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

This poll has got me thinking whether Bowie might have been better served by never having a best-of at all. The distinction between canon and deep cut seems more and more arbitrary.

I'd like Rebel Rebel more if it'd come out in '72, I think.

Rebel Rebel was definitely thw weakest of the early 70s stompy glammy rock hits imo. seemed looking back like a bit of a retread. you can see why it was the last of such things.

It would be a fantasy come true to infiltrate the underground bunker in Texas or whatever spot they beam out the standard oldies/classic rock satellite feeds, and completely rewrite the playlists. xp to f.hazel

Everyone I've ever known who has super-loved Rebel Rebel has been female. Not that this means anything aside from the fact that the song appeals to women. Tore your dress, face is a mess, you're a hot tramp, I luv u, etc.

I think I initially voted "Rebel Rebel" and "Ashes to Ashes" both because those are my fave Bowie karaoke songs.

Maybe it's the repetition. Did you also vote for Station to Station?

I love how the beat on RR is 4-on-the-floor just like "Satisfaction".

I love but don't "super-love" Rebel Rebel - it was top 10 for me. Mainly based on that riff - legions of Stones imitators would kill for less. I'm a dude.

I shit you not, based on the requests I used to get, I wouldn't doubt that Rebel Rebel has its fans in the South for the usual dumb reasons.

Haven't read this thread properly, missed the whole poll unfortunately, but I have super-loved Rebel Rebel and am male btw.

I shit you not, based on the requests I used to get, I wouldn't doubt that Rebel Rebel has its fans in the South for the usual dumb reasons.

Wouldn't surprise me at all.

Lotta Star Wars fans down here.

9. "Suffragette City" (from The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars) - 663 points/26 votes/2 first-place votes

Album: http://youtu.be/S_68M0ilDe8
Live in Chile, 1990: http://youtu.be/oIAZWzmOdf8

XP - And what exactly would "the usual dumb reasons" be?

"Thought I saw you in an ice cream parlour...." That verse and the way he sings it, perfect

"She's a total blam-blam!"

zomg More excited for this top 10 than usual

Don't you know, man, The South's Gonna Rise Again! xp to thewufs

"Suffragette City" is such a banger

This poll has got me thinking whether Bowie might have been better served by never having a best-of at all. The distinction between canon and deep cut seems more and more arbitrary.

Agreed that the best-ofs paint a poor picture, but isn't that because there's a huge distinction between canon and deep cuts? My Bowie education in my formative years came solely from Radio 1, they played more than you seem to get with us rock radio but I still had the idea it was one seamless wedge of pop, from Space Oddity thru Ziggy, Changes, Jean Genie, Rebel Rebel, Golden Years, Sound and Vision, Heroes, Ashes to Ashes, Let's Dance. i knew Ziggy the album had deeper prog tendencies but the Berlin period was a complete unknown to me.

Suffragette City is fabulous

XP - And what exactly would "the usual dumb reasons" be?

http://www.flagline.com/images/shirts/rebel.jpghttp://www.flagline.com/images/shirts/rebel.jpg

zchepp-ychepp

You know this is how Ewoks swear, right?

Ahh, I get it - I forgot what "rebel" still means to some people down there.

Oh, I didn't mean that only women liked it, just that it has been a disproportionate favorite among my female friends.

Suffragette City is a great karaoke song!! I love his sleazy rock voice on both of these songs.

Those photos are broken on my browser - a link maybe?

Then again I can guess what they're depicting

Bowie definitely one of those artists who I kept finding new stuff by (I think I've about covered everything by now.)

I knew about "Let's Dance" and "Ziggy Stardust", but songs like "Rebel Rebel" and "Suffragette City" were ones that I had heard all my life and then one day discovered that, wait, that's David Bowie too?

Always thought "Suffragette" was by Sweet or somebody.

re the deep cuts vs hits thing; in the Pegg book he posits the notion that Drive In Saturday isn't better known despite being a massivge hit, because it wasn't on ChangesOneBowie, the first 70s Best Of which *everyone* had.

Yeah, that's what I'm thinking of.

Then again I can guess what they're depicting

The dog off Champion the Wonder Horse amirite?

This poll has got me thinking whether Bowie might have been better served by never having a best-of at all. The distinction between canon and deep cut seems more and more arbitrary.

Interesting. For many years the rockist consensus was that compilations best served him.

as far as AOR radio play "Suffragette City" and "Modern Love" got lots of love in the early nineties on mine.

Very interested for the rundown now of the top 8 now! Did not have "Rebel Rebel" or "Suffragette City" on my ballot. I guess I knew they had to be coming, but thought they might have placed in the 15-30 range or something, not top 10. Fun songs, just not "great" to me (riff for RR aside, which is total classic)

I guess Cygnet Committee is out eh? Cmon Moonage Daydream...

Moonage Daydream!

I've given up hope that any of my The Man Who Sold The World picks will make it.

Great band performance on Suffragette City, and beautifully mixed on the record. Obv the opening power chords are amazing and the piano part throughout is great "air piano" material but there's also those whoosing sax+(?)moog bits going on underneath.

This poll has got me thinking whether Bowie might have been better served by never having a best-of at all. The distinction between canon and deep cut seems more and more arbitrary.

It might have presented his body of work more accurately or whatever, but as piscesx notes, Changesonebowie was huge. Big gateway for me into his catalog.

*whoosh-ing

Changesonebowie was huge. Big gateway for me into his catalog

Same here. In fact, i was the one who voted for it in the albums ballot for that reason.

there is no room anymore for Little Drummer Boy and DJ.

It wasn't the first record of his that I bought, but after Ziggy, Heroes and Stage, I thought "hmmm, what next? I need guidance." and bought Changesone.

DJ *must* make it

wow, who knew what a momentous thing it was at the time that I bought changestwo instead of changesone because I liked the cover better, not really knowing any of the songs.

lol i voted for "little drummer boy"

DJ *must* make it

― Ismael Klata, Thursday, March 8, 2012 12:13 PM (46 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

should have voted :(