Sound And Vision - David Bowie (1977) 96KHz/24bit FLAC Audio

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"Sound and Vision" was released on David Bowie's 11th studio album, Low, on 14 January 1977. The album is one of Bowie's greatest works, recorded when he was kicking his coke habit and had moved from New York to Berlin. Longtime producer, the brilliant Tony Visconti was on board, as well as the even more brilliant Brian Eno.

*Just noticed that once again Youtube's upload compression brings some nasty artifacts/noise that isn't there on my rendered video, which is so much cleaner! The clearest example is the album cover at the end (but I see lots more that isn't in my render)...it looks awful. So frustrating that I take time to get noise removed and old video cleaned up, only to have this crap. It will bug the hell out of me and I'll have to resist trying a fix, though my experience in the past resulted in maybe an improvement in one area, but new noise in another that wasn't visible before. Damn.

This video is an update to an old one I made for the song many years ago. I made vids for several songs from Low and have been thinking about updating them. I wanted to experiment and especially provide new, lossless audio sourced from the latest, and most amazing sounding, remastered versions. The audio is taken from A New Career in a New Town (1977–1982) box set. Thanks for watching!

The album consists of one side (Side One) of shorter, highly melodic power/glam songs and a second side (Side Two) which was comprised of longer, mostly instrumental sonic tone poems.

I was very anxious to hear Bowie's new album when it was released in 1977, as I'd become a huge fan of his work and had just the winter before, purchased my first Bowie album on release date ('76's Station to Station).

At first, Low seemed a letdown. A string of short tunes and the instrumental side (not too exciting for a Bowie fan), but after repeated listens I began to realize what amazing music this album contained...side one, at least. There is so much going on with those songs and no matter how many times I hear these songs, they seem to shift and sound differently with each listen. I've never quite understood the power of Low's side one, and I guess that's part of the mystique and what continues to make this music so special. Low is my favorite David Bowie album, and one of my very favorite albums....pretty good considering it gets there based almost entirely on half of the album! ;-)

From Wiki:
Recorded following Bowie's move to West Berlin after a period of drug addiction and personal instability, Low was the first of three collaborations with Brian Eno and producer Tony Visconti later termed the "Berlin Trilogy", although it was recorded primarily in France at the Château d'Hérouville.

The album marked a shift in Bowie's musical style toward an electronic and ambient approach inspired by the German music scene, particularly bands such as Tangerine Dream, Neu!, Harmonia, and Kraftwerk; Bowie became interested in these bands while producing and co-writing Iggy Pop's debut solo album The Idiot (1976). Side one consists primarily of short, direct avant-pop song-fragments while side two consists of longer, mostly instrumental tracks heavily featuring Eno's contributions. The album's distinctive drum sound was achieved by Visconti through use of the Eventide H910 Harmonizer.

Upon its release, Low divided critics. RCA refused to release the album for three months, fearing poor commercial performance, but it surpassed Station to Station on the UK Albums Chart, peaking at number 2, and reached number 11 on the US Billboard 200 chart. It was supported by the singles "Sound and Vision" and "Be My Wife"; the former reached number 3 on the UK Singles Chart.

In subsequent decades, Low has been considered ahead of its time and been widely acclaimed as one of Bowie's best and most influential works. It has appeared on numerous lists of the greatest albums of all time by multiple publications, including Pitchfork, Q, NME and Rolling Stone.

[Lyrics]

Ahhh...
Ahhh...

Doo, doo, dooohoo, doo, doo
doo, doo, doo, doo, do-do, doohoo

Don't you wonder sometimes
'Bout sound and vision

Blue, blue, electric blue
That's the colour of my room
Where I will live
Blue, blue

Pale blinds drawn all day
Nothing to do, nothing to say
Blue, blue

I will sit right down, waiting for the gift of sound and vision
And I will sing, waiting for the gift of sound and vision
Drifting into my solitude, over my head

Don't you wonder sometimes
'Bout sound and vision

Ahhh...
Ahhh...

Doo, doo, dooohoo, doo, doo
doo, doo, doo, doo, do-do, doohoo

Don't you wonder sometimes
'Bout sound and vision

Blue, blue, electric blue
That's the colour of my room
Where I will live
Blue, blue

Pale blinds drawn all day
Nothing to do, nothing to say
Blue, blue

I will sit right down, waiting for the gift of sound and vision
And I will sing, waiting for the gift of sound and vision
Drifting into my solitude, over my head

Don't you wonder sometimes
'Bout sound and vision