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EndersDame Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-08-10 01:12 AM
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Happy Birthday David Bowie! Post Your Favorite Bowie Song
Edited on Fri Jan-08-10 01:26 AM by EndersDame
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Doc_Technical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-08-10 01:22 AM
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1. Gravedigger
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av8rdave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-08-10 01:29 AM
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2. Space Oddity
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-08-10 08:30 AM
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17. Here's Bowie's first TV appearance in 1970, with that song
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datasuspect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-09-10 06:11 PM
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36. Here is David Bowie's first TV appearance in 1964
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-10-10 02:56 AM
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37. I love that song.
:bounce:
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vixengrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-08-10 01:43 AM
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3. Collaberating with Queen--Under Pressure--
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtrEN-YKLBM

It's just a great song. Don't know how much he contributed, but it is.

(Odd vixengrl insight--I heard Nirvana's version of "The Man who Sold the World" first and like it better because I hate Bowies's "assumed voice".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSnXjE66tvQ

Cobain's ragged vocals sound more world-weary than Bowie's more affected kind of light and airy vocalization on the many renditions I've heard him do. If Bowie sang it as Bowie with his natural baritone, I'd like it a hell of a lot better. And then that would be my favorite.)
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Quantess Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-08-10 01:44 AM
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4. Here's one you won't hear on the radio. One of my favorites.
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EndersDame Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-08-10 02:17 AM
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8. I love Hunky Dory
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myrna minx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-08-10 03:49 PM
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28. Hunky Dory is my favorite Bowie album.
:hi:
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Quantess Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-08-10 01:48 AM
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5. Another favorite that never gets radio play.
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EndersDame Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-08-10 02:19 AM
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9. How Could I forget that One ! I love the live version on Youtube Mick Ronson has
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MilesColtrane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-08-10 02:01 AM
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6. Gotta go with "Let's Dance".
Edited on Fri Jan-08-10 02:05 AM by MilesColtrane
Stevie Ray Vaughn and Omar Hakim locking up on the good foot!

But, "Little, Fat Man" from Extras ranks right up there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4lCOv-nNzg
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ornotna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-08-10 02:13 AM
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7. Rock 'n' Roll Suicide
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EndersDame Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-08-10 02:23 AM
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10. I really like this version alot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGhL_1tdWmE

Too many good songs to pick from :)
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Lindsey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-08-10 03:56 AM
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11. Space Oddity. n/t
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Sky Masterson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-08-10 04:30 AM
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12. k
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blogslut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-08-10 05:29 AM
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13. Oh, what a treasure of choices
But from all that wonderful-ness, there's only one damned song that can make me break down and cry:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiaoRdOUPI8
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Bennyboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-08-10 07:46 AM
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14. How about a song titled "David Bowie?"
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-08-10 08:05 AM
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15. "Quicksand", "Sweet Thing", "Heroes" and "Bewley Brothers"
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rbnyc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-08-10 08:25 AM
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16. Ashes to Ashes
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EndersDame Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-08-10 10:57 AM
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21. another great song!
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Kaleva Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-08-10 08:32 AM
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18. Heroes
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-08-10 08:39 AM
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19. Diamond Dogs live in 1974
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tigereye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-08-10 10:15 AM
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20. Heroes
Edited on Fri Jan-08-10 10:18 AM by tigereye

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQFuNHCMF2Y



but there are so many good songs of his...
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-08-10 11:50 AM
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22. Sweet Thing/Candidate/Sweet Thing (Reprise)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBezS7ElQJU

I love just about all of his work before Tonight except for Secret Life of Arabia and his horrible cover of Alabama Song, and for that matter I like a handful of songs post-Tonight.

But Sweet Thing/Candidate/Sweet Thing (Reprise) stands above just about everything else in his catalog IMO, before or since.
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CrownPrinceBandar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-08-10 12:07 PM
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23. "Soul Love".........
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Quantess Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-08-10 11:43 PM
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29. Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust is probably my favorite Bowie album.
I was going to post Soul Love but you beat me to it.

"Oh You Pretty Things"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBQ-S6njQQw
Here's where he flaunts the controversial "maybe I'm gay".
Although he was brave for that, back in the early '70s, I honestly could care less about his sexual orientation. I just think it's a catchy tune.
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tonekat Donating Member (832 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-08-10 02:21 PM
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24. Scary Monsters...or Fashion N/T
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darkstar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-08-10 03:38 PM
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25. In Memory of a Free Festival
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-VQv65jiH8

OK...not my favorite, but in the top 5-10 consistently.

If you don't know it--and the beginning doesn't grab you--stick around until the singalong ending. You may like that part. Kind of an Atlantis, Hey Jude sheer force of repetition thing....

Happy b-day Mr. Bowie.
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Capn Sunshine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-08-10 03:39 PM
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26. Suffragette City
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Roon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-08-10 03:47 PM
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27. Modern Love
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Aristus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-08-10 11:48 PM
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30. Great songs, all of them. But this one features the lovely Jennifer Connelly:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vHf7V7SKus

I'm just a hopeless romantic...
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EndersDame Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-09-10 12:21 AM
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33. That movie was full of great songs!
Edited on Sat Jan-09-10 12:21 AM by EndersDame
I know I would have given myself to Jareth
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bluesbassman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-09-10 12:09 AM
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31. The Jean Genie.
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kwassa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-09-10 12:14 AM
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32. Ch-ch-ch-changes!
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elehhhhna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-09-10 09:45 AM
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34. UNDER PRESSURE w/ Queen. Best of all. Then Heroes, then
that simon & garfunkle song he opened the Concert for America (911) with...
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datasuspect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-09-10 06:06 PM
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35. Remembering Marie A.
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emdistortion Donating Member (66 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-10-10 03:16 AM
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38. The entire Labyrinth sountrack.
Either that or Ziggy Stardust.
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