it is awesome
― this is my receipt for your receipt (Z S), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 21:48 (twelve years ago) link
Too late!
― Carlos Pollomar (WmC), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 21:48 (twelve years ago) link
Guessing at 'Oh! You Pretty Things'
― Gavin, Leeds, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 21:48 (twelve years ago) link
I could see Station to Station winning this TBH. It would be a very ILX choice.
― Suede - the fabric, not the band (DL), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 21:48 (twelve years ago) link
it sounds even better when you're wasted
16. "Five Years" (from The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars) - 596 points/24 votes/2 first-place votes
Album: http://youtu.be/Zq3EZhT3G7UOld Grey Whistle Test, 1972: http://youtu.be/louXPUW7tHUDinah Shore Show, 1975: http://youtu.be/nyFH4S76ErU
meh
― meticulously showcased in a stunning fart presentation (contenderizer), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 21:49 (twelve years ago) link
My #4!
― nate woolls, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 21:49 (twelve years ago) link
Too low!
― Feebs K-Tel (NickB), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 21:49 (twelve years ago) link
by the way, on that note, I think "Cracked Actor" has the greatest Enjoyment Factor when Drinking increase than just about any song in history. I listen to it during the day and think it's a nice enough song, but play it late at night and the world disintegrates. So great.
― this is my receipt for your receipt (Z S), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 21:50 (twelve years ago) link
I genuinely dislike Five Years, sorry
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 21:50 (twelve years ago) link
Have we had Moonage Daydream yet?
I was worrying this same thing. I don't think so, it should be in the top 5 at least!
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 21:50 (twelve years ago) link
The Dinah Shore clip of Five Years is spine tingling...wish it was better quality!
― Iago Galdston, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 21:50 (twelve years ago) link
Five years, my #5
― an elk hunt (Ówen P.), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 21:51 (twelve years ago) link
Incredible - one of his best. I over-played it in my teen years so I don't need to hear it so much anymore - still made my top ten.
― kraudive, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 21:51 (twelve years ago) link
Every line in it is genius
My #1!!! OMG what is not to like about it?! Don't think you knew you were in this song. It always gets me in the mood to hear the rest of the album, great first track.
Who else voted it #1?
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 21:52 (twelve years ago) link
Special song for me, think I put it too low at #12, but then again I love everything I placed before it as well. Good showing I think.
― grandavis, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 21:52 (twelve years ago) link
I think "Cracked Actor" has the greatest Enjoyment Factor when Drinking increase than just about any song in history.
haha, pretty sure i voted for it, too! "Time" is another one of these
― sarahell, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 21:53 (twelve years ago) link
I kiss you! You're beautiful!
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 21:53 (twelve years ago) link
My wife played it for me on our 5 year anniversary. Funny, cool, and very touching.
― grandavis, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 21:54 (twelve years ago) link
Ballsy way to kick off an album you've designed to be your commercial breakthrough but then the 70s was a very apocalyptic decade.
― Suede - the fabric, not the band (DL), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 21:54 (twelve years ago) link
"Five Years" was second on my ballot. Love it to pieces. Wrote something about it recently that is probably of little interest but what the hell.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 21:55 (twelve years ago) link
I put Five Years too low on my ballot at #2.
― Feebs K-Tel (NickB), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 21:55 (twelve years ago) link
It really sets a mood, is what it does.
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 21:55 (twelve years ago) link
hi la lechera, that is me! because:
Drive In my number 2. Love sad sci fi Bowie best of all.― woof, Wednesday, March 7, 2012 6:51 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post P
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― woof, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 21:57 (twelve years ago) link
I wish the voice of Steve Wright didn't spoil that OGWT clip at the end. And those fucking inane TOTP2 blurbs too.
― Feebs K-Tel (NickB), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 21:57 (twelve years ago) link
I hadn't considered that before...pretty otm. The apocalypticism and the hedonism went hand in hand.
― Carlos Pollomar (WmC), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 21:57 (twelve years ago) link
Hi 5, woof!
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 21:59 (twelve years ago) link
― meticulously showcased in a stunning fart presentation (contenderizer), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 22:01 (twelve years ago) link
lyrics are great, don't get me wrong, but the song doesn't do a thing for me
I also like Five Years because the listener is totally rewarded for listening to the whole song. Once that's done, and you've made it, you're ready for the rest of the album. It's like going through the dark tunnel before Space Mountain or something.
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 22:02 (twelve years ago) link
xp - i agree with you, c.
― sarahell, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 22:03 (twelve years ago) link
I recommend reading Francis Wheen's Strange Days Indeed with a Bowie soundtrack because it's amazing how many of the weirder 70s trends were reflected or anticipated in his songs - doomsday cults, fascist coup plotters, occultism. He nails the sense of disintegration and desperation and looking for answers in dangerous places.
― Suede - the fabric, not the band (DL), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 22:04 (twelve years ago) link
Hi 5!
Love it so much, the 'drinking milkshakes' bit my absolute favourite lyric chunk of his. Weirdly, not a huge fan of the album, but 5Y a really powerful melancholy apocalypse.
― woof, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 22:06 (twelve years ago) link
(that was multi xp)
"Five Years" was second on my ballot
Me too. Second only to Win.
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 22:10 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah milkshakes is the killer bit. But the drums too! And the very genteel musical carnage towards the end of the song.
― Feebs K-Tel (NickB), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 22:10 (twelve years ago) link
BTW never ever watch the Placebo version of that song on youtube.
― Feebs K-Tel (NickB), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 22:13 (twelve years ago) link
I didn't vote for "Five Years", but I dig its absurd pathos. I saw GBV try it in a 50th encore one night & get the absurdity right.
― Euler, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 22:13 (twelve years ago) link
agree about him being amazing live in the later years. Phoenix 96 was fantastic; better than Glastonbury 00 IMO yet there were very few 'hits' to speak of. Nicholas Pegg says his mid 90s band was his best since that 76 Thin White Duke tour.
― piscesx, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 22:14 (twelve years ago) link
Only #20 on my ballot, which I fear is a reflection of the mood I was in last night, I bloody love Five Years but I can't always listen to it.
It wouldn't have made it on at all if I hadn't inexplicably left out Changes.
― Also unknown as Zora (Surfing At Work), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 22:15 (twelve years ago) link
/off to watch the Placebo version on YouTube
― Also unknown as Zora (Surfing At Work), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 22:16 (twelve years ago) link
So I guess it's obvious Letter to Hermione didn't place. Shame on you ILM. Glad I wasn't a part of this.
― Moka, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 22:24 (twelve years ago) link
Top 5 predictions (in descending order):
Station to StationSuffragette CityYoung AmericansAshes to AshesHeroes
― top 100 comedy facepalms of all time (loves laboured breathing), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 22:30 (twelve years ago) link
Ir's No Game Part 2:
two votes specified Pt. 2
Glad I'm not the only person who prefers 2. Love the deadpanness of it.
― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 15:20 (7 hours ago) Permalink
[catching up ...]
That was me, and it was my #2. Part 2 is like a full stop on that series of albums. And (oh dear, I now see that) my number #1, still to appear, is like a semicolon ...
― Neil Willett, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 22:37 (twelve years ago) link
i remain baffled by the Lodger love on ILM.
― piscesx, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 22:49 (twelve years ago) link
"Casual" Bowie still gripped by the notion of making art; thus every song boasts an ear-catching arrangement or hook. The mix is awful though: it's like crickets snuck into the message board.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 22:51 (twelve years ago) link
Moka I voted for Letters to Hermione fwiw. So tender and sweet, and sounds genuine without being histrionic. <3
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 22:52 (twelve years ago) link
Starman is my #6,Never forget seeing this for the first time on TOTP awesome.
― gazelleonstage, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 22:53 (twelve years ago) link