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)
― grandavis, Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:05 (twelve years ago) link
I guess Cygnet Committee is out eh? Cmon Moonage Daydream...
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:07 (twelve years ago) link
Moonage Daydream!
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:07 (twelve years ago) link
I've given up hope that any of my The Man Who Sold The World picks will make it.
― we can be gyros just for one day (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:08 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Jeff W, Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:08 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Carlos Pollomar (WmC), Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:08 (twelve years ago) link
*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.
― Jeff W, Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:10 (twelve years ago) link
there is no room anymore for Little Drummer Boy and DJ.
― gospodin simmel, Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:10 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Carlos Pollomar (WmC), Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:12 (twelve years ago) link
DJ *must* make it
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:13 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:13 (twelve years ago) link
lol i voted for "little drummer boy"
― some dude, Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
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― horseshoe, Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
should have voted :(
8. "Moonage Daydream" (from The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars) - 729 points/31 votes/3 first-place votes
Album: http://youtu.be/dE4Mu_cZcIAHammersmith Odeon, 1973: http://youtu.be/5g6--QoPsDM
― Carlos Pollomar (WmC), Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:15 (twelve years ago) link
THE CHURCH OF MAN-LOVE
or
THE CHURCH OF MAN, LOVE
??
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:15 (twelve years ago) link
yes
Cool, knew this would make it
― grandavis, Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:16 (twelve years ago) link
aw, my number one. most bonkers love song ever.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:17 (twelve years ago) link
The 1990 changesbowie was big for me - i had tapes of two or three of the 70s albums, but they never wholly took – don't necessarily inspire love-at-first-hearing if you have a sweet tooth & don't lean glam. Hit-after-hit gave me more enthusiasm & meant I put a bit more into the albums, looked around, found 'my' bowie.
― woof, Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:17 (twelve years ago) link
I'M AN ALLIGATOR!
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:19 (twelve years ago) link
Never in doubt. Great song.
― Jeff W, Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:19 (twelve years ago) link
Another one of those that I wished I'd had room for on my ballot. Love this song.
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:20 (twelve years ago) link
Freak out! Far out!
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:21 (twelve years ago) link
I imagine that soon we will start getting some big spikes in points/first place votes? Has been a slow and steady rise so far.
― grandavis, Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:21 (twelve years ago) link
i dunno, there's not too much consensus on bowie is there
― ciderpress, Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:23 (twelve years ago) link
I have a list of 8 songs left I thought would place... guessing either Golden Years or DJ aren't gonna place.
― smash williams, Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
That instrumental break!
― Feebs K-Tel (NickB), Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
Hmmm, guess not, just seems to be a pattern in other polls maybe? At some point there are songs that almost everyone places on a 20 song ballot? Maybe not, would be cool if that does not happen.
I hope "Golden Years" does not steal a spot from something else I voted for.
― grandavis, Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
I'm really not expecting 'Red Sails' to place at this point.
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:26 (twelve years ago) link
haha no, I am sad about that, had my HINTERLAND! posts all set to go.
― woof, Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
it will be bizzare if the only STS song not to place is Golden Years
― gospodin simmel, Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
i dunno about that, i only had 2 tracks in the top half of my ballot that i suspected would make the top of this list (unless Strangers When We Meet is somehow top 5 (this would be awesome))
was DJ a single? it never stood out to me really
― ciderpress, Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
I want to use the word 'fruity' but don't wish to imply the derogatory connotations. Someone help me out.
― Feebs K-Tel (NickB), Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
It always sounded like an army of toy instruments to me.
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:31 (twelve years ago) link
Therefore, it was clearly being played by animals, probably monkeys.
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:32 (twelve years ago) link
― woof, Thursday, March 8, 2012 5:27 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Hehehehehe... the very same! THUNDER OCEAN! :D
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:32 (twelve years ago) link
animatronic?
― Spectrist, Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:32 (twelve years ago) link
It's like Willy Wonka's candy band
― Feebs K-Tel (NickB), Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:33 (twelve years ago) link
Anthony Newley/music hall influence? He never let go of that entirely, just incorporated other stuff.
― Carlos Pollomar (WmC), Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:33 (twelve years ago) link
sorry, that was a xpost. makes me think of country bear jamboree.
― Spectrist, Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:33 (twelve years ago) link
7. "Young Americans" (from Young Americans) - 814 points/34 votes/2 first-place votes
Album: http://youtu.be/ScVi_L817ecBowie & Cher on The Cher Show, 1975: http://youtu.be/_z9b0GFRz9gDick Cavett Show, 1974: http://youtu.be/xFudBQcplj4
― Carlos Pollomar (WmC), Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:34 (twelve years ago) link
Like the dioramas at House on the Rock in Wisconsin
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:34 (twelve years ago) link
Yes, I hadn't had that thought but it makes sense xps re Newley
― Feebs K-Tel (NickB), Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:34 (twelve years ago) link
YAAAAAAAAAY Young Americans!!
TOP TEN TOP TEN
Instrumental break on "Moonage Daydream" assuredly a Zappa influence? Sounds like instrumentation from "Peaches en Regalia" or something. Was Bowie a Zappa fan?
― grandavis, Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
young americans is undeniable
― horseshoe, Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
Weird, none of the STS songs made it onto mine, I don't think. Perhaps i need to give that a relisten.
Hell, this weekend I might go through all the 70s Bowie albums!
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:36 (twelve years ago) link
Could not deny "Young Americans", though it would have been bumped if I voted for instrumentals. Classic for sure though.
― grandavis, Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:36 (twelve years ago) link