too low!
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, March 8, 2012 6:32 PM (49 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Thursday, 8 March 2012 18:35 (twelve years ago) link
Knew this would be high, and would have been happy with it beating my #1 (which was Heroes). What now?
― grandavis, Thursday, 8 March 2012 18:35 (twelve years ago) link
This was my #3! One of my favourite opening tracks to one of my favourite albums ever made.
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Thursday, 8 March 2012 18:36 (twelve years ago) link
I love his look in this Christine F. clip of "Station To Station":
http://youtu.be/KxtqJxq2yck
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 8 March 2012 18:36 (twelve years ago) link
12 first-place votes
― Carlos Pollomar (WmC), Thursday, 8 March 2012 18:36 (twelve years ago) link
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), 2012. ožujak 08 19:35 (0 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― gospodin simmel, Thursday, 8 March 2012 18:37 (twelve years ago) link
― gospodin simmel, Thursday, March 8, 2012 1:37 PM (10 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ad infinitum
― an elk hunt (Ówen P.), Thursday, 8 March 2012 18:37 (twelve years ago) link
TOO HIGH! (in every sense)
― Jeff W, Thursday, 8 March 2012 18:38 (twelve years ago) link
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
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 8 March 2012 18:39 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― woof, Thursday, 8 March 2012 18:40 (twelve years ago) link
xpost:
I'm sorely resisting temptation to click on that link!
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Thursday, 8 March 2012 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
Resisting temptation to post top 3 all at once!
― Carlos Pollomar (WmC), Thursday, 8 March 2012 18:42 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― the wild eyed boy from soundcloud (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 8 March 2012 18:43 (twelve years ago) link
― 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.
― kraudive, Thursday, 8 March 2012 18:43 (twelve years ago) link
Don't post them all. At least one more by itself.
― grandavis, Thursday, 8 March 2012 18:44 (twelve years ago) link
Am I right in thinking that China Girl got shut out here?
― Feebs K-Tel (NickB), Thursday, 8 March 2012 18:46 (twelve years ago) link
― 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
― the wild eyed boy from soundcloud (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 8 March 2012 18:47 (twelve years ago) link
xp Oh, I won't. Definitely going to let y'all bathe in your own adrenaline for 20 minutes before #1.
― Carlos Pollomar (WmC), Thursday, 8 March 2012 18:47 (twelve years ago) link
So "Sound and Vision" is in the top 3 right?
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 8 March 2012 18:48 (twelve years ago) link
OTM
xp Bbbbbut I gotta leave in about half an hour!
― ledge, Thursday, 8 March 2012 18:48 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― grandavis, Thursday, 8 March 2012 18:48 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Carlos Pollomar (WmC), Thursday, 8 March 2012 18:49 (twelve years ago) link
3. "Sound and Vision" (from Low) - 1272 votes/50 votes/2 first-place votes
Album: http://youtu.be/6IJsAuUgSgcLive by Request, 2002: http://youtu.be/GYEOlxcirX0
Don't really understand that. Sorry.
― kraudive, Thursday, 8 March 2012 18:50 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Thursday, 8 March 2012 18:51 (twelve years ago) link
loved this progression:
Heroes - 1213/48/6S2S - 1250/42/12S+V - 1272/50/2
― Carlos Pollomar (WmC), Thursday, 8 March 2012 18:53 (twelve years ago) link
i think "sound and vision" would have been my number 1
― horseshoe, Thursday, 8 March 2012 18:53 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― ledge, Thursday, 8 March 2012 18:54 (twelve years ago) link
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
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 8 March 2012 18:54 (twelve years ago) link
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
― ciderpress, Thursday, 8 March 2012 18:54 (twelve years ago) link
what's wrong with simplicity when it's perfect
― horseshoe, Thursday, 8 March 2012 18:55 (twelve years ago) link
blue blue electric bluethat's the color of my roomwhere i will live(blue blue)
The snare sound on "Sound & Vision" (and the rest of Low, obviously) was by far the best of Bowie's career.
― we can be gyros just for one day (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 8 March 2012 18:56 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i like the song, i'm just trying to point out how different it looks placed alongside the other 4 (since we all know what the top 2 are)
― ciderpress, Thursday, 8 March 2012 18:56 (twelve years ago) link
Testament to Bowie's chameleon career.
― ledge, Thursday, 8 March 2012 18:57 (twelve years ago) link
My #4 -- I wish I'd switched it with my 2nd spot now.
― Carlos Pollomar (WmC), Thursday, 8 March 2012 18:57 (twelve years ago) link
My #2. Such a great song, doesn't need the bombast at all to great.
― grandavis, Thursday, 8 March 2012 18:57 (twelve years ago) link
I'm kinda with ciderpress on this one. I love this song to bits, but I don't quite know how it came above many, MANY songs in this poll. It didn't make my ballot.
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Thursday, 8 March 2012 18:58 (twelve years ago) link
50 votes
― grandavis, Thursday, 8 March 2012 18:58 (twelve years ago) link
well i mean you guys voted "beauty and the beast" all the way down at number 57 or something, when it clearly should have been higher. this is what happens with polls.
― horseshoe, Thursday, 8 March 2012 18:59 (twelve years ago) link
One of the top two I don't get the love for btw. I hope the other wins.
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 8 March 2012 19:00 (twelve years ago) link
^ seconded but I feel like we probably each like the opposite
― an elk hunt (Ówen P.), Thursday, 8 March 2012 19:01 (twelve years ago) link
I think probably so
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 8 March 2012 19:01 (twelve years ago) link
sound and vision is like going to a spa or something, feels like a fancy song
― the wild eyed boy from soundcloud (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 8 March 2012 19:02 (twelve years ago) link
i don't want to give anything away, but there may be a planet involved
― ciderpress, Thursday, 8 March 2012 19:02 (twelve years ago) link
Re: S&V, I actually prefer the 1990 remix (unlike "Fame", "Look back in anger")
― an elk hunt (Ówen P.), Thursday, 8 March 2012 19:02 (twelve years ago) link
One of the top two I don't get the love for btw. I hope the other wins.^this, although I dunno if we mean the same 'other'. In my case, the other was my #1.
xposts
― Jeff W, Thursday, 8 March 2012 19:03 (twelve years ago) link
my #6. Has a kind of calmness, clarity and balance that's not really in much else by him. Loved it as a single on compilations, and later loved how it sits in Low - frenzy, depression, fragments all around it, but there's this one precise, perfect thought sitting there.
― woof, Thursday, 8 March 2012 19:03 (twelve years ago) link