Favourite David Bowie Song

[chris3putt]

With the recent passing of the "Thin White Duke", I was wanting to to do something in honour of all the great music he produced and which formed a backdrop to my teenage years and escapades (mostly harmless). 

For me, his best song was, is, and will always be "Heros". It pre-dated and prophesied the whole "15 minutes of fame" culture with the line "we can be heros, just for one day"

RIP, David Bowie.

[Dave325]

Ditto, Chris! A true creative genius that could re-invent his music and art consistently and successfully over the years. My favorites are still around the Spiders days... Moonage Daydream, Five Years, Ziggy and Bewlay Brothers from Hunky Dory. But the list is long.

[Rip62]

Heroes is great but I've always liked the man who stole the world as much.

[Dave2512]

Ashes To Ashes. As a kid of the cable/MTV era seeing that video blew my mind. I know this will sound weird but at the time I was in a bowling league. We tried hard to win the cash prize so we could buy that album, everyone wanted it. 

I was big into AC/DC and Neil Young at the time and MTV just melted that song into my mind playing the video every hour. It was heady stuff at the time, still is given its the link between Space Oddity and Blackstar. 

[dak4n6]

Panic in Detroit had a great hook. I always enjoyed playing Rebel Rebel, great guitar line. And of course, Space Oddity was groundbreaking. 

[Golfingdad]

I don't know, I was never a crazy Bowie fan but I did like a lot of his songs.  Just because I was an 80's kid obsessed with MTV when it used to play videos non-stop, I'll go with Modern Love. :)

 

 

Also, this is phenomenal:

 

 

[nevets88]

Too many songs to choose from. At the moment, it's Heroes. Here's shortly after the song was released, at the German Reichstag a year before the Wall fell and in the mid 90s, an acoustic version.

 

 

 

 

 

I, I will be king
And you, you will be queen
Though nothing will drive them away
We can beat them, just for one day
We can be Heroes, just for one day

And you, you can be mean
And I, I'll drink all the time
'Cause we're lovers, and that is a fact
Yes we're lovers, and that is that

Though nothing, will keep us together
We could steal time, 
just for one day
We can be Heroes, for ever and ever
What d'you say?

I, I wish you could swim
Like the dolphins, like dolphins can swim
Though nothing,
nothing will keep us together
We can beat them, for ever and ever
Oh we can be Heroes, 
just for one day

I, I will be king
And you, you will be queen
Though nothing will drive them away
We can be Heroes, just for one day
We can be us, just for one day

I, I can remember (I remember)
Standing, by the wall (by the wall)
And the guns shot above our heads
(over our heads)
And we kissed, 
as though nothing could fall
(nothing could fall)
And the shame was on the other side
Oh we can beat them, for ever and ever
Then we could be Heroes, 
just for one day

We can be Heroes
We can be Heroes
We can be Heroes
Just for one day
We can be Heroes

We're nothing, and nothing will help us
Maybe we're lying, 
then you better not stay
But we could be safer, 
just for one day

Oh-oh-oh-ohh, oh-oh-oh-ohh, 
just for one day

 

 

[jbishop15]

"Heroes" is obviously a top-notch song, and would probably be my objective favorite. But in context of his passing, "I Can't Give Everything Away" on Blackstar is just devastating, and wonderful. 

[Dave325]

22 hours ago, Rip62 said:

Heroes is great but I've always liked the man who stole the world as much.

Great choice there! The Width of a Circle was another of my favs.  Arg... so many favs with the Starman!

[Ernest Jones]

Moonage Daydream. 

[Warren Zevon]

  I was always fond of Changes, myself. 

[alleztom]

Young Americans for me

[JetFan1983]

It's Space Oddity for me as well. I've always loved the song, but it reached new levels of power for me when, per his will, the song was played at my friend's dad's funeral a couple years ago. Also, he was a major in the USAF and served in Vietnam. 

RIP to both my friend's father and David Bowie. 

 

 

 

[Ernest Jones]

1 hour ago, alleztom said:

Young Americans for me

Another great choice. Very hard to choose just one.  

[Zeph]

Not listened that much to Bowie, but I really like Lazarus from his last album, Blackstar.

 

 

[boogielicious]

And these children that you spit on as they try to change their world

Are immune to your consultation, they're quite aware of what they're going through.

I don't you about you guys, but his songs have been playing in my head for three days now. At least they are on a rotation. 

[dak4n6]

12 hours ago, boogielicious said:

And these children that you spit on as they try to change their world

Are immune to your consultation, they're quite aware of what they're going through.

I don't you about you guys, but his songs have been playing in my head for three days now. At least they are on a rotation. 

Me too, I had Starman lodged like an ax from Michael Myers in my brain for like 2 days. And the insane dual harmony recorder solo in Moonage Daydream occupied my neurons for a while. Sheer genius.

BTW, not to argue with a genius, but when I was a teen, I was not quite aware of what I was going through...I was absolutely clueless. I love the sax leadout in that song. Wasn't it played by Lou Reed?

[dkolo]

Since Under Pressure is technically Queen, I have to say I adore "Cat People," the song repopluarized by Inglorious Basterds.