#10: David Bowie — “Station to Station” (1976)
A ten-minute epic that starts as a slow, menacing train-like funk groove before violently shifting midway into an upbeat, disco-infused celebration. Bowie spent the first half of the composition building an ominous, avant-garde wall of sound before executing a sharp tempo acceleration. The track’s sudden conversion into driving art-pop stands as one of his most audacious structural moves.
