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...' | The Next Day | ★
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- Ensemble Dark Horse: As with Low before it, "Heroes" maintains a considerable subset of fans who consider it a better candidate for Bowie's finest album than The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.
- Second Verse Curse: The title track suffers an odd case of this; the single release starts on the third verse ("I, I wish you could swim..."), rather than the first, and live performances often cut out the second in favor of jumping straight from one to three. Because of this, most people tend to be unaware of the actual second verse, and even the first in some cases, which is somewhat of a shame given that the first verse's Dark Reprise near the end of the song is maintained in the single release and live versions.
- Signature Song: The title track has become one of Bowie's best-known tunes.
- Unintentional Period Piece: The Title Track makes reference to "the wall" and the guards stationed there, a readily apparent reference to the Berlin Wall, by which Bowie saw producer Tony Visconti embracing a woman he was having an affair with. The wall ultimately came down 22 years later in November of 1989.
- Vindicated by History: While the album itself has always been a critical darling, the title track hardly made a splash when it was first released as a single; nowadays it's considered one of the best songs of the 1970's and an arguable candidate for Bowie's Signature Song. It being a regular among Bowie's live performances (to the point where he picked it as part of his woefully short repertoire at Live Aid in 1985) certainly helped. Like its predecessor, the album was a major influence on Post-Punk, Alternative Rock, and Post-Rock.
