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Kazuo

Laughing Gnome always just puts me in mind of this.

regmcfly

Yeah, I'm with Kaz, it was already nonsense at that point.

Modern Love tho.

g.man

Aye, Modern Love is a banger.

g.man

Listening to that and Absolute Beginners at the mo, and I'm struck by the description of Don Weller's saxophone solo from Beginners on Wikipedia...

"perhaps the best" saxophone solo in a Bowie song. They characterised it as "the sound of one man trying to violently expel his innards through the bell of his instrument" and "one of the most heartbreaking things put to record".

NAILED IT.

g.man

...and if you've only ever heard the single version with the criminal fade-out, then you owe it to yourself to listen to the full eight minute version...

OH MY DAYS!

cockbeard

Modern Love, what a tune, and another of my favourite covers, shame the original video isn't available anymore

regmcfly

I'm happy to put weight behind modern love if there's a force

The Daddy

I’m having The Man Who Sold the World cos I fucking love it.

regmcfly

Can we have Michael Bolton next

LarryDavid

Similarly, I'd have The Bewlay Brothers just because I like it. I've no idea if the critical consensus is thumbs up or thumbs down on that song.

Honourable mentions: Golden Years, Queen Bitch, Rebel Rebel, Teenage Wildlife, Always Crashing In The Same Car, John I'm Only Dancing, Be My Wife and his hair circa Station to Station/Low.

JMW

Jeez, David Bowie is hard. It won't win, but I'll throw in Little Wonder because it was from a period where he was maybe 'out of fashion', but showed that he could still rock.

poprock

I’m heartened to see so much love for Little Wonder. Genuinely felt like I was the only person who rated it when it came out. The traditional Bowie fans weren’t into his drum’n’bass excursion and Earthling was slated by much of the music press. The alternative kids all picked I’m Afraid of Americans as the standout from the album, and poor Little Wonder got kind of left out in the rain.

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regmcfly wrote:

ChopperByrne wrote:

Little Wonder is my favourite Bowie song.

Shout out to that era. Great song. Since it doesn't seem like many others are going to go past 1992 odd, I'll put this in alongside my pick of Afraid of Americans as a later era banger.

Earthling is a fucking brilliant album. Brilliant from start to finish.

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Facewon

As I came on board hard with BTWN, I went on a run of getting all of Bowie up until around Reality. Back when I actually paid cash money for cds and would spend $80 plus a month.

Little wonder is a cracker.

Gonna do Earthling, and a couple of early albums today. Finish with Blackstar.

LivDiv

This is looking to be another inconclusive round, although I'm gonna let it go on for a good while longer anyway.

I'm thinking rather than just let it be undecided I might round up 3 to 5 solid contenders after another week and then have a poll on just those tracks. Thoughts?

Diluted Dante

The more Bowie the better.

Diluted Dante

For reference I've narrowed down my shortlist to only 2 hours.

Facewon

Great idea liv, the duke deserves it. (production still meh though.)

Diluted Dante

Some of us spent years listening to mp3's at 96Kbps Face, your FLAC is not for us.

regmcfly

poprock wrote:

I’m heartened to see so much love for Little Wonder. Genuinely felt like I was the only person who rated it when it came out. The traditional Bowie fans weren’t into his drum’n’bass excursion and Earthling was slated by much of the music press. The alternative kids all picked I’m Afraid of Americans as the standout from the album, and poor Little Wonder got kind of left out in the rain.

You subtweeting H here

poprock

Typical emo lad, thinks it’s all about him.

poprock

(I’M KIDDING H.)

Gremill

Like I said before, I'm not Bowie superfan so I've mainly stuck to the classics but I've just started listening to Earthling for the first time ever and holy shit it's amazing. First two tracks are superb.

regmcfly

If little wonder wins this it'll be the best outcome

Brooks

Dave sucked after Let's Dance. This remains canon.

Gremill

Brooks wrote:

Dave sucked after Let's Dance. This remains canon.

You'll get fired out of a canon, ya heathen. Even if you don't like stuff generally after that, Blackstar is a classic.

Gremill

regmcfly wrote:

If little wonder wins this it'll be the best outcome

It's great, but I actually prefer at this point both Looking For Satellites and Seven Years in Tibet.

The Daddy

I watched Labyrinth today with the boy. What a class film that is.

LivDiv

I adore Labyrinth.
Magic Dance sits higher on my Bowie list than is really warranted.
Both because of Labyrinth and because there was a radio 1 show about ten years ago that I loved and the DJ used the instrumental as his background music to the chatter.

RedDave2

I think my three suggestions have all been mentioned but what the hell.

Like a lot of people I have a lot of love for Earthling and Little Wonder. Oddly, despite knowing a lot about Bowie it was this single and the album that actually got me into him. A thumping good track.

Once I started to delve deep, the next track that really struck me was Ziggy Stardust. Big and Bombastic, it's an old school track that stands the test of time. Also one of the few Bowie songs I regularly play on the old guitar. The main riff is lovely and feels great either coming from an amp or a big booming accoustic.

Last one is Ashes to Ashes. I think this might be his best single and its iconic as hell. I dont think you can get pop songs like this into the charts anymore.

There are loads of other great tunes but I think if I was to give a top song to someone to turn them onto Bowie, it would be one of the above. And if I had to narrow it further, Ashes to Ashes.

It's also worth saying, this is the best thing on youtube featuring Bowie

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