what is your favourite david bowie song?

[METALMAN]

most people about here know and like at least a little bit of David Bowie so I thought this would be a nice question.

My two favourite songs are Somebody Up There Likes Me and Heroes. I also really like Kooks, Quicksand, Up The Hill Backwards and Fascination.

Moss Garden, Sense of Doubt and Neukoln are fantastic too but I can only listen to them in sequence and it must be dark. I don't just listen to them for the hell of it.

[Kaney]

Life On Mars? and Rebel Rebel are the forerunnes for me. I've never listened to a full Bowie album, but I have a ton of songs here and there. Rebel Rebel just has that really cool guitar going on. Little Wonder is surprisingly good as well.

[METALMAN]

I really like the new version of Rebel Rebel too.

[Guest Jacob]

This might be a weird one for most people but i always thought his duet with Bing Cosby on Little Drummer Boy was his best song.

[badotori]

I would pick any one of Changes, Rebel Rebel, Ziggy Stardust and Under Pressure depending on my mood at the time, really.

And, I also agree with you, Jacob. It's never Christmas for me until I've seen the Coca-Cola advert and heard Little Drummer Boy on the radio/TV.

Edited February 17, 2010 by badotori

[Guest DroMPHo]

It's impossible to pick just one. Completely impossible. But I'll throw out The Man Who Sold The World, Starman, and Rebel Rebel. And Yassassin for favourite Bowie song that wasn't a hit.

[Skummy]

As some of you might have gathered, Bowie is pretty much a God to me - the degrees of irony in that worship fluctuate on a daily basis, sometimes I adore him solely for his music, sometimes for an idealised image of Lord Bowie himself, constructed from my own imagination and bad impressions, Flight Of The Conchords, Adam & Joe, and Labyrinth.

So, naturally, my choice of favourite Bowie track tends to jump about a bit too. The other week I told my sister that my favourite was "Sound & Vision". Now it isn't.

I'd probably say it's somewhere between "Breaking Glass" and "Cracked Actor" - though plenty of others get a shout-out; "Rock 'N' Roll Suicide", "Heroes"....and an honorary mention goes to "Let's Dance" for being the song I dance to more often than any other, and I'd like to think better. When DJing I once played it three times, across two rooms, in one evening.

In related news, here I am with a framed photo of David Bowie on my bedroom wall;

[probablyoliver]

Just wonderful.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

Heroes.

One of my karaoke songs of choice. Used to sing it with my old boss, beautiful times.

[GRIFT]

Life on Mars.

But perhaps that is because I have a warm and somewhat surreal memory that involves the song...

After a particularly heavy night of drinking, I woke up in my friend Randy's attic and I heard this song blasting from below me. I worked my way down to the kitchen, and then through the living room-- stepping over another good friend who was passed out on the floor-- and eventually into Randy's room. He was passed out asleep in his bed with porn on 3 different screens (laptop, desktop, and tv) and Life on Mars was playing on his stereo and it had just hit my favorite part so I belted out, 'TAKE A LOOK AT THE LA-AW MAN BEAT-ING UP THE WRONG GUY', in a terrible Bowie impression, just about as loud as I could, thus waking a terrified Randy. We all had a good long laugh about it.

We then proceeded to get all day drunk, passed out on his apartment building front lawn, and eventually went sailing... and randomly throughout the day belted out that line.

[Floyd_Fixation]

I really like "Pablo Picasso" on his Reality album. I like "When the World Falls Down" on the Labyrinth Soundtrack, "Thursday's Child" on the ...Hours album, "5:15 (The Angels Have Gone)" on the Heathen album, "Sorrow" on the Pin Ups album.

You know what, I can't name just one David Bowie song as my favorite, just like I can't name one single favorite Pink Floyd song. I like all of them equally.

[Skummy]

Pablo Picasso is a Jonathan Richman/Modern Lovers cover, though. Damn good version of it, admittedly.

[Benjamin]

Space Oddity! Space Oddity!

[Kaney]

Space Oddity! Space Oddity!

Does the space cold do funny things to your nipples, making them all pointy? Do you use your pointy nipples as telescopic antennae transmitting data back to Earth?

I bet you do, you freaky old bastard you.

[Liam]

Do you have one really funky sequined space suit, Bowie? Or do you have several ch-ch-ch-ch-changes?

[noblefreakv2]

Hard to pick just one, obviously.

Space Oddity and Bring Me The Disco King (Loner Remix f. Maynard James Keenan and John Frusciante) are tied for my top spot because both of them are epic!

I might as well just post this.

[Timmoru Suzuki]

Life on Mars? Always, totally, that. Fucking love that song.

[GhostMachine]

I don't have an absolute favorite Bowie song, but if you asked me to rattle off my top favorites, off the top of my head I'd say...

Fashion

China Girl

Lets Dance

Ashes To Ashes

Rebel Rebel

I Am A DJ

The version of "I'm Afraid of Americans" he did with Trent Reznor

Changes

About the only period of Bowie's career I don't like anything from is Tin Machine.

[thunderfromdownunder]

But I'll throw out The Man Who Sold The World,

nirvana does a great live cover of that song. i would have to say sorrow , starman ,When the World Falls Down and space oddisity. it was to hard just to pick one song

[VerbalPuke]

I personally love the Ziggy Stardust album, most of my favorites come from there. It's probably one of the greatest albums ever made. So I'd go with Moonage Daydream, Suffragette City, and Starman.

Beyond that Panic In Detroit is a definite favorite, and I even like a lot of his really early shit like Uncle Arthur and She's Got Medals. I grew up with a lot of this stuff, my old man was and still is a huge Bowie fan. I inherited all of his old Bowie vinyl which is a good sized collection, and for some reason the collection included three copies of Ziggy Stardust.

And on the topic of Bowie, his guitar player Mick Ronson actually lived with my dad's best friend in childhood. I guess they were involved in some similar music projects in Detroit and stayed with him for the duration of a summer. Mick Ronson was great, very underrated when people mention great guitar players.