Bowie: Your favourite songs?

[RFUS]

My top 5 would probably be something like:

1.) Moonage Daydream
2.) Under Pressure
3.) Ziggy Stardust
4.) Starman
5.) Let's Dance




Bowie must have been amazing to have grown up with. As a young 'un, I'm obviously a retrospective listener, but I find his constant innovation and change in styles to be endlessly fascinating. Must have been cool to have grown up in the 70s/80s, in this respect.




P.S. I loved his cameo on Extras too, haha.

 

[heatmeiser]

My mum's obsessed with Bowie so I've been force fed him from birth. I'm not a fan of the later 80s > Bowie to be honest. Prefer the very early, curly mop stuff, just him and an acoustic guitar.

My favourite has always been 'Wild is the Wind'. Beautiful song - recently heard a cover of it by Nina Simone, that was pretty spectacular too.

 

[RFUS]

My mum's obsessed with Bowie so I've been force fed him from birth. I'm not a fan of the later 80s > Bowie to be honest. Prefer the very early, curly mop stuff, just him and an acoustic guitar.

My favourite has always been 'Wild is the Wind'. Beautiful song - recently heard a cover of it by Nina Simone, that was pretty spectacular too.

I must say I prefer his 70s stuff too; The Man Who Sold the world - Station to Station, kind of era. But I admire his shifting styles and perpetual innovation. It's not something many can boast.

 

[teppic]

Andy Warhol. Superb.

 

[heatmeiser]

Yeah he certainly knows when he needs to change, a genuine innovator and not some poxy industry whore phoney like Madonna or G*ga.

I 'borrowed' this album from my mum years ago. She hasn't asked for it back yet, don't think she's even got a record player any more to be honest. She went to see him in the 60s. He was just sat on the floor and the audience (and I don't think there were very many) just sat in a circle around him. Bloody hippies.

Very jealous though.

 

[little curly alan ball]

My top 5 would probably be something like:

1.) Moonage Daydream
2.) Under Pressure
3.) Ziggy Stardust
4.) Starman
5.) Let's Dance




Bowie must have been amazing to have grown up with. As a young 'un, I'm obviously a retrospective listener, but I find his constant innovation and change in styles to be endlessly fascinating. Must have been cool to have grown up in the 70s/80s, in this respect.




P.S. I loved his cameo on Extras too, haha.

Lady Stardust . Wild is the Wind .

Most of Hunky Dory . Much of Aladdin Sane and nearly all of K. West .

Young Americans / Heroes / Diamond Dogs / David Live , also had their moments .

 

[Ezekiel]

liked his 'this is not america' soundtrack song. not my favorite of his but....

 

[spikeman]

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I just got a Best of Bowie cd.

 

[little curly alan ball]

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I just got a Best of Bowie cd.

Ticks , Boy's , Educational , box ,....

 

[Mutzo Nutzo]

Loved lets Dance....saw him in Berlin in 87 at the Reichstag with New Model Army supporting him - it was amazing, and it sparked a riot in East Berlin as they could hear the music but couldn't see anything.

Happy memories

 

[johnnydawg68]

I'm very much a fan of Ziggy Stardust, Hunky Dory, and Young Americans.

My top:

1) Queen Bitch
2) Sufragette City
3) Changes
4) Ziggy Stardust (although I actually prefer the Bauhaus version better)
5) Young Americans

If I considered "Under Pressure" to be a Bowie song it would be on this list, but it's a Queen Song with Bowie adding vocals so I left it off.

The thing about Bowie is he's considered this "avant garde" artist, but many of his song structures are very traditional.

 

[RFUS]

I'm very much a fan of Ziggy Stardust, Hunky Dory, and Young Americans.

My top:

1) Queen Bitch
2) Sufragette City
3) Changes
4) Ziggy Stardust (although I actually prefer the Bauhaus version better)
5) Young Americans

If I considered "Under Pressure" to be a Bowie song it would be on this list, but it's a Queen Song with Bowie adding vocals so I left it off.

The thing about Bowie is he's considered this "avant garde" artist, but many of his song structures are very traditional.

He's on it, that's good enough for me. If I took that out of my top 5, then I'd probably have The Man Who Sold the World instead (although I prefer Nirvana's MTV unplugged cover).

 

[Clint Planet]

Sound and Vision
Young Americans
Ashes to Ashes
Sweet thing / Candidate / Sweet Thing
"Heroes"


Aladdin Sane is my current favourite album, though.

 

[Clint Planet]

My favourite has always been 'Wild is the Wind'. Beautiful song - recently heard a cover of it by Nina Simone, that was pretty spectacular too.

It's not a Bowie song. Simone recorded it ten years before Bowie and even she was covering a asong that was nearly a decade old and originally done by Johnny Mathis. The late great Billy McKenzie does another stunning version, incidentally.

 

[heatmeiser]

It's not a Bowie song. Simone recorded it ten years before Bowie and even she was covering a asong that was nearly a decade old and originally done by Johnny Mathis. The late great Billy McKenzie does another stunning version, incidentally.

Well I never knew that. I'll have to track that down too.

I think I was played Rubber Band a lot while in utero so I'd have to add that to any list too.