This year, Every Sunday Evening, Album Rock WXYG, The GOAT will be featuring a full album at 8:00 PM from the halcyon musical days of 1976. 1976 was one of the top Years in Album Rock history. Another year of tough choices every week. So many great ones to choose from. After 52 Weeks of featuring so many of the great albums that debuted in 1975, next Sunday we will be moving on to another amazing year of ALBUM ROCK EXCELLENCE, 1976.
We hope you’ll tune in at 8:00 PM, next Sunday Evening, January 18, 2026, for “Station to Station“, the tenth studio album by David Bowie, released on January 23,1976 through RCA Records.
Regarded as one of his most significant works, the album was the vehicle for Bowie's performance persona the Thin White Duke. Co-produced by Bowie and Harry Maslin, Station to Station was mainly recorded at Cherokee Studios in Los Angeles, California, in late 1975, after Bowie completed shooting the film The Man Who Fell to Earth; the cover art featured a still from the film.
This is superbly produced groove rock played by a stellar band of top rate musicians that really gels and provides both punch and swing in equal measure. The rhythm section of Dennis Davis and George Murray lay down a funky bedrock for Carlos Alomar and Roy Bittan on rhythm guitar and piano to add some elegant patterns while Earl Slick embellishes with his rock god lead flourishes. And then of course there is the boss delivering a uniformly outstanding vocal performance ranging from deep croon to falsetto howls. His singing really has never been better than on this.
And as for the songs it kicks off with a sonic treat with the title track providing a multi part tour de force that has real swagger. The dance pop of “Golden Years” that slides along on a impossibly catchy riff, two stunningly cool ballads, “Word On A Wing” and “Wild Is The Wing” that both show off his singing to remarkable effect. And two choppy staccato groovers “TVC15” about a relationship with a TV set that seems quite prophetic today with our technology obsession, and “Stay” an angular avante garde funk workout.
The bridge between "Young Americans'" Philly-style soul and the more abstract Berlin trilogy, "Station to Station" blends chilly atmospheres with some of Bowie's most direct, powerful vocals. These six tracks are remarkably eclectic, moving easily from the ominous throb of "Station to Station" to the silky funk of "Golden Years." The impassioned, spiritual "Word on a Wing" features one of Bowie's most personal-sounding lyrics, while a sumptuous cover of the standard "Wild Is the Wind" closes the album on an unexpectedly beautiful note.
And there it is. Six tracks. As they say, all killer and no filler.
Tune In and Turn On next Sunday evening, January 18, 2026, and every Sunday evening at 8:00 PM for The GOAT'S "The Long Play with Al Neff”.
