LOW

The first of Bowie's classic collaborations with Brian Eno sees Bowie clawing his way out of the cocaine-addled muddle which had led to the folly of Young Americans and added a dangerous edge to Station to Station. How best to celebrate sobriety? Well, if you're David Bowie, you do it by producing a classic, revolutionary art rock album which will serve as a major inspiration to the artier, more progressive of the New Wave, of course! With one side concentrating on bizarre rock songs warped and distorted through an electronic haze and the second side devoted to foreboding, Krautrock-infliuenced instrumentals, the album is probably the proggiest in Bowie's discography, and certainly sounds like nothing that came before and little that came after it. Eccentric, edgy, neurotic and outright weird, Low proved that Bowie wasn't ready to stop innovating just yet.