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

great stuff, thanks WmC

Misquoted the "Ashes to Ashes" lyrics above, of course. He never did good things or bad things, which was what was confusing to me as a kid.

Thanks WmC!

My list...totally got the lp's wrong...Low and Station To Station should of been in there

1.Win
2.Life On Mars
3.It's Gonna Be Me
4.It's No Game
5.Sweet Thing
6.Fashion
7.Ashes To Ashes
8.Kooks
9.Beauty And The Beast
10.Changes
11.Young Americans
12.Golden Years
13.The Bewley Brothers
14.The Secret Life Of Arabia
15.Breaking Glass
16.Quicksand
17.African Night Flight
18.Stay
19.Right
20.We Are The Dead

LP's
1.Hunky Dory
2.Young Americans
3.Scary Monsters And Super Creeps
4.Aladdin Sane
5.Space Oddity

1. Blackout
2. Cracked Actor
3. Be My Wife
4. Baal's Hymn
5. The Bewlay Brothers
6. Breaking Glass
7. Andy Warhol
8. Fame
9. Ziggy Stardust
10. DJ

11. Port Of Amsterdam
12. The Dirty Song
13. Subterraneans
14. A New Career In A New Town
15. You've Been Around
16. Young Americans
17. Oh! You Pretty Things
18. Warszawa
19. Yassassin
20. Let's Dance

Albums:
1. Low
2. Lodger
3. The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
4. Black Tie, White Noise
5. Heathen

IT'S THE FREAK-Y-EST SHOOOOOOW!

huh i didn't know about the sinatra thing

sinatra was a total piece of shit person right?

anyway Life on Mars is as good a winner as any, my number 2, but yeah I could have easily done 20 more tracks, heck even 30...and many really could have been number 1

my ballot:

Songs:

1Station to Station
2 Life on Mars
3 Heroes
4 Ziggy Stardust
5 Boys Keep Swinging
6 Speed of Life
7 Young Americans
8 Golden Years
9 Stay
10 Ziggy Stardust
11 Sound and Vision
12 Under Pressure
13 Kooks
14 Ashes to Ashes
15 Modern Love
16 Changes
17 Panic in Detroit
18 Suffragette City
19 John I'm Only Dancing
20 TVC 15

Albums:

1 Station to Station
2 Hunky Dory
3 Alladin Sane
4 Low
5 Ziggy Stardust

Great job as always WmC. Awesome countdown, any one of the top 5 (and several in the teens or twenties for that matter) I could see taking the top spot with no surprise.

Somebody want to post the full run-down of the top 60?

Glad everyone enjoyed it! Thanks to chap for letting me grab the wheel and drive off the cliff.

Ballots were coming in fast and furious at the end, so apparently I lost count -- I thought we hit 80, but I only have 78 #1 votes in the googledoc. That might have been a transcription error as I entered numbers. I am reasonably confident that nobody's ballot got left out like I did in the Zep voting.

Speaking of that spreadsheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Alm9ijj_zohtdEE3cnJuQmpxRG81amdfWVZPaDg0Vmc

Thank you so much WmC. Best artist poll so far (content & handling).

My ballot:

Tracks

1. Life On Mars?
2. Golden Years
3. The Jean Genie
4. Fame
5. Aladdin Sane (1913-1938-197?)
6. Suffragette City
7. Fashion
8. Space Oddity
9. Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)
10. Stay
11. Moonage Daydream
12. Drive In Saturday
13. Win
14. "Heroes"
15. Time
16. Let's Spend The Night Together
17. The Secret Life of Arabia
18. Cat People (Putting Out Fires)
19. Young Americans
20. Alabama Song

Albums

1. Aladdin Sane
2. "Heroes"
3. Young Americans
4. Low
5. ChangesOneBowie

Can we get the full 175 please?

My ballot, bold didn't place:

Station To Station
Five Years
Yassassin (Turkish For: Long Live)
Life On Mars?
What In The World
Thru' These Architects Eyes
Always Crashing The Same Car
Oh! You Pretty Things
Word On A Wing
Ashes To Ashes
Blue Jean
Looking For Satellites
Move On
Sons Of The Silent Age
Sound And Vision
Modern Love
TVC 15
Strangers When We Meet
Heroes
Hallo Spaceboy

TOP 5 ALBUMS
Station To Station
Stages
Lodger
Outside
The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars

1 34. "Sweet Thing/Candidate/Sweet Thing (reprise)" (from Diamond Dogs) - 356 points/12 votes/3 first-place votes
2 4. "Station to Station" (from Station to Station) - 1250 points/42 votes/12 first-place votes
3 3. "Sound and Vision" (from Low) - 1272 votes/50 votes/2 first-place votes
4 22. "Stay" (from Station to Station) - 497 points/24 votes/1 first place vote
5 43. "Warszawa" (from Low) - 291 points/13 votes/0 first-place votes
6 1. "Life on Mars?" (from Hunky Dory) - 1463 points/55 votes/4 first-place votes
7 55. "Blackout" (from "Heroes") - 229 points/11 votes/1 first-place vote
8 6. "Golden Years" (from Station to Station) - 869 points/35 votes/3 first-place votes
9 2. "Ashes to Ashes" (from Scary Monsters) - 1367 points/51 votes/2 first-place votes
10 24. "Modern Love" (from Let's Dance) - 476 points/23 votes/0 first-place votes
11 56. "Cat People (Putting Out Fire)" (w/Giorgio Moroder; Cat People soundtrack; Let's Dance) - 220 points/10 votes/0 first-place votes
12 25. "Queen Bitch" (from Hunky Dory) - 467 points/21 votes/0 first-place votes
13 11. "Oh! You Pretty Things" (from Hunky Dory) - 630 points/30 votes/0 first-place votes
14 48. "Diamond Dogs" (from Diamond Dogs) - 268 points/13 votes/0 first-place votes
15 37. "All the Young Dudes" (Bowie: Aladdin Sane sessions; Mott the Hoople, 1972 single) - 334 points/15 votes/2 first-place votes
16 Hallo spaceboy (Paddy)
17 Sunday
18 29. "Panic in Detroit" (from Aladdin Sane) - 400 points/19 votes/0 first-place votes
19. D.J.
20. Jump they say

albums:
1. Station To Station
2. Hunky Dory
3. Low
4. Heroes
5. Diamond Dogs

1. Life on Mars?
2. Golden Years
3. Young Americans
4. Suffragette City
5. All the Young Dudes
6. Oh! You Pretty Things
7. Station to Station
8. Sweet Thing/Candidate/Sweet Thing Reprise
9. Rebel Rebel
10. It’s Gonna Be Me
11. Bewlay Brothers
12. Quicksand
13. Beauty and the Beast
14. Look Back in Anger
15. What in the World
16. Width of a Circle
17. Win
18. Sound and Vision
19. Always Crashing in the Same Car
20. Blackout

Ballot summary by album
Hunky Dory (4); Low (3); Station to Station (2); Diamond Dogs (2); Heroes (2); Young Americans (2 plus outtake); Ziggy (1); Lodger (1); Man Who Sold the World/Santa Monica 72 (1); and All the Young Dudes

Albums
1. Station to Station
2. Low
3. Hunky Dory
4. Diamond Dogs
5. Aladdin Sane

My ballot. 9 of these didn't place. Hm.

1. Hang Onto Yourself
2. Oh! You Pretty Things
3. Moonage Daydream
4. It's No Game (No. 1)
5. Starman
6. Suffragette City
7. Soul Love
8. Queen Bitch
9. Jump (They Say)
10. Heroes
11. Song For Bob Dylan
12. Width of a Circle
13. If There Is Something (Tin Machine)
14. Black Country Rock
15. You've Got A Habit Of Leaving (Davy Jones & the Lower Third)
16. She Shook Me Cold
17. Stay
18. Ashes To Ashes
19. Sound and Vision
20. Life On Mars

"America's tortured brow"

DB wrote some killer lyrics.

i'd like to think that if everyone who voted knew "Strangers When We Meet" it would have placed, but maybe i just like that song disproportionately

Thanks WmC, this has been great - I don't think there's a single song I actively dislike in the whole 60. 'Life on Mars?' is a worthy #1.

Thanks WmC! As said above, best poll evah.
Can live with the outcome, was my #5.

But George would not approve! - http://youtu.be/unuo-fdhbXs (just for the first 40 secs)

My ballot:

Look Back in Anger
Joe the Lion
Under Pressure
Be My Wife
Stay
Fashion
Life on Mars?
Panic in Detroit
Golden Years
Secret Life of Arabia
Sound and Vision
Cracked Actor
Breaking Glass
Right
This is Not America
"Heroes"
Star
Always Crashing in the Same Car
Drive-In Saturday
1984

Top 20 Songs/Tracks:

01. Neukoln
02. V2 Schneider
03. Always Crashing In The Same Car
04. Art Decade
05. Warsawa
06. Stay
07. Moss Garden
08. Rebel Rebel
09. Blackout
10. Life On Mars
11. Look Back In Anger
12. Win
13. Suffragette City
14. Red Sails
15. Breaking Glass
16. Be My Wife
17. What In The World
18. Lady Stardust
19. Queen Bitch
20. Soul Love

Top 5 Albums:
01. Low
02. Heroes
03. Hunky Dory
04. Station To Station
05. Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars

Thank you WmC, that was brilliant.

Here are the Pushing Ahead links for the 60. I'll do it in two batches - it seems to be playing up when I throw them out all at once:

60. Sons of the Silent Age
59. Teenage Wildlife
58. The Secret Life of Arabia
57. Beauty and the Beast
56. Cat People (Putting Out Fire)
55. Blackout
54. Move On
53. Win
52. Cracked Actor
51. Joe the Lion
50. A New Career in a New Town
49. Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)
48. Diamond Dogs
47. What in the World
46. The Bewlay Brothers
45. Word on a Wing
44. Kooks
43. Warszawa
42. Jean Genie
41. Wild Is the Wind
40. It's No Game
39. Fantastic Voyage
38. Breaking Glass
37. All the Young Dudes
36. Boys Keep Swinging
35. Aladdin Sane
34a. Sweet Thing/Candidate/Sweet Thing (reprise)
34b. Candidate 1 (Alternative candidate demo)
33. Fame
32. Fashion
31. Rock 'n' Roll Suicide

30. Ziggy Stardust
29. Panic in Detroit
28. Let's Dance
27. Drive-In Saturday
26. Quicksand
25. Queen Bitch
24. Modern Love
23. Under Pressure
22. Stay
21. TVC15
20. John, I'm Only Dancing (+ (again))
19. Look Back in Anger
18. Starman
17. Space Oddity
16. Five Years
15. Changes
14. Be My Wife
13. Always Crashing in the Same Car
12. The Man Who Sold the World
11. Oh! You Pretty Things
10. Rebel Rebel
9. Suffragette City
8. Moonage Daydream
7. Young Americans
6. Golden Years
5. Heroes
4. Station to Station
3. Sound and Vision
2. Ashes to Ashes
1. Life on Mars?

Can we get the full 175 please?

― Ismael Klata, Thursday, March 8, 2012 1:33 PM (4 minutes ago)

Yeah, it's all there in the public spreadsheet - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Alm9ijj_zohtdEE3cnJuQmpxRG81amdfWVZPaDg0Vmc

1. Move On
2. Art Decade
3. Speed of Life
4. Young Americans
5. Moonage Daydream
6. Joe The Lion
7. Jump They Say
8. Queen Bitch
9. Cracked Actor
10. Oh! You Pretty Things
11. Yassassin
12. Modern Love
13. Strangers When We Meet
14. Quicksand
15. Slip Away
16. Fascination
17. Station to Station
18. Stay
19. Sound and Vision
20. Boys Keep Swinging

My two cents

Songs
1. Be My Wife
2. Sweet Thing/Candidate/Sweet Thing (reprise)
3. Station To Station
4. Always Crashing In The Same Car
5. Life On Mars?
6. Sound and Vision
7. Candidate (Demo)
8. A New Career In A New Town
9. Look Back In Anger
10. The Bewlay Brothers
11. Stay
12. John, I'm Only Dancing
13. "Heroes"
14. Fantastic Voyage
15. 1984 Really surprised this one didn't place!
16. Scary Monsters
17. Speed of Life
18. Weeping Wall
19. Some Are
20. You've Got A Habit Of Leaving

Albums
1. Low
2. Station to Station
3. "Heroes"
4. Lodger
5. Hunky Dory

Top 20 Songs

1 Rock'N'Roll Suicide (31)
2 Oh! You Pretty Things (11)
3 Cracked Actor (52)
4 Jean Genie (42)
5 Rebel Rebel (10)
6 Life On Mars? (1)
7 Ziggy Stardust (30)
8 Watch That Man
9 Moonage Daydream (8)
10 Who Can I Be Now?
11 Rock'N'Roll With Me
12 The Prettiest Star
13 Lady Grinning Soul
14 Drive In Saturday (27)
15 The Man Who Sold The World (12)
16 Blackout (55)
17 Stay (22)
18 Panic In Detroit (29)
19 Fantastic Voyage (39)
20 Always Crashing In The Same Car (13)
All The Young Dudes (37)
Sons of the Silent Age (60)
Station To Station (4)
Young Americans (7)

Top 5 Albums

1 Aladdin Sane (7)
2 David Live (14 (tie))
3 Ziggy Stardust (4)
4 Diamond Dogs (8)
5 Lodger (6)

Worst 5 Songs

1 God Only Knows
2 Love You Till Tuesday
3 Too Dizzy
4 Thursday's Child
5 (Don't Sit Down)

me

1 - Five Years
2 - Drive In Saturday
3 - Boys Keep Swinging
4 - TVC15
5 - Golden Years
6 - Sound and Vision
7 - Red Sails
8 - "Heroes"
9 - A New Career In A New Town
10 - Be My Wife
11 - Always Crashing in the Same Car
12 - Modern Love
13 - Velvet Goldmine
14 - Let's Dance
15 - Young Americans
16 - Station to Station
17 - Kooks
18 - Look Back In Anger
19 - Man Who Sold The World
20 - Absolute Beginners

Albums

1 - Lodger
2 - Station to Station
3 - Low
4 - Hunky Dory
5 - Aladdin Sane

were there separate votes for "Sweet Thing" on its own?

#85 Velvet Goldmine
TOO LOW

Badass results! Thanks WmC!

Tracks 1-20:

Heroes
Rebel Rebel
Panic in Detroit
Golden Years
Young Americans
TVC 15
Fame
Suffragette City
Be My Wife
What in the World
Breaking Glass
Joe the Lion
Rock 'n' Roll Suicide
Changes
Sound and Vision
Diamond Dogs
Five Years
Watch That Man
Life on Mars
Boys Keep Swinging
Ashes to Ashes

Albums 1-5:

Low
Station to Station
Aladdin Sane
"Heroes"
Hunky Dory

my trolling AOR ballot:

tracks
1. Under Pressure
2. Fame
3. Suffragette City
4. Young Americans
5. Ziggy Stardust
6. Space Oddity
7. Changes
8. The Jean Genie
9. Fashion
10. Let's Dance
11. Magic Dance
12. John, I'm Only Dancing
13. Golden Years
14. Starman
15. Rock'n'Roll Suicide
16. Rebel Rebel
17. All The Young Dudes
18. Little Wonder
19. Black Tie White Noise
20. Peace On Earth/Little Drummer Boy

albums
1. The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

DJ, Soul Love, Cygnet Committee not even in the top 60. What an embarassment of riches this man has.

None of the Tin Machine tracks made the final 20 did they? Any other albums not represented?

My effort

1. Heroes
2. Sound + Vision
3. Queen Bitch
4. Ashes To Ashes
5. The Man Who Sold The World
6. Changes
7. Quicksand
8. Life On Mars
9. Win
10. Space Oddity
11. Hang On To Yourself
12. Five Years
13. Moonage Daydream
14. Fantastic Voyage
15. Oh! You Pretty Things
16. Station To Station
17. Modern Love
18. Always Crashing In The Same Car
19. Young Americans
20. Breaking Glass

Outside, Heathen, Reality, Hours, Earthling, and more. His career appears to end in the mid-80s.

xpost.

Dr XO were you the one other vote for Cygnet Committee? There were two and I was the other one!

My cheeseball ballot, made without any consideration for any song that did not immediately spring to mind during the 15 min I took to compile:

Five Years
Under Pressure
Rebel Rebel
Modern Love
Suffragette City
Moonage Daydream
Andy Warhol
Kooks
Life on Mars
Queen Bitch
Quicksand
Ziggy Stardust
Let’s Dance
Heroes
Young Americans
Space Oddity
Letter to Hermione
Cygnet Committee
Unwashed and Slightly Dazed
Station to Station

Not many "Hang On To Yourself" voters. Thought it would be a bigger hit what with the totally righteous guitar in the outro.

Thanks a ton WmC. My ballot:

1. Station to Station
2. Life on Mars?
3. Ashes to Ashes
4. “Heroes”
5. Changes
6. Sound and Vision
7. Space Oddity
8. Golden Years
9. The Man Who Sold the World
10. Suffragette City
11. Always Crashing in the Same Car
12. Oh! You Pretty Things
13. Speed of Life
14. Kooks
15. Let Me Sleep Beside You
16. Look Back in Anger
17. Rock’n’Roll Suicide
18. Cat People (Putting Out Fire)
19. Moss Garden
20. Diamond Dogs

Amongst other things, though granted it's kind of a throw-away song, I just find it more fun than rockers like "Suffragette City" and "Rebel Rebel".

1 Word On A Wing
2 Modern Love
3 Station to Station
4 Diamond Dogs
5 Heroes
6 Rock n Roll Suicide
7 Five Years
8 Life On Mars?
9 Be My Wife
10 Changes
11 Teenage Wildlife
12 Ziggy Stardust
13 TVC-15
14 Sweet Thing
15 Ashes To Ashes
16 Fashion
17 We are the Dead
18 Sons of the Silent Age
19 Stay
20 Red Sails

M@tt OTM about how weird Ashes To Ashes seemed when you only heard it on the radio and knew it was by the same guy as Space Oddity.

TRACKS

1. "Heroes"
2. Sound And Vision
3. Memory Of A Free Festival (single version, Part 1)
4. Life On Mars
5. Quicksand
6. Starman
7. Changes
8. Always Crashing In The Same Car
9. Station To Station
10 Up The Hill Backwards
11. Lady Stardust
12. Breaking Glass
13. Five Years
14. Candidate (demo)
15. Aladdin Sane
16. Cracked Actor
17. Width of A Circle
18. 1984
19. Red Sails
20. Queen Bitch

ALBUMS

1. Hunky Dory
2. Low
3. Ziggy Stardust
4. Heroes
5. Aladdin Sane

Station To Station
Queen Bitch
Suffragette City
Rebel Rebel
"Heroes"
Wild Is The Wind
Modern Love
Ziggy Stardust
Soul Love
China Girl
Sound and Vision
Under Pressure
Be My Wife
Life On Mars?
Look Back In Anger ('79)
Moonage Daydream
Panic In Detroit
Stay
Fame
Changes

Albums

Station to Station
Ziggy Stardust
Low
Heroes
Hunky Dory

Thanks WmC!

1. Moonage Daydream
2. Life On Mars?
3. Five Years
4. Suffragette City
5. Let Me Sleep Beside You
6. The Man Who Sold The World
7. Oh! You Pretty Things
8. After All
9. Golden Years
10. Fascination
11. Starman
12. Kooks
13. Lady Grinning Soul
14. "Heroes"
15. Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)
16. Aladdin Sane
17. The Bewlay Brothers
18. Beauty and The Beast
19. Speed of Life
20. Always Crashing In The Same Car

Can we have a round-up please?

how weird Ashes To Ashes seemed when you only heard it on the radio and knew it was by the same guy as Space Oddity.

I put 'The Laughing Gnome' on a mix tape I made for someone ages ago. He had no idea who it was and freaked out when I told him it was DB.

I am surprised Up The Hill Backwards didn't place. I didn't vote for it myself but I though there was a lot of love for it.

20. You've Got A Habit Of Leaving

― willem, Thursday, March 8, 2012 2:43 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Aha! I knew I wouldn't be the only one! Great Who pastiche.

Can I just say that I thought my numbers had totally gone through a blender and come out wrong when "Life on Mars" came out on top. Completely baffled. The song had never been on my radar until voting opened for this.

DL:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Alm9ijj_zohtdEE3cnJuQmpxRG81amdfWVZPaDg0Vmc

Songs
1. “Heroes”
2. Life On Mars?
3. Changes
4. Suffragette City
5. Diamond Dogs
6. Under Pressure
7. Ashes To Ashes
8. Starman
9. Black Country Rock
10. Boys Keep Swinging
11. Beauty And The Beast
12. Red Sails
13. Rebel Rebel
14. Strangers When We Meet
15. V-2 Schneider
16. All The Young Dudes
17. Five Years
18. Let’s Dance
19. Sound And Vision
20. TVC 15

Albums
1. Heroes
2. Low
3. Lodger
4. Ziggy Stardust
5. Hunky Dory

Didn't relisten to Low before voting; S&V would have been WAY higher. It's so sad; he's so miserable he's locked himself in a blue room and he can't see or hear. Amazing song.

My ballot:
Breaking Glass
Aladdin Sane
Ashes to Ashes
Sound and Vision
All the Young Dudes
Fashion
Moonage Daydream
The Man Who Sold the World
Sons of the Silent Age
Fame
Golden Years
Win
John, I’m Only Dancing
Sweet Thing/Candidate/Sweet Thing (reprise)
Art Decade
Wild is the Wind
Life on Mars?
Yassassin
Panic in Detroit
I Dig Everything

albums:
Low
Heroes
Ziggy
Young Americans
Scary Monsters