Three Tune Tuesday : Station to Station

Back to the vinyl collection...and here we have Station to Station by David Bowie. This is my week's share for @ablaze 's #threetunetuesday; it's definitely Bowie, it's definitely a bit glam, a bit progressive, and a bit...Qabalah? Apparently so. I used to research the esoteric a bit, and another researcher mentioned this album is quite encoded with steep mysticism, and its a quite dark mysticism at that. I followed up with him on this hypothesis, and he could never quite give me any detail...but alas, it is, rest assured. Oh, OK, that makes sense...there is a reason I don't really research this stuff anymore. Lots of high ideas with very little to no backup...yeah it's a trend in such a field. But hey, I digress...let's get back to the music.

Station to Station

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This is the only song that really references anything Qabalah; station to station, get it? Tree of Life and all that? I think there's even a few stations mentioned...I get it, it was the 70's. This song though is a slow burn. The tempo changes around 5:24 and the bass and Bowie hits Bowie mode. It's a great Bowie song I honestly had no idea existed until I bought this album during the COVID days. I like it, however!

Golden Years

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I'm sure this one is known by most. Number two on this record, Bowie's Golden Years always reminded of a Lennon song. I wonder if Lennon wrote that chorus in the background...when the song hits 0:45 it sounds like Lennon had something to do with it. I can't prove it, but I've always thought that since I first heard song on CD years ago cleaning rental cars. Never did I think it was Macca...but Lennon, yeah. Interesting...

Word on a Wing

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This might be might favorite track on this album. Again, I had never heard this song until I was forced to play the whole thing straight through on vinyl. Again, another benefit of vinyls! On this one I really like the lyrics..."in this age of grand illusion, you walked into my life, out of my dreams." I am sucker for a good Gnostic reference, always! As complicated as Bowie appears to have been in life, his music always seemed to have a Gnostic bend to it. Whoa, I'm starting to dabble again in this area of thought...time to crack a beer and enjoy the rest of this album tonight.

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