"Station to Station" was voted the 13th best album of 1976 in the Pazz & Jop, an annual poll of American critics nationwide, published by "The Village Voice". Reviewing the record for the newspaper, Christgau expressed some reservations about the length of the songs and the detached quality of Bowie's vocals, but deemed "TVC 15" his "favorite piece of rock and roll in a very long time" and wrote, "spaceyness has always been his shtick, and anybody who can merge Lou Reed, disco, and Dr. John ... deserves to keep doing it for five minutes and 29 seconds." He ranked it as the year's fourth best in his ballot for the poll.