Top 75 voted David Bowie tracks

[d_r]

Sirius FM has a poll to rank the top 75 Bowie tracks

https://blog.siriusxm.com/david-bowie-channel/

(where is TVC-15?)

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and this performance that blew my 10-year-old mind

[Otto_Harper]

1. I note that every one of the hits has been remastered

To those of us who are actual fans of a track, the abominations that the industry commits on the originals in the name of "updating" is just horrendous.

[emulatorloo]

2. To each their own. If the remasters are good and respect the originals I like them.

[highplainsdem]

3. Any list that doesn't have "Heroes" at the top, and these in the next nine, any order -

Suffragette City, Jean Genie. Ziggy Stardust, Diamond Dogs, Young Americans, Moonage Daydream, All The Young Dudes, Life On Mars, Five Years - is simply wrong, IMO. EDITING - make that the next ten, since I forgot to include "Rebel Rebel."

My list is also closer to the one Rolling Stone's readers provided in a poll in 2013 - https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/readers-poll-the-10-best-david-bowie-songs-12703/1-heroes-243114/ - though theirs includes "Changes" and "Space Oddity" and "Starman" and "Ashes To Ashes."

9 videos below (editing - 10 videos), since one has a live performance of both "Diamond Dogs" and "Five Years."

[d_r]

4. Thank you

[highplainsdem]

5. Well, we all have our own opinions, and I don't expect anyone else's to match mine. :}

I like mostly early Bowie, as you can tell.

Btw, one of your favorites, TVC15, is on Rolling Stone's list of 30 essential Bowie songs:

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/david-bowie-best-songs-33438/tvc15-1976-148270/

“TVC15” (1976)

Bowie crossed New Wave with boogie-woogie to produce this bouncy tale of a girlfriend getting swallowed up by his television set, the catchiest tune on 1976’s Station to Station. Over a piano part on loan from Professor Longhair (played here by Roy Bittan of the E Street Band), Bowie sang about the girl who “crawled right in” to his high-tech quadrophonic, “hologramic” TV set, leaving him to watch the tube alone every night, wondering whether he should jump in himself: basically, a rough outline of the story in David Cronenberg’s 1983 movie Videodrome. Bowie paired the words “transition” with “transmission,” and filled them both with the menace of a sci-fi dystopia. In 1985, Bowie performed a brilliant set at Live Aid: playing for the largest TV audience of his life, he naturally opened with this song.

Not many people would rate "Diamond Dogs" as highly as I do, but I've loved that album and that track since it was released, and I also know what sort of worlds were being envisioned by New Wave science fiction then, and Bowie was a science fiction fan and also aware of those worlds, and that song and album fit perfectly.

I liked Bowie more when he rocked.

And I like "Heroes" so much that if I had to choose between either being able to hear "Heroes" again whenever I wanted, the rest of my life, but not being able to hear anything else he'd done, or never hearing "Heroes" again and having everything else he'd done. it would be a tough choice. Brilliant song, brilliant performance, brilliant production. It's usually at the top of any list of Bowie's best songs.

[d_r]

6. I like Diamond Dogs

I'm listening to ziggy stardust album right now, but I also really like things like Allo Spaceboy and Afraid of Americans and Blackstar, so I guess I like a wide range of them.

[highplainsdem]

7. I like those, too, but I was just listing my favorite 11.

The ones I listen to much more often than any others.