Album · David Bowie
Low by David Bowie
Low is an album by David Bowie, released in 1977. 3 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 33 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Sound And Vision”, on 28 lists with a best position of #38.
Low, David Bowie's eleventh album, came out on RCA on 14 January 1977, and it sounds like nothing he had made before. He and Iggy Pop had gone to France in 1976 to get off drugs, and after making Pop's The Idiot, Bowie started his own record at the Chateau d'Herouville that September and finished it in October at Hansa Studios in West Berlin, with Tony Visconti producing and Brian Eno aboard: the first of the Berlin Trilogy.
Side one is a string of short, clipped art-pop fragments with gloomy words, driven by Visconti's crunching drum sound, pitch-shifted through an Eventide Harmonizer; side two drifts into long, mostly wordless instrumentals, electronic sketches of Berlin, with Kraftwerk, Neu! and Tangerine Dream somewhere in the family tree. RCA sat on it for three months. It still reached number 2 in Britain, and "Sound and Vision" went top five.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Low on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sound And Vision | 28 | #38 | – | 1999–2026 | |
| 2 | Speed of Life | 1 | #614 | – | 2024 | |
| 3 | Be My Wife | 4 | #872 | – | 2007–2022 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.