David Bowie - Station To Station (Half-Speed Mastering)
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Vocals, Guitar, Saxophone – David Bowie [click here to see more products featuring David Bowie]
Backng vocals – Warren Peace
Lead Guitar – Earl Slick
Rhythm Guitar – Carlos Alomar
Bass – George Murray
Drums – Dennis Davis
Piano – Roy Bittan
Keyboards – Tony Kaye
Arranged by David Bowie
Written by David Bowie (A1 to B2), Dimitri Tiomkin (B3), Ned Washington (B3)
1LP, standard sleeve
50th Anniversary Edition
Original analog Master tape : YES
Half-speed Mastering
Heavy Press : 180g
Record color : black
Speed : 33RPM
Size : 12”
Stereo
Studio
Record Press : Record Technology Incorporated
Label : Parlophone
Original label : RCA Victor
Recorded September – November 1975 at Cherokee Studio, Hollywood ; Record Plant, Los Angeles ; and on March 23 1976 at the Nassau Coliseum Uniondale, NY, USA
Engineered by Harry Maslin, Dave Hewitt,
Produced by David Bowie, Harry Maslin
Sleeve Notes by Cameron Crowe
Originally released in January 1976
Reissued in January 2026
Tracks:
Side A:
- Station To Station
- Golden Years
- Word On A Wing
Side B:
- TVC 15
- Stay
- Wild Is The Wind
Awards:
Rolling Stone list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time – Ranked 323
Uncut magazine list of the 200 greatest albums of all time - Ranked 30
Classic Rock magazine list of the 100 Greatest Albums of the 1970s – Ranked 5
Colin Larkin’s All Time Top 1000 Albums - Ranked 305
Included in the 2018 edition of Robert Dimery's book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die
Reviews :
“Taking the detached plastic soul of Young Americans to an elegant, robotic extreme, Station to Station is a transitional album that creates its own distinctive style. Abandoning any pretense of being a soulman, yet keeping rhythmic elements of soul, David Bowie positions himself as a cold, clinical crooner and explores a variety of styles. Everything from epic ballads and disco to synthesized avant pop is present on Station to Station, but what ties it together is Bowie's cocaine-induced paranoia and detached musical persona. At its heart, Station to Station is an avant-garde art-rock album, most explicitly on "TVC 15" and the epic sprawl of the title track, but also on the cool crooning of "Wild Is the Wind" and "Word on a Wing," as well as the disco stylings of "Golden Years." It's not an easy album to warm to, but its epic structure and clinical sound were an impressive, individualistic achievement, as well as a style that would prove enormously influential on post-punk.” AllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Half-speed mastering. In half-speed mastering, the whole process is slowed down to half of the original speed. A typical 33 1/3 rpm record is cut at 16 2/3 rpm. The source material is also slowed down (reducing the pitch in the process) meaning the final record will still sound normal when played back. Slowing the whole process down allows more time, which means the end result sounds better and is more efficient — allowing engineering to minimize the effects of inherent limitations within the vinyl format. The result is a more accurate and more open high-frequency response in the half speed vinyl when compared with a normal speed recording.
Ratings :
AllMusic : 4 / 5 , Discogs : 4,82 / 5