The Man Who Polled the World, aka DAVID BOWIE POLL RESULTS

I love how Bowie also appears with a clipboard as the supervisor in the let's dance video for a .5 second appearance. It's so unnecessary.

(My wife and I watching this video recently.)

ME: "Hey! This video was filmed in Sydney!"
SS: *pause* "So you caught on to that, did you?"

Wow, feeling like "Let's Dance" should have made my ballot. Out-thought myself on that one I think.

the "Let's Dance" video is better art than the song imo. I'm a sucker for Buñuel adapted for Aussie ends.

26. "Quicksand" (from Hunky Dory) - 451 points/19 votes/0 first-place votes

http://youtu.be/nrptumUcv8E

ooh, didn't expect this one

Think my attitude on Let's Dance changed from merely liking the song (as a radio single) to loving it after actually dancing to it (on a crowded dancefloor) with a hot girl I was lusting after.

Pour me out another phone
I'll ring and see if your friends are home
Perhaps the strange ones in the dome
Can lend us a book we can read up alone
And try to get it on like once before
When people stared in Jagger's eyes and scored
Like the video films we saw

poss. my favourite Bowie lyric. But what are these "video films" of which you speak?

Trying to do this results stuff and anything else is tricky! Post a result; wash the dishes; post a result; prep the chicken; post a result; mix the marinade; post a result; put the chicken in the marinade; post a result; make some lunch.

Don't forget to eat the chicken. That's the key, I find.

"Quicksand" first of mine to place in quite a while. It's possible I heard the J. Mascis cover before the original, but regardless I love this song, such a strange feel to it.

That's going on the grill this evening, awwwyeah. xp

Wish Bowie had done a couple D&D modules, or maybe Gamma World.

This was my 21st, replaced at the last minute by Bewlay Brothers.

Top 5 prediction:

Heroes
Ashes to Ashes
Sound and Vision
Life on Mars
Station To Station

Space Oddity instead of Sound and Vision and that's probably it

Think my attitude on Let's Dance changed from merely liking the song (as a radio single) to loving it after actually dancing to it (on a crowded dancefloor) with a hot girl I was lusting after.

same here. it happened the night before I sent my ballot (which now had Let's Dance as an honorable number 20)

I just checked back in on this thread after eating dinner, so I'm late with this, but 'Rock'N'Roll Suicide' was my #1 selection. As a kid I was familiar with DB's early/mid 80's SM/LD/Labyrinth/etc. period, but I didn't know about anything before. Then by chance I heard R'n'RS and was like "WTF was THAT?!?!". The DJ back-announced the title of the track, and the next day I went to the record store to pick up a copy of whatever album it was the track appeared on (ZS of course). I'd been a massive Hendrix fan but pretty much knocked that on the head and started buying all the DB stuff I could get my hands on.

Also now thinking about how Bowie fandom can lead to more sublime enjoyment of the Church, especially their lyrics.

25. "Queen Bitch" (from Hunky Dory) - 467 points/21 votes/0 first-place votes

Album: http://youtu.be/S5P63qGTm_g
The Old Grey Whistle Test, 1972: http://youtu.be/O8oGyGo1q-k

OH YEAH

I know it's kind of a stupid song but it's a really good one for strutting.

My #8!

#10 for me

so glad "quicksand" made it, one of my very favorite bowie songs, though i ranked it too low on my ballot. "knowledge comes with death's release ah ah ah ah..."

Also now thinking about how Bowie fandom can lead to more sublime enjoyment of the Church, especially their lyrics.
totally

Also now thinking about how Bowie fandom can lead to more sublime enjoyment of the Church, especially their lyrics.

I dunno why this has happened to me :(

*HASN'T

QB just missed out on mine.

Hah, very high for me, #3. One of those songs that I know is not near an artist's best, but I enjoy it out of all proportion to it's "quality": I just fucking love it to death and never get bored of it. My favority of Bowie's attitude-over-artistry anthems, though there is one yet to place that I traded back and forth with in this slot for a bit.

Queen Bitch that is.

Bowie has a power to resist terrible, terrible puns that Kilbey totally lacks. I love him for it, but I've seen it make people physically cringe.

Yeah I tried to find the photo of him drawing that. It's in one of the ryko booklets. There's one of him standing up and drawing it and one in which he sits on the floor, one arm supporting his upper body, the other drawing. Maybe it's the back cover for Station to Station ryko release?
― willem, Wednesday, March 7, 2012

You can see him drawing something with his cane while chatting during his Dick Cavett interview, Dick asks him what he is doing, awkward silence if I remember

*grumble* "Queen Bitch" and "Quicksand" were my #2 and #3.

Love the line "There's a taste in my mouth and it's no taste at all".

"Quicksand" wallows so well in it's self-reflection. Really a great melancholic rundown of crippling self-absorption and being unable to get out of one's own head.

xp - my baseline for unfathomably bad puns is "my heart could use some glasses" so i realize that is a pretty low benchmark

i like "my stomach feels small"

"Quicksand" was my #7, so yeah, my #3 and #7 seemed destined for more love.

both in my top ten

OK, listening to Heathen[i] on Spotify right now - wasn't impressed with the other late records, including [i]Outside, but this one's actually not bad. A little too matoor in places, and fuck does he sound old, but there are some really nice tunes - and keep-up-with-the-times production kitsch of the sort that mired his 90s records is mostly absent. So Christgau was off about this one after all.

24. "Modern Love" (from Let's Dance) - 476 points/23 votes/0 first-place votes

Official video: http://youtu.be/1hDbpF4Mvkw
At Live Aid, 1985: http://youtu.be/xJxOL_eFGEk

!!! one of my favorite dancing songs OF ALL TIME !!!

Stoked to see Quicksand place, was my #10 or 11.

I'm glad Modern Love made it so high. I didn't vote for it but probably should have.

I'm glad Modern Love made it so high. I didn't vote for it but probably should have.

Same here, in fact this is true of a few of today's results. Love the intro so much.

I thought "Queen Bitch" would be top 5 or 10. It was actually the Wes Anderson film that got me to love it (I know that would be appalling to longtime Bowie fans).

"Modern Love" had grown for me over time to be a real joy whenever I hear it. Disliked it as a kid, and it just kept inserting itself into my life over time. Realise now that it is kind of a juggernaut. Great build, cool structure to the song (it just seems like it could go on forever, still not sure when choruses are gonna start and end in this song). Plus, the beat and the sax rule.

"modern love" placing above "let's dance" bothers me for some reason, but i love em both, so fair play

that's appalling to anyone
;)

I just don't know of a better intro to a song than "I know when to go out. I know when to stay in, get things done." It's a portrait of someone who knows how to HAVE FUN but is also RESPONSIBLE, ie the perfect person. The perfect song.

Let's Dance is smutty
Modern Love is sweet/fun

Modern Love >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Let's Dance, and I like the latter just fine.

Always thought the fan in the video who gives him the flowers must have been pissed when he just throws them back into the audience.

Disappointed that Song for Bob Dylan has not placed, and not expecting to see it now. If Be My Wife dosen't appear I'll sulk badly....

Looks like "Little Wonder" didn't place, which I hadn't counted on anyway...