DAVID BOWIE Station to Station (RCA)

It's tough having heroes. It's the hardest thing in the world. It's harder than being a hero. Heroes are generally expected to produce somethin0g or other to reconfirm their Mandarin-fingered clinch on the hotbuns of the bitch muse, which sometimes comes closer to resembling a set of clawmarks running down ctnd off the edge of a shale precipice. At sunset, even. And that's no office party, kiddo.

But hero-worshippers (fans) must live with the continually confirmed dread of hero-slippage and the humiliating personal compromises in your standards and plain good sense about, oh, two to three weeks after the new elpee masterwork first hits our, turntables.