Poll
Question:
What's your favorite Bowie song?
Option 1: Life on Mars
votes: 3
Option 2: Heroes
votes: 5
Option 3: Changes
votes: 1
Option 4: Space Oddity
votes: 7
Option 5: Golden Years
votes: 0
Option 6: I'm Afraid of Americans
votes: 0
Option 7: Fame
votes: 1
Option 8: Fashion
votes: 0
Option 9: Young Americans
votes: 0
Option 10: Under Pressure
votes: 4
Option 11: The Man Who Sold the World
votes: 2
Option 12: Modern Love
votes: 0
Option 13: Rebel Rebel
votes: 1
Option 14: Ziggy Stardust
votes: 2
Option 15: Other
votes: 5
Option 16: Jaron Covers the Soundtrack from Labyrinth
votes: 0
Inspired by an episode of Flight of the Conchords(best one I've seen so far).
Did he finally bought the farm?
Quote from: Siege on July 04, 2013, 04:29:37 PM
Did he finally bought the farm?
If so, that would be an eerie coincidence.
Voted Heroes, but might as well have voted Space Oddity.
Difficult question. Voted for Under Pressure, but probably could have voted for Space Oddity, Heroes, The Man Who Sold the World or Ziggy Stardust.
Hard to choose. I was under pressure with this choice.
Chose Robert Fripp option.
Sound & Vision
Haven't really digested his oeuvre.
Ziggy Stardust. Great Riff
Mick Ronson FTW. Mick was a major influence on Randy Rhoads.
1972
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybRGMA1A_8
From a 2002 Paris show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIXmFL9ckGE
Rebel Rebel
Yikes, tough poll.
Wound up voting "Under Pressure" simply because it's an iconic work for all involved, but "Young Americans", "Queen Bitch" and "Modern Love" are personal faves.
I liked him best in the Venture Brothers.
Quote from: CountDeMoney on July 04, 2013, 06:43:43 PM
Yikes, tough poll.
Wound up voting "Under Pressure" simply because it's an iconic work for all involved, but "Young Americans", "Queen Bitch" and "Modern Love" are personal faves.
David Bowie - Queen Bitch on the Old Grey Whistle Test
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8oGyGo1q-k
Space Oddity
Life On Mars, live, Serious Moonlight tour.
After that, Slow Burn, Heathen.
Then Five Years, maybe Lady Stardust. Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars is packed with great tunes: the titular cut is good, but actually one of the weaker offerings.
Quote from: Kleves on July 04, 2013, 06:50:14 PM
I liked him best in the Venture Brothers.
Did you watch the new one? OSI Love You? There's a (rather offhand) revelation about the Sovereign that I think I didn't very much like (though I suppose it fits the show's theme).
Quote from: Ideologue on July 04, 2013, 07:20:43 PM
Then Five Years
I definitely do not see the appeal of that one.
Here's a BBC doc.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_hZ-Z_4ZVg&nofeather=True
Quote from: Ideologue on July 04, 2013, 07:21:48 PM
Did you watch the new one? OSI Love You? There's a (rather offhand) revelation about the Sovereign that I think I didn't very much like (though I suppose it fits the show's theme).
Yeah, I saw it. I agree the revelation was lame.
Quote from: Kleves on July 04, 2013, 08:10:58 PM
Quote from: Ideologue on July 04, 2013, 07:21:48 PM
Did you watch the new one? OSI Love You? There's a (rather offhand) revelation about the Sovereign that I think I didn't very much like (though I suppose it fits the show's theme).
Yeah, I saw it. I agree the revelation was lame.
Yeah, it was stupid.
Voted Ziggy Stardust, but could have easily gone for Changes or Space Oddity, maybe a couple of others.
Quote from: Ideologue on July 04, 2013, 07:21:48 PM
Quote from: Kleves on July 04, 2013, 06:50:14 PM
I liked him best in the Venture Brothers.
Did you watch the new one? OSI Love You? There's a (rather offhand) revelation about the Sovereign that I think I didn't very much like (though I suppose it fits the show's theme).
Eh, the developers admit there are a lot of lies in the show. So it may or may not be true. I suspect it isn't since there plenty of other rock and roll stars there.
Space Oddity is way up there, but I would go with Cygnet Committee.
Honorable Mention:
Little Bombardier
Please Mr. Gravedigger
Oh! You Pretty Things
Saviour Machine
Rock & Roll Suicide
Port of Amsterdam (cover)
NEW GUY NEW GUY NEW GUY ENGAGE ENGAGE ENGAGE
Quote from: Admiral Yi on July 05, 2013, 02:36:06 AM
NEW GUY NEW GUY NEW GUY ENGAGE ENGAGE ENGAGE
What fucking newbie?
Weijun is new to me.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on July 05, 2013, 02:47:18 AM
Weijun is new to me.
I guess it has been a while since I last posted. So hello, how do you do, pleased to meet you.
Well to be accepted you must kill one of our number. I suggest Yi since he called you out. Also he's probably smaller then the rest of us.
Quote from: Weijun on July 05, 2013, 02:58:36 AM
I guess it has been a while since I last posted. So hello, how do you do, pleased to meet you.
Fine thank you. Welcome back.
Quote from: Razgovory on July 05, 2013, 03:22:46 AM
Well to be accepted you must kill one of our number. I suggest Yi since he called you out. Also he's probably smaller then the rest of us.
IIRC Yi is not small at all.
I refuse to answer to this poll, too many good songs.
But the best album is The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust.
L.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on July 05, 2013, 05:55:01 AM
Quote from: Weijun on July 05, 2013, 02:58:36 AM
I guess it has been a while since I last posted. So hello, how do you do, pleased to meet you.
Fine thank you. Welcome back.
How very odd. This isn't like you at all.
Quote from: Pedrito on July 05, 2013, 06:19:31 AM
I refuse to answer to this poll,
BOW DOWN TO THE POLL!
I refuse to bow down to the poll.
FREEDOOOOMMMM!
L.
Quote from: katmai on July 05, 2013, 06:25:48 AM
Quote from: Liep on July 05, 2013, 06:24:57 AM
Quote from: garbon on July 05, 2013, 06:23:49 AM
Quote from: Pedrito on July 05, 2013, 06:19:31 AM
I refuse to answer to this poll
:rolleyes:
How many of your posts have simply been "rolleyes"? :P
20k +
Actually I think many of them disappeared with all the board restarts. :(
Sort of like how I used to use :mellow: a lot more often by itself. :(
They certainly do succ.
Quote from: 11B4V on July 04, 2013, 05:07:08 PM
Ziggy Stardust. Great Riff
Mick Ronson FTW. Mick was a major influence on Randy Rhoads.
1972
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybRGMA1A_8
From a 2002 Paris show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIXmFL9ckGE
2002 David Bowie was much hotter than 1972 David Bowie.
Under Pressure is the only song I know I've heard. I am sure I have heard others but I can't come up with any of them off the top of my head.
Heroes- "We can be heroes, for just one day"
Changes- "Ch-ch-changes" (been in commercials)
Space Oddity- "Ground control to Major Tom"(spoofed in Jimmy Fallon's Tebowie skit that was linked here)
Some of the others you may have heard if you listen to any of the more mellow classic rock stations.
Quote from: merithyn on July 05, 2013, 08:58:21 AM
2002 David Bowie was much hotter than 1972 David Bowie.
He actually looked fairly buff in the I'm Afraid of Americans video. However, I'm sure he'd have to get points off for copying Vanilla Ice's haircut. :lol:
Anyway, I went with Fame. His performance on Soul Train for that song still makes me smile when I think of it.
"Panic in Detroit," of course. ;)
"Station to Station" is, in my opinion, his best work (though the album as a whole isn't one of his better ones. It's obvious that the drugs were *really* starting to take over at that point.) Of the ones on the list I'd pick "Heroes."
For me it would be "Alladin Sane."
Quote from: Darth Wagtaros on July 05, 2013, 06:45:32 AM
How very odd. This isn't like you at all.
It's totally like me. I'm all about making the newbies feel welcome.
Quote from: Caliga on July 05, 2013, 06:14:07 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on July 05, 2013, 03:22:46 AM
Well to be accepted you must kill one of our number. I suggest Yi since he called you out. Also he's probably smaller then the rest of us.
IIRC Yi is not small at all.
Most of you are midgets
Quote from: Caliga on July 05, 2013, 06:14:07 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on July 05, 2013, 03:22:46 AM
Well to be accepted you must kill one of our number. I suggest Yi since he called you out. Also he's probably smaller then the rest of us.
IIRC Yi is not small at all.
Okay, Cal instead. He should be easy to spot. He likes to dress up as a Roman soldier..
It's been years since I've had the time to do that. :(
Quote from: Caliga on July 05, 2013, 03:32:47 PM
It's been years since I've had the time to do that. :(
There's always time to make sexy time special.
Other: All the Young Dudes.
Quote from: Scipio on July 05, 2013, 09:39:17 PM
Other: All the Young Dudes.
Bowie gets credit for writing it, but Mott the Hoople made it famous. Bowie essentially covered it after that.
Quote from: Ideologue on July 05, 2013, 08:01:51 PM
Quote from: garbon on July 04, 2013, 07:46:50 PM
Quote from: Ideologue on July 04, 2013, 07:20:43 PM
Then Five Years
I definitely do not see the appeal of that one.
No? I like it. It's apocalyptic.
It's incredibly dull.
Oh! You Pretty Things is both apocalyptic and fun.
Quote from: 11B4V on July 05, 2013, 10:17:18 PM
Quote from: Scipio on July 05, 2013, 09:39:17 PM
Other: All the Young Dudes.
Bowie gets credit for writing it, but Mott the Hoople made it famous. Bowie essentially covered it after that.
I don't see why that's relevant.
Quote from: garbon on July 05, 2013, 10:21:57 PM
Quote from: 11B4V on July 05, 2013, 10:17:18 PM
Quote from: Scipio on July 05, 2013, 09:39:17 PM
Other: All the Young Dudes.
Bowie gets credit for writing it, but Mott the Hoople made it famous. Bowie essentially covered it after that.
I don't see why that's relevant.
QFT.
Quote from: garbon on July 05, 2013, 10:21:57 PM
Quote from: 11B4V on July 05, 2013, 10:17:18 PM
Quote from: Scipio on July 05, 2013, 09:39:17 PM
Other: All the Young Dudes.
Bowie gets credit for writing it, but Mott the Hoople made it famous. Bowie essentially covered it after that.
I don't see why that's relevant.
I take it as a dig against DB.
Toss up for me between Pressure and Heroes.
Quote from: Savonarola on July 05, 2013, 10:47:33 AM
"Panic in Detroit," of course. ;)
Actually that's one of my faves of that period.
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"Station to Station" is, in my opinion, his best work (though the album as a whole isn't one of his better ones. It's obvious that the drugs were *really* starting to take over at that point.)
Yes. :cool: I've got to agree about the song "Station to Station."
Though I disagree a bit about the album; the fact that he was hitting his high point of excess in both cocaine
and Christianity made for an awesomely weird collection of song.
Fun fact: During the 74/75 Young Americans/Station to Station era, people said Bowie subsisted almost exclusively on a diet of cocaine, milk, and red bell peppers. :brit: There's a grainy video clip on youtube somewhere of him in his dressing room snuffing cocaine from a big sack, with one of those little school-lunch half-pint milk cartons in hand, so I'm inclined to believe it. In the Dick Cavett interview from that era, also online, he comes off pretty, pretty damn wigged out and ill.
Besides "Station to Station" (and that whole album):
"Ashes to Ashes," off Scary Monsters (lots of good ones on that album too -- "Teenage Wildlife," "Scream Like A Baby," "Because You're Young")
"Look Back in Anger," off Lodger (another good album -- "Fantastic Voyage," "Red Sails," and the very funny "Boys Keep Swinging" are all very good)
"Young Americans" is an undisputed classic, and yet another good album (I think I might like "Fascination" a little better than the title track).
The first side of Low is great plus the first song on the second side ("A New Career In A New Town": great highway driving song, like the contemporary Kraftwerk he was cribbing from).
[And the first two Iggy Pop solo albums weren't bad Bowie material either...]
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So my tendency is for mid-late 70s Bowie. Of his earlier stuff:
"John, I'm Only Dancing" is great and deserves honorable mention for the coy, plausibly-deniable bisexual message.
"All The Young Dudes" is a consummate early 70s Bowie song (even though Mott The Hoople performed it better than the later Bowie renditions) and an anthem for that little moment in time that was glam rock.
Others from 1972-73: "Hang Onto Yourself," "Cracked Actor," "The Jean Genie," "Rebel Rebel." Oh and "Panic In Detroit," of course.
Before, and mostly during, the Ziggy Stardust album, he doesn't do much for me. Same holds for after 1980; similarly to "All The Young Dudes," Iggy did "China Girl" so much better the first time around.
Though The Next Day is overall a little weak, I would like to put in an honorable mention for "The Stars (Are Out Tonight)." That's a pretty rad song.
As far as Bowie doing actual covers, the Pixies cover from Heathen, "Cactus," is 1)100% better than the Pixies version and 2)great.
Quote from: Capetan Mihali on July 06, 2013, 12:45:56 AM
"Young Americans" is an undisputed classic, and yet another good album (I think I might like "Fascination" a little better than the title track).
I wish he would have let Luther Vandross sing lead on a couple songs from the album. His song writing is strong and his band is great; but he sounds like a white limey trying to do an O'Jays impression. I still chuckle when I hear his "Sho' nuff" on "Fascination."
Quote from: Ideologue on July 06, 2013, 02:03:50 AM
Though The Next Day is overall a little weak, I would like to put in an honorable mention for "The Stars (Are Out Tonight)." That's a pretty rad song.
Just heard it on the radio and I liked it a lot.