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David Bowie's best song, "Five Years"
BBC ^ | 1972 | David Bowie

Posted on 01/12/2016 3:03:27 PM PST by DallasBiff

JMO, David Bowies's greatest song, especiallsy where he sang "the queer got sick at the sight of that".


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Michigan; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: 1984; davidbowie; detroit; fiveyears; michigan; mickronson; panicindetroit; ziggystardust
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1 posted on 01/12/2016 3:03:27 PM PST by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

It would be in my top 5 Bowie songs, maybe we have heard “Space Oddity” so many times, but I’d call that one up there as well. One would really have to study it, I saw someone who did post their favorite 5 Bowie songs.


2 posted on 01/12/2016 3:06:05 PM PST by BeadCounter (,)
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To: BeadCounter

Panic in Detroit is my favorite.

It was about one of the social justice warriors who helped stir trouble in Detroit. Also a rather revolutionary sound for its day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPI0PF8VWAM


3 posted on 01/12/2016 3:09:58 PM PST by cripplecreek (Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
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To: DallasBiff

I think his collaboration with Pat Metheny “This Is Not America” was his best vocal performance.


4 posted on 01/12/2016 3:12:27 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: DallasBiff

I have to go with Changes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMQ0Ryy01yE


5 posted on 01/12/2016 3:12:46 PM PST by Hugin ("First thing--get yourself a firearm!" Sheriff Ed Galt, Last Man Standing.)
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To: DallasBiff

Wild is the wind is my fav and he had lots I love.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THbYFOsl-LM


6 posted on 01/12/2016 3:13:17 PM PST by Beowulf9
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To: DallasBiff

I’m going to listen to it. I’ve never heard it.

My favorite of his is Can You Hear Me.


7 posted on 01/12/2016 3:14:07 PM PST by Family Guy (A society's first line of defense is not the law but customs, traditions and moral values. -Williams)
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To: DallasBiff

Let’s Dance.


8 posted on 01/12/2016 3:14:31 PM PST by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: DallasBiff

Not my favorite.


9 posted on 01/12/2016 3:23:45 PM PST by RoosterRedux (Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light - John Milton, Paradise Lost)
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To: DallasBiff

Heroes
Oh You Pretty Things
Young Americans
Golden Years
Rebel Rebel


10 posted on 01/12/2016 3:27:43 PM PST by JewishRighter
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To: DallasBiff

Great song from my favorite album of his.

My iTunes says I play “It Ain’t Easy” a lot more than any other tho..


11 posted on 01/12/2016 3:28:06 PM PST by joethedrummer
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To: BeadCounter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D67kmFzSh_o

Almost unrecognizable he’s so young.


12 posted on 01/12/2016 3:29:10 PM PST by headstamp 2
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To: DallasBiff

Wow.

Never before have I seen so many threads about a recently departed person.

Especially from a conservative board!

If anything else, I think it proves what an icon he was!

RIP, Mr. Bowie!


13 posted on 01/12/2016 3:30:23 PM PST by djf ("It's not about being nice, it's about being competent!" - Donald Trump)
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To: headstamp 2

Most of us heard it for the first time in 1973, I had no idea until years later it actually came out in 1969.


14 posted on 01/12/2016 3:31:31 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: djf

You could make the case that outside of Elvis he was the biggest icon of the rock era, in terms of solo artists.


15 posted on 01/12/2016 3:32:36 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: DallasBiff
Nahh.
I like Bowie, but that song sound sounds like Al Gore off his meds.
16 posted on 01/12/2016 3:35:31 PM PST by Falcon4.0
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To: JewishRighter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLbi6y4ktgc


17 posted on 01/12/2016 3:35:41 PM PST by headstamp 2
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To: DallasBiff

http://youtu.be/Q7Bd3iJSFyE

Rather liked “Man Who Sold the World” myself.


18 posted on 01/12/2016 3:40:45 PM PST by Snickering Hound
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To: djf

I know. I was really expecting a lot of Bowie-bashing. I’m pleasantly surprised...


19 posted on 01/12/2016 3:41:17 PM PST by colinhester
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To: dfwgator

I believe you may be right!

And it’s interesting that even given his sexuality or whatever, his general weirdness, he is so respected.
It shows he really did good stuff!

Well, not all of it was brilliant, but worth a try anyways!


20 posted on 01/12/2016 3:41:29 PM PST by djf ("It's not about being nice, it's about being competent!" - Donald Trump)
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