if this poll was without Station to Station option, my OPO and obv pick, think i would've gone with Little Wonder, yeah
― gaudio, Monday, 30 March 2020 19:25 (four years ago) link
after from station to station, my #2 might be blackstar tbh
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Monday, 30 March 2020 19:32 (four years ago) link
Blackstar is such a different type of song from Station to Station I'm somewhat torn between the two... but they are the only ones I feel come close
― octobeard, Monday, 30 March 2020 19:40 (four years ago) link
Tempted to vote ‘Width of a Circle’ cos it’s a great song that isn’t going to get enough love in these circumstances. ‘Station to Station’ is ‘objectively’ the best track here, insane number of other classics, personal favourites probably ‘Speed of Life’, ‘Fantastic Voyage’ and ‘It’s No Game Pt1’... Bowie!!!!! How was he so good?
― umsworth (emsworth), Monday, 30 March 2020 20:37 (four years ago) link
I mean, shit, ‘Sunday’, ‘New Killer Star’ and ‘Blackstar’ are all better than respectable. I even enjoy the loping goonery of ‘Heaven’s in Here’, god help me.
― umsworth (emsworth), Monday, 30 March 2020 20:40 (four years ago) link
Ok off the cuff, I've got it to Young Americans, Modern Love, and Watch That Man, a song I didn't know I loved as much as I apparently do from looking at this list... but it kicks of Aladdin so well, and has such a gloriously trashy feel that maybe I'm inclined to vote for it as I don't expect many to.
A decade ago it would have been Speed of Life in a walk...
― justice 4 CCR (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 30 March 2020 20:43 (four years ago) link
lol you're not alone re: Heaven's In Here
― justice 4 CCR (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 30 March 2020 20:44 (four years ago) link
I really love the Tin Machine record
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 30 March 2020 20:48 (four years ago) link
Before I read the thread I thought well, "Five Years" will walk this, but I guess not!
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Monday, 30 March 2020 21:08 (four years ago) link
the U.S. cassette release of Station To Station features a different track sequencing, which I actually prefer!starts with "Word On A Wing" and places "Station To Station" in the same position (B1) that "Trans Europe Express" ended up in. "TVC 15" makes for a great closer. https://www.discogs.com/David-Bowie-Station-To-Station/release/13808588
― Paul, Monday, 30 March 2020 22:12 (four years ago) link
Intersting, I'm not that impressed by any of these! So maybe ... Five Years or Station to Station? Or Young Americans or Modern Love? Five Years is very "first song," "Station to Station" might as well be the album. "Young Americans" is a great single. "Modern Love" though ... that one really sounds like an album starter.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 30 March 2020 23:45 (four years ago) link
Since this is ILX I predict Station to Station or Speed of Life will win. OTOH sometimes my favorite Bowie song is:
I heard telephones, opera house, favorite melodiesI saw boys, toys, electric irons and T.V.'sMy brain hurt like a warehouse, it had no room to spareI had to cram so many things to store everything in thereAnd all the fat-skinny people, and all the tall-short peopleAnd all the nobody people, and all the somebody peopleI never thought I'd need so many people
then:
I think I saw you in an ice-cream parlor,Drinking milk shakes cold and longSmiling and waving and looking so fine,Don't think you knew you were in this song
That mix of hysterical and conversational kills me every time.
― Why, I would make a fantastic Nero! (PBKR), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 11:12 (four years ago) link
I love its apocalyptic clarity, like a glam "Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall".
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 11:15 (four years ago) link
Soto OTM, those are good picks. I'll vote STS.
― akm, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 14:38 (four years ago) link
I went for "Blackstar", hey.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 15:00 (four years ago) link
Speed of Life. Maybe not the best song here in a vacuum but to me it’s the most opener-est.
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 16:08 (four years ago) link
Feel ‘Beauty And The Beast’ isn’t get enough love here...whatta rush that track is...so that’s what swung it...otherwise it would of been ‘Its No Gane’...probably the best set of openers ever...
― X-Prince Protégé (sonnyboy), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 17:31 (four years ago) link
Possibly my #1
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 17:32 (four years ago) link
hard to beat Young Americans in my book
― ncxkd, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 17:34 (four years ago) link
‘Its No Gane’
the still-unreleased Monade LP
― justice 4 CCR (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 18:04 (four years ago) link
How I ranked'em!
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 2 April 2020 00:26 (four years ago) link
Tempted to vote ‘Width of a Circle’ cos it’s a great song that isn’t going to get enough love in these circumstances.
me too, but . . . "modern love" is soooooooo good
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 2 April 2020 00:34 (four years ago) link
"Five Years" deserves the win but it will be "Station To Station" and I'm OK with that, but seriously people "Five Years" my god
― sleeve, Thursday, 2 April 2020 01:19 (four years ago) link
Five Years because of all the reasons stated up thread and especially how utterly crushing his vocal performance is on it. Fantastic Voyage nearly beat it though.
― Lemon Kitten (Dan.S.), Thursday, 2 April 2020 10:10 (four years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Thursday, 30 April 2020 00:01 (four years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Friday, 1 May 2020 00:01 (four years ago) link
Thought so
― Mark G, Friday, 1 May 2020 07:11 (four years ago) link