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I was thinking the same thing: Blur's 'For Tomorrow' sounds very much 'inspired' by 'Be My Wife'. (And I can't stand Blur, which probably informs my reaction to that song.)

Here's my track by track take on Low after a couple more listens: Side A 'Speed of Life' - what a great opener, love that woozy synth bit especially 'Breaking Glass' - great tune, ends far too soon, they could have jammed it out for another minute and done a shorter fade out 'What In The...

This is great stuff. 'What, no cowbell?! Fuck it, I'll just hit this thing.'

Which is my whole point - you can only comfortably fit, what, 20 minutes on a side of wax? Hence Bowie and band rush through 30+ minutes of material in 20. Every song I was like 'ahhh I was just getting into that, sake'.

Right, so, my impression after my first listen - it feels like two different records. The second half is more spacious, the songs are mostly instrumental and have more room to breathe, compared to Side A which has loads of bangers that fade out far too quickly. Side B also has a much darker mood...

I HATE the vaudeville piano opening on 'Be My Wife'. And it's odd hearing him sing in his own accent. OK I'll hold off on the rest of my thoughts till I'm done with this first listen.

Yeah that's my feeling too, like they went 'ah that's enough, we need to make space for the next one'. The likes of 'Sound and Vision' deserve another couple of minutes to resolve properly, if you get me.

Fair enough, but his expression is anything but low, no minor-key dirges so far.

The songs feel a little truncated, though, as if they had all these ideas they wanted to include, but couldn't get away with a double LP.

Just getting a listen to this now through my computer speakers. I kinda like the blown-out drum sound so far. The title seems to be a misnomer, it's quite vibrant and driving on these first few tracks.

So this is opportune, since I just added Bowie's '70s albums as playlists in Spotify a week ago and I listened to Young Americans and Station to Station earlier today. Low comes next in the chronology anyway and I'm looking forward to it.