NEUPÖLLN - ILM Artist Poll #14 - David Bowie (POLLS ARE CLOSED)

Chap doesn't have time to run the Bowie poll right now and has given his blessing for me to do it. Let's dance!

http://i40.tinypic.com/9s57w1.jpg

Rank your top 20 David Bowie tracks. Feel free to include tracks by Davie Jones and the King Bees, the Manish Boys, the Lower Third, the Buzz, Bowie/Queen and Tin Machine if you'd like.

normal scoring: 1:40, 2:36, 3:33, 4:30, 5:28, 6:26, 7:25, 8:24, 9:23, 10:22, 11:21, 12:20, 13:19, 14:18, 15:17, 16:16, 17:15, 18:14, 19:13, 20:12.

Part 2, optional:
Include your ranking of Bowie's five best albums.

Send your ballots to me at wmcrump AT gmail.com, or via ILXmail. Deadline is midnight Eastern Standard Time, -- MONDAY, MARCH 5TH.

Cliffs:
1. Ranked ballot of TWENTY (20) David Bowie tracks
2. Ranked list of FIVE (5) favorite Bowie albums
3. Deadline is MONDAY, MARCH 5.

done

hahaha, daaaang, you were ready to roll!

70 ballots or bust

with Baal's Hymn on every one

Bowie on Spotify:

http://open.spotify.com/artist/0oSGxfWSnnOXhD2fKuz2Gy

Ooh. I'm going to do this one!

So awesome!!

whats up with his eyes?

can't believe you didn't go w/ man who polled the world

I'm sure you're aware of this, but it's essential reading for any Bowie fan. http://bowiesongs.wordpress.com/

Looking forward to this poll more than any other.

Wow, that Bowie blog in incredible. I 'm going to kill a couple of days with that.

The write up for Ashes to Ashes is amazing.

I would like to congratulate you on an *outstanding* poll name, and also state that this will be a very tough but enjoyable poll to complete...

I hope "This Is Not America" doesn't get lost in the shuffle here. :(

Love the thread title.

The blog is terrific; it singlehandedly forced me to relisten to "Absolute Beginners" (which I still don't like much).

The commenters though are mostly creepy Bowiephiles.

can't believe you didn't go w/ man who polled the world

― iatee, Sunday, February 26, 2012 5:21 PM (1 hour ago)

Way to spoil the results thread title, iatee. THANKS.

haha sorry :(

Ballot sent.

how high is "As The World Falls Down"?

haha sorry :(

― iatee, Sunday, February 26, 2012 6:52 PM (4 minutes ago)

lol j/k, I didn't think of that title as I was scrolling through his Spotify page. You will get credit when I use it for the results thread -- it's better than "John, I'm Only Polling".

Seriously, has he always had crazy eyes? Anyone?

Yeah, it dates back to an injury he got in a fight when he was a kid.

He received a serious injury at school in 1962 when his friend George Underwood, wearing a ring on his finger, punched him in the left eye during a fight over a girl. Doctors feared he would lose the sight of the eye, and he was forced to stay out of school for a series of operations during a four-month hospitalisation.[12] The damage could not be fully repaired, leaving him with faulty depth perception and a permanently dilated pupil (the latter producing Bowie's appearance of having different coloured eyes, though each iris has the same blue colour). Despite their fisticuffs, Underwood and Bowie remained good friends, and Underwood went on to create the artwork for Bowie's early albums.[13]

ty

I made sure to pick a photo for the top of the thread that accentuates the eye thing -- it's a really striking feature.

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/651/yeays.png/

Four ballots in already, this is cool.

how the hell am I only gonna pick 20 Bowie songs... albums are easy.

I think this is the first one of these artist polls that I will vote in

http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/7236/yeay.png

ballot sent!

lovely --- yeah this is hard.

Not heard the Baal EP until today. Don't think it'll make my list.

Excited for this! Also wanted to remind everyone that Station to Station is the greatest music ever made, vote accordingly!

I want to remind everyone that this exists:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkGLwQ76E5o

This is the great obscure Bowie classic...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mB9RSG-56wU

can't believe you didn't go w/ man who polled the world

She Shook Me Poll
Eight Line Poll 'em
Lady Grinning Poll

Bowie's outtakes from Young Americans gonna be REAL high in my poll!

sorry, I meant "Who Can I Be Now?" and "It's Gonna Be Me"

Anyone has a list of all Bowie's song to pick from?

Taken from a Bowie fansite (Stardust)

Duplicates-- many "The" songs are repeated, or songs expanded titles ("Rock 'n Roll With Me" + "When You Rock 'n Roll With Me").

1917
1984
1984/Dodo
5.15 The Angels Have Gone
87 and Cry
A Better Future
A Better Future (Remix)
A Big Hurt
A Fleeting Moment (Mandarin)
A Foggy Day In London Town
A New Career In A New Town
A Small Plot Of Land ('95)
A Small Plot Of Land ('96)
Abdulmajid
Absolute Beginners
Across The Universe
Afraid
African Night Flight
After All
After Today
Alabama Song
Aladdin Sane
All Saints
All The Madmen
All The Young Dudes
Always Crashing In
The Same Car
Amazing
Amlapura
Amsterdam
An Occasional Dream
And I Say To Myself
Andy Warhol
Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere
Art Decade
As The World Falls Down
Ashes To Ashes
Baal's Hymn
Baby Can Dance
Baby Loves That Way
Baby Loves That Way (Toy Sessions version)
Baby Universal
Ballad Of The Adventurers
Band Intro
Bang Bang
Bars Of The County Jail
Battle For Britain
Be My Wife
Beat of Your Drum
Beauty and The Beast
Because You're Young
Betty Wrong
Bewlay Brothers
Big Brother
Big Hurt
Black Country Rock
Black Tie White Noise
Blackout
Bleed Like A Craze, Dad
Blue Jean
Bombers
Boys Keep Swinging
Breaking Glass
Brilliant Adventure
Bring Me The Disco King
Buddha Of Suburbia (1)
Buddha Of Suburbia (2)
Bus Stop
Cactus
Can You Hear Me
Can't Help Thinking About Me
Candidate
Candidate (Demo)
Cat People (Soundtrack)
Cat People (1983)
Changes
Chant of The Ever Circling Skeletal Family
China Girl
China Girl(Riff & Vox Club Mix)
Ching A Ling
Come and Buy My Toys
Conversation Piece
Conversation Piece (2002)
Crack City
Cracked Actor
Criminal World
Crystal Japan
Cygnet Committee
Dancing In The Street
Dancing With The Big Boys
Day In Day Out
Days
Dead Against It
Dead Man Walking
Diamond Dogs
Did You Ever Have A Dream
Dirty Song
DJ
Do Anything You Say
Dodo
Don't Bring Me Down
Don't Let Me Down And Down
Don't Look Down
Don't Sit Down
Dreamers
Drive In Saturday
Drowned Girl
Eight Line Poem
Everyone Says 'Hi'
Everything's Alright
Fall Dog Bombs The Moon
Fame
Fame '90
Fantastic Voyage
Fascination
Fashion
Fill Your Heart
Five Years
Fly
Foggy Day In London Town
Footstompin'
Friday On My Mind
Future Legend
Fun
Gemini Spacecraft
Get Real
Girls
Glad I've Got Nobody
Glass Spider
God Knows I'm Good
God Only Knows
Golden Years
Good Morning Girl
Goodbye Mr. Ed
Gospel According To Tony Day
Growin' Up
Hallo Spaceboy
Hang Onto Yourself
Heart's Filthy Lesson
Heathen
Heaven's In Here
Helden
Here Comes The Night
Here Today Gone Tomorrow
"Heroes"
"Heroes"/Helden
Holy Holy
I Am With Name
I Can't Explain
I Can't Read ('89)
I Can't Read ('97)
I Dig Everything
I Feel Free
I Have Not Been To Oxford Town
I Keep Forgettin'
I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday
I Pity The Fool
I Pray, Olé
I Took A Trip On A Gemini Spacecraft
I Want My Baby Back
I Wish You Would
I Would Be Your Slave
I'll Follow You
I'm Afraid Of Americans ('95)
I'm Afraid Of Americans ('97)
I'm Deranged
I'm Not Losing Sleep
I'm Waiting For The Man
I've Been Waiting For You
Ian Fish, U.K. Heir
If I'm Dreaming My Life
In The Heat Of The Morning
It Ain't Easy
It's Gonna Be Me
It's Hard To Be A Saint In The City
It's No Game (Part 1)
It's No Game (Part 2)
Janine
Jean Genie
Joe The Lion
John, I'm Only Dancing
John I'm Only Dancing Again
Join The Gang
Julie
Jump They Say
Just For One Day (Heroes) (Guetta VS Bowie Remix)
Karma Man
Kingdom Come
Knock On Wood
Kooks
Lady Grinning Soul
Lady Stardust
Last Thing You Should Do
Laughing Gnome
Law (Earthlings On Fire)
Leon Takes Us Outside
Let Me Sleep Beside You
Let's Dance
Let's Dance (Club Bolly Extended Mix)
Let's Dance (Trifactor VS Deeper Substance Remix)
Let's Spend The Night Together
Letter To Hermione
Life On Mars?
Lightning Frightening
Little Bombardier
Little Drummer Boy
Little Wonder
Liza Jane
London Boys
London Bye Ta-Ta
The Loneliest Guy
Look Back In Anger ('79)
Look Back In Anger ('88)
Looking For Lester
Looking For Satellites
Looking For Water
Louie Louie Go Home
Love You Till Tuesday
Loving The Alien
Loving The Alien (Scumfrog VS Bowie)
Lucy Can't Dance
Magic Dance
Magic Dance (Danny S Magic Party Remix)
Maid of Bond Street
Man Who Sold The World
Memory of A Free Festival
Miracle Goodnight
Modern Love
Moment In Time (Mandarin)
Moon Of Alabama
Moonage Daydream
Moss Garden
Motel
Move On
My Death
Mysterie
Nature Boy
Nature Boy (with Massive Attack)
Neighborhood Threat
Neukoln
Never Get Old
Never Let Me Down
New Angels Of Promise
New Career In A New Town
New Killer Star
New York's In Love
Nite Flights
No Control
No One Calls
Nothing To Be Desired
Oh! You Pretty Things
One Shot
Outside
Pablo Picasso
Pallas Athena
Panic In Detroit ('73)
Panic In Detroit ('79)
Peace On Earth / Little Drummer Boy
Pin Ups (radio commercial)
Please Mr. Gravedigger
Port Of Amsterdam
Prettiest Star
Pretty Thing
Pretty Things Are Going To Hell
Prisoner Of Love
Queen Bitch
Queen Of All The Tarts (Overture)
Quicksand
Ragazzo Solo, Ragazza Sola
Real Cool World
Reality
Rebel Rebel
Rebel Rebel (2003)
Red Money
Red Sails
Remembering Marie A.
Repetition
Revolutionary Song
Ricochet
Right
Rock 'n Roll With Me
Rock 'n' Roll Suicide
Rosalyn
Round And Round
Rubber Band
Run
Running Gun Blues
Sacrifice Yourself
Safe
Saviour Machine
Scary Monsters
Scream Like A Baby
Secret Life of Arabia
See Emily Play
Segue - Algeria Touchshriek
Segue - Baby Grace
Segue - Nathan Adler (1)
Segue - Nathan Adler (2)
Segue - Ramona A. Stone
Sell Me A Coat
Sense of Doubt
Seven
Seven Years In Tibet
Seven Years In Tibet (Mandarin)
Sex And The Church
Shadow Man (Toy Sessions)
Shake It
Shapes of Things
She Shook Me Cold
She'll Drive The Big Car
She's Got Medals
Shinin' Star
Shopping For Girls
Shout (Original Mix) (Solaris VS Bowie)
Silly Boy Blue
Slip Away
Slow Burn
Small Plot Of Land ('95)
Small Plot Of Land ('96)
Some Are
Somebody Up There Likes Me
Something In The Air
Song For Bob Dylan
Sons of The Silent Age
Sorrow
Sorry
Soul Love
Sound and Vision
South Horizon
Space Oddity ('69)
Space Oddity ('79)
Speed of Life
Star
Starman
Stateside
Station To Station
Stay
Strangers When We Meet ('93)
Strangers When We Meet ('95)
Subterraneans
Suffragette City
Sunday
Sunday (Remix)
Supermen
Survive
Sweet Head
Sweet Thing
Sweet Thing (reprise)
Take My Tip
Teenage Wildlife
Telling Lies
That's Motivation
That's Where My Heart Is
The Bewlay Brothers
The Buddha Of Suburbia (1)
The Buddha Of Suburbia (2)
The Dirty Song
The Dreamers
The Drowned Girl
The Glass Spider
The Gospel According To Tony Day
The Heart's Filthy Lesson
The Jean Genie
The Last Thing You Should Do
The Laughing Gnome
The Loneliest Guy
The Man Who Sold The World
The Motel
The Mysterie
The Prettiest Star
The Pretty Things Are Going To Hell
The Revolutionary Song
The Supermen
The Voyeur Of Utter Destruction (As Beauty)
The Wedding
The Wedding Song
The Wild-Eyed Boy From Freecloud
There Is A Happy Land
This Is Not America
This Is Not America (Scumfrog VS Bowie)
Thru' These Architects Eyes
Thursday's Child
Time
Time Will Crawl
Tin Machine
Tonight
Too Dizzy
Try Some, Buy Some
Tumble and Twirl
TVC 15
Uncle Arthur
Under The God
Under Pressure
Underground
Underground (With Opening Titles)
Untitled No. 1
Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed
Up The Hill Backwards
V-2 Schneider
Velvet Goldmine
Video Crime
Volare
Voyeur Of Utter Destruction (As Beauty)
Waiting For The Man
Warszawa
Watch That Man
We All Go Through
We Are Hungry Men
We Are The Dead
We Prick You
We Shall All Go To Town
Wedding
Wedding Song
Weeping Wall
What In The World
What's Really Happening
When I Live My Dream
When I'm Five
When The Boys Come Marching Home
When The Wind Blows
When You Rock n Roll With Me
Where Have All The
Good Times Gone?
White Light White Heat
Who Can I Be Now?
Width of A Circle
Wild-Eyed Boy From Freecloud
Wild Is The Wind
Win
Wish I Could Shimmy Like
My Sister Kate
Wishful Beginnings
Within You
Without You
Without You I'm Nothing
Wood Jackson
Word On A Wing
Working Class Hero
Yassassin
You Belong In Rock & Roll
You Can't Talk
You Didn't Hear It From Me
You've Been Around
You've Got A Habit Of Leaving
You've Got A Habit Of Leaving (Toy Sessions version)
Young Americans
Zeroes
Ziggy Stardust

Sent.

Strange that many of my favourite Bowie songs exist in several different versions. The two non-canon versions I rep hard for are the demo version of "Candidate" (which is my favourite of all the "Diamond Dogs" material), and the moody soundtrack version of "Cat People".

Awesome, thanks Owen.

I'm making 'letter to hermione' my number one pick in case anyone else wants to chime in and give it a few extra points. Anyone who doesn't include it in his ballot loses respect points from me.

I'll be impressed and surprised if that song gets more than one ballot placing

My early period last-minute omission was "Width of a circle"; no regrets

the moody soundtrack version of "Cat People"

This is the only version I'd consider voting for (and I almost did).

we can vote for stuff on the Labyrinth Soundtrack, right?

YOU REMIND ME OF THE BABE
what babe
THE BABE WITH THE POWER
what power
THE POWER OF VOODOO
who do?
YOU DO
do what?
REMIND ME OF THE BAAAABE

as nicely ripped off by nine inch nails

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm2ciX0_UP8

all time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyQxTWDLZ8o

I Want My Baby Back

Whoa! This the one where the girl is killed after they go to a Beatles concert? Or, a different song?

Oops! Yeah WmC, just leave the last one off, it probably (??) doesn't need my 12 points anyway.

dang! sent it to u via ILX mail a week or so back. will send another copy along when i get home (to where my .xlsses is hid). before cutoff in any event...

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly30tbT4bP1qbgvpzo1_1327037858_cover.jpg

Bowie things I learned from ILM:

"Neukoln" is my fave Bowie ambient track and all-time fave Bowie track.
I greatly prefer the 1st half of "Warsawa" to the (vocal) 2nd half.

Lodger is much better than I gave it credit for (ta Sinker!) (still didn't make my Top 5 though "Red Sails" and "Look Back In Anger" made Top 20 cuts).

always love love loved it but seriously LOOK:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbxp1hC8vts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHXRoVEbD88&feature=fvsr

Cool! Did you vote?

yes (today) it's the one with "Neukoln" at the top plus "Red Sails", "Look Back In Anger" and "Queen Bitch" in the mix :)

Neukoln at the top?! I admire that! Can't we post our top five albums, sort of like opening one present on Xmas eve?

No! Go to bed or Santa will never come!

awwww rats...did we seriously beat pavement, tho?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a6spL97lM8

Just to tide you over, a couple of lines with the Man...

As awesome as the Berlin-era stuff is, I sort of found my favorite songs were mostly inconsequential pastiches from the Hunk Dory/Ziggy/Alladin Sane years.

Experimental songwriting is great and all, but a guitar blast and "I'm an alligator!"....you can't really beat that.

Not that that song's a pastiche.

awwww rats...did we seriously beat pavement, tho?

― Iago Galdston, Monday, March 5, 2012 7:59 PM (13 minutes ago)

Definitely -- I looked back at the Pavement results thread and it says that 57 people voted. I don't know where the 70 number came from. Led Zeppelin had 66. Bowie is at 74 ballots with 3 hours 45 minutes to go.

Make that 75, thank you Adam!

holy shit, 75 ballots? that's amazing, people

i think the guy who wrote the 33 1/3 book on Low is even here voting, is that correct? If so, I've read like 15 of those and his is the only one I've really liked unreservedly. Such a great book.

xxxp the 70 number came from my memory. a dark and perverse place.

a guitar blast and "I'm an alligator!"....you can't really beat that.
OTM!!

I'm getting seriously excited for the poll results now. 75 ballots in, all that material to choose from, people choosing deep cuts from the lesser-appreciated years. This might end up being more interesting than I thought it would!

Can't believe I left off Moonage Daydream...

That was another one that I wanted to put in my ballot, but unfortunately got chopped. I think more than a few folks may have voted for it though!

174 different tracks have gotten votes. Actually more than 174; in some cases voters specified live versions or particular remixes that wound up getting combined for the purposes of the tabulating.

how much time do i have?

43 min as of now

I'm getting seriously excited for the poll results now. 75 ballots in, all that material to choose from, people choosing deep cuts from the lesser-appreciated years. This might end up being more interesting than I thought it would!

― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Monday, March 5, 2012 10:19 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

actually in general the more people who vote, the more predictable the poll results will be. I'm a not-hardcore bowie fan who coulda come up w/ 25 tracks but I didn't vote for that reason.

BALLOT RESUBMITTED

lemme know if you didn't get it this time, WmC

i threw in a ballot of AOR staples and trolly weird picks

Ok mine is in.. I did it in 15 minutes.. I already regret voting for so many singles. sorry everyone :/

guys, it isn't the defiant obscurantist bowie poll... dude could write a pop song, it's cool.

i voted with my heart, will not apologize!

(ps i have a heart)

you need a heart to live

Ballots received: thewufs, billstevejim, contenderizer. Thanking U!

We're at 79 or 80.

Deadline is Eastern Standard Time, so there's an hour to go.

isn't midnight EST in about two minutes?

Oh shit, you're right! I forgot what time zone I'm in.

POLLS ARE CLOSED.

it's too late, to be late again

i voted for a lot of singles... maybe the man just knew how to pick singles. my #1 was a first single from an album, and for years i hated it, but a couple of months ago (after almost two decades of listening to it), it just got me. it's such a crazy song to release as a single. but really, my love for it must spring from the fact that it is the latest in a long line. think i'll listen to it now.

I listened to Young Americans three times tonight while I worked on entering this stuff.

listening to the nassau version of tvc15 right now. so good. i need to listen to that whole disc. never have for some reason.

61 ballots included album ranks. Tomorrow I'll count down the top 10; here's a teaser.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51oZMrT1-SL._SS500_.jpg
11.
1. Outside (1995) - 14 points; 3 votes; 1 first-place vote)

I doff my bippity boppity hat to the person - mark s? - who gave Outside first place.

I guess not! I've sent emails to everyone as ballots came in, unless I acknowledged receipt in this thread. Hit me with it again.

So you didn't receive mine either? Sent it via ILXmail, didn't get any email confirmation. All that relistening to Bowie's best stuff for nothing! ;)

I got no confirmation either, also sent via ILXmail.

Can those of us whose ballots didn't arrive re-send them?

dorsalstop and Zora, I did get and include your ballots -- sorry!

Let me set up a couple of things here and we'll get started with results in a new thread.

Yay!

Just saw "Neupolln" and assumed this was about Neu! or something and missed it.

Yeah, having DAVID BOWIE in the thread title couldn't have helped or anything. ffs

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