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RobMoney$
10-18-2009, 09:13 PM
Well, what is it?
Bob
10-18-2009, 09:25 PM
how should i know what your favorite bowie song is?
RobMoney$
10-18-2009, 09:32 PM
You're supposed to be an internet veteran, Bob.
You know to wait for the Poll.


BTW, it's Life on Mars.
mate_spawn_die
10-18-2009, 11:29 PM
my all-time favorite is Subterraneans (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZTkqNiVfTc)
yeahwho
10-19-2009, 07:53 AM
Five Years (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq3EZhT3G7U)
MC Moot
10-19-2009, 11:11 AM
The options seem pulled from a "best of" compilation...How bout fave lesser known Bowie tunes?...
Laserface
10-19-2009, 11:43 AM
breaking glass
rirv
10-19-2009, 11:47 AM
1. Moonage Daydream
2. Five Years
3. Suffragette City
4. Rebel Rebel
5. Heroes
Laserface
10-19-2009, 11:47 AM
actually, scratch that - "heroes" is my favorite bowie song. "rebel rebel" and "moonage daydream" would be up there, though.
skra75
10-19-2009, 01:07 PM
Five Years (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq3EZhT3G7U)

This song rules. Although honestly the Thin White Duke era is pretty much better. BTW The live version of this song on youtube is pretty slick too.
The Good Heads
10-19-2009, 01:16 PM
The Man Who Saved The World with a big shout out to Heroes.
skra75
10-19-2009, 01:21 PM
Oh You Pretty Things (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBQ-S6njQQw&feature=related) is damn good too.
MC Moot
10-19-2009, 03:01 PM
chubby little loser… (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv6mEv_rDdE)
Guy Incognito
10-19-2009, 03:58 PM
i havent voted cos my favourite isnt there but i realise its not everyones cup of tea.

1. Young Americans
2. Heroes
3. Life On Mars
4. Lets Dance
5. Ashes to ashes

actually , the best bowie song ever is by mott the hoople
yeahwho
10-19-2009, 05:15 PM
actually , the best bowie song ever is by mott the hoople

That is some great stuff, just went thru a half a dozen youtubes that band is a who's who of legendary guitarists.

Thanks. Those Hooples must of put a lot bands in the backseat back in the day.
nodanaonlyzuul
10-19-2009, 06:09 PM
I love so many, but something about Ashes to Ashes gets to me...
RobMoney$
10-19-2009, 06:19 PM
The options seem pulled from a "best of" compilation...How bout fave lesser known Bowie tunes?...

The dude's prolific.
I probably could have listed 40 songs and someone would have found something that wasn't on there.


Also, I kind of like when someone throws out deep cut in these threads, like Yeahwho did with Five Years.
Stimulates the discussion. (y)
roosta
10-19-2009, 06:22 PM
Under Pressure for me.
RobMoney$
10-19-2009, 06:25 PM
I love so many, but something about Ashes to Ashes gets to me...


Ashes to ashes, funk to funky
We know Major Tom's a junkie
Strung out in heavens high
Hitting an all-time low



Great tune.
cj hood
10-19-2009, 07:35 PM
my bowie fanship is equivalent to the guy at the beastie show looking forward to sabatoge....
Guy Incognito
10-20-2009, 01:26 PM
That is some great stuff, just went thru a half a dozen youtubes that band is a who's who of legendary guitarists.

Thanks. Those Hooples must of put a lot bands in the backseat back in the day.

i only know all the young dudes :o but its such a great song
paul jones
10-20-2009, 02:09 PM
loving the alien
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkd1uGonwG0


brilliant fucked up video too(y)
Documad
10-20-2009, 02:32 PM
Young Americans was my favorite song of his forever but about two years ago it became Life on Mars.
Waus
10-20-2009, 02:42 PM
Any Bowie song gets old after a while for me, although I like a decent handful of the ones in the poll. I just picked the one that seems to have to most replay value in a given day.


I like "Velvet Goldmine" and "Seven" a lot too.
RobMoney$
10-20-2009, 06:35 PM
Young Americans was my favorite song of his forever but about two years ago it became Life on Mars.


SUPER (y)
RobMoney$
10-20-2009, 07:03 PM
Ok, one of my favorite Bowie deep cuts.
Off the Space Oddity album...

Letter to Hermione (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToHeNwTh6s0&feature=related)
YoungRemy
10-20-2009, 10:17 PM
I got into Seu Jorge's version of Life on Mars from the Life Aquatic soundtrack, so now I'm hooked on the original.
Documad
10-21-2009, 02:03 AM
I got into Seu Jorge's version of Life on Mars from the Life Aquatic soundtrack, so now I'm hooked on the original.

I think my obsession started when I saw the first episode of the British version of Life on Mars.
mickill
10-21-2009, 03:33 PM
Modern Love is an awesome pop song, in general, but as a Bowie song it isn't really a favorite. But it's a perfect example of how he could have really appealed to the mainstream if he wanted to. And I think he proved his point on the Let's Dance album.

Ziggy Stardust is probably my overall fav song. Nothing really comes close. Soul Love and Lady Stardust, from the same album, are high up there too. I don't really LOVE any of his other albums from start to finish like I do Ziggy.

Queen Bitch wins for favorite riff (next to Ziggy's), even though it essentially borrows it from this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHgO7yh06V0).

Also, Mick Ronson's playing really brought a lot of the songs from this era to life.
Randetica
10-21-2009, 03:43 PM
'young americans' is my favorite bowie album but i dont like the song itself that much

actually my (maybe) favorite song 'glass spider' is from his weakest album


theres about gazillion other bowie songs that i love and never could get tired of
Guy Incognito
10-21-2009, 03:48 PM
does the fact that luther vandross was on young americans detract or add to it? I dunno.
A. Chimendez
10-21-2009, 05:59 PM
The entire Hunky Dory album is my favorite Bowie song.


And Cat People.
Ty Webb
10-23-2009, 02:43 AM
lady stardust is so good. i'm also a big fan of marc bolan, whom it's supposed to be written about. Also, Cracked Actor just fuckin rocks and is very masculine sounding for him, and i play it on jukeboxes more often than any other song of his.
Ally Al
10-23-2009, 10:20 AM
does the fact that luther vandross was on young americans detract or add to it? I dunno.

Why would it detract ? For me it makes the sound that Bowie was aiming for at the time alot more authentic..........but thats just me
mickill
10-23-2009, 12:39 PM
lady stardust is so good. i'm also a big fan of marc bolan, whom it's supposed to be written about. Also, Cracked Actor just fuckin rocks and is very masculine sounding for him, and i play it on jukeboxes more often than any other song of his.

He really liked making songs about the people who he was influenced by at the time, in the style of those people he was dedicating the song to (Queen Bitch sounding like VU/Lou Reed, Song for Bob Dylan sounding like Dylan etc). But even though the Ziggy Stardust album is pretty much Electric Warrior II, Lady Stardust is sort of all Bowie. It has that theatrical Hunky Dory sound from before his glam phase.
Nuzzolese
10-23-2009, 01:16 PM
My Faves

Queen Bitch
Moonage Daydream
Starman
Rock N Roll Suicide
Documad
10-23-2009, 07:59 PM
The entire Hunky Dory album is my favorite Bowie song.


And Cat People.
I have a soft spot for that Cat People song. Not the whole song, but parts of it.
Ally Al
10-23-2009, 08:58 PM
He really liked making songs about the people who he was influenced by at the time, in the style of those people he was dedicating the song to (Queen Bitch sounding like VU/Lou Reed, Song for Bob Dylan sounding like Dylan etc). But even though the Ziggy Stardust album is pretty much Electric Warrior II, Lady Stardust is sort of all Bowie. It has that theatrical Hunky Dory sound from before his glam phase.

this whole bowie was unoriginal and just copied other artist idea grates on me more and more as time goes by (not that you brought this up Mick but i've read this many many times on internet message baords) , even if it was true, i've never been particularly convinced, give me bowie over lou reed/ vu any day, and as much as i love marc bolan he never made as an album as good as The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust. The joy of bowies music, in the 70's at least was he drew and all his influences but still managed to come up with a sound unique to him. Then again i grew up in a house with an older sister and brother that loved bowie so maybe i'm a little biased