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Best Bowie songs that wouldn't be on a Best of?

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by alcxxk

What are your favourite David Bowie songs that aren't these:
1. "The Jean Genie" – 4:08
2. "Space Oddity" – 5:15
3. "Starman" – 4:18
4. "Ziggy Stardust" – 3:16
5. "John, I’m Only Dancing" (Sax version) – 2:42
6. "Rebel Rebel" – 4:30
7. "Let's Spend the Night Together" – 3:07
8. "Suffragette City" – 3:27
9. "Oh! You Pretty Things" – 3:14
10. "Velvet Goldmine" – 3:11
11. "Drive-In Saturday" – 4:29
12. "Diamond Dogs" – 6:05
13. "Changes" – 3:34
14. "Sorrow" – 2:55
15. "The Prettiest Star" (Bolan stereo version) – 3:14
16. "Life on Mars?" – 3:52
17. "Aladdin Sane" – 5:10
18. "The Man Who Sold the World" – 3:56
19. "Rock 'n' Roll Suicide" – 3:00
20. "All the Young Dudes" – 4:11

or these

1. "Sound and Vision" – 3:02
2. "Golden Years (Single edit)" – 3:28
3. "Fame" (Bowie, Lennon, Alomar) – 4:13
4. "Young Americans (Single version)" – 3:12
5. "John, I'm Only Dancing (Again)" – 6:59
6. "Can You Hear Me?" – 5:05
7. "Wild Is the Wind" (Tiompkin, Washington) – 5:59
8. "Knock on Wood (Live)" (Cropper, Floyd) – 2:58
9. "TVC 15 (Single version)" – 3:52
10. "1984" – 3:25
11. "It's Hard to Be a Saint in the City" (Springsteen) – 3:46
12. "Look Back in Anger" (Bowie, Eno) – 3:06
13. "The Secret Life of Arabia" (Bowie, Eno, Alomar) – 3:45
14. "DJ" (Bowie, Eno, Alomar) – 3:22
15. "Beauty and the Beast" – 3:34
16. "Breaking Glass" (Bowie, Davis, Murray) – 1:51
17. "Boys Keep Swinging" (Bowie, Eno) – 3:18
18. "Heroes (Single version)" (Bowie, Eno) – 3:33

i'd suggest basically everything off Low, Heroes and Lodger. and station to station. BUT WHAT ELSE?

alcxxk | 31 Jan '08, 13:29 | Send note | Report this | Reply

bowser

Quicksand (on Hunky Dory)

Erm.

Under Pressure - though usually down as a Queen song...


yeah - Qucksand

aaaaaaaahhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaa, aaaaaaaaaaaaaahaha AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA


queen bitch

what's that off? im sorry, i can't remember.


.

That's the other one on Hunky Dory I was gonna mention!


What you've said

plus basically everything off Hunky Dory & Ziggy Stardust.

Andy Warhol & Queen Bitch fo sure.


I really like LADY stardust

China Girl is good fun.
Without You I'm Nothing with Placebo is bloody marvellous - possibly only for a Placebo fan.
Queen Bitch.
Moonage Daydream.
Ashes to Ashes.
Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps).


im glad there is so much

Queen Bitch love.

tis a great song.


more

I love it too


I dunno.

from memory it's also not on the Best of DVD. Although it's frustratingly the backing music for the menus.


wow

"The video clip for "Ashes to Ashes" (1980) was one of the most iconic of the 1980s. Costing £250,000, it was at the time the most expensive music video ever made"

it.. doesn't look it!


It's better

than Dancing in the Street


Anything is

Including everything the Crazy Frog has ever made.

I nearly punched the screen when I noticed Bowie stoping halfway thru to pick up a can of Coke and drink it at the camera. But I told it was all for charity. So I have to forgive.


it is on

the best of bowie.

***LADY GRINNING SOUL***
--what a tune.


^ ^ ^

That one!


It's on the

Singles Collection which is my favourite CD(x2) ever


The weird

stuff on Low/Heroes!

Like, erm, "moss garden" and "V Scheinder" or whatever its called.

Be My Wife is a classic

Cracker Actor


The London Boys!!

..


that one about the sun machine

with a title I can't remember and sounds a bit like something off of jesus christ superstar.


^

Memory of a Free Festival


sun machine is going down

and we're gonna have a party... uh huh!


"When You Rock'n'Roll" with me

from Aladdin Sane.
Bits and pieces from his later stuff including "Heart's Filthy Lesson", "Strangers When We Meet" and "The Motel".


oh...

and "Teenage Wildlife" from Scary Monsters.


'Cygnet Committee'

or possibly 'Cracked Actor'.


Thursday's Child

and Conversation Piece (Reality version)


Shit

Rock'n'Roll with me is on Diamond Dogs. Fuck, I'll never live it down...I'll add "Strangers When We Meet" as well though.


It's

off Diamond Dogs, not Aladdin Sane


Why

don't I learn to read|?


rock n roll with me

is on the incredible DIAMOND DOGS! My fave LP...


within you

from labyrinth


weirdly

i love that one too


...

Candidate
Sweet Thing (reprise)

Cant think


Lady Grinning Soul

off Aladdin Sane


I'll go for

"Five Years" off Ziggy Stardust and

"Putting Out Fire" (Theme from Cat People)


I'm Deranged

Strangers When We Meet

Hallo Spaceboy (ALBUM VERSION - dear god I fucking hate the single version that the Petshop Boys stomped all over)

Heart's Filthy Lesson (prefferably the Trent Reznor mix)

- all from the massively underrated but brilliant 'Outside'.


Lady Grinning Soul

-spookiest, most beautiful Bowie song ever!

And 'Rock and Roll With Me' is on Diamond Dogs, not Alaldin Sane. Sorry, I'm a geek!


Christopher!

You just need to pm me...ha!

Space Oddity:
Letter To Hermoine
Cygnet Committee

MWSTW:
Supermen
Running Gun Blues
Width of a Circle

Hunkey Dory:
Queen Bitch
Quicksand
Bewley Brothers

Arnold Corns (demos):
awesome version of Hang on to Yourself

Ziggy:
Five Years
Soul Love
Rock 'n Roll Suicide

AS:
Aladdin Sane
Time
Drive-in Saturday

Pinups:
See Emily Play
Friday on my Mind

Diamond Dogs:
Sweet Thing/Candidate/Reprise
We Are The Dead
Big Brother

Young Americans:
Win
Fascination

StS:
Station to Station
Stay

Low:
Speed of Life
Breaking Glass
Be My Wife
Always Crashing in the Same Car

Heroes:
Joe the Lion
Blackout
Sons of the Silent Age

Lodger:
Yassassin
Red Sails
Red Money

Scary Monsters:
It's No Game (Pt 1&2)
Scary Monsters
Teenage Wildlife
Because You're Young

and the rest:
Under Pressure
Amsterdamn
Nite Flights
Strangers When We Meet
Cactus (Pixies cover)
Slow Burn
Dead Man Walking
Fall Dog Bombs(?-off, reality)


I love the Be My Wife video

http://youtube.com/watch?v=kB7skYEv_EM

He looks totally out of it and pulls the best facial expressions.
I always think it's like Bowie being played by Steve Buscemi.


Tis my favorite video

across all space and time! It's Bowie doing his "I like Cocaine better than you" look. Awesome!


Either Steve

Buscemi or Dot Cotton....


how can i listen to you??!?!?

no cracked actor or repetition!
(but thanks :) )


A New Career in a New Town

(Side 2 of Low)


Cracked actor

and Watch that man
and (The Voyeur of utter destruction) As Beauty and the original version of Hallo Spaceboy
and The Stigmata version of The Pretty things are going to hell
and Crystal Japan
and Scary Monsters and Super creeps
I can't see Loving the alien
Cactus, Slow burn, and Slip away from Heathen.


A New Career...

....is my favouritest Bowie song.


yeah

it's pretty amazing


...

(side 1 of low)


probably

blackout,
subterreneans,
slip away,
the voyeur of utter destruction (as beauty),
bring me the disco king (lohner mix),
all the madmen,
queen bitch,
and baal's hymn.
[and magic dance]


Modern Love

my friend, Modern Love


how is modern love not on that tracklisting i posted?

i reckon it must be wrong. im sure modern love and ashes to ashes are both on the best of bowie (later years) disc


Be My Wife

Unwashed and Somehow Slightly Dazed
In The Heat of the Morning
Queen Bitch


Stay.

Bowie done got his funk on.


BE MY WIFE

definitely this one
has anyone seen the Bowie covers album thats coming out soon?

chk it here innit: http://www.lifebeyondmars.com/


Loads of the early stuff

In the Heat of the Morning
Sell me a Coat
She's Got Medals
Rubber Band
We Are Hungry Men
and a load more.


'Little Wonder'


...

I'm always baffled by people who don't think 'Hunky Dory' is Bowie's best album. And I don't give me this 'it's all subjective' malarkey. It clearly isn't in this case.


^

backward folk obviously
:D


you'd have a poiny if it wasn't

Low.

Better luck next time.


a point*

but I think I got my poiny across sufficiently.


there's a good cover

of I'm Waiting For The Man on the Almost Famous soundtrack.


Fashion!

and Up the hill backwards. Don't think they've been mentioned.


Absolute Beginners

OK, that's my two posts for today, I'm off again!


erm

-Everything off Low, especially Be My Wife and Subterraneans
-The other version of Rebel Rebel where the riff comes in about 40 secs in instead of straight away.
-Andy Warhol
-In The Heat Of The Morning
-The London Boys


errr

lady stardust
moonage daydream


um

FIVE YEARS

also Moonage Daydream, Cracked Actor & Sweet Thing


that is

bewlay brothers. i'll choose that one too. because of the gravy outro.


Queen Bitch

The Candidate
Big Brother
Up the hill backwards
5 years
Moonage Daydream
Hang onto yourself
Lady Stardust
Kooks
The Bewley Brothers
Speed of Life
What in the World
Always crashing in the same car


Pablo Picasso

From Reality (2003)


Dance Magic Dance

"You remind me of the babe..." etc


Thanks for the recommendations

I picked up a lot of good suggestions from the Bowieologists on this forum. I agree with the folks who voted for Lady Grinning Soul, one of my favorites. Why not create imeem playlists and post the links? I made one with my favorites here:

http://www.imeem.com/people/IaY3dhW/playlist/cfAVNLHA/20_bowie_songs_to_blow_your_mind_music_playlist/


MOONAGE DAYDREAM

Criminally underrated.


.

Andy Warhol
Candidate/Sweet Thing/Candidate
Lady Stardust


Letter to Hermione

Sell me A Coat
Five Years
Lady Stardust


Laughing Knome

and Little Wonder

(are in fact, his only 2 decent songs imho)


Andy Warhol

LOVE THAT SONG

Also most of the songs of Low are ace.