Favorite Bowie tune: the poll

[Bossy Monkey]

Poll question: Favorite Bowie tune: the poll

I ran a nominations thread the other day. The number of tunes offered was astonishing, though the level of consensus was not so high. Anyway, here's the results. If you shout and yell and jump up and down I might change any non-vote-getters if I happen to be up still 55 minutes hence.

Here's the actual tally, just to demonstrate again just how anal-retentive a person can be:

Absolute Beginners
Aladin Sane
Andy Warhol
Ashes to Ashes xxxxx
Blackout
Breaking Glass
Cactus
Changes xx
Cracked Actor xx
Cygnet Committee
Dead Man Walking
Diamond Dogs xx
Fame xx
FASHION
Five Years xx
God Knows I'm Good xx
Golden Years
'Heroes' xxxx
I'm Afraid of Americans xx
I'm Deranged xx
Jean Jeanie
John, I'm Only Dancing
Jump They Say xx
Kooks xx
Lady Stardust
The Laughing Gnome
Let's Dance xx
Life on Mars? xxxx
The Man Who Sold the World xx
Moonage Daydream xxxx
Panic in Detroit
Putting Out Fire xx
queen bitch
Rebel Rebel xxx
RED SAILS
rock and roll suicide xx
scary monsters
Secret Life of Arabia
Sorrow
Soul Love
Sound and Vision xx
Space Oddity xxx
Starman xx
Station to Station
Suffragette City xxx
Survive
this is not america
tvc 15 xxxx
Warszawa
Watch That Man
The Width of a Circle
wild is the wind

[Rhiannon12866]

1. David Bowie may be weird, but he is also incredibly talented

:D

[ghostsofgiants]

2. ...

Under Pressure

[Bossy Monkey]

4. Good thought; dunno why it didn't get more support

This, Space Oddity, Starman, and Panic in Detroit are my personal favorites.

[Atlas Mugged]

19. Oh! 'Panic In Detroit'!!!

Damn, I love that song. And 'Drive In Saturday'. And 'Aladin Sane'. Aw, hell, now I've got to put the cd on.

[Surf Cowboy]

5. Yeah, WTF?!!

Where's "Under Pressure?"

Easily his best tune.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

9. It's a Queen song. Bowie just sings on it.

[Bossy Monkey]

17. No, he cowrote; it's a real collaboration

Though it's true it debuted on a Queen Greatest Hits record

[Screaming Lord Byron]

18. Ah. I've always considered it a Queen song.

It has the Queen sound, y'know?

[Magrittes Pipe]

3. Rock 'n' Roll Suicide.

[Kid_A]

6. "The Heart's Filthy Lesson"

It's on the Best Of album that came out a couple years ago, but I think it was first on the "Seven" soundtrack. It's a really cool Trent Reznor-produced bit of industrial rock.

But if I had to pick from your list I'd go with "Rebel Rebel". One of the greatest guitar riffs of all time.

[mac56]

7. Suffragette City

Blue Jean
Modern Love

[apnu]

8. Other: Toy Soldier

That song rocks! But its impossible to find.

[Gothic Sponge]

10. Hard to pick one, but for today i'll go with Suffragette City

[eyesroll]

11. I have to go with "Space Oddity,"

because (A) I'm a giant nerd and (B) I've always thought of it as a soundtrack to one of my favorite Bradbury short stories, "Kaleidoscope."

[redqueen]

13. What has Space Oddity got to do with nerdiness?

I love that album... first one I ever bought, after I heard Ashes to Ashes... didn't know there was anything nerdy about it.

[eyesroll]

14. The space motif in general.

Nothing nerdy in the musical sense.

[redqueen]

16. Ah I see...

The subject matter is definitely not nerdy, so I was a bit confused. Thanks. :)

[redqueen]

12. Impossible to pick just one

Today I voted for Ashes to Ashes.

[Westegg]

15. So many great ones, but "Heroes" ties with "Queen Bitch"...

...in my book, the latter not least because it's a sweet Lou/Velvets glam-rock homage, the former because it's soooooo romantic. For a coked-up neo-Fascist. (Oh David, you kid!) Kudos also to "Heart's Filthy Lesson"---I bought the CD single and have never heard the whole album---apparently it's a sci-fi "concept" thing? No matter. Just further proof that old man Bowie can still rock.

[Ramsey]

20. Hallo Spaceboy

Voyeur of Utter Destruction
Stay
Wild is the Wind
Be My Wife
I'm Afraid of Americans
It Ain't Easy
Warswaza
Putting Out The Fire
Scary Monsters

That's my personal Top Ten Bowie Songs!!

[The Sushi Bandit]

21. "Breaking Glass" too short but soo powerfull

[CBHagman]

22. Modern Love

n/t

[CrownPrinceBandar]

23. "Hang Onto Yourself"..........................

C'mon, c'mon, we really got a good thing goin'.................

[Bossy Monkey]

24. Another great one I can't believe everyone had forgotten (hitherto) n/t

[gollygee]

25. I LoOOooooOOOoove that song

and will have it running through my head the rest of the night :)

[Bossy Monkey]

26. Ok, what happened to the 'Life on Mars?' people? n/t

[Happy Eddie]

27. Always crashing in the same car n/t

[vi5]

28. I chose Heroes but a close second is Modern Love...

I know it's from his later work but I just really have always loved that song and it was the Bowie song that got me interested in him and made me work backwards to his earlier stuff.

Also, anything off of Ziggy Stardust is great as well.

[Aristus]

29. "Rock And Roll With Me", possibly the oddest love song of all time.

'You always were the one who knew;
They sold us for the likes of you
I always wanted new surroundings;
A room to rent, while the lizards
Lay crying in the heat...............'