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The Best David Bowie Song

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    #62
    JerryHandbag
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭JerryHandbag


    Big Tone wrote: »
    Great song, great video. Bowie in form.

    God I'd totally forgotten I had the Hours album on cassette, must dig it out. If I recall though, side 1 (incl. this song) was excellent but side 2 was pretty poor


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    #63
    alexdude
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    Memory of a Free Festival

    "The sun machine is going down and we're gonna have a party"


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    #64
    Taz86
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    Agree with Halloween Jack. Teenage Wildlife is a beautiful song. I love Fripp's guitar on it. "A real life adventure worth more than pieces of gold." Beautiful.
    There's too many songs to mention really. Here's another beauty:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYj_Wapsu2k

    Everyone Says Hi. Coolest person ever. Love you David :)


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    #65
    Gillington
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    Lets Dance always gets me signing/dancing!


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    #66
    wow sierra
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    Omnipresence wrote: »
    5 Years....

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

    Intense

    Agree 5 years - by the way that youtube clip is amazing - the hairstyle/clothes of the presenter and guests!!

    Like Rock n roll suicide too http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jg4ekLG9Zo

    Honourable mention for Sorrow toohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHJze5_Gs40


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    #67
    Phony Scott
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    Best Bowie song? Depends on what week it is and what mood your in. :)

    My personal favourite which I return to time and again would be 'All the Madmen'. It's a perfect expression of the battle between creativity and social exclusion. I love this fan-made video, especially the comment the editor left; "the video is pretty sloppy but i'm sick and tired of working on it..." Brilliant. :)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmqOcFYU_4U


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    #68
    purrrfect1
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    Pick just one???

    Impossible.... Bowie is just the best.

    Anyway, here are just a few of my favourites...


    Starman ( my real fave)
    Rebel rebel
    Life on Mars
    Modern Love

    I could go on - but as you all know they are all great.


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    #69
    delbertgrady
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    Lady Grinning Soul.

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    #70
    inforfun
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    Any song of the sound track of Christiane F, wir kinder von Bahnhof Zoo.

    The man had his best period in the mid 70's while in Berlin.

    Seen him many times live, last time here in Dublin in The Point.


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    #71
    cosmic
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    There's an amazing version of Bowie performing Let Me Sleep Beside You at the Beeb. I absolutely love it.

    Would provide a link but I'm in work and can only get onto a handful of sites.


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    #72
    Sugarlumps
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    Cracked Actor.


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    #73
    bullpost
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    Word on a wing
    Station to Station
    Sorrow
    Starman
    Ziggy Stardust
    Drive in Saturday


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    #74
    alandel
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    Under pressure
    5 years
    China Girl
    Rock n Roll Suicide
    Sorrow


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    #75
    Banjara
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    Phony Scott wrote: »
    Best Bowie song? Depends on what week it is and what mood your in. :)

    Couldn't agree more; there is such an extensive range to choose from!!

    My faves (at the moment!):

    Lady Grinning Soul
    The Bewlay Brothers
    Slip Away
    Five Years
    Because You're Young


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    #76
    Can'tseeme
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    Started listening to Bowie again after visiting this thread. I've Bowie 69-74, 74-79, Bowie at the beeb, Best of Bowie, Ziggy and Hunky Dory. What other Bowie albums would people recommend?


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    #77
    ValJester
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    Can'tseeme wrote: »
    Started listening to Bowie again after visiting this thread. I've Bowie 69-74, 74-79, Bowie at the beeb, Best of Bowie, Ziggy and Hunky Dory. What other Bowie albums would people recommend?

    Low,Heroes and Scary Monsters are fairly essential listening.


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    #78
    Dan Dare
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    Station to Station.


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    #79
    Varkov
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    Maybe not the best, but my favourite... "Ashes to Ashes" and "Life on Mars"

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ptc0cYDJgg


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    #80
    poundhound
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    1. "Amsterdam", omitted from the Ziggy Stardust album in favour of Starman.
    2. "Can you hear me" from Young Americans
    3. "Lady Stardust" from Ziggy Stardust
    4. "Wild is the Wind" from Station to Station
    5. "Five Years" from Ziggy Stardust


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    #81
    markesmith
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    Dan Dare wrote: »
    Station to Station.

    Seconded. Over 10 minutes of pure class.

    Honorable mention to 'Beauty and the Beast' and 'Wild is the Wind' for croonage value. The instrumentals on Low are brilliant as well, but props has to go to Eno for at least 50% of that.

    Always had a soft spot for 'Absolute Beginners' too.


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    #82
    allydylan
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    Bewlay Brothers


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    #83
    BOSTIK
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    “Time Will Crawl” is a great song from an otherwise poor album, got an excellent alternative version of it on a free CD in a newspaper a few years ago. Always liked “This Is Not America” too.


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    #84
    FloatingVoter
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    ....its not the side effects of the cocaine, I'm thinking that it must be love

    Station To Station

    Cat People gets an honourable mention (used to great effect in Inglourious Basterds).

    Young Americans for vocal acrobatics.


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    #85
    Oh_Noes
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    Anyone else like the alternative version of "candidate" that was on the CD re-issue of Diamond Dogs?

    That one has always stuck with me, the lazy beat and the exhausted tone. I love it :).

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBwDGiGwzE0


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    #86
    RC88
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    anything from mick ronson era bowie is class

    best song has to be Starman

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?hl=en&v=X5iOiLX5ppA&gl=US


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    #87
    Washington Irving
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    Suffragette City would be my favourite the moment
    Quicksand, Changes, Ziggy Stardust, Rebel Rebel and Oh! You pretty things would be my top 5. Honorable mentions to The Bewley Brothers, Fill your heart and Andy Warhol


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    #88
    nlgbbbblth
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    The first LP is much underrated - great slice of swinging London.


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    #89
    neil_18_
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    Mine would be 5 years and rock n roll suicide


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    #90
    GichinDai
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    Let me sleep beside you.


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    #91
    duiggers
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    Mines ashes to ashes, great video to it aswell


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