What's the greatest and best David Bowie song that ever lived?

What's the greatest and best David Bowie song that ever lived?

greatest and best David Bowie song

greatest and best, david bowie

My nomination is easily this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IJsAuUgSgc

I return to this one more than most...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIT1YQe3KeA

i'm not really a fan but i'm going to use this thread to convince me that i should be

i would say Ashes To Ashes, but I'm going to say Golden Years because it reminds me of a time when my dad was blasting this song while drunk with my mom yelling at him in spanish. Then when the "ANGEL" part came my dad paused and looked at my mom with his drunken blood shot eyes and said "AAAAIIIIIIINNNNGEEEEELLLLLLL!"

  On 4/29/2013 at 5:36 AM, asymmetrical head said:

i would say Ashes To Ashes, but I'm going to say Golden Years because it reminds me of a time when my dad was blasting this song while drunk with my mom yelling at him in spanish. Then when the "ANGEL" part came my dad paused and looked at my mom with his drunken blood shot eyes and said "AAAAIIIIIIINNNNGEEEEELLLLLLL!"

 

Awesome memory!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKE3FSPJu-4

Like, it's one of his most well known, but the chorus is nothing short of fucking awesome.

one song? only one?

shit.

only one David Bowie song?

impossible.

i'll throw out a couple of my oddball faves tho

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMThz7eQ6K0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tgcc5V9Hu3g

Teenage Wildlife

Always Crashing in The Same Car

Heroes (single edit)

it starts out a bit bland and then once he's in that singing/shouting phase it's an emotional punch to the gut

i even don't care for the backing vocals at all, but his delivery alone makes it hit me harder than anything else he's done.

i'd probably follow it with:

ashes to ashes

golden years

fame

sound and vision

modern love

...in no particular order and then not listen to him again for a year

The ones where he's not flapping his lips.

*looks at Trent Reznor. scowls*

also this one:

I know this should probably go in the mixes thread but it feels more at home here!

  On 4/29/2013 at 8:30 AM, Candiru said:

Teenage Wildlife

this is the one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9pByyFqrFI

  On 4/29/2013 at 11:06 AM, nene multiple assgasms said:

 

  On 4/29/2013 at 8:30 AM, Candiru said:

Teenage Wildlife

 

 

this is the one.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9pByyFqrFI

 

I love that song. So many stellar moments.

I love how he uses his voice in it, especially when he makes the falsetto wails, toward the end.

Astounding.

Other faves of mine:

Stay

The Laughing Gnome

Time

  On 4/29/2013 at 5:11 AM, zaphod said:

i'm not really a fan but i'm going to use this thread to convince me that i should be

I'll do the same.

edit:

I remember this one

My parents liked heathen a lot. And that song is great.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmqcMwD9NSo

Space Oddity

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

I'm deranged

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2wPqi5vVoQ

  On 4/29/2013 at 7:26 AM, LimpyLoo said:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMThz7eQ6K0

 

I'm not a huge fan, but if I had to pick one...

I'd say Ashes to Ashes. This track is frustrating as those huge dark synth lines that come in at the end? They should go on for another minute or so.

play heroes the whole way through. pretty much all those songs then.

I love being reminded how amazing David Bowie is.

I have to constantly argue with myself as to which song/album of his is the best.

Lately, I've been thinking Scary Monsters is his best LP (I fluctuate a lot between Station To Station and a few others).

The thing about Scary Monsters is that it is arguably his last "great" LP. It's also, in my opinion, his first genuinely mature and self-aware release. It's the cherry on top of a decade of nearly flawless work. He also really pushes himself creatively with his vocals on every song

Scary monsters is awesome because fripp is playing like a beast!!

Should be credited to Bowie/Fripp imo