This album means quite a lot to me, it was my entrance into maturity in music. The first six tracks are mini songs that on first listen seem emotionally irrelevant, especially when compared to the rest of the album. But they are just as beautiful after repeated listens. They become their own little moments of life but just clouded in a pop format. On these songs Bowie doesn't seem to care about the lyrics, although on Always crashing in the same car there is some interesting imagery. These songs are really quite straight forward and what makes them just as emotional as the stuff on the other side I can't explain with words. It's definitely  grace to some of the treatments from Brian Eno.