What's his best song?
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What's his best song?
Sons of the Silent Age
>>66164143
Ashes To Ashes
station to station
>>66164182
Fuck everytime i listen to it i have to sing along
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoXX5XX32xY
moonage daydream
Life on Mars, Five Years, or Bewlay Brothers
'Heroes' or blackout
>>66164228
fact.
>>66164278
this
Also shout out to Modern Love even though nobody else likes it
>>66164228
yus
>>66164287
five years is a great albumstarter
>>66164228
Oh yeah
>>66164344
I like it and my /mu/tant friend likes it too
Big Brother, i'm literally obsessed with it
>>66164287
Life On Mars was hammered into my head by my past music teacher in school, he composed me and the jazz band through a swingy groovy version and I've never been able to hear it the same since without the smooth bass and drum lines he put over it, damn it was good
So it's my favourite for that reason :)
Stay
Blackout
Secret Life of Arabia
Station To Station
Joe The Lion
TVC-15
>>66164143
Ashes to Ashes or Life On Mars?
>>66164143
one of the ones from Low or Heroes where he isn't singing
The man who sold the world
>>66164228
This is easily the correct answer. Bowie's run from Space Oddity to Scary Monsters is one of the best in the history of popular music, with countless masterpieces, but this is as good as it ever got. There aren't many better songs in general, let alone by Bowie.
Five Years
Heroes.
Golden Years
Blackstar
Station to Station
The Man Who Sold the World
Changes
Golden Years
The Width of a Circle
Blackstar
Young Americans
Five Years
Heroes
Suffragette City
Aladdin Sane
Sound and Vision
Life on Mars?
The Secret Life of Arabia
TVC15
>>66167089
Almost forgot Sweet Thing/Candidate/reprise
Starman
Warsawa
>0 mention of Space Oddity
Objectively speaking, Life on Mars
Too bad it was ruined by American Horror Story fans
Blackout. Only answer.
>Those drums
>making out with bowie in the rain after he fucking chases you
>getting LIT beyond comprehension
"Heroes"
https://youtu.be/PyCvAXXyg6s
>>66168717
Same here. Fuckin love that song.
Let's dance (club remix)
station to station and ashes to ashes are my favs of his
A tie between Ashes to Ashes and Modern Love
Early 80s Bowie is best Bowie.
>>66164143
China Girl
Sound and vision. S2S is his best album though, by a large margin
>>66168672
they dont want to like popular music just because its popular, the truth is that space oddity its one of his best, if not his best
>>66164143
Five Years, Sound and Vision, Heroes
Quicksand
Life on Mars is objectively his best song
>>66170101
this
Sound and Vision is almost a perfect song
>>66164143
Gonna say now, he may have better songs, but All the Madmen, Width of a Circle and The Supermen are underrated as fuck.
Wild is the Wind is impressive just because it showcases Bowie's god-tier vocal control and the concept of The Thin White Duke well. It's this amazing, incredibly passionate love song, that thanks to Bowie's vocal control he makes it feel completely hollow.
Ashes to Ashes is fucking amazing because of the sheer number of hooks buried into it.
Sound and Vision or Moonage Daydream might be mine.
Station to Station takes its time, but the heights it reaches are hard to surpass.
Depends on who you ask.
Pleb: Space Oddity
Contrarian: The Laughing Gnome
Patrician: African Night Flight
>>66164174
idk about his best but this is definitely one of my favourites
Sound And Vision.
>>66171289
1979 version Space Oddity is fantastic.
Always Crashing in the Same Car
The Jean Genie. I don't know why. I'm just so drawn to the chugging guitar riff. Everytime I listen to it I imagine Bowie in the studio with a cigarette in his mouth playing the riff, lol.
>>66164143
FAME
The passion and sincerity in his voice in Heroes and Ashes to Ashes are bone shaking. It'd be down to those two for me.
>>66164182
Fucking this. Such a great song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF_ESqYuhSQ
>>66172081
I also really like It's No Game though. Nowhere near his best, I just really like it and never hear anybody discuss it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvuFMevKvQY
>>66164143
A New Career in a New Town always makes me tear up. Especially after hearing it sampled in I Can't Give Everything Away.
How the fuck did David Bowie put out something as perfect as Blackstar so many years into his career? Only explanation is he saved certain songs over the last couple of decades until he had a reason for them to sell. Everything else post Let's Dance is so mediocre compared to Blackstar
>>66172586
check yourself
>>66172586
His more recent stuff before Blackstar is pretty good, it shows a change in style and increase in creativity after his Black Tie White Noise phase.
>>66172586
You really need to give Heathen a listen.
>>66171289
This is horribly inaccurate
Kill V. Maim
>>66164143
Neukoln, Art Decade or Ashes to ashes
Is David the greatest pop songwriter ever?
>>66173841
Him and The Residents
>>66173863
Add Brian Wilson and The Smiths and you got a great top 4
>>66164143
Five Years, always gives me the goosebumps.
>>66164174
>>66164278
>>66164408
>>66170101
>>66171910
My melanin-enriched brothers
Subterraneans
what song gives you the most feels?
>>66171241
Solid fuckin post.
>>66164143
The Man Who Sold A World, no doubt.
sunday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnXPz2bIaFU
>>66164143
what the fuck is he doing in this picture?
>>66166235
speed of life i'm guessing
Black Country Rock
African Night Flight
A New Career In a New Town
Be My Wife
Breaking Glass
Beauty and the Beast
Lady Grinning Soul
Suffragette City
Young Americans hasn't been mentioned yet?
>>66164143
1. Heros
2. Width of a Circle
3. Big Brother
4. Life on Mars
5. Ziggy stardust
With diamond dogs being his best album
>>66175389
Preparing for assimilation of the human race.
You faggots have zero grasp on reality. It's Modern love, pure and simple. It's not hard to understand.
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fuck off. best bowie song with best guitar work
>>66164143
My favourite is probably Bewlay Brothers.
>>66171010
>>66170060
>>66171956
>>66175992
Absolutely not, not even interesting.
>>66164182
Not interesting enough.
This: >>66174932 or this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiydgQymvTE
>>66164228
ONCE
Running Gun Blues
>nobody ever mentions Cygnet Committee in these threads
Why does this keep happening? Granted it's not necessarily his best, but it's surely a very obvious contender.
Also Sweet Thing / Candidate / Reprise should really get more mentions. Have people just not heard Diamond Dogs?
>>66177198
Cygnet Committee drives on way too long. I know it's supposed to be that way but it just isn't enough when compared to something of equal length like Station to Station, Blackstar or Width of a Circle which is why no one ever mentions it.
I personally like it though and it is definitely underrated, but that's also partly because no one listens to Space Oddity as a full album.
Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)
The Secret Life Of Arabia
Modern Love
Queen Bitch
Weeping Wall
Starman
>Not a single mention of Cracked Actor
Sound & Vision t b h
though Heroes is his greatest album, every single song in the first side is an absolute blast and the second side is moody and dreamy as hell
Sound and Vision
IN THE VILLA OF ORMEN
>>66177895
I listen to space oddity as a full album
>no Oh You Pretty things
>>66164143
SOMETIMES YOU GET SO LONELY
SOMETIMES YOU GET NOWHERE
Laughing gnome
Up the hill backwards desu
>>66164143
Life on Mars
>>66172586
My my, you've been living under a rock. Buddha of Suburbia was like a needle full of adrenaline for David's career.
>>66164143
1. Subterraneans (so beautiful it made me cry)
2. Big Brother
3. Teenage Wildlife
4. Loving The Alien
5. 5:15 The Angels Have Gone
>>66183406
Nice list
Haven't listened to BoS yet but I might listen to it later
Bewlay Brothers
Rock 'n' roll suicide
SWEET THING
