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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfxIa-643zI
vs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3PIIyFxCog

woops , sorry about youtubes

Quick guess at the top ten, no order

Rebel Rebel
Young Americans
Station To Station
Golden Years
Life On Mars
Sound and Vision
Ashes To Ashes
Heroes
Suffragette City
Jean Jeanie

^ That's exactly my guess.
Top five: 1. Heroes, 2. Station to station, 3. Jean Genie, 4. Suffragette City, 5. Young Americans

Though such a high placing for "Station to station" is wishful thinking on my part

Can we not do guessing right before the top three or five? It's more fun to have them roll out totally fresh...

Jean Genie was way upthread already @ #42!

The Jean Genie has come and gone. Be My Wife was my #1 - glad to see it was so for more people.

Didn't we have Jean Genie?

Now I look silly

xps

Jean Genie's placed - switch for Man who Sold the World?

sorry iago. i'll stop

Whoops, I said "Jean Genie" but meant "Rebel rebel"
(Sorry for pre-guess / excited / can't follow roll-out today / annoyed)

xxxxxposts

Yes!! (high five to dorsalstop - excellent :-)
My number one. Such a rich little song. I loooooove the video, too. Bowie's fake guitar playing is always a blast, see also the "Rebel Rebel" performance on Toppop.

Am skipping past the prediction posts but... please stop kthxbye

Oh man, going to go home now. Hopefully catch up with the thread by the time WmC's at #8 or so...

Be My Wife was my no.3. Some days it'd've been no.1.

OK no more predictions.

he does look like Dot Cotton in the Be My Wife video.

"Be My Wife" was the second single from Low after "Sound and Vision", but it became the first new Bowie release since "Changes" to fail to break into the UK charts.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_My_Wife)

who knew?! actually you probably all did.

13. "Always Crashing in the Same Car" (from Low) 611 points/28 votes/ 1 first-place vote

Album: http://youtu.be/l2vEtfyveeY
VH1 Storytellers, 1999: http://youtu.be/avUqlvmuNp4

My best high school friend watched his bride come down the aisle to the accompaniment of "Be My Wife."

Looooooove the video, esp Bowie's expression while playing guitar: "Oh well I might as well play this" (purses lips diffidently).

Pleasantly surprised to see "Always Crashing in the Same Car" place! Had no idea it was so beloved (it was my #7).

always crashing is my favorite proper song on the berlin albums

Surprised "Be My Wife" placed so high, good song for sure, just wouldn't have imagined quite so much love for it. "Always Crashing in the Same Car" definitely made my ballot though!

I'm surprised; now wondering what other oddities might show.

post placement tripped me for a sec:

My best high school friend watched his bride come down the aisle to the accompaniment of "Be My Wife" "Always Crashing in the Same Car".

I'm not ignoring y'all btw, I'm just gathering videos.

Picking them from the trees, removing their hard, protective shells, and chucking them at us willy-nilly.

Oh wait, that's not videos, that's chestnuts.

By the way, the two disc Best of Bowie dvd set of videos is essential.

Take it to the Ballard thread, Woof.

xxxxp Better than "Ashes to Ashes", I guess

I just ordered the Best of Bowie DVD specifically for the SECOND disc...hoping it will be a gateway for me to get into later Bowie

That box and the Ryko reissues absolutely cemented his reputation in the Classic Rock pantheon

Not only that, but the Rykos set the standard for CD reissues (rare bonus tracks!) A bunch of bands -- Elvis Costello and the Who, in particular -- modeled their reissue programs on Bowie's/Ryko's. Conversely, Bowie/Ryko might be to blame for the current era of endless reissues of the same material.

there's shedloads of easter eggs on that Best Of Bowie DVD fyi:

Oh! You Pretty Things (The Old Grey Whistle Test - take 2)
Disc 1: Click on 'Play All' every 2nd time the alternative version will appear.

Interview with David Bowie and Russell Harty (before Drive-In Saturday)
Disc 1: Scroll down to Drive-In Saturday on the tracklisting display and press right button. An underscore _ will appear, press enter. Not to be confused with the hyphen in Drive-In.

Screen ad for forthcoming Ziggy Stardust DVD release (Hammersmith Odeon 1973)
Disc 1: Click on the lightning bolt logo on the tracklisting display.

Jazzin' For Blue Jean (complete promotional video)
Disc 1: Highlight the track and press right. Click on the ) symbol on the tracklisting display. You will notice the picture change on the right hand side. Highlight and press right.

Blue Jean (MTV edit recorded at The Wag Club, Soho, London)
Disc 1: Whilst you are playing the Jazzin' For Blue Jean video, when the girl goes to the jukebox to start the video - as soon as Bowie appears on the TV above the jukebox, click on enter.

Day In Day Out (Extended Mix)
Disc 2: Click on 'Play All' every 2nd time - the extended mix will appear.

Miracle Goodnight (Remix)
Disc 2: Play the 'Miracle Goodnight' video wait 5 minutes on the tracklist display and click enter.

Seven Years In Tibet (Mandarin version)
Disc 2: Click on the Mandarin symbol on the subtitle page.

Survive (Live in Paris)
Disc 2: Click on 'Play All' every 2nd time the live version will appear.

i've had that 2 dvd set for yrs and had no idea re easter eggs !

huzzah ..

Thanks, Piscesx!

no idea either!

On the other hand:

Day In Day Out (Extended Mix)

uhhh

what do you mean by "every second time"?

from here http://www.bowiewonderworld.com/features/eastereggs.htm

12. "The Man Who Sold the World" (from The Man Who Sold the World) - 628 points/29 votes/0 first-place votes

Album: http://youtu.be/qbsw_auCEEg
Saturday Night Live, 1979, with Klaus Nomi & Joey Arias: http://youtu.be/CpRI0LNoCoE
Nirvana @ MTV Unplugged: http://youtu.be/BlpczB4fUZo

It surprises me that 'Be My Wife' didn't really get anywhere as a single, because to me it's the one track on Low that stands out as obvious single. It easily made my ballot. No question, no hesitation.

wow, be my wife video is so perfectly suited to the song, which I'm pretty sure made it into my top twenty. love love love it

I feel like I knew The Man Who Sold the World before Nirvana rehabilitated it, but I could be kidding myself. Impossible to tell - unless I could somehow get hold of every Radio 1 playlist from the late 70s to the late 80s.

I saw Lulu do this live at 7am on breakfast tv maybe four years ago. It's just not right, live musical performances at that hour.

I knew the song/album well prior to Unplugged, and the first time I heard Nirvana's cover was in a Taco Bell. I immediately knew who/what it was, but it seemed insanely incongruous; I thought, "How am I hearing this song in this place?"

that's it for early bowie outside of life on mars, right?

early meaning pre-ziggy

I feel like I knew The Man Who Sold the World before Nirvana rehabilitated it, but I could be kidding myself

Ha, I know what you mean! But I'm p. sure that I recognised it tho when I watched Nirvana Unplugged.