NEUPÖLLN - ILM Artist Poll #14 - David Bowie (POLLS ARE CLOSED)

Twenty years after discovering him, I have to make a lot of allowances for his voice; I know a lot more about good singing now.

Yeah, I don't really get this either. I can only think of a few songs—notably, "Teenage Wildlife" and "Kingdom Come" (both from Scary Monsters oddly enough)—where Bowie's singing might qualify as unlistenable.

"Across the Universe" is atrocious -- but the vocal is really only one part of the reason why.

woah i never realized Saccharine Trust got their name from a lyric in the "The Bewlay Brothers"

Don't forget to vote for "Stay" from Station to Station, guys.

The more I listen to previously-unheard stuff, the harder this gets. "I Dig Everything" (1966 single) is great!

this is kind of impossible. honestly my JB ballot was way easier

"You've Got a Habit of Leaving" is definitely going on my ballot. It out-Whos his Who covers on Pin-Ups.

Rather than worst Bowie song, I'd rather vote for worst cover version of a Bowie song. So many to choose from!

Now that I've thought about it, I can't think of many good Bowie covers. Maybe these qualify:
Space Oddity - The Langley Schools Music Project
Oh! You Pretty Things - Au Revoir Simone
Letter to Hermione - Robert Glasper Experiment ft. Bilal
The Secret Life Of Arabia - BEF ft. Billy Mackenzie
Life on Mars? - Seu Jorge

I quite like the two that Lulu did as well. But after that...?

Don't forget to vote for "Stay" from Station to Station, guys.

i wish i could vote for "sweet thing"/"candidate"/"sweet thing reprise" as all one track...

Don't forget to vote for "Move On."

yes, Move On is a gem. Station To Station and Lodger will dominate my ballot. Bowie in cocaine mode!

Oh my TVC 15! Oh-oh.

Don't forget to vote for "Stay" from Station to Station, guys.

Epic guitar on that track. And "You can never really tell/when somebody wants something you want too" is possibly one of the best lines Bowie ever wrote.

Encouraging everyone to vote for Lower Third songs (I've got two):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgBe8NL1818

Voted! Nothing pre-Hunky Dory on my ballot and only three post-'70s tracks.

'5 worst' ballot sent.

almost done with my who-cares-about-completism emotional ballot

How does everyone feel about me closing the balloting in seven days instead of 11 days? That should still be enough time.

a week is a good standard imo

Agree

Agree

Q: How long did it feel like I spent searching fruitlessly for my David Bowie CDs before I managed to leave the house for work today

A: Five years

Where are they?! Thank goodness for spotify.

A week is peachy.

The three-month James Brown delay was showmanship worthy of the godfather himself, but a week for Bowie would be ideal.

sent

Please note that I voted for the vastly superior 7" single version of "Memory Of A Free Festival" as found on the Ryko reissue and the 40th anniversary 2CD version. I encourage all of you to do likewise.

Campaigning for this song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PC0RSXOemQs

"Letter to Hermione" is a song written by David Bowie in 1969 for the album Space Oddity. This ballad is a love letter to Hermione Farthingale, whom Bowie met through Lindsay Kemp. She became Bowie's girlfriend and they lived together for a short while in London in 1968. In early 1969 she left Bowie for Stephen Reinhardt, an American musician and dancer she met on the film Song of Norway.

An early name for the song was "I’m Not Quite". Bowie recorded a demo version of the song with this name together with John Hutchinson in February 1969.

Comedian Ricky Gervais has repeatedly expressed his love for this song, going so far as to call it his favourite David Bowie song, indeed, possibly his favourite ever song. He chose it as one of his Desert Island Discs.

You don't need to convince me. I'm already sold on that one.

I know when to go out. I know when to stay in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hDbpF4Mvkw&ob=av3e

Just let me beeeeeeee

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gc1ePZDxIoY

guess i won't have time to brush up on the post Let's Dance to the present era!

You and me both, I only have three non-70s songs on my ballot.

To be honest, I wasn't looking forward to it so this is better!

man this tracks list is gonna be hard...because Bowie has a lot of great deep cuts...but also it's hard to front on a lot of the big singles!

Changed thread title and opening post to reflect the bumped up deadline - MONDAY THE 5TH Y'ALL.

modern love is one of the best intros EVA

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Hope this gets some love:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUH6vae0mec

Back in 2010, a now-defunct classic rock program on local public radio did a full Bowie show on his birthday, and I requested this one 'cause I was hung up heavy on someone at the time. Hearing it (in the bbc version) on the air, and then having one of the DJ's compliment my "wise choice" afterwards is a better memory of that time for me.

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Reduced the list upthread to little over a hundred songs... This is ridiculous :)

1st cut reduced the list to 22 songs. 1 turned out to be a duplicate. this is working out okay.

ballot sent. lemme know if you didn't get it, WmC.

Currently debating whether to include china girl, after the slapdown it got in the poll against iggy's version.

basically decided i'm gonna stick to all the radio hits i've known and loved since a child, though. plus station to station.

I kicked nearly all of those off my ballot in the end, so we'll cancel each other out

*considers promoting let's dance from #20 to #1*

Now that I've thought about it, I can't think of many good Bowie covers.

Um, there's this track, um, called "All the Young Dudes"?

i'm down to 31; after deciding to eliminate all the songs that are covers/have been covered where i like someone else's version better (e.g. china girl, alabama song, i know it's gonna happen someday)

Comedian Ricky Gervais has (etc)

So, actually, Bowie's "Little Fat Man" from "Extras" is currently in the running as his last/final song ever!

I don't regard Mott (or Iggy for that matter) as having done Bowie 'covers' as such.

Having sat through Pin-Ups, the uncharitable part of me feels that Bowie kind of deserves to have his songs covered badly...