David Bowie | Space Oddity | The Man Who Sold the World | Hunky Dory
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars | Aladdin Sane | Pin Ups | Diamond Dogs | Young Americans
Station to Station | Low | "Heroes" | Lodger | Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) | Let's Dance | Tonight | Never Let Me Down
Tin Machine | Black Tie White Noise | The Buddha of Suburbia | Outside | Earthling | 'hours...' | The Next Day | ★
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- Creepy Awesome: Basically the whole album when its concept and lyrics are taken into account. The Duke is by far the most unpleasant character Bowie ever created, but Station to Station is also some of the best music he ever created. Lyrical Dissonance plays a big role here as well.
- Draco in Leather Pants: The Thin White Duke, which Bowie was described as a "nasty one," is a fairly popular character with Bowie fans, especially considering how easy it'd be able to dress up as him. He even seemed to be the basis for the Twelfth Doctor's getup (Peter Capaldi is a noted Bowie fan and used the musician as his template for portraying the Doctor)!
- Harsher in Hindsight: The suave, sharp-dressed image of the fascist Thin White Duke is even more chilling nowadays, with this exact image being adopted by modern Neo-Nazis and white supremacists.
- Memetic Mutation: Jokes about "not being the side affects of the cocaine" will pop up with fans when it comes to discussing the album. Red peppers too.
- Nightmare Fuel:
- As described on the main Nightmare Fuel page, the Thin White Duke is chilling, considering how much of an emotionless and stoic character he is, even without the fascism stuff.
- The music, while being awesome, has some unnerving moments, from the obsessive nature in 'Stay', the surreal tone of 'TVC15', and the somber and mild distorting in 'Wild is the Wind'.
- Overshadowed by Controversy: The album's much less known for its actual content and better-known for Bowie's massive Creator Breakdown during its recording, culminating in him getting Lost in Character as the Thin White Duke and making several pro-fascist statements (the exact opposite of his actual political beliefs) on live TV. Bowie himself was able to move past the latter incident, largely because it was pretty clear through tons of circumstantial evidence that he was not actually a fascist, but Station to Station is still chased around by the Duke's specter.
- This Is Your Premise on Drugs: The musicians on this record admitted to consuming cocaine while creating this album. Earl Slick remarked how he casually used it for getting inspiration for the album's guitar work. Bowie himself couldn't even remember recording the album.
