6tracks only?

So ,Fame had wetted my appetite, I guess & Golden Years impressed me immensely, though oddly I was neither drawn to purchase Young Americans or the upcoming Stationtostation (the latter looked poor value, containing only 6 tracks, which to me, was an EP, surely?). Instead I bought ChangesoneBowie, allowing me to appraise extracts of the previous albums, avail myself of both Fame & Golden Years into the bargain. I wasn't greatly moved by the earlier stuff, though it all sounded impressive. So Changesone was my most played purchase for most of 1976. In January 1977 everything changed. I had a short lived paper round & had heard that tracks from the upcoming new Bowie album were to be previed on Alan Freeman's Saturday afternoon rock show. I set a C120 tape going in my parents music centre & rushed my paper round (the local Saturday paper, The Evening Post). Freeman played 5 tracks end to end (in retrospect he probably had a 5 Track preview disc of the album, a great rarity, even now). The 5 tracks from the unrealed Low were all played with no interuptions.
They were:
Speed Of Life
Breaking Glass
Sound & vision
Warszawa
Subteraneans

As the last sounds of Subteraneans ended, there was a long pause before Alan Freeman , sounding lost for words, read the names of the tracks we had heard. I must admit, the sheer "newness" of the sound completely exited me. I don't think I'll ever forget the opening notes of Speed Of Life, a fade up on a song that sounded like you had joined it already in full flow. The shock of a Bowie Instrumental as an opener was followed by the amazingly short, but intense Breaking Glass. Sound & vision was the clear commercial pick & indeed became the single, though Bowie only appears half way into the song, which I believe Charles shar Murray in the music press would describe as "the ultimate retreat song".
The lyrics seemed bleak - "pale blinds, drawn all day, nothing to read, nothing to say". Anyone who has felt the weight of depression, must have known exatly where this was coming from.
Warszawa & Subterraneans, long moody instrumentals featuring bowie's "vocalese", an invented language that sounds real were to change my musical horions forever.
Low was hardly a huge commercial success but by now the music scene was largely obsessed with punk. Bowie semmed disinterested in his music career. This seemed more a cathartic artistic exercise.