10 Darkest Rock Albums Of The 70s

After dominating the first half of the '70s, David Bowie had already shown us many different facets of his personality. We had already gone through the Ziggy Stardust era, and it looked like we were in for an era of prime soul on the back of the album Young Americans. That was just the palette cleanser though. Bowie had something a lot more raw in store for Station to Station.

Taking a few pages out of the Kraftwerk playbook, most of this record is going for a more krautrock sound, including a 10 minute intro track that talks about the oncoming European canon. No Bowie record is complete without a character though, and the Thin White Duke may have been the most disturbed man that Bowie ever gave us, being almost pencil thin and even making passing references to the occult and rumors of him sympathizing with Nazis based on what he said in interviews.

While the actual press for the album may have been taken out of context, the album sounding like it does is practically a miracle, as Bowie lived on a diet of peppers, milk, and cocaine for months during the making of this album. Even though every sign pointed to this album not working, Station to Station is one of the few albums where all of the excess really paid off. It may have just been the side effects of the cocaine for Bowie, but he could still write quality tunes with the devil trailing behind him.