I was initially so disappointed when it came out, but over the decades it has become my favorite Bowie album, ousting Diamond Dogs, Aladdin Sane and Ziggy Stardust from the throne. In Bowie's wildly varied canon it stands out as something he never did before or ever again, it's a solitaire.
Interestingly enough, decades later he had no recollection whatsoever of the album's recording, he was coked out of his mind during the sessions and lived on a strange diet of fresh milk and red peppers (following the Station to Station tour, he would leave the US "I escaped LA as the then coke capital of the world with a horrible coke addiction to save my life and fled to Berlin of all places, the then smack capital of the world, but there was no cocaine there at the time and I didn't do smack"). He later on remarked that he liked the album when listening to it, but that it sounded to him "like it was recorded by someone other than me, an interesting fellow though".
