ChangesOneBowie or ChangesTwoBowie

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")