Low is the first of three depressed, eerie albums Bowie recorded with ambient-music pioneer, Brian Eno in Berlin, Germany from 1977 to 1979. Torn by soviet and German rule, at that time, Berlin was one of the saddest places in the world. The first side contains a short, simple songs centered around the theme of psychologically empowered bad habits. "Baby, I've been, breaking glass in your room again/Listen, don't look at the carpet, I drew something awful on it/See, you're such a wonderful person/But you got problems/I'll never touch you." are the only lyrics to Breaking Glass, which is a perfect example of Bowie's ability to write simple, depressive displays. Also listen to Bowie attempt to coo a depressed girl from her room in What In the World and the symbolic Always Crashing the Same Car. The second half consists of Bowie's and Eno's eerie instrumentals. Listening to the desperate yells and bittersweet arrangements of Subterranians or A New Career in a New Town, one can not help but picture a street full of the helplessly unhappy citizens of the torn city.