What's the best track on Ziggy Stardust

Well, no disregard to you here, but wouldn't DBowie hate being described thus?

He has become older and settled down. If he still wanted to be "cutting edge" he would never have made "Heathen" nor "Reality".

I had a dream a few nights ago that Bowie wrote a book called "Women are from Venus, Spiders are from Mars."

He has become older and settled down. If he still wanted to be "cutting edge" he would never have made "Heathen" nor "Reality".

I'll rep for Heathen, which I think is fantastic. I never got into Reality half as much, but the tour was fucking great.

I loved Heathen.

these results are soooo mental...if i had lurked on this page i wdve definitely voted starman...

bimble is otm though on the Five Years/1977 connection...1977: the year of the Sex Pistols, Eraserhead and Two Sevens Clash...

I'm totally on Mayan Deathwatch Guard Duty now....

Phew, Ziggy not coming back after all. http://www.nme.com/news/david-bowie/42307

"it's time for the annual Coachella denial" : http://www.davidbowie.com/news/index.php?id=20090127

Check those '73-'76 photos by Geoff MacCormack that are linked below the above news item on bowie's site. Fantastic pics.

Those are great. What was he doing in the Soviet Union in 1973?

challopsette city:

"it ain't easy" = as good or better than everything on ziggy stardust, except maybe "suffragette city", "soul love" and "moonage daydream"

the production on this album is quite irritating. that said, "Starman."

really i think it sounds great.

i would have voted suffragette city cuz that song is super exciting.

yeah, the production was great. maybe the best thing about it?

it's visconti right? that dude is pretty much golden as far as i know

Ken Scott and Bowie wasn't it?

Bing Sings and Walt Disnae

Do ye Ken Scott and Bowie? Hoots!

like someone said above, I feel like it sounds too thin. maybe brittle is a good word for it. somehow i find it tiring on the ears, but not because of the songwriting.

an a wee doch an doris afair ye gang

How did "It Ain't Easy" not get one single vote.

It's not the best song on the record, but damn, The White Stripes have based their whole career from that one song.

it is weird as hell that no-one voted for 'it ain't easy,' but i really like the results in this poll. the top three are really obviously the top three songs on the album, but only by a hair's breadth, you know? i would have put 'five years' at #2 but that's only because i fucking LOVE that song.

yeah man. this album. i know like, low/lodger/hunky dory are probably the best bowie albums, but this is absolutely my fave. what i don't get is where the hell has it been all my life. ultra-hip sf concept-rock SPEAKS to me, man.

it ain't easy is a real zero, marc...think of the songs he left off!

i'm not terribly surprised that it got no votes, but i am always surprised that people don't like it - or tend to be rather indifferent. i personally think Bowie does something really special with it.

here's the original(?); starts about a minute in
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFWsZHaQ2Sc

Mitch Ryder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlWEAqZS1Sc

Three Dog Night
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LEuVgmS71c

Raconteurs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ElJXtn3CGk&feature=related

It's not the best song on the record, but damn, The White Stripes have based their whole career from that one song.

Double P otm

Hang on to Yourself 2

:-(

"Arnold Corns" version of Hang On is better than the lp version.

^^Ditto. "Hang on to Yourself" is incredible; it's the song I always play for my middle-school students on DB's birthday.

Perhaps the most appropriate thread -- sadly, Spiders bassist Trevor Bolder has lost his battle with cancer:

http://www.classicrockmagazine.com/news/trevor-bolder-dead-at-62/

R.I.P...he had sideburns...

R.I.P.

.... these poll results are nonsense btw. Lady Stardust was robbed.

Was wondering which was the most appropriate thread. RIP

Aw. Fuck cancer. RIP, awesome sidey-spidey-man.

RIP Trev. Only one Spider left now :(

looking at results and reading thread with star man in mind, why people didnt vote for it, etc is a p meat summation of ilm and why it is awful

neat ffs neat

david appreciates your support

-_-

Did I miss the part where people talked about not voting for "Starman?" Like one guy says he didn't because other people would. Personally think it's kind of a corny song, melodically speaking.

Rock n roll suicide should have been the clear winner here.

the Lady was kinda robbed.

yeah that would have been my second choice. best opening verse for sure.

when i was first getting into music like 30 years ago, it seemed like this was the canonical david bowie album, the one that showed up on all the lists etc. now it feels like there isn't really a canonical best bowie album, like everyone has their personal favorites. am i wrong? or is this still generally considered the big bowie album/the one you tell people to start with/etc?

it's a fun album but if personally i'm in a bowie mood it's rarely the one i put on

That's about right. Ziggy was more readily available in the late '80s, I guess?

I recognize it as an objectively spectacular, great album - but subjectively, there are loads of Bowie albums which speak to me way more & I'm much more prone to want to listen to.

OTM. Aladdin Sane = best glam-era Bowie for me, but Ziggy makes/made sense as the consensus classic. Would have voted "Soul Love" here...

back when it was important to define bowie as a rock musician first and foremost, it made sense that this was the consensus pick

^^^ this

Low, Heroes, Lodger were reissued in 1983 but were out of print iirc by the time Ziggy started appearing in Rolling Stone lists.