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[FoneBone]

For me, it's pretty much tied between Rebel Rebel, Suffragette City, and The Man Who Sold the World.

Also, I love Under Pressure.

(I figure this thread should provide some more recommendations...)

 

[Fowler]

Big Under Pressure fan here too! Also rather like Let's Dance.

 

[dem]

Moonage Daydream

 

[Prospero]

This time, I'm going to skip past the greatest hits and readily available tracks and go straight for the obscure but equally brilliant.

Wood Jackson (off one of the singles for Heathen)
Safe (again, one of the Heathen single B-sides)
Candidate (bonus track on the Ryko edition of Diamond Dogs)
Abdulmajid (from the Ryko edition of Low)
Real Cool World (from Black Tie White Noise special edition)
One Shot (off Tin Machine II)
Untitled No. 1 (from The Buddha of Suburbia)
Man Who Sold the World (the various album versions are great, but check out the version on the single for Strangers When We Meet)
Wild-Eyed Boy from Freecloud (not the album version, but the stripped-down version in the Sound and Vision boxset--just acoustic guitar and cello)

 

[Star Power]

I could never, ever choose. Ever. I'll list a few:

Sound and Vision
Be My Wife
Starman
Ziggy Stardust
Young Americans
Velvet Goldmine
Fame
Let's Dance
Breaking Glass
Subterraneans
Star
Rebel Rebel
Alladin Sane
Wild Is the Wind
Time
Space Oddity
Heroes
Queen Bitch
Lady Grinning Soul
A New Career in a New Town
Sufragette City
Some Are

<3 Bowie.

 

[Lyte Edge]

Woah, I was just about to make a thread asking for good Bowie songs. I guess I can use what you guys post here.

 

[Prospero]

And for bonus points, let's also list our least favorite Bowie songs--

--Alabama Song (from the Ryko edition of Scary Monsters)
--Fame '90 remix featuring Queen Latifah
--pretty much anything on Hours

 

[Star Power]

--Fame '90 remix featuring Queen Latifah

:lol :lol

 

[talking head]

starman

man who sold the world

i'm afraid of americans

 

[FortNinety]

Dance Magic Dance from Labyrinth.

 

[Prospero]

--Fame '90 remix featuring Queen Latifah

:lol :lol

I also have a remix of "I'm Afraid of Americans" featuring Ice Cube and Nine Inch Nails.

 

[bridegur]

A New Career In a New Town
Suffragette City
Be My Wife
Space Oddity

 

[Shazapp]

Space Oddity
Fame
Under Pressure
Modern Love
Blue Jean
Heroes

 

[8bit]

The Laughing Gnome.

 

[heavy liquid]

Ashes to Ashes

And anything else off of Scary Monsters or Heroes.

 

[Litigation Manuel]

Moonage Daydream

You sir are a genius. There is to be an agreement reached between us on this post topic!

 

[way more]

You all need to check out The Life Aquatic, or at least the soundtrack.

 

[Dilbert]

"Fame."

 

[Winged Creature]

"Rebel Rebel"

 

[Alex Anderson]

I'll stick with you baby for a thousand years
Nothing's gonna touch you in these Golden Years

 

[Drensch]

Heros or Rebel rebel.

 

[dynamitejim]

Big Brother + Chant Of The Ever Circling Skeletal Family

 

[DJ Sl4m]

Real Cool World

Yea, that was an awesome track, one which I consider his greatest.
It's a shame it didn't get more recognition.

 

[yoshifumi]

life on mars

maybe, i'm not sure about that though

 

[Late Stage Marxist]

70's - Golden Years
80's - Magic Dance (Labyrinth representin')
90's - I'm Afraid of Americans (Reznor mix)

 

[sonicfan]

Hmm, where to start:

Early peroid:

Laughing Nome, Rubber Band, The London Boys

Hippie period:

Width of a Circle, Man Who Sold the World, Bombers, Andy Warhol

Ziggy Period:

Moonage Daydream, Suffergette City, Starman, Cracked Actor, 1984/dodo

Plastic Soul period:

Facination, TVC15, Golden Years

Eno peroid:

Speed of life, Be my Wife, Heroes, Joe the Lion, Boys Keep Swinging, Look Back in Anger

Early 80s:

Fashion, Ashes to Ashes, Let's Dance, Under Pressure (although its really a Queen song IMO)

Mid 80s

Blue Jean

Tin Machine:

Nothing really

90s and later:

Jump They Say, The Hearts Filthy Lesson, I'm Afraid of Americans

I kinda lost interest in the 1990s in his music, it lost that something special to me that it used to have. Maybe he should go back to taking drugs.....

 

[tralfazz]

Sorrow

Starman

 

[mattiewheels]

You guys are hardcore Bowie fans, awesome

Cracked Actor
Time
Breaking Glass
Station To Station

I thought Slow Burn off of Heathen was pretty great for a new song, too.

 

[radios shipping overview]

Dead Man Walking, Starman. Oh, and Little Wonder.

 

[Killkernal]

'The Width of a Circle' and 'She Shook Me Cold' are my favorites hands down.

I can't leave out some other classics like 'Scary Monsters', 'Ashes to Ashes', 'Modern Love' and 'Queen Bitch'. Bowie has so many incredible songs.

 

[Late Stage Marxist]

Under Pressure (although its really a Queen song IMO)

My favourite Queen song by far.

 

[kablooey]

Tough. Generally speaking, his title tracks (Man who Sold the World, Heroes, Aladdin Sane, Station to Station) are brilliant. Other than those, I'm a fan of Ashes to Ashes (duh), Stay, Wild is the Wind, and Always Crashing in the Same Car.

Bowie rocks.

 

[Star Power]

I never really liked "Under Pressure"... other than that bassline, it's pretty dull.


My favorite Queen song is "Killer Queen"... great stuff.

 

[Grimlock]

Modern Love, quickly followed by Let's Dance & China Girl.

 

[White Man]

I'll limit myself to my current favorite:

Sons of the Silent Age

They don't walk, they just glide in and out of life
They never die, they just go to sleep one day

That line makes me shiver.

 

[Late Stage Marxist]

Almost forgot "I'm Deranged".

 

[Star Power]

Modern Love, quickly followed by Let's Dance & China Girl.

Iggy Pop's original version of 'China Girl' is soooooooooooooooooo much better.

 

[iapetus]

A few picked at random from my ever-changing list of favourite Bowie songs:

Life on Mars
Rock and Roll Suicide
Andy Warhol
Bombers

 

[Cool]

Man Who Sold The World
Space Oddity
Sons of the Silent Age

 

[JackFrost2012]

Iggy Pop's original version of 'China Girl' is soooooooooooooooooo much better.

Better at sucking!

My votes go to:
Ashes to Ashes
Up the Hill Backwards
Sound & Vision
Strangers When We Meet
Under Pressure
Heroes (ALBUM VERSION)
Modern Love
New Killer Star

Totally Underrated:
Outside

Guilty Pleasures:
Absolute Beginners
Let's Dance in its entirety

Sucks:
Hours

 

[Star Power]

Better at sucking!

FOOL.

 

[Do The Mario]

Under Pressure is my fav but I also like

Wild Child
Blue jean
Heroes
Fashion
Let’s dance
Dancing in the street

 

[MetatronM]

You all need to check out The Life Aquatic, or at least the soundtrack.

The running gag with David Bowie songs (you know what I mean) was absolutely hilarious.

 

[Coen]

Sound & Vision, for lack of recognition in this thread.

 

[Greenpanda]

I guess "Rebel Rebel" and "Heroes" aren't very original picks, but those are my top two.

 

[COCKLES]

Ashes to Ashes

And anything else off of Scary Monsters or Heroes.

Yup. I've got Ashes as my ringtone on 'me mobile. Great classic.

But I'd add Let's Dance as well.

 

[Shinobi]

My favourite Bowie tracks...

Space Oddity
Ashes to Ashes
Life on Mars
Changes
Young Americans
The Heart's Filthy Lesson

 

[etiolate]

Oh You Pretty Things

Wake up you sleepy head
Put on some clothes, shake up your bed
Put another log on the fire for me
I've made some breakfast and coffee
Look out my window and what do I see
A crack in the sky and a hand reaching down to me
All the nightmares came today
And it looks as though they're here to stay

What are we coming to
No room for me, no fun for you
I think about a world to come
Where the books were found by the golden ones
Written in pain, written in awe
By a puzzled man who questioned
What we were here for
All the strangers came today
And it looks as though they're here to stay

Oh you pretty things
Don't you know you're driving your
Mamas and papas insane
Oh you pretty things
Don't you know you're driving your
Mamas and papas insane
Let me make it plain
You gotta make way for the Homo Superior

Look at your children
See their faces in golden rays
Don't kid yourself they belong to you
They're the start of a coming race
The earth is a bitch
We've finished our news
Homo Sapiens have outgrown their use
All the strangers came today
And it looks as though they're here to stay

Oh you pretty things
Don't you know you're driving your
Mamas and papas insane
Oh you pretty things
Don't you know you're driving your
Mamas and papas insane
Let me make it plain
You gotta make way for the Homo Superior

 

[Mr. Spinnington]

Where's JimBowie at?

 

[Die Squirrel Die]

I think like most people my favourite is ever changing, 'cause he just has too many awesome songs and albums.

I'd probably have to go with Station to Station (both the song and the album) as my current fave, although GTASA has got me listening to Young Americans a lot.

And it is only the excellence of Bowie that saves Under Pressure from Freddie Mercury's attempts to ruin it by singing like a twat. There's singing falsetto and then there's being a wanker.