What is your favorite David Bowie song?

[MikeG]

Poll question: What is your favorite David Bowie song?

[Mizmoon]

1. The whole Spiders from Mars album

too hard to pick just one.

[jjmalonejr]

5. I agree

Don't make me choose!

[NewYorkerfromMass]

22. Yeah, it ain't easy.

:)

[FrankBooth]

44. That song was written by one of the Davies brothers

Of Kinks fame. I'd love to hear the original.

[Dookus]

2. such a hard choice...

he's my all-time favorite. But if forced to choose, I'd go with Heroes.

[iconoclastic cat]

3. Rock and Roll Suicide

I just learned how to play it on the guitar.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

4. Diamond Dogs

NT

[Robroy]

6. Heroes..

Loved Jacob Dylan's version, too.

[MissMillie]

10. absolutely the most

underplayed Bowie song.

[Nlighten1]

7. Fame

"what you like is in the limo"

[NewYorkerfromMass]

21. Bought the 45 in 1975

My 1st ever purchase of any music.
Too much great music to pick any one. I love it ALL!

edit: O.K. I voted for Ashes to Ashes 'cause nobody had picked it yet. From Scary Monsters I also always liked "It's no Game" and "Up the Hill Backwards".

[KurtNYC]

8. Other = Amazing, and most of the first

Tin Machine album. They created a new sound after most thought rock was exhausted. Video Crime also good.

[mstrsplinter326]

9. I HATE the music of David Bowie.

Not to mention he freaks me out.

[jonnyblitz]

11. scary monsters or TVC 15 n/t

[DODI]

13. Another for TVC 15

[quispquake]

12. Anything off of "Low"

Not his most popular album, but an album that truly changed my life when I heard it...released in the middle of Corporate rock in the states, and punk in Britain...

[NewYorkerfromMass]

29. The live album "Stage" completely changed my opinion of Low

"Speed of Life", "Broken Glass", and "Warzawa" are just masterpieces of sound.

[BurtWorm]

14. Rebel, Rebel

followed in rapid succession by Panic in Detroit, Diamond Dogs and Station to Station.

[Kikosexy2]

18. Rebel, Rebel...

yes but I like "Panic in Detroit".

[flamingyouth]

15. Moonage Daydream and The Man Who Sold the World

I really like Bowie a lot. I actually have lots of favorites by him.

[Melodybe]

19. I LOVE DAVID BOWIE! you left off Pressure, Fame, Fashion...

His cover of Cactus isn't bad, Bowie is one of my favorite song writers of all time.

He is one of those few people that can play amost any instrument. He is a composer in every respect of the word and his music has influenced so many. I think that he is simply brilliant. "I'm Afraid of America" which cam out in 1997 was definitely ahead of it's time and now seems prophetic. He had the forsight to invest in XM radio and it has made him the richest musician in the world. He came a long way from the English slums he was born into, I find him and his accomplishments truly inspiring.

I can not say enough good things about him, and like a fine wine he gets better with age.

Did I mention that I think that he is totally hot too? Yum, I just love that man.

[Taverner]

54. Second for Moonage Daydream

The Ziggy Version of course!

[NC_Nurse]

16. Scary monsters

[swag]

24. Seconded.

[MikeG]

17. My choice is Ziggy Stardust.

[johnnie]

20. Man who sold the world

Heroes is another one

[Qutzupalotl]

23. Young Americans.

Hot sax.

[tcfrogs]

26. Agreed

Don't really know why I like it, but it's my favorite

[Paragon]

25. Reznor remix of "I'm Afraid Of Americans"

:thumbsup:

[SiouxJ]

27. Impossible to decide

it changes (no pun intended ;-) ) from decade to decade. When I was a teen, Space Oddity was IT for me. Now I love Heroes. But then I'll hear the opening of Rebel and think - nope, that's my favorite. :shrug:

[Political_Junkie]

28. John, I'm Only Dancing

I know that's strange, but I love that song! It is hard to pick just one though.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

31. Not strange at all, that's a great song.

I'm firmly in the camp of "there's just too much great music to pick one".

[liberalmuse]

30. "Fame"...

a cool, funky song.

[Magrittes Pipe]

32. Rock 'n' Roll Suicide.

Oh no, love, you're not alone.

[Bossy Monkey]

33. Probably Panic in Detroit, unless you count Under Pressure n/t

[tigerbeat]

34. Oh, You Pretty Things

off of Hunky Dory. although Diamond Dogs and Ziggy Stardust are pretty close seconds.

on edit: Life on Mars from Hunky Dory is pretty tasty too.

[MikeG]

35. I based the poll on his Greatest Hits CD, which I have worn out.

Apologies to any omissions.

There are only ten poll choices.

"Ashes to Ashes" never leaves my head for days after I play it.

[redqueen]

36. Other: How can you possibly choose?! n/t

[Westegg]

37. 4-way tie: Queen Bitch, Heroes, Watch That Man, Sound & Vision. (n/t)

[MikeG]

38. For those who don't know - he's recovering from heart surgery.

He's one we don't want to lose just yet.

http://www.sound-check.net/editorial/news112.htm

[geniph]

39. Aladdin Sane

I love that album...

[ronnykmarshall]

40. Young Americans

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

45. yes, Young Americans

MKJ

[TOhioLiberal]

41. Lets dance.

put on your red shoes and dance the blues.

No 'Under Pressure'?

[Blue-Jay]

42. Ashes to Ashes was my fav Bowie video. Freaky!

But I voted for "Changes"

[FrankBooth]

43. Lady Stardust off Ziggy album

just damn beautiful.

[Red State Rebel]

46. Under Pressure with Queen n/m

[MercutioATC]

50. That and Young Americans are my favorites.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

47. "Rebel Rebel" is perfect pop, but "Heroes" has Robert Fripp...

...and "Jean Genie" has Mick Ronson's sublime way-cool rip-off of Jeff Beck-era Yardbirds, and...

I think I will hold out and wait for the "What are your three favorite David Bowie songs?" copycat thread...

:evilgrin:

[tigereye]

51. well said. you took the words right out of my mouth

he wrote so many good songs!

[MidwestMomma]

48. Station to Station

Heard Bowie play it live in KC just this May. OUTSTANDING!

[Kahuna]

49. "Let's Dance," sends me into a hypnotic trance. You forgot, "Blue Jean."

That's my second favorite. Both of these songs are on the play list of the CDs I'm listening to now.

[jus_the_facts]

52. Puttin' Out Fire With Gasoline ~ Cat People

[ForrestGump]

53. Easy: "The Laughing Gnome"

[drumwolf]

55. A tie between "Golden Years" and "Heroes"

BTW, if you like David Bowie's stuff from the late '70s, let me recommend the movie "Christiane F," a German film about teenage heroin addicts in Berlin during that time period. The namesake of the film was a huge Bowie fan, the film uses a whole bunch of Bowie songs from that time period, and Bowie himself makes an appearance in the film in one scene.

There's one scene where Christiane and her friends run through a shopping mall while "Heroes" is playing, and another scene where they go to see David Bowie live in concert and he comes onstage and performs "Station to Station."

BTW, "Golden Years" is not in the film -- but it's still one of my fave Bowie songs.

[rppper]

56. i can't believe no one said "golden years"

i loved that song as a kid.....the whistling at the end was soooo cool...that and "fame" are my two favs from bowie....


Golden years, gold whop whop whop
Golden years, gold whop whop whop
Golden years, gold whop whop whop

Don’t let me hear you say life’s taking you nowhere, angel
Come get up my baby
Look at that sky, life’s begun
Nights are warm and the days are young
Come get up my baby

There’s my baby, lost that’s all
Once I’m begging you save her little soul
Golden years, gold whop whop whop
Come get up my baby

Last night they loved you, opening doors and pulling some strings, angel
Come get up my baby
In walked luck and you looked in time
Never look back, walk tall, act fine
Come get up my baby

I’ll stick with you baby for a thousand years
Nothing’s gonna touch you in these golden years, gold
Golden years, gold whop whop whop
Come get up my baby

Some of these days, and it won’t be long
Gonna drive back down where you once belonged
In the back of a dream car twenty foot long
Don’t cry my sweet, don’t break my heart
Doing all right, but you gotta get smart
Wish upon, wish upon, day upon day, I believe oh lord
I believe all the way
Come get up my baby
Run for the shadows, run for the shadows, run for the shadows in these golden years

There’s my baby, lost that’s all
Once I’m begging you save her little soul
Golden years, gold whop whop whop
Come get up my baby

Don’t let me hear you say life’s taking you nowhere, angel
Come get up my baby
Run for the shadows, run for the shadows
Run for the shadows in these golden years

I’ll stick with you baby for a thousand years
Nothing’s gonna touch you in these golden years, gold
Golden years, gold whop whop whop
Golden years, gold whop whop whop
Golden years, gold whop whop whop

[drumwolf]

60. er, did you see my post, the very last one right before yours?

:P

[DS1]

57. It's actually a Bowie/NIN song

It's quite good, it's my favorite.

"The Heart's Filthy Lesson"

[OnionPatch]

58. Fame

Fame just jumps in mind first. I just love it, not sure why.

[rucky]

59. Life On Mars n/t