r/DavidBowie • • 8h ago

Discussion Which ambient/instrumental work do you consider better, "Heroes" or Low?

Now I am excluding V2-Schneider from this discussion, since I consider the instrumental work of Heroes to be only Sense Of Doubt/Moss Garden/Neuköln. Which is better in your opinion? I have to give it to the trilogy on "Heroes".

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u/MrMoog26 7h ago

Low. I do like the instrumentals on “Heroes”. I just wish he had come up with another one to end the album with so it matched Lows concept of instrumentals on Side 2.

I like The Secret Life Of Arabia but I don’t think it works coming after those moody instrumental pieces. I would have preferred Arabia to have ended up on Lodger. It feels more like a Lodger track to me, and I would have stuck it on there and ditched Move On.

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u/Most-Celebration-110 6h ago

i also prefer "heroes", both in instrumentals (few things are as hauntingly pretty as "moss garden") and as an album overall

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u/Dismal_Brush5229 6h ago

Ooo love Moss Garden!

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u/drjay1966 4h ago

I would consider "Moss Garden" my favorite ambient track by anybody.

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u/NINJAM7 7h ago

I listened to the entire Low album just today. It has such beautiful and also haunting music on it. It truly was so far ahead of its time. Funny enough, I also listened to the NIN/Tron soundtrack and feel that several songs from Low could have been on it. A new career in a new town is also very reminiscent of something from Black Star, probably the harmonica. Just a brilliant album, one of my favorties.

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u/Magheddon 5h ago

'Sense of Doubt' is my favorite of all his instrumentals but I prefer the ambience of 'Low'.

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u/Dismal_Brush5229 3h ago

Ooo sense of doubt is an favorite too

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u/DukeShadowMan 7h ago

The Buddha of Suburbia / Black Tie White Noise

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u/Due-Ocelot4301 4h ago

You have to include V2

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u/Dismal_Brush5229 3h ago

I definitely love the Low instrumentals more but if I really had to choose one then I’m going with the Heroes instrumentals

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u/ALC_PG 1h ago

Heroes. Moss Garden and Sense of Doubt can't be beat