Wild Is the wind

There are far to many great songs, but, if i have too.....
"Teenage Wildlife"

Classic from an underrated album

Five Years -- "My brain hurt like a warehouse, it had no room to spare
I had to cram so many things to store everything in there
And all the fat-skinny people, and all the tall-short people
And all the nobody people, and all the somebody people
I never thought Id need so many people"

Can't beat those lyrics, Arcade Fire live collaboration also good.

Love his duet with Trent Reznor on 'Hurt' too.

Oh! You Pretty Things

'Rock'n'Roll Suicide', for the way it builds up to its messianic, community-of-freaks-gathering climax:

Just turn on with me and you're not alone
Let's turn on with me and you're not alone (wonderful)
Gimme your hands cause you're wonderful (wonderful)
Gimme your hands cause you're wonderful (wonderful)
Oh gimme your hands.

***MOONAGE DAYDREAM***


I love that song so much that I did Bowie art and made a video!!

My art gallery: http://bowiebimbo.deviantart.com/

My video: http://video.search.yahoo.com/video/play?p=Moonage+Daydream&ei=UTF-8&fr=my-myy&tnr=21&vid=2335687
BTW, might want to be in a semi altered state of mind or consciousness to enjoy this to the fullest potential***wink***

Life on Mars (and not just because of the great tv show that adopted the bowie classic) was tight between that and the man who sold the world but life on Mars is just so fantastic lyrically and with its delivery that its my number 1 bowie track

Heroes.
Fripp, Eno, Visconti and Bowie were touched by God when they created this.

Life On Mars

social observation at its best.

blew my mind

Great Song, great lyrics. David Bowie was the only posters I had on my bedroom wall when I was a teenager. I'm sure my mum thought I was gay.
Prob old news to Bowie fans, but the link below is David singing 5 years on Youtube, taken from The Old Grey Whistle Test and re-shown on Top Ofthe Pops 2.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=louXPUW7tHU

BTW, great artwork and great video Bowiebimbo. :>}}

Tony

Not of the best of men , but ours

Life on Mars.... bombastic and small at the same time.
There are a dozen of best songs, but this is my fav.

Fashion.

Love the whole Berlin/Fripp period.
Sound is unique, even today.

For years my turntable could not handle selecting the last song on an album, so every time I wanted to listen, I had to sit through The Jean Genie over and over and over.

my all time fave is "Lady "grinning Soul"-masterpiece ,a real gem,timeless classic

Jeez what a hard one anything from the early 70's is just brilliant. Not so keen on his latter stuff but anything with him and the platium spider Mick ronson was is so far ahead of it's time. But for me Life on Mars just about comes out on top.

very futuristic/adventurous and the album is fantastic
not one duff track on it superb

strong competition from Cracked Actor and Heroes but the best track from his best LP has got to win. Up there with the best guitar riffs ever committeed to record, and for once Mr Bowie actually is properly funky

One of the first Bowie songs I bought and loved - still reminds me of my innocent youth.

One of the first Bowie songs I bought and loved - still reminds me of my innocent youth.

It's difficult to come up with just one favourite, because there are so many of Bowie's tunes that I dearly love. But, I would have to say that "The Man Who Sold the World" is the one...

Sweet Thing/Candidate/Sweet Thing, the most eerily gorgeous piece of music ever recorded. ( and it is one song!)

Wonderful song, I get a tear in my eye ehenever I hear it during Christianne F

With a back catalog to rival most (including his Bobness) what a DAMN hard decision.

Almost anything off Hunky, Ziggy or Aladdin has to be in with a shot.

I want to say Cracked Actor or Panic in Detroit or Young Americans. Or Time or Golden Years or 8 Line Poem for Goodness sake!.

But it all seems to come back to that one that starts with "a god-awful small affair" and finishes up with the "lawman, beating up the wrong guy". What's it called again?? Oh yeah - Life on Mars - gets me every time!

If we don't count the amazing duet with the mighty Queen Under Pressure, then I have to say my fave is the very underrated QUEEN BITCH, because it's just so damn glam you can't resist learning the words and sing it when you had a drink or two.

Lets Dance-- no doubt about it

Queen Bitch without a doubt is the best Bowie track - what a riff!

Loads of contenders but Life on Mars is my number 1

The first song from him that I properly heard. My first thought was "yess, this is the kind of music I've been looking for!". Three years, still going strong <3

Jimmy Moncrieff

Haddington.

So many to choose from but it has to be ......

MOONAGE DAYDREAM

Archetypical Bowie song. From the blistering in your face intro to the spaced out/phased out guitar that brings the song to a climax. Awe inspiring, and the bit in the middle aint too bad either. Brings back particular memories of youthful parties, air guitaring, hazy crazy cosmic jive!!

Time - So theatrical. So Epic. ... like 'Life On Mars', but played less often. ...I'm sure the guitars in this song inspired Brian May's whole repertoire.

Jon S.

Life on Mars - Masterpiece

Nostalgia plays a part in my choice as this was the first Bowie track I heard. Absolute classic.

Although no longer my favourite Bowie track this will hold a special place because this is the one that did it for me as a 14 year old trying to find my place in life....aaah 1972...do the math.. I don't care.
I Probably don't have a favourite..so many.. but Lady Grinning Soul I find one of the most bewildering underated..shouldv'e been a Bond theme.

Station To Station

Guarenteed to get you up out of bed and bopping along in uder 10 min, no matter how severe the handover.

Brilliant!

My favourite Bowie track has to be 'Art Decade' from his masterpiece (OK, MY favourite of his several masterpieces) 'Low'...

But, as that's an instrumental, if you also want words and push me, it would be 'Queen Bitch' (from 'Hunky Dory'), which I first encountered as the 'B'-side to 'Rebel Rebel in 1974...

However, 'Sweet Thing' from 'Diamond Dogs' is beautiful...

And his rendering of 'Wild Is The Wind' sublime...

I'd better stop lol...

Sound & Vision - after getting into Ziggy retrospectively as a teenager in mid 70's, and then through the other albums, Sound & Vision was the first song I heard contemporaneously, and it sounded odd (not pop!) and yet fascinating. I am used to it now, but still get a thrill from the opening onwards.
David

It has to be Suffragette City... can't help but go "yeah" when "Ohhh, wham bam thank you maam!" kicks in...

Lady Stardust - I've read that Bowie had Marc Bolan in mind when he wrote this song. Lovely opening chords, one of David's most elegant melodies and a true sense of unrequited longing in the lyrics make this a very emotional song for me. RIP, Marc.

this song has been used by so many adverts,sports teams, fundraisers...the list is endless.its also the song i tend to belt out in the house(much to the annoyance of my family) when i've had a few ;p

Both parts - just as good as each other! From the album that defined sixth year at school.

...the last show of the tour, but, it's the last show that we'll ever play when there's a f***ing tube strike on !

After that marvelous quote during the Hammersmith 2 oct 02 gig, the band started Moonage Daydream.

What can I say ? The man is a genius and funny too.

As it's quite impossible to pick only 1 fav song, I'll pick Moonage Daydream for the above reason.

Everytime I thought I hot it made the taste was not so sweet, sums up modern life and and this faker has moved to Turkey to chill

So many to choose from.
Could have been almost anything from Hunky Dory or Ziggy,
but the one I probably still listen to most is this one from Space Oddity. Mesmerising

Rock 'n' Roll Suicide

It's so haunting, it's a classic tune

The one track for a slow dance at tiffanys at the end of the night - fantastic track from a genius, play that sax !

Wild-eyed Boy from Freecloud. Word.

closely followed by Ashes To Ashes

It's been difficult to choose only one - I have about 10 really favourite ones!

If you're really a Bowie fan, you realize this is simply an impossible task, but, I suppose, one should try:

Early Bowie: Five Years, no... Moonage Daydream, no... Ziggy Stardust, no... Oh heck, Suffragette City.

Early-Mid Bowie: Heroes (Fashion?)

Eighties Bowie: Let's Dance

Late Bowie: Sunday (Slip Away?)

Best Cover by Bowie: Wild is the Wind (or is it Across the Universe?)

Best Cover of Bowie: "All the Young Dudes" by Mott the Hoople -- though it was writen for them, so not exactly a cover. (Joe Jackson's recent covers of Bowie tunes while on tour have been really nice too - epecially his cover of Scary Monsters on his current tour.)

Yes, I cheated by using categories, but can anyone (other than Keith Richards, who has less talent in his whole body than Bowie does in his left pinkie fingernail) really say they have a single Bowie fav?

The fractured lyrics of 'Breaking Glass'convey so well the state of mind Bowie was in during his cocaine fuelled time in L.A. And despite abandoning the narrative song writing used up to Station to Station, the song is still brilliant. The German inspired music was a great way of updating the more soulful sound he had been using and was a great mix of American and European styles. Even at just 1.59 I think it's such a powerful song and completely innovative even today.

I agree with everyone that it is terribly difficult to pick just one song; however, that is the rule so my pick is “Slip Away.” It is one of the best songs from the best of his more recent albums.

Dark, desperate and very sexual.