ChangesOneBowie or ChangesTwoBowie

”Starman” was a single, obviously, and a hit, even in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starman_(song)

xxp

ah I misread the Wiki page, yes Starman was a single

a strong suspicion that when it switches to poll results the images will vanish and we will have no idea what happened.

i hope not! i think the images should carry through to the results. of course, there is a 99.2% chance that imgur will someday be bought out by GloboCorp and tossed in the dustbin with tinypic and photobucket, so we can't completely rule out the possibility of broken image links

Voted ‘One’. Flows really well despite being roughly in chronological order.

It totally does, but I'm not sure what the 'despite' is doing here. Going chronologically from freakfolk to glam rock to plastic soul is what makes it flow. Changestwo seems much more of a hodgepodge to me. I'm in the 'One' camp here.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Karl Malone will understand this...Unfolded exactly like a baseball HOF vote: all the more esoteric, sabermetric voters declare early, the stodgier, more predictable votes (and I voted for ChangesOne myself) come in at the end.

Two is quite interesting in the hodgepodge-iness of the tracklisting isn't it! I'd think I'd reach for that presently but mainly because only "Starman" is prominent on rock radio here while I've been passively exposed to most of One for my entire life. And "Aladdin Sane", "1984" and "Wild Is The Wind" are amongst slightly deeper cuts I'd have pressed for myself if consulted.

hear ye, let the record dee-clare, just in case the popular image hosting Imgur happens to get bought out by GloboCorp and then shut down, the final results were:

CHANGESoneBOWIE: 27
CHANGEStwoBOWIE: 21

all 48 of the ilxors left on the cursed island voted in this poll, and let it be remembered that no one was wrong

TWO is the one i'd currently go for (and the one i voted for) just because i haven't played the crap out of every song to the degree that i have the songs on ONE.

i think Two is a weird tracklist to me because I mentally have this wall between the pop-rock-glam stuff thru 75 and the weirder wilder more dissonant stuff that follows, and it feels soooo weird to have those early-70s cuts (awesome songs tho they are!) alongside fucking "sound and vision" and "ashes to ashes." I mean it definitely does something interesting to juxtapose them! same as the ilx bowie poll results playlist does. just as a record one could buy and put on, my mind really rejects it.

(this is not like, a real problem with it.... there are Beatles comps that run into something similar to this - Past Masters e.g., and i've never had a problem with that. maybe it's cause i got to know the Berlin and Berlin-adjacent material so much later in life.)

got a theory that there's no such thing as a bad bowie compilation, even this poor fucked up thing - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Collection_(David_Bowie_album)

whoops, broken link! this one works: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Collection_(David_Bowie_album)

the theory seems to work! that's a weird collection, but Cracked Actor, Width of a Circle, and Always Crashing in the Same Car are both some of my favorite Bowie songs, album tracks or otherwise, and Teenage Wildlife is like the reverso world's version of Heroes

thanks for the link fix!

yeah & i find hearing those lesser album tracks out of context can often provide new insights/pleasure into songs i'd kind of written off (or had just become part of the furniture)

(which i suppose is a long-winded way of agreeing with "it definitely does something interesting to juxtapose them")