Your Ten Favorite.......Bowie songs
Your Ten Favorite.......Bowie songs
I know there are plenty of Bowie fans on this board. I actually wouldn't be surprised if there had already been a thread like this!
Much harder this time around. So I'll need some time to think about it.
Much harder this time around. So I'll need some time to think about it.
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Like pretty much every other incarnation of this game, this list is bound to change tomorrow and is no particular order. But as of right now:
1. Oh! You Pretty Things
2. John, I'm Only Dancing
3. Sound and Vision
4. Ashes To Ashes
5. Space Oddity
6. All The Young Dudes
7. "Heroes"
8. Life On Mars
9. Starman
10. Golden Years
1. Oh! You Pretty Things
2. John, I'm Only Dancing
3. Sound and Vision
4. Ashes To Ashes
5. Space Oddity
6. All The Young Dudes
7. "Heroes"
8. Life On Mars
9. Starman
10. Golden Years
This morning you've got time for a hot, home-cooked breakfast! Delicious and piping hot in only 3 microwave minutes.
Aladdin Sane
Win
Drive In Saturday
Sound and Vision
Stay
Red Sails
Sweet Thing/Candidate
The Bewley Brothers
The Prettiest Star
Rock N Roll Suicide
Win
Drive In Saturday
Sound and Vision
Stay
Red Sails
Sweet Thing/Candidate
The Bewley Brothers
The Prettiest Star
Rock N Roll Suicide
echos myron like a siren
with endurance like the liberty bell
and he tells you of the dreamers
but he's cracked up like the road
and he'd like to lift us up, but we're a very heavy load
with endurance like the liberty bell
and he tells you of the dreamers
but he's cracked up like the road
and he'd like to lift us up, but we're a very heavy load
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In order, never ever to change, even for a minute :
1. Stay
2. Five Years
3. Letter to Hermione
4. Life On Mars
5. I Would Be Your Slave
6. Heroes
7. Queen Bitch
8. Rock 'n' Roll Suicide
9. Always Crashing In the Same Car
10. Drive-In Saturday
Hard not to include things like Ashes to Ashes, Diamond Dogs, Sound And Vision and a few other biggies, but I had to make room for some personal faves..
1. Stay
2. Five Years
3. Letter to Hermione
4. Life On Mars
5. I Would Be Your Slave
6. Heroes
7. Queen Bitch
8. Rock 'n' Roll Suicide
9. Always Crashing In the Same Car
10. Drive-In Saturday
Hard not to include things like Ashes to Ashes, Diamond Dogs, Sound And Vision and a few other biggies, but I had to make room for some personal faves..
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The obvious are too obvious, so here's more of a non-Best Of best of:
5.15 (Angels Have Gone)
Be My Wife
Word on a Wing
Teenage Wildlife
All The Madmen
Quicksand
Lady Stardust
God Knows I'm Good
Fall Dog Bombs The Moon
Win
(Couldn't we make this the 50 best?)
5.15 (Angels Have Gone)
Be My Wife
Word on a Wing
Teenage Wildlife
All The Madmen
Quicksand
Lady Stardust
God Knows I'm Good
Fall Dog Bombs The Moon
Win
(Couldn't we make this the 50 best?)
There's more to life than books, you know, but not much more
Im kinda amazed nobody has picked "Station to Station"...
... was also listening to David Live today and the version of "Width of A Circle" is just awesome.
... was also listening to David Live today and the version of "Width of A Circle" is just awesome.
echos myron like a siren
with endurance like the liberty bell
and he tells you of the dreamers
but he's cracked up like the road
and he'd like to lift us up, but we're a very heavy load
with endurance like the liberty bell
and he tells you of the dreamers
but he's cracked up like the road
and he'd like to lift us up, but we're a very heavy load
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It's cause "Stay" is so awesome from that record, though you and I were the only ones to remember... For me, the opening to that song alone puts it high in any best-list, not just Bowie. But I love the whole progression of it, and the rhythms, and the lyrics.Mike Boom wrote:Im kinda amazed nobody has picked "Station to Station"...
I9, I knew he had done some sort of collaboration with Reznor, but that's a Bowie song. Seems a staple at his shows. I had the unbelievable good fortune to see him perform it at a 2000-capacity club in Boston during the tour for that album (Earthling).
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He performed that one when I saw him at Queens College around the same time and it was a highlight. They also did a cracking version of "Hallo Spaceboy". I was tempted to include something from Outside on my list - a really underrated album IMO.Mechanical Grace wrote:I9, I knew he had done some sort of collaboration with Reznor, but that's a Bowie song. Seems a staple at his shows. I had the unbelievable good fortune to see him perform it at a 2000-capacity club in Boston during the tour for that album (Earthling).
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Outside is one of my favourites. Though as with parts of the original Eno-trilogy, Brian Eno deserves a bit of the credit. Picked 'I'm Deranged' because I'll never ever get tired of it. Lovely arrangements.
I'm surprised I've been the only one to pick TVC15!
Here's a nice little video of it being performed on the Heroes tour with Adrian Belew!:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycU_wmcCzWg
Stay is an awesome song, though it didn't quite make my list. Had I picked another song from that album the title track would probably get higher priority though
Speaking of Stay:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPMLxE3SzeQ
I'm surprised I've been the only one to pick TVC15!
Here's a nice little video of it being performed on the Heroes tour with Adrian Belew!:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycU_wmcCzWg
Stay is an awesome song, though it didn't quite make my list. Had I picked another song from that album the title track would probably get higher priority though
Speaking of Stay:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPMLxE3SzeQ
Finally, a great recording of one of my ''Heroes'':
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sbp8eHWbvkw
Finally finally, this version blows away the studio recording completley:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_v9B3mNZVE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sbp8eHWbvkw
Finally finally, this version blows away the studio recording completley:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_v9B3mNZVE
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Fantastic, thank you! I lurve Adrian Belew, and I guess I'm not the only one: Dave looks like he wants to eat Adrian with a spoon during those solos... maybe it was the drugs...Chrille wrote:Speaking of Stay:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPMLxE3SzeQ
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Same difference. Your favourites are your personal best of. I just meant I'd go for less obvious things for some variety. Favourite songs that wouldn't make a typical Best Of, for the most part, even though of course many of my real faves are Best Of fodder, cos they're legendary for good reason. Fair enough?
Interesting that we have all the songs off S to S here, apart, I think, from Golden Years, which I also love to bits (and the title track by proxy as Mike's amazement that it isn't here is a vote in itself!). I've always had a huge soft spot for Word On A Wing, described by Bowie as his My Sweet Lord, I recall. I love the original take on spiritual matters: 'I don't need another change, still you forced your into my scheme of things' and how that phrase is then reversed with 'does my prayer fit into with your scheme of things?' and the more deterministic 'ready to shape the scheme of things'. And it's a lovely tune, a fantastic delivery (as with all of the LP). TVC15 I love as a groove but for me is probably the least memorable thing on the LP, but you're talking sheer class here.
Sacrilege! It's good, fast paced, kicking even, but how you could compare a note of it to the immortal brilliance of the whole sound and feel of the Ziggy original stupefies me. Bowie does his typical live thing of playing with the tune and phrasing quite a bit, which is great, but, for the Otis dollar, nothing on any of the '78 Ziggy live deliveries could be held up to the originals. Make sure you have Stage if you like the '78 approach. The recent remastered reissue with the original set order is a good purchase. I love his trousers back then.Chrille wrote:Finally finally, this version blows away the studio recording completley:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_v9B3mNZVE
Interesting that we have all the songs off S to S here, apart, I think, from Golden Years, which I also love to bits (and the title track by proxy as Mike's amazement that it isn't here is a vote in itself!). I've always had a huge soft spot for Word On A Wing, described by Bowie as his My Sweet Lord, I recall. I love the original take on spiritual matters: 'I don't need another change, still you forced your into my scheme of things' and how that phrase is then reversed with 'does my prayer fit into with your scheme of things?' and the more deterministic 'ready to shape the scheme of things'. And it's a lovely tune, a fantastic delivery (as with all of the LP). TVC15 I love as a groove but for me is probably the least memorable thing on the LP, but you're talking sheer class here.
There's more to life than books, you know, but not much more
Blue picked "Golden Years", great song, but it always reminds me of that video of him miming it so so dreadfully on "Soul Train".Interesting that we have all the songs off S to S here, apart, I think, from Golden Years
"Wild is the Wind" is the song nobodys picked from Station to Station, which is an awesome song too, but I think I pfefer Nina's version, just, which is why I didnt pick "All The Young Dudes" because Mott the Hooples version will always be the definitive one for me.
Also no love for "Fame" ?
echos myron like a siren
with endurance like the liberty bell
and he tells you of the dreamers
but he's cracked up like the road
and he'd like to lift us up, but we're a very heavy load
with endurance like the liberty bell
and he tells you of the dreamers
but he's cracked up like the road
and he'd like to lift us up, but we're a very heavy load
Otis, I'll agree that most '78 versions of the Ziggy material aren't particularly interesting and it's strange because Star is probably my favourite song from that album. But there's something about the chaos of this live recording that I really like. I think it's the rolling drums
That said, perhaps I did overract about this live recording blowing away the studio version completley. But I do like it much better!
I dislike live albums except for the odd recording, I had the original version of Stage and didn't care much for it. The sound was flat and boring the way I remember it, and I doubt the reissue will have done anything about it besides perhaps making it a bit clearer, which wouldn't help, imo. When it comes to the odd recording I must say the live tracks on the Armed Forces bonus disc are fantastic!
TVC15 is perhaps just a groove, the lyrics are quite silly and the least interesting part of the song, the chorus, is overused. But man what a groove it is! Perhaps my favourite groove ever and surely that is worthy of a place on the list!
Mike: I did pick Wild Is The Wind.
That said, perhaps I did overract about this live recording blowing away the studio version completley. But I do like it much better!
I dislike live albums except for the odd recording, I had the original version of Stage and didn't care much for it. The sound was flat and boring the way I remember it, and I doubt the reissue will have done anything about it besides perhaps making it a bit clearer, which wouldn't help, imo. When it comes to the odd recording I must say the live tracks on the Armed Forces bonus disc are fantastic!
TVC15 is perhaps just a groove, the lyrics are quite silly and the least interesting part of the song, the chorus, is overused. But man what a groove it is! Perhaps my favourite groove ever and surely that is worthy of a place on the list!
Mike: I did pick Wild Is The Wind.
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Mike: I did pick Wild Is The Wind.
Your eyesight is just one of the many things that begin to fade when your as old as I am.
I remember when it were all fields around here .....
echos myron like a siren
with endurance like the liberty bell
and he tells you of the dreamers
but he's cracked up like the road
and he'd like to lift us up, but we're a very heavy load
with endurance like the liberty bell
and he tells you of the dreamers
but he's cracked up like the road
and he'd like to lift us up, but we're a very heavy load