Classics: A New Career In A New Town

Original video located here. Accessed 20th July 2016

Song title: A New Career In A New Town

Artist: David Bowie

Year: 1977

Why I like this song:

And now we reach the Berlin Trilogy - Seems you can't tackle David Bowie's oeuvre without addressing these three. A career highlight and often regarded as his best work. So let's talk about the one that wasn't recorded in Berlin: Low.

Listening to Low one thing that strikes me is it's familiarity. If the Bowie albums I've listened to prior sound perplexing to me, this is one that sounds like something I've heard before - largely due to to the fact that it has been replicated many times since: Having grown up with Icehouse and the Cure, I can see (hear?) their DNA in this album. I have even picked up Not Drowning Waving's approach of half pop songs/half instrumentals. 
But even if this album spawned a host of disciples, it still sounds fresh and timeless. Indeed, if the seventies were indeed a fertile period for music then this could well one of the standouts. 

In fact out of all the Bowie albums I've heard, this could well be my favourite.