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Big Dave

8th September 2009, 23:43

For me it was so close between "Life on Mars's's's'' god awful small affair and the later stuff.

Big call, but the genius of the multiple dissonances combining to give harmony in the Slow Burn get me every time.

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Sidewinder

8th September 2009, 23:59

there even one of his songs on inglourous bastards, and its meant to be a ww2 film?

Mekk

9th September 2009, 00:23

Rebel Rebel

Magua

9th September 2009, 00:26

eelracing

9th September 2009, 01:09

For me it would have to be The Man Who Sold The World.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSnXjE66tvQ

Boob Johnson

9th September 2009, 01:33

Struth!!! That's like being asked to pick ya favourite child!!!

But if I was pushed into a corner it would this.........."Win" the 2nd song off his 1975 album "Young Americans". An epic album of southern soul that only Bowie could pull off :niceone:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ3nzrvSPwM

Danae

9th September 2009, 01:51

I haven't listened to a lot but I like Golden Years.

Aaaangeeel, come ba ba ba baby

YellowDog

9th September 2009, 05:59

Grew up with a lot of Bowie music and I have favourites that span the decades:

The Jean Geanie
Rebel Rebel
Life on Mars
Starman
Heros
Ashes to Ashes
Let's Dance

I am sure the order is way out, but this is how they came into my head.

Trudes

9th September 2009, 06:48

Fatt Max

9th September 2009, 07:00

Blimey, the choice....

Ziggy or Diamond Dogs for me

DemonWolf

9th September 2009, 08:13

To hard basket really.... Bowie fan =)

(though there are a few I dont like! haha)

pzkpfw

9th September 2009, 08:37

Brian Eno FTW

ynot slow

9th September 2009, 09:04

Heroes,heaps have tried to cover it but never as good as original Bowie version.

alley cat

9th September 2009, 09:10

another vote for heros. epic song:love:

vifferman

9th September 2009, 09:15

I like listening to "David Live" - dates from '74 or '75ish, live concert in Philadelphia. Brilliant performance (from Bowie and the band), and great versions of many classic Bowie songs.
Apart from that, I really like "Heroes" and his version of John Lennon's "Working Class Hero", on his Tin Machine album, as well as "Heaven's in Here", "Under the God", and "Prisoner of Love".

What I don't like was his contribution to "Comfortably Numb" at David Gilmour's Royal Albert Hall concert. Although there was much praise from Gilmour and others for Bowie "making the song his own", I think his voice was all wrong - too high pitched.

His very bestest song has to be "The Laughing Gnome", eh? :rolleyes:

kiwifruit

9th September 2009, 09:34

Fashion
beep beep

Stirts

9th September 2009, 09:42

Damn this was hard because I adore his voice!! It is very distinctive and damn sexy. He gives me goosebumps everytime I listen to him!! But here are some of my favourites.

Space Oddity
Fashion
Heros
Changes
Blue Jean
Ashes to Ashes
Young Americans
Golden Years
Rebel Rebel
Dancing in the Street
China Girl
Let's Dance
Under Pressure
Life on Mars

AND HE IS FARKEN HOT TOO!!!
http://www.musicalstore.it/Testi%20internazionali/David%20Bowie/Foto/David%20Bowie%203.jpg

SARGE

9th September 2009, 09:51

Diamond Dogs FTW

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Big Dave

9th September 2009, 10:21

Jacob Dylan's Heros is a great version too.

ynot slow

9th September 2009, 11:04

Jacob Dylan's Heros is a great version too.

Is probably the best cover.Wallflowers do it well with young Dylan Jnr.

Skyryder

9th September 2009, 12:00

Slow Burn still gives me the goose bumps.

So does this. Loving the Alien

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkd1uGonwG0

Skyryder

Genestho

9th September 2009, 14:42

Number one DB Tune would have to be 'Putting out Fire'
You may have heard of this song in such movies, as Cat People, and Inglorious Basterds

Can't find the original, but here's a vid for Stirts, with yummy youthful DB Images (not to be confuzzled with BD Images :laugh: )

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

I have a Best of David Bowie, and they're all AWESOME

Stirts

9th September 2009, 14:49

Number one DB Tune would have to be 'Putting out Fire'

Can't find the original, but here's a vid for Stirts, with yummy youthful DB

I :love: you!!

I can't believe I forgot about THAT song (dementia is certainly creeping in me finks). If I remember rightly, that was one of the first songs I heard of his as a kid, and from then on I wanted more.

David Bowie and his suits :drool:

The Stranger

9th September 2009, 14:52

To hell with Bowie (http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showthread.php?t=49145&highlight=favourite+bowie), what oil are you using?

EJK

9th September 2009, 14:54

Oscar

9th September 2009, 14:54

I saw him at Western Springs in about 1979.

What a fantastic concert...

Big Dave

9th September 2009, 15:36

I saw him at Western Springs in about 1979.

What a fantastic concert...

Heroes and Fame tours - Sydney Showgrounds

Oscar

9th September 2009, 15:40

Heroes and Fame tours - Sydney Showgrounds

That's it - the Heroes Tour.
Grouse (as we said at the time).

vifferman

9th September 2009, 15:50

Whelp, I saw him at Western Springs on the "Serious Moonlight" tour, would've been 1983. I was a big Bowie fan, but was seriously underwhelmed. After listening to so many of his albums, but especially "David Live", and considering it was the last concert of the tour, I expected him to give it heaps. Sounded like he was holding back a lot, and just cruising, maybe a 6.5 outta 10 effort.
Mutant Sproglodyte Spawn #1 enjoyed it though - his very first rock concert. He got in free, as he was smuggled in inside his mum's tummy.

allycatz

9th September 2009, 15:54

[QUOTE=T.G.W;1129396638]Number one DB Tune would have to be 'Putting out Fire'
Heard in such movies, as Cat people, and Inglorious Basterds

Can't find the original, but here's a vid for Stirts, with yummy youthful DB Images (not to be confuzzled with BD Images :laugh: )

Cat People (Putting Out The Fire) my favourite too...have the movie soundtrack LP with extended version of it. Followed by Heroes

HenryDorsetCase

9th September 2009, 16:17

For me it was so close between "Life on Mars's's's'' god awful small affair and the later stuff.

Big call, but the genius of the multiple dissonances combining to give harmony in the Slow Burn get me every time.

That "Live by Request" concert is really good. He looks as if he is having a good time.

I missed the Stage tour (my Mum wouldnt let me go :( ) but saw Serious Moonlight.

My favourite album is Ziggy Stardust, and favourite track on it is "It ain't easy" (which I was amazed to find out earlier this year is a COVER! the original is on yoootooob its by a guy called Roy Davies (not Ray Davies)

In terms of D Bowie live albums my favourite (because its the first one I ever heard) is David Live. Its not much beloved by critics (but they can get fucked) but I love it. That version of Width of a Circle rules. Earl Slick on guitar is amazing.

The version of TVC15 of Stage is really good also.

Great thing about DB? business sense: he owns most of his own material.

not that I am a Bowie anorak or anything.

peasea

9th September 2009, 16:31

Skyryder

9th September 2009, 16:34

I saw him at Western Springs in about 1979.

What a fantastic concert...

Saw him at QEII.

I worked there at the time and had a master key that I could open up the back gate. I'll never forget the look on the coppers face as me and my wife walked past.................all as innocent as a new born babe.

Saw him at the cake tin when he was here last. Shitty night but still a good concert.

Skyryder

Stirts

9th September 2009, 16:34

Mick Jagger thought so.:buggerd:

There is a pic of it so it must be true....
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tmz.com/media/2006/12/bowie2_jagger_question.jpg

What man wouldn't want a mouth like Micks wrapped round his diddle. :bleh:

phred

9th September 2009, 16:38

German version is a fave.

peasea

9th September 2009, 16:39

That "Live by Request" concert is really good. He looks as if he is having a good time.

I missed the Stage tour (my Mum wouldnt let me go :( ) but saw Serious Moonlight.

My favourite album is Ziggy Stardust, and favourite track on it is "It ain't easy" (which I was amazed to find out earlier this year is a COVER! the original is on yoootooob its by a guy called Roy Davies (not Ray Davies)

In terms of D Bowie live albums my favourite (because its the first one I ever heard) is David Live. Its not much beloved by critics (but they can get fucked) but I love it. That version of Width of a Circle rules. Earl Slick on guitar is amazing.

The version of TVC15 of Stage is really good also.

Great thing about DB? business sense: he owns most of his own material.

not that I am a Bowie anorak or anything.

Yeah, I thought Low was good too, not so commercial. "I love the sound of breaking glass".

Not forgetting Aladdin Sane's Panic in Detroit.

phred

9th September 2009, 16:41

peasea

9th September 2009, 16:41

There is a pic of it so it must be true....
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tmz.com/media/2006/12/bowie2_jagger_question.jpg

What man wouldn't want a mouth like Micks wrapped round his diddle.

Erm, that would be me. (Now I have a smutty image in my head. Thanks a lot.)

Urban myth or not I wouldn't past either of them.

tri boy

9th September 2009, 19:07

Bowie got inspiration for song lyrics by cutting newspapers up, scattering the clippings, getting wasted, and see what develops.
Classic.
The funky flow of Fame works, but I can't pick a fave.
"What you like is in the limo,
What you get is no tomorrow,
What you need, you have to borrow,................

Genestho

9th September 2009, 19:44

I :love: you!!

I can't believe I forgot about THAT song (dementia is certainly creeping in me finks). If I remember rightly, that was one of the first songs I heard of his as a kid, and from then on I wanted more.

David Bowie and his suits :drool:

:laugh: nothing like a sharp dressed man eh? Same, this was the song that turned me onto DB! I'm still laughing at your Jagger comment :lol:

[QUOTE=T.G.W;1129396638]Number one DB Tune would have to be 'Putting out Fire'
Heard in such movies, as Cat people, and Inglorious Basterds

Can't find the original, but here's a vid for Stirts, with yummy youthful DB Images (not to be confuzzled with BD Images :laugh: )

Cat People (Putting Out The Fire) my favourite too...have the movie soundtrack LP with extended version of it. Followed by Heroes

Might have to find the Cat People Soundtrack myself!

I have Sound and Vision, playing at the mo, on my Ipod (can't find my 'Best of' Disc)

Heroes, Fame, Let's Dance, Rebel Rebel, Space Oddity, Life On Mars EDIT! Ashes to Ashes, Fashion - BEEP BEEP.

EDIT Modern Love, This is Not America, Absolute beginners...side by side. (I'm editing as I listen :lol:)

Really can't pick a favourite after Putting out the Fire!!!!
And THEN there's all the collaborations! Arrrgh!

MacD

9th September 2009, 20:25

I saw him at Western Springs in about 1979.

Me too...(it was December '78)

Here's something a bit different from Bowie:

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Motu

9th September 2009, 20:32

Something earlier for me - before disco came along.My favorite Bowie album is Pin Ups - all covers.The '60's done in the '70's.I like Bowie's sax playing.

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Genestho

9th September 2009, 20:48

One of my Favouritist Dance Tunes.....A DB - Let's Dance Remix.....

Sorry to do this....:baby:

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Boob Johnson

9th September 2009, 21:01

Bowie got inspiration for song lyrics by cutting newspapers up, scattering the clippings, getting wasted, and see what develops.
Not all, but some yes.

No one has mentioned this Bowie classic yet!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbpMpRq6DV4

pzkpfw

9th September 2009, 21:24

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EWdb7fRXXw

Less well known. When I was 8 or 9 or something this was my favourite song. The YouTube version doesn't do it justice.

hospitalfood

9th September 2009, 21:35

my favorite, less well known but great

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoPPiDkXO3Y

vifferman

11th September 2009, 09:08

I just remembered how much I love Scary Monsters, but in part it's not such much for any particular song, but for Robert Fripp "spraying burning guitar all over it" (his words, and very apt too :yes:).

Shadows

12th September 2009, 01:10

One of my favourites

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jg4ekLG9Zo

Big Dave

6th March 2013, 15:30

New:

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HenryDorsetCase

6th March 2013, 16:26

I've been a fan since I was about 13 or 14. One of the very first albums I ever heard was a friends big brother's copy of Aladdin Sane, which I still love.

The two eras that really do it for me are the early 70's: Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane, Diamond Dogs (which I still have in the gatefold LP sleeve with the painting in the middle). Basically I think they are complete works of genius. RCA have sold each one to me a number of times: album, album, CD, CD remaster, "ultimate edition" CD blah blah.

The other period I love is the Berlin trilogy: Low, Stationtostation, Heroes. Though they can be something of a downer, they are again, sublime.

Live albums?: I have Live in Santa Monica 72, David Live (76) Stage (78) and the Ziggy concert which was errrrr 74? Correct me if I am wrong but I think the band was the Ronson/Boulder/Woodmansey Spiders on both records.

My favourite is probably David Live, though the critics ( who are, generally, tossers) don't agree. The big stage, the studio overdubs, the transition from the painted up persona to the Young Americans persona (it was recorded in Philly) blah de blah. Protip: Get the 2005 remaster: it has better track order, and they put in Time. They also put in that awful Whiskey Bar Bertold Brecht thing which I dont like. The band is great but Earl Slick on git-box is downright incredible.

Having said that, over the last couple of months I have been playing STAGE fairly obsessively. I have it on a USB stick in my car and its permanently rolling pretty much. I was not allowed to go to the Christchurch concert in 1978 (thanks Mum :( ) but its that tour. The version of Station to Station is amazing, and now I am in love with the Berlin trilogy, the versions of those songs I really like too (TVC15, Warsaw, Wild is the Wind). Plus he cranks out the rockers too. And what a band!: Carlos Alomar (who was like 12 at the time) Adrian Belew, Dennis Davis and George Murray.

I intend to revisit the 80's stuff that I had in school: I own the albums but havent listened for years: talking about Lodger/Scary Monsters era.

One of my favourite Bowie things ever is a thing called "Earthling in the City". One of the songs is in Chinese. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthling_in_the_City

I listen to it a bit, and probably do Earthling and Outside a disservice by doing so.

I quite like that Heaven album too for the occasional listen.

Oh yeah. I'll just do up the buttons on my fan-club anorak and be over here.

Will I buy the new one? Yeah probably.

The thing is to me the single especially sounds quite like some of the Berlin era material... but Ive only listened to it a few times.

HenryDorsetCase

6th March 2013, 16:30

I'll just leave this here:

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misterO

6th March 2013, 17:07

I think Bowie wasn't lying when he claimed to come from a different planet. Funny thing was, I often didn't like songs the first time I heard them, but after a few plays they got under the skin. Scratch the surface to dig deeper and you'll find some solid gold:

It's No Game (Part 1)
Queen Bitch
Holy Holy
Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed
Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family
Width of a Circle
Lady Grinning Soul
Cygnet Committee
Secret Life of Arabia
Sweet Thing (reprise)

Man, that Mick Ronson could play a MEAN guitar!

martybabe

6th March 2013, 17:56

Don't know how I missed this thread first time around.

HUGE fan of Bowie all my life, saw him live in the UK in 1973 in his Kimono period. He did about 5 costume changes during the gig and mesmorised the audience. The single best concert I have ever been to. He became a Hero to me and 40 years later his status has barely wavered.

Can't pick a favourite but best Album would be a toss up between Ziggy and Space Oddity.

The latter has been barley mentioned here, so for all the really old Bowie fans, I give you: Noggin the Nog and the wild eyed boy from Freecloud and the poetry of 'memories of a Free Festival'

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Hitcher

7th March 2013, 08:21

Suffragette City. A classic R&R track that builds inexorably to its conclusion and then ends. No fade out nonsense with the chorus endlessly repeated.

Wham bam, thank you Ma'am.

Swoop

7th March 2013, 09:54

Geeze. Had to go and find out when the Glass Spider tour was in Auckland.
A good night at Western Springs late '87.:cool::clap:

martybabe

7th March 2013, 15:48

An anecdote:

I used to work with a Guy that regularly organised gigs for local venues. He told me once how he had booked a little known artist called David Bowie for a Gig at a small city Town Hall. He was aware of Bowie's work and frankly wasn't over keen to book the 'odball' and his missgivings seemed justified on the night as Bowie had still not arrived at the venue 30 mins after his published start time.

On the Brink of sending the audience home, Bowie arrived in a crappy old minicab and anounced that his band and instruments were stuck in a knackered old Transit van somewhere on the motorway. He apparently brushed aside any idea of cancellation and went onstage to a hostile reception armed only with an acoustic guitar, a bar stool and a Microphone.

What followed, the story goes, was a two hour solo performance by an odd-looking, strange sounding, audience captivating, professional artist that will live forever in the memory of those lucky enough to be there.

"So you're a Bowie fan now", I said to my workmate, "No" says he " I think his music and singing are shite but, judging by the audience reaction, his utter confidence/arrogance on stage, I reckon the Bastard will be huge and go on for bloody decades!"

There you have it, a Star was born, believe it or believe it not dear reader, it's all part of the Legend for me. DB 'The Guvna'