"She's a total blam-blam!"
― wolf cola, everyone (thewufs), Thursday, 8 March 2012 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
zomg More excited for this top 10 than usual
― billstevejim, Thursday, 8 March 2012 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
Don't you know, man, The South's Gonna Rise Again! xp to thewufs
― Carlos Pollomar (WmC), Thursday, 8 March 2012 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
"Suffragette City" is such a banger
― some dude, Thursday, 8 March 2012 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
This poll has got me thinking whether Bowie might have been better served by never having a best-of at all. The distinction between canon and deep cut seems more and more arbitrary.
Agreed that the best-ofs paint a poor picture, but isn't that because there's a huge distinction between canon and deep cuts? My Bowie education in my formative years came solely from Radio 1, they played more than you seem to get with us rock radio but I still had the idea it was one seamless wedge of pop, from Space Oddity thru Ziggy, Changes, Jean Genie, Rebel Rebel, Golden Years, Sound and Vision, Heroes, Ashes to Ashes, Let's Dance. i knew Ziggy the album had deeper prog tendencies but the Berlin period was a complete unknown to me.
― ledge, Thursday, 8 March 2012 16:58 (twelve years ago) link
Suffragette City is fabulous
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 8 March 2012 16:58 (twelve years ago) link
XP - And what exactly would "the usual dumb reasons" be?
http://www.flagline.com/images/shirts/rebel.jpghttp://www.flagline.com/images/shirts/rebel.jpg
― pplains, Thursday, 8 March 2012 16:58 (twelve years ago) link
zchepp-ychepp
You know this is how Ewoks swear, right?
― c'est ne pas un car wash (snoball), Thursday, 8 March 2012 16:58 (twelve years ago) link
Ahh, I get it - I forgot what "rebel" still means to some people down there.
― wolf cola, everyone (thewufs), Thursday, 8 March 2012 16:58 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, I didn't mean that only women liked it, just that it has been a disproportionate favorite among my female friends.
Suffragette City is a great karaoke song!! I love his sleazy rock voice on both of these songs.
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Thursday, 8 March 2012 16:59 (twelve years ago) link
Those photos are broken on my browser - a link maybe?
― wolf cola, everyone (thewufs), Thursday, 8 March 2012 16:59 (twelve years ago) link
Then again I can guess what they're depicting
― wolf cola, everyone (thewufs), Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:00 (twelve years ago) link
Bowie definitely one of those artists who I kept finding new stuff by (I think I've about covered everything by now.)
I knew about "Let's Dance" and "Ziggy Stardust", but songs like "Rebel Rebel" and "Suffragette City" were ones that I had heard all my life and then one day discovered that, wait, that's David Bowie too?
― pplains, Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:00 (twelve years ago) link
Always thought "Suffragette" was by Sweet or somebody.
― pplains, Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:01 (twelve years ago) link
re the deep cuts vs hits thing; in the Pegg book he posits the notion that Drive In Saturday isn't better known despite being a massivge hit, because it wasn't on ChangesOneBowie, the first 70s Best Of which *everyone* had.
― piscesx, Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:01 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, that's what I'm thinking of.
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:02 (twelve years ago) link
The dog off Champion the Wonder Horse amirite?
― Feebs K-Tel (NickB), Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:02 (twelve years ago) link
Interesting. For many years the rockist consensus was that compilations best served him.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:03 (twelve years ago) link
as far as AOR radio play "Suffragette City" and "Modern Love" got lots of love in the early nineties on mine.
Very interested for the rundown now of the top 8 now! Did not have "Rebel Rebel" or "Suffragette City" on my ballot. I guess I knew they had to be coming, but thought they might have placed in the 15-30 range or something, not top 10. Fun songs, just not "great" to me (riff for RR aside, which is total classic)
― grandavis, Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:05 (twelve years ago) link
I guess Cygnet Committee is out eh? Cmon Moonage Daydream...
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:07 (twelve years ago) link
Moonage Daydream!
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:07 (twelve years ago) link
I've given up hope that any of my The Man Who Sold The World picks will make it.
― we can be gyros just for one day (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:08 (twelve years ago) link
Great band performance on Suffragette City, and beautifully mixed on the record. Obv the opening power chords are amazing and the piano part throughout is great "air piano" material but there's also those whoosing sax+(?)moog bits going on underneath.
― Jeff W, Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:08 (twelve years ago) link
It might have presented his body of work more accurately or whatever, but as piscesx notes, Changesonebowie was huge. Big gateway for me into his catalog.
― Carlos Pollomar (WmC), Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:08 (twelve years ago) link
*whoosh-ing
Changesonebowie was huge. Big gateway for me into his catalog
Same here. In fact, i was the one who voted for it in the albums ballot for that reason.
― Jeff W, Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:10 (twelve years ago) link
there is no room anymore for Little Drummer Boy and DJ.
― gospodin simmel, Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:10 (twelve years ago) link
It wasn't the first record of his that I bought, but after Ziggy, Heroes and Stage, I thought "hmmm, what next? I need guidance." and bought Changesone.
― Carlos Pollomar (WmC), Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:12 (twelve years ago) link
DJ *must* make it
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:13 (twelve years ago) link
wow, who knew what a momentous thing it was at the time that I bought changestwo instead of changesone because I liked the cover better, not really knowing any of the songs.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:13 (twelve years ago) link
lol i voted for "little drummer boy"
― some dude, Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
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― horseshoe, Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
should have voted :(
8. "Moonage Daydream" (from The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars) - 729 points/31 votes/3 first-place votes
Album: http://youtu.be/dE4Mu_cZcIAHammersmith Odeon, 1973: http://youtu.be/5g6--QoPsDM
― Carlos Pollomar (WmC), Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:15 (twelve years ago) link
THE CHURCH OF MAN-LOVE
or
THE CHURCH OF MAN, LOVE
??
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:15 (twelve years ago) link
yes
Cool, knew this would make it
― grandavis, Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:16 (twelve years ago) link
aw, my number one. most bonkers love song ever.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:17 (twelve years ago) link
The 1990 changesbowie was big for me - i had tapes of two or three of the 70s albums, but they never wholly took – don't necessarily inspire love-at-first-hearing if you have a sweet tooth & don't lean glam. Hit-after-hit gave me more enthusiasm & meant I put a bit more into the albums, looked around, found 'my' bowie.
― woof, Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:17 (twelve years ago) link
I'M AN ALLIGATOR!
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:19 (twelve years ago) link
Never in doubt. Great song.
― Jeff W, Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:19 (twelve years ago) link
Another one of those that I wished I'd had room for on my ballot. Love this song.
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:20 (twelve years ago) link
Freak out! Far out!
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:21 (twelve years ago) link
I imagine that soon we will start getting some big spikes in points/first place votes? Has been a slow and steady rise so far.
― grandavis, Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:21 (twelve years ago) link
i dunno, there's not too much consensus on bowie is there
― ciderpress, Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:23 (twelve years ago) link
I have a list of 8 songs left I thought would place... guessing either Golden Years or DJ aren't gonna place.
― smash williams, Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
That instrumental break!
― Feebs K-Tel (NickB), Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
Hmmm, guess not, just seems to be a pattern in other polls maybe? At some point there are songs that almost everyone places on a 20 song ballot? Maybe not, would be cool if that does not happen.
I hope "Golden Years" does not steal a spot from something else I voted for.
― grandavis, Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
I'm really not expecting 'Red Sails' to place at this point.
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:26 (twelve years ago) link