David Bowie - Subterraneans - Low

[TheThinduke01]

i had my first same sex encounter whilst LOW was playing in the background,unforgetable

[featherston16]

my favourite song - think of still life and the depths of the sea - it is grace unsurpassed

[kutcharaninfan]

ohh god this absolutely amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Scoobydoonut]

One of the beautiful things about the genius of David Bowie is that he can make us feel even without singing a single word, his music has true passion.

[FourGirlRumba]

This would be great to reversed slow-motion plant growth.

[plenti21]

The partnership of my vein

[VSincere]

smokin' and groovin'

[plenti21]

This is poetry

[ezaube1030]

I have had the album Low since I was a teenager, but now I have really listened to the B-Side for the first time, and I am impressed,.. very beautiful and particular.

[LaraCroftCrazy1]

I love this song :). it reminds me of Bjork's Homogenic album. both this song and that album are wonderful works of art :D

[Lozzeii]

I love how he self-invented a language! Pure genius!!!!!

[stevecowdry]

Love this album - I am transported back nearly 35 years - Sheffield skyline from Sorby Hall on a Sunday night.....

[simonemerlinthe]

non saprei nemmeno dire che cosa susciti in me questa canzone . . .

[gildas2]

The darkest song ever composed. I can hear the sax crying at the end

[baboon2525]

has something of Vangelis' Blade Runner compositions about it with the sax

[jwillchad]

terrifies me

[Logananda111]

@jwillchad it *makes* me party lol

[foonlyvision]

why did you make me wait until the last track of the album to hear the sax??

[astrophonix]

I think this piece was inspired by Bowie's role in The Man Who Fell To Earth. In the movie the alien has been 'humanised' and his means of returning to his dying homeworld have been destroyed, so releases an album he hopes will be played on the radio and picked up by his wife on the home planet and in which he says goodbye to her. It even sounds like he sings "share bright failing star."

[NightmareGanon]

I always get chills when the song opens.

[pythonbyte]

Low is my favourite record of all time. I played this track to my young nephew and needless to say he became a bit unnerved.

[turboslag]

Very Eno'esque !!

Shamed to admit as a big Bowie fan I've never heard Low !!

This I like , suits my temperament , and the sax part is sublime.

[PointThree]

@turboslag Funny you should say that. For 'Low,' 'Heroes,' and 'Lodger,' Brian Eno was a close collaborater with Bowie. Both genius' of music on another level.

[ivankaramasov]

@PointThree Yes, but there are big differences between Bowie's and Eno's instrumental music. I would say this piece could never have been written by Eno. And many Eno instrumentals could never have been written by Bowie.

[MaximTendu]

@turboslag The sax part is played by Bowie.. great singer, great composer, great musician, great actor...... the one and only !

[FRODOBOWIE]

Sad sad music ,just like life can be i suppose, bowie capture it with grace masterpiece

[ferlinghetti]

captain manure, you are a hidden genius

[mrsziggystarlet]

magic...

[KissyouMissyouxxx]

A most beautifully unassuming, and ! underestimated masterpiece...Mmmmmm, so lovely.

J.

[gildas2]

The saddest song ever wrote

[ferlinghetti]

no comment

[CaptainBaige]

no comment... hmmm " post comment " it is a comment ya clown

[ferlinghetti]

captain manure, you are a hidden genius, but i found you!!!!