Station to Station was a milestone in Bowies transition to his late-1970s Berlin Trilogy. Bowie himself has said of the album, As far as the music goes, Low and its siblings were a direct follow-on from the title track, while Brian Eno opined that Low was very much a continuation from Station to Station. It has also been described as enormously influential on post-punk. Roy Carr and Charles Shaar Murray wrote in 1981, If Low was Gary Numans Bowie album, then Station to Station was Magazines. However, Stylus declared in 2004 that just as few had anticipated Bowie’s approach, few copied it ... for the most part this is an orphaned, abandoned style. More than twenty years after its release, Bowie considered both Station to Station and Low great, damn good albums, but due to his disconnected state during its recording, listened to Station to Station as a piece of work by an entirely different person. He elaborated: First, theres the content, which nobodys actually been terribly clear about. The Station to Station track itself is very much concerned with the stations of the cross. All the references within the piece are to do with the Kabbala. Its the nearest album to a magick treatise that Ive written. Ive never read a review that really sussed it. Its an extremely dark album. Miserable time to live through, I must say.” In 1999, music biographer David Buckley described Station to Station as a masterpiece of invention that some critics would argue, perhaps unfashionably, is his finest record. The same year, Eno called it one of the great records of all time. In 2003, the album was ranked No. 323 on Rolling Stone magazines list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. A year later, The Observer ranked the album No. 80 on its list of the 100 greatest British albums.
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