David Bowie | Space Oddity | The Man Who Sold the World | Hunky Dory
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars | Aladdin Sane | Pin Ups | Diamond Dogs | Young Americans
Station to Station | Low | "Heroes" | Lodger | Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) | Let's Dance | Tonight | Never Let Me Down
Tin Machine | Black Tie White Noise | The Buddha of Suburbia | Outside | Earthling | 'hours...' | Heathen | Reality | 'hours...'
The Next Day | ★ | Changesonebowie
- Better Export for You: The Japanese release adds the bonus track "We All Go Through".
- Channel Hop: This album marked a brief move to Virgin Records worldwide. Bowie had been signed onto the label in the US since 1995, but his music was put out through Arista Records elsewhere for the past six years. Bowie would leave Virgin in 2001 due to the shelving of the re-recordings album Toy.
- Creator Backlash: Not with Bowie, but with Reeves Gabrels, who was unhappy with the final product of the album due to the Creative Differences that emerged between himself and Bowie during production. Namely, Bowie wanted 'hours...' to "be more slick and polished and have fretless bass," while Gabrels was looking for a rawer, Diamond Dogs-style sound; Gabrels particularly cited the overdubbing of his bass work with a fretless bass musician and the relegation of "And We Shall Go to Town" to a B-side as incidents that particularly drew his ire. These creative conflicts would lead Gabrels and Bowie to part ways after 'hours...''s release.
- Doing It for the Art: Bowie created his own internet service provider just so people could download the digital version of his album, seeing as how painfully slow the download process was with then-contemporary ISPs.
- What Could Have Been: A Concept Video was shot for "The Pretty Things Are Going to Hell", with Bowie encountering several of his past personas as "played" by life-sized puppets, but he wasn't happy with the result. The official video remains unreleased, although an unedited leaked version can be found on YouTube
. Two of the puppets — The Thin White Duke and Pierrot — got their closeups in 2013, when he reused them for the "Love Is Lost" video (The Next Day).
