The Album that fell to earth

It's hard for me to really appreciate that Low was made in 1976, on the closing heels of the StationtoStation tour. The album cover was yet another still from The Man Who Fell To Earth Film, though being a visual pun with Bowie in profile (geddit: Low profile). With side 2 probably much neraer to the missing TMWFTE soundtrack, though it is recounted that probably only Weeping Wall is in any way a hangover from the non-completed album.Bowie says the tapes were scrapped & any ideas were brought foward to the Low recording sessions. In 1991 Ryko re-released Low & included 2 outake tracks from side 2, namely Some Are, a brooding, moody & athmospheric piece with lyrics someowhere between vocalese & concrete lyrics & All Saints (named postumously as it were), a chugging mess of an unfinished sonic idea, probably owing more to mising decisions made in 1990 than at the time )obviously outakes are left out for many reasons, sometimes they just don't work. Oddly Philip Glass would reinterpret some are on his Low Symphony which must have been mighty confusing for any Bowie fan who never availed themselves of the Ryko reissue. A David Richards remix of Sound & Vision awkwardly spoils the mood & tones down the sharp sounding guitar hook. The 808 state remix of said track is maybe a better effort but personally I'd wish they'd all left well alone.