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

Was common until the Beatles xps. Shakira's the only artist who really does it any more. And Kraftwerk.

Well, I for one am amazed Heroes ain't No. 1.

I resisted reading that blog, thinking I'm not enough of a Bowie fan. But I'm reading the "Heroes" entry and HOLY SHIT this guy's onto something.

I am following this countdown on my phone. I never even look at ILX on my phone. This how much I love David Bowie.

Syntax breakdown.

xxxxp hearing The Beatles chortling their way through 'Sie Liebe Dich' is something

4. "Station to Station" (from Station to Station) - 1250 points/42 votes/12 first-place votes

Album: http://youtu.be/ZY77zDzNmYw
From the "Serious Moonlight" concert film, 1983: http://youtu.be/O59CD81UAzw
Live 1978, great Belew intro if you're a fan: http://youtu.be/EEWgIzm7F2U

What else does one do with a phone?!

too low!

Well, I for one am amazed Heroes ain't No. 1.

― kraudive, Thursday, March 8, 2012 1:29 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is kind of how i feel but i am also mad at you guys for no "DJ'!!!!!

Thought S2S was going to takeit.

Station To Station my number 1 by an amazingly huge margin.

Awesome.

My #1 too, but it was tight. The post that got me into it:

Best Bit of Station to Station

It really is by far the best album. IMO.

I *finally* know what all the remaining tracks will be.

Time Will Crawl, Won't Win.

too low!

― EZ Snappin, Thursday, March 8, 2012 6:32 PM (49 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Knew this would be high, and would have been happy with it beating my #1 (which was Heroes). What now?

This was my #3! One of my favourite opening tracks to one of my favourite albums ever made.

I love his look in this Christine F. clip of "Station To Station":

http://youtu.be/KxtqJxq2yck

12 first-place votes

too low!

― EZ Snappin, Thursday, March 8, 2012 6:32 PM (49 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), 2012. ožujak 08 19:35 (0 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

too low!

― EZ Snappin, Thursday, March 8, 2012 6:32 PM (49 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), 2012. ožujak 08 19:35 (0 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― gospodin simmel, Thursday, March 8, 2012 1:37 PM (10 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ad infinitum

TOO HIGH! (in every sense)

A bazillion xposts, but this clip of Iggy Pop and Lenny Kravitz doing "Rebel Rebel" should forever be held against any measure of the song's greatness:

http://youtu.be/GLxirL-fOz4

btw I posted links upthread to the pushing ahead entries for the first couple of days of tracks, will do a full set when it's through.

confession - bowie isn't always my favourite artist to listen to (got a bit stuck for a fifth album in my ballot tbh), but I do think he is more or less the most interesting person to think about and read about and watch in rock, or rock canon or popular music or something.

S2S quite incredible. I put it too low, can't remember why.

xpost:

I'm sorely resisting temptation to click on that link!

Resisting temptation to post top 3 all at once!

Station To Station my number 1 by an amazingly huge margin.

― EZ Snappin, Thursday, March 8, 2012 12:33 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

me too. one of the greatest songs recorded in history.

confession - bowie isn't always my favourite artist to listen to (got a bit stuck for a fifth album in my ballot tbh), but I do think he is more or less the most interesting person to think about and read about and watch in rock, or rock canon or popular music or something.

― woof, Thursday, March 8, 2012 6:40 PM (1 minute ago)

Get out!

I'll confess - I'm stuck on what one of the last 3 is.

Don't post them all. At least one more by itself.

Am I right in thinking that China Girl got shut out here?

Am I right in thinking that China Girl got shut out here?

― Feebs K-Tel (NickB), Thursday, March 8, 2012 12:46 PM (1 second ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

iggy's version is way better IMO

xp Oh, I won't. Definitely going to let y'all bathe in your own adrenaline for 20 minutes before #1.

So "Sound and Vision" is in the top 3 right?

iggy's version is way better IMO

OTM

xp Bbbbbut I gotta leave in about half an hour!

I think so. I had high hopes for a song that I cannot imagine is gonna place now, pretty sure I know what's up next (though no idea about the order).

I really thought once Heroes went down that Station to Station was it.

I think so was in relation to China Girl getting shut out BTW

Can't guarantee I'll finish in half an hour, but here's #3.

3. "Sound and Vision" (from Low) - 1272 votes/50 votes/2 first-place votes

Album: http://youtu.be/6IJsAuUgSgc
Live by Request, 2002: http://youtu.be/GYEOlxcirX0

Don't really understand that. Sorry.

some amazing stuff which got shut out, 'Memories of a Free Festival', 'Jump They Say', 'Strangers When We Meet'. Unless they've miraculously sneaked in at the end.

loved this progression:

Heroes - 1213/48/6
S2S - 1250/42/12
S+V - 1272/50/2

i think "sound and vision" would have been my number 1

S&V is NEAR PERFECTION, a masterclass in deceptive simplicity. All the elements seem like they could come from completely different songs yet they slot perfectly into place, one by one. The funky bass, the rockin' drums, the slightly more staid guitar. The synth that descends from heaven like a chariot of the gods, and the girl-group throwback 'doo-doo-doos'. Even the saxophone blundering in like a drunken pantomime horse, I just want to give it a big hug. And finally Bowie himself, low and soft and close, welcoming you in to his reverie.

I'd only change two things about it: make it twice as long - or one hundred times as long; and get rid of that fucking cymbal that dominates the left channel - seriously when someone pointed that out it almost ruined the song for me.

Good song. Here's the David Bowie vs. 808 State version I would hear at parties in late '91/early '92:

http://youtu.be/1X6UR6E9xXk

sound and vision just seems really out of place in this top 5 alongside all the big theatrical weird epic tracks. it's nice, but it's kind of simple, breezy, and straightforward and i'm not entirely sure how it came to be one of his most highly regarded songs

what's wrong with simplicity when it's perfect