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

30. "Ziggy Stardust" (from The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars) - 390 points/18 votes/0 first-place votes

Studio: http://youtu.be/XXq5VvYAI1Q
From Ziggy Stardust: The Motion Picture: http://youtu.be/G8sdsW93ThQ

I voted for a couple too I think, but will be shocked to see them now.

Magic Dance?

I voted for 5 post-Let's Dance songs.

'songs by artists 20+ years after their debut' could be an awesome future poll

Never underestimate ILM's 80s bias (cf. Jacksons poll)

haha a lack of '90s/'00s songs in a David Bowie poll has soooo little to do with "ILM's 80s bias"

Sunday from Heathen was pretty good.

― piscesx, Wednesday, March 7, 2012

It's on my ballot. So is "Jump They Say."

I *nearly* included Hallo Spaceboy, maybe someone likes it?

I do!

me three.

the Pet Shop Boys remix I hope

I voted for 5 post-Let's Dance songs.

Me too. One was sort of an in-joke with myself.

do share

i voted for 3 post-Let's Dance songs and they were all for lols

29. "Panic in Detroit" (from Aladdin Sane) - 400 points/19 votes/0 first-place votes

http://youtu.be/Rf0fmqWS-kI

Time Will Crawl. I do like the intro and there's a (cancelled) TOTP appearance that I'm fond of but it's a pretty bad Bowie period; Time Will Crawl has sort of become a bit of a punchline-without-a-joke amongst friends...

xxp

v disappointed in Fame's showing. This poll is crap. I hope you all fall off a cliff.

(jk)

the last 6 or 7 seem like they all should've been top 20, but I guess he just has that many amazing songs

is it any wonder

28. "Let's Dance" (from Let's Dance) - 422 points/22 votes/0 first-place votes

Official video: http://youtu.be/N4d7Wp9kKjA
Album: http://youtu.be/Af6jOq0dWqo
Live By Request, 2002: http://youtu.be/c4O6l6O-tgA

I voted for 3 post LD songs.... two of which were mentioned above, but seems a lost cause at this point.

Nothing's a lost cause imo. Up is down. Black is white. Fame is 33.

when an incongruous group of musicians make music together and it's bad, people just talk about how odd it is that they collaborated at all. when David Bowie, Nile Rodgers and Stevie Ray Vaughan made "Let's Dance," it just sounded so perfect that nobody really cared that much how improbable it was.

Nile is great on Let's Dance in his book. The incredible sense of freedom he got from being able to throw all this avant-garde playing into the song and, more prosaically, finally as a black dude being able to make a song with 'dance' in the title that that you didn't have to be able to dance to.

I wish it didn't have the lame twist & shout intro, because otherwise it's nothing but stunning

intro is great

I love the two rehearsal bootlegs of SRV playing old songs for the Serious Moonlight tour. Shame his manager canned his involvement at the last minute.

♪♫ the serious moonlight ♫♪

eeriah oooaaahhh

27. "Drive-In Saturday" (from Aladdin Sane) - 441 points/20 votes/0 first-place votes

Album: http://youtu.be/HAqUDDMhfA0
LWT, 1973: http://youtu.be/MfsN8UH8p1Q

so far, i've only placed "cat people", "all the young dudes", "fashion", "diamond dogs" and "let's dance". should have probably voted for "aladdin sane" and "fame", but didn't. assume all the good songs will be tomorrow?

and when you say run, i'll run with you
and when you say hide, we'll hiiiiiiiiiiiide hiiiiiiiiiiiiiide hiiiiiiiiiiiiiide hiiiiiiiiiiiiiide

^^ i always wait the whole song for this part

not so much "TREMBLE LIKE A FLOOOOOOOOOWER" but really that's ok too

let's dance is all-time great

Top 5 prediction:

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

that would be a grody top five

if neither "rebel rebel" nor "suffragette city" make the top five, then this whole poll is invalid

the laughing gnome is surely a lock

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.

I think Drive-In Saturday was the song that changed from a casual Bowie fan who only owned a greatest hits album to a fan who seeks out all of his albums. The first time I heard it I was like whoa I need to check out what else this guy has done.

Drive In my number 2. Love sad sci fi Bowie best of all.

Drive-In Saturday is my favorite song of Aladdin Sane. Love his vocals.

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?

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