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

Thank you WmC, that was brilliant.

Here are the Pushing Ahead links for the 60. I'll do it in two batches - it seems to be playing up when I throw them out all at once:

60. Sons of the Silent Age
59. Teenage Wildlife
58. The Secret Life of Arabia
57. Beauty and the Beast
56. Cat People (Putting Out Fire)
55. Blackout
54. Move On
53. Win
52. Cracked Actor
51. Joe the Lion
50. A New Career in a New Town
49. Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)
48. Diamond Dogs
47. What in the World
46. The Bewlay Brothers
45. Word on a Wing
44. Kooks
43. Warszawa
42. Jean Genie
41. Wild Is the Wind
40. It's No Game
39. Fantastic Voyage
38. Breaking Glass
37. All the Young Dudes
36. Boys Keep Swinging
35. Aladdin Sane
34a. Sweet Thing/Candidate/Sweet Thing (reprise)
34b. Candidate 1 (Alternative candidate demo)
33. Fame
32. Fashion
31. Rock 'n' Roll Suicide

30. Ziggy Stardust
29. Panic in Detroit
28. Let's Dance
27. Drive-In Saturday
26. Quicksand
25. Queen Bitch
24. Modern Love
23. Under Pressure
22. Stay
21. TVC15
20. John, I'm Only Dancing (+ (again))
19. Look Back in Anger
18. Starman
17. Space Oddity
16. Five Years
15. Changes
14. Be My Wife
13. Always Crashing in the Same Car
12. The Man Who Sold the World
11. Oh! You Pretty Things
10. Rebel Rebel
9. Suffragette City
8. Moonage Daydream
7. Young Americans
6. Golden Years
5. Heroes
4. Station to Station
3. Sound and Vision
2. Ashes to Ashes
1. Life on Mars?

Can we get the full 175 please?

― Ismael Klata, Thursday, March 8, 2012 1:33 PM (4 minutes ago)

Yeah, it's all there in the public spreadsheet - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Alm9ijj_zohtdEE3cnJuQmpxRG81amdfWVZPaDg0Vmc

1. Move On
2. Art Decade
3. Speed of Life
4. Young Americans
5. Moonage Daydream
6. Joe The Lion
7. Jump They Say
8. Queen Bitch
9. Cracked Actor
10. Oh! You Pretty Things
11. Yassassin
12. Modern Love
13. Strangers When We Meet
14. Quicksand
15. Slip Away
16. Fascination
17. Station to Station
18. Stay
19. Sound and Vision
20. Boys Keep Swinging

My two cents

Songs
1. Be My Wife
2. Sweet Thing/Candidate/Sweet Thing (reprise)
3. Station To Station
4. Always Crashing In The Same Car
5. Life On Mars?
6. Sound and Vision
7. Candidate (Demo)
8. A New Career In A New Town
9. Look Back In Anger
10. The Bewlay Brothers
11. Stay
12. John, I'm Only Dancing
13. "Heroes"
14. Fantastic Voyage
15. 1984 Really surprised this one didn't place!
16. Scary Monsters
17. Speed of Life
18. Weeping Wall
19. Some Are
20. You've Got A Habit Of Leaving

Albums
1. Low
2. Station to Station
3. "Heroes"
4. Lodger
5. Hunky Dory

Top 20 Songs

1 Rock'N'Roll Suicide (31)
2 Oh! You Pretty Things (11)
3 Cracked Actor (52)
4 Jean Genie (42)
5 Rebel Rebel (10)
6 Life On Mars? (1)
7 Ziggy Stardust (30)
8 Watch That Man
9 Moonage Daydream (8)
10 Who Can I Be Now?
11 Rock'N'Roll With Me
12 The Prettiest Star
13 Lady Grinning Soul
14 Drive In Saturday (27)
15 The Man Who Sold The World (12)
16 Blackout (55)
17 Stay (22)
18 Panic In Detroit (29)
19 Fantastic Voyage (39)
20 Always Crashing In The Same Car (13)
All The Young Dudes (37)
Sons of the Silent Age (60)
Station To Station (4)
Young Americans (7)

Top 5 Albums

1 Aladdin Sane (7)
2 David Live (14 (tie))
3 Ziggy Stardust (4)
4 Diamond Dogs (8)
5 Lodger (6)

Worst 5 Songs

1 God Only Knows
2 Love You Till Tuesday
3 Too Dizzy
4 Thursday's Child
5 (Don't Sit Down)

me

1 - Five Years
2 - Drive In Saturday
3 - Boys Keep Swinging
4 - TVC15
5 - Golden Years
6 - Sound and Vision
7 - Red Sails
8 - "Heroes"
9 - A New Career In A New Town
10 - Be My Wife
11 - Always Crashing in the Same Car
12 - Modern Love
13 - Velvet Goldmine
14 - Let's Dance
15 - Young Americans
16 - Station to Station
17 - Kooks
18 - Look Back In Anger
19 - Man Who Sold The World
20 - Absolute Beginners

Albums

1 - Lodger
2 - Station to Station
3 - Low
4 - Hunky Dory
5 - Aladdin Sane

were there separate votes for "Sweet Thing" on its own?

#85 Velvet Goldmine
TOO LOW

Badass results! Thanks WmC!

Tracks 1-20:

Heroes
Rebel Rebel
Panic in Detroit
Golden Years
Young Americans
TVC 15
Fame
Suffragette City
Be My Wife
What in the World
Breaking Glass
Joe the Lion
Rock 'n' Roll Suicide
Changes
Sound and Vision
Diamond Dogs
Five Years
Watch That Man
Life on Mars
Boys Keep Swinging
Ashes to Ashes

Albums 1-5:

Low
Station to Station
Aladdin Sane
"Heroes"
Hunky Dory

my trolling AOR ballot:

tracks
1. Under Pressure
2. Fame
3. Suffragette City
4. Young Americans
5. Ziggy Stardust
6. Space Oddity
7. Changes
8. The Jean Genie
9. Fashion
10. Let's Dance
11. Magic Dance
12. John, I'm Only Dancing
13. Golden Years
14. Starman
15. Rock'n'Roll Suicide
16. Rebel Rebel
17. All The Young Dudes
18. Little Wonder
19. Black Tie White Noise
20. Peace On Earth/Little Drummer Boy

albums
1. The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

DJ, Soul Love, Cygnet Committee not even in the top 60. What an embarassment of riches this man has.

None of the Tin Machine tracks made the final 20 did they? Any other albums not represented?

My effort

1. Heroes
2. Sound + Vision
3. Queen Bitch
4. Ashes To Ashes
5. The Man Who Sold The World
6. Changes
7. Quicksand
8. Life On Mars
9. Win
10. Space Oddity
11. Hang On To Yourself
12. Five Years
13. Moonage Daydream
14. Fantastic Voyage
15. Oh! You Pretty Things
16. Station To Station
17. Modern Love
18. Always Crashing In The Same Car
19. Young Americans
20. Breaking Glass

Outside, Heathen, Reality, Hours, Earthling, and more. His career appears to end in the mid-80s.

xpost.

Dr XO were you the one other vote for Cygnet Committee? There were two and I was the other one!

My cheeseball ballot, made without any consideration for any song that did not immediately spring to mind during the 15 min I took to compile:

Five Years
Under Pressure
Rebel Rebel
Modern Love
Suffragette City
Moonage Daydream
Andy Warhol
Kooks
Life on Mars
Queen Bitch
Quicksand
Ziggy Stardust
Let’s Dance
Heroes
Young Americans
Space Oddity
Letter to Hermione
Cygnet Committee
Unwashed and Slightly Dazed
Station to Station

Not many "Hang On To Yourself" voters. Thought it would be a bigger hit what with the totally righteous guitar in the outro.

Thanks a ton WmC. My ballot:

1. Station to Station
2. Life on Mars?
3. Ashes to Ashes
4. “Heroes”
5. Changes
6. Sound and Vision
7. Space Oddity
8. Golden Years
9. The Man Who Sold the World
10. Suffragette City
11. Always Crashing in the Same Car
12. Oh! You Pretty Things
13. Speed of Life
14. Kooks
15. Let Me Sleep Beside You
16. Look Back in Anger
17. Rock’n’Roll Suicide
18. Cat People (Putting Out Fire)
19. Moss Garden
20. Diamond Dogs

Amongst other things, though granted it's kind of a throw-away song, I just find it more fun than rockers like "Suffragette City" and "Rebel Rebel".

1 Word On A Wing
2 Modern Love
3 Station to Station
4 Diamond Dogs
5 Heroes
6 Rock n Roll Suicide
7 Five Years
8 Life On Mars?
9 Be My Wife
10 Changes
11 Teenage Wildlife
12 Ziggy Stardust
13 TVC-15
14 Sweet Thing
15 Ashes To Ashes
16 Fashion
17 We are the Dead
18 Sons of the Silent Age
19 Stay
20 Red Sails

M@tt OTM about how weird Ashes To Ashes seemed when you only heard it on the radio and knew it was by the same guy as Space Oddity.

TRACKS

1. "Heroes"
2. Sound And Vision
3. Memory Of A Free Festival (single version, Part 1)
4. Life On Mars
5. Quicksand
6. Starman
7. Changes
8. Always Crashing In The Same Car
9. Station To Station
10 Up The Hill Backwards
11. Lady Stardust
12. Breaking Glass
13. Five Years
14. Candidate (demo)
15. Aladdin Sane
16. Cracked Actor
17. Width of A Circle
18. 1984
19. Red Sails
20. Queen Bitch

ALBUMS

1. Hunky Dory
2. Low
3. Ziggy Stardust
4. Heroes
5. Aladdin Sane

Station To Station
Queen Bitch
Suffragette City
Rebel Rebel
"Heroes"
Wild Is The Wind
Modern Love
Ziggy Stardust
Soul Love
China Girl
Sound and Vision
Under Pressure
Be My Wife
Life On Mars?
Look Back In Anger ('79)
Moonage Daydream
Panic In Detroit
Stay
Fame
Changes

Albums

Station to Station
Ziggy Stardust
Low
Heroes
Hunky Dory

Thanks WmC!

1. Moonage Daydream
2. Life On Mars?
3. Five Years
4. Suffragette City
5. Let Me Sleep Beside You
6. The Man Who Sold The World
7. Oh! You Pretty Things
8. After All
9. Golden Years
10. Fascination
11. Starman
12. Kooks
13. Lady Grinning Soul
14. "Heroes"
15. Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)
16. Aladdin Sane
17. The Bewlay Brothers
18. Beauty and The Beast
19. Speed of Life
20. Always Crashing In The Same Car

Can we have a round-up please?

how weird Ashes To Ashes seemed when you only heard it on the radio and knew it was by the same guy as Space Oddity.

I put 'The Laughing Gnome' on a mix tape I made for someone ages ago. He had no idea who it was and freaked out when I told him it was DB.

I am surprised Up The Hill Backwards didn't place. I didn't vote for it myself but I though there was a lot of love for it.

20. You've Got A Habit Of Leaving

― willem, Thursday, March 8, 2012 2:43 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Aha! I knew I wouldn't be the only one! Great Who pastiche.

Can I just say that I thought my numbers had totally gone through a blender and come out wrong when "Life on Mars" came out on top. Completely baffled. The song had never been on my radar until voting opened for this.

DL:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Alm9ijj_zohtdEE3cnJuQmpxRG81amdfWVZPaDg0Vmc

Songs
1. “Heroes”
2. Life On Mars?
3. Changes
4. Suffragette City
5. Diamond Dogs
6. Under Pressure
7. Ashes To Ashes
8. Starman
9. Black Country Rock
10. Boys Keep Swinging
11. Beauty And The Beast
12. Red Sails
13. Rebel Rebel
14. Strangers When We Meet
15. V-2 Schneider
16. All The Young Dudes
17. Five Years
18. Let’s Dance
19. Sound And Vision
20. TVC 15

Albums
1. Heroes
2. Low
3. Lodger
4. Ziggy Stardust
5. Hunky Dory

Didn't relisten to Low before voting; S&V would have been WAY higher. It's so sad; he's so miserable he's locked himself in a blue room and he can't see or hear. Amazing song.

My ballot:
Breaking Glass
Aladdin Sane
Ashes to Ashes
Sound and Vision
All the Young Dudes
Fashion
Moonage Daydream
The Man Who Sold the World
Sons of the Silent Age
Fame
Golden Years
Win
John, I’m Only Dancing
Sweet Thing/Candidate/Sweet Thing (reprise)
Art Decade
Wild is the Wind
Life on Mars?
Yassassin
Panic in Detroit
I Dig Everything

albums:
Low
Heroes
Ziggy
Young Americans
Scary Monsters

If this had been a 30 vote ballot, I'd have thrown in "I Dig Everything". I like the Bowie/Tony Hatch stuff.

That one just leapt out at me from the early days.

Hardest stanned tracks (score/votes. leaving out tracks that only got 1 or 2 votes)

1) 29.76 (1250/42) Station to Station
2) 29.67 (356/12) Sweet Thing/Candidate/Sweet Thing (reprise)
3) 28.80 (288/10) Word on a Wing
4) 27.89 (251/9) Joe the Lion
5) 26.80 (1367/51) Ashes to Ashes
6) 26.60 (1463/55) Life on Mars
7) 25.50 (663/26) Suffragette City
8) 25.44 (1272/50) Sound and Vision
9) 25.33 (608/24) Be My Wife
10) 25.27 (1213/48) "Heroes"

I was right about StS probably out-stanning the Sweet Thing suite upthread :-)

Here's a top ten of albums based a total number of points all the songs from each album received:
1. Hunky Dory (4370)
2. Low (4106)
3. Station to Station (3731)
4. Ziggy Stardust (3711)
5. Scary Monsters (2712)
6. Heroes (2698)
7. Aladdin Sane (2280)
8. Lodger (2010)
9. Young Americans (1692)
10. Diamond Dogs (1577)

x-post to Tarfumes - Yeah, lots of love for mod-Bowie here! Got that Lower Third/Mannish Boys 10", think it's a 80's reissue iirc.

hahaha, I was wondering who the other person was that voted for "I Dig Everything." Awesome. Much thanks again for your work in tallying and presenting the poll!

yay statistics :-)

Off to hunt a late lunch, have fun datamining!

Those that love Word on a Wing really love it.

I just want to post this lovely picture
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3189/3079898529_063e8028bb.jpg

Those that love Word on a Wing really love it.

― kraudive, Thursday, March 8, 2012 8:16 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is very true for me!

My favourite Bowie pic - always see this when I hear Kooks:
http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lg60z2ab5i1qc7qvfo1_400.jpg

My lists

Tracks
Station To Station
Sound And Vision
Ashes to Ashes
Be My Wife
Life On Mars?
Kooks
Young Americans
The Jean Genie
Teenage Wildlife
Diamond Dogs
Always Crashing In The Same Car
Moonage Daydream
Everyone Says Hi
I Have Not Been To Oxford Town
Letter To Hermione
Little Wonder
Dead Against It
Breaking Glass
Bring Me The Disco King
Maid Of Bond Street

Albums
Station To Station
Low
Hunky Dory
The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars
1. Outside

xp re WoaW - My #1. I think I said - er, exclaimed - a few days ago as much. I was disappointed it was so low, but it's nice to see that stat.

my ballot:

1. David Bowie & Mick Jagger - "Dancing In The Street"

my mans

i'm genuinely regretful that i didn't include it on my ballot in between "Magic Dance" and "Little Drummer Boy"

Here's my ballot;

Win
Five Years
Golden Years
Sound and Vision
Station To Station
Janine
Panic In Detroit ('73)
Drive In Saturday
TVC 15
Watch That Man
What In The World
Young Americans
Black Country Rock
A New Career In A New Town
Life On Mars?
Rebel Rebel
Move On
Oh! You Pretty Things
The Bewlay Brothers
Repetition

nice, korn--i'm into janine slipped in there!

This would have been my ballot but i left it too late to enter it,ah well next time.Of course by then it wiil be completely different.

Top 20 songs

1 Alternative Candidate
2 Conversation Piece
3 T.M.W.S.T.W
4 An Occasional Dream
5 Queen Bitch
6 Starman
7 Teenage Wildlife
8 Fantastic Voyage
9 Drive In Saturday
10 Ashes To Ashes
11 TVC15
12 Silly Boy Blue
13 Be My Wife
14 There Is A Happy Land
15 Letter To Hermonine
16 Loving The Alien
17 Lady Grinning Soul
18 Black Country Rock
19 V-2 Schneider
20 Win

Top 5 albums

1 Diamond Dogs
2 Ziggy Stardust
3 Aladdinsane
4 Hunky Dory
5 T.M.W.S.T.W

The crazy thing is you could strike these 60 songs from Bowie's catalogue and still have an enviable supply of gold, "Width of a circle", "Hang onto yourself", "Watch that man", "The supermen", "China girl", etc. etc.

Yeah, whoever said these songs were all winners was pretty OTM.