.

Atmospheric masterpiece

Heroes was the second album in Bowie's trilogy of Brian Eno produced electronic albums. It follows the pattern of Low in its mix of short pop/rock songs and moody instrumentals and semi-instrumentals. Somehow it lacks the trenchant edge of Low, although the title track is truly spectacular in its evocative imagery and great emotional impact.



On the title track, Bowie's voice is as emotive as on Word On A Wing (from Station To Station) over the wailing drone of the synths as it paints a scenario of lovers meeting beneath the Berlin wall. Truly breathtaking, this song was also released as a single in German and French versions in the seventies.



The melancholy Sons Of The Silent Age has a spacey feel, beautiful lyrics and a ghostly chorus, while Blackout is harsh and discordant. I love the sax and the driving beat of V2 Schneider as Bowie's voice intones the title. Moss Garden is a delicate instrumental, a sound I recognized later in some pieces by e.g. Autechre and Cabaret Voltaire, but Secret Life Of Arabia drags a bit.



Lodger, the third album in the trilogy, is nowhere near as good as the first two. Heroes remains my favorite of the three, primarily on account of the unsurpassable title track.

BETTER THAN LOW.HIGHER THAN HIGH

This is my personal favourite from the so-called Berlin trilogy(Lodger actually shouldn't be part of the trilogy since it's totally different from the other two and it wasn't recorded in Berlin.it was recorded in Montreux Switzerland.)



I tend to listen to this album more than Low.I love it more.Don't really want to compare becaue they're both completely different pieces of work even if there are instrumentals in here.







"Heroes" is really the best song Bowie has recorded but there's more than that song in here.Where can someone begin?Joe The Lion?Sons Of The Silent Age?Blackout?V-2Shneider?Sense Of Doubt? Neukoln???? ? ? Arabia?





IF YOU DON'T HAVE ANYTHING FROM BOWIE BUY THE COLLECTION BOWIE-CHANGES FIRST THEN...THIS...ZIGGY AND SCARY MONSTERS...THEN AFTER THAT YOU'LL WANNA BUY EVERYTHING ELSE!



Enjoy this piece of art.

Confounding experimentalism----

This album follows the shallow soul of 'Young Americans' and the grab bag of 'Station To Station', Bowie's unexciting, post 'Diamond Dogs' albums, and 'Low', the first installment of Bowie's deeply atmospheric collaborations with one-time Roxy Music mastermind Brian Eno. Its another of his extremely schizophrenic recordings--from the displaced faux-disco of "Beauty & The Beast", to the astonishing "Sons Of The SIlent Age", which oozes Ziggy-style swagger in the vocals. But the timeless title track is what makes this a must have--one of the most affective pieces of music Bowie ever recorded. Jakob Dylan be damned!! This is the real deal.....

freak out in a moonage daydream

This album is exactly that: a dream in space. Low could be a better album, but I think Heroes creates and maintains a singular atomsphere better than the aforementioned slab of Bowie/Eno genius. This depends greatly on the fact that the instrumentals here are more fully developed and keep the pace of the album all the way to the end (with a little help from one of the best songs EVER-"Secret Life of Arabia"). The instrumentals on Low are great, but they play more like noble experiments than the realized pieces here. Basically, if you like Low, get this. If you like this, get Low. They are very similar, but each has its own secrets and surprises to offer. I am a very big David Bowie fan, and I think these two albums are the best music he ever recorded.

See a different world

Bowie's artistic credibility (a fairly tattered thing, nowadays) was built largely around the fact that in the mid- to late-70's he took off to Europe and started making hugely uncommercial (yet hugely influential) music with ex-Roxy Music man Brian Eno. The results of this collaboration were patchy but never less than interesting. 'Heroes' (the quotation marks are a deliberate irony) is a unique mix of fuzzy guitars, prototype electronics, murky vocals and delicate instrumentals. Highlights: the title track, one of the greatest love songs ever written; 'Joe the Lion'; 'Beauty and the Beast'. This ranks up with the Cure's 'Faith' as an album that transports you into a frame of mind that's oddly disquieting. Listen, and prepare to be... can't explain it, really. But one thing's for sure: It's genuinely original; there's nothing quite like it.