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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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To: djf

I made the case that while Bowie in the late 60s and the 70s, like many, questioned conventional lifestyles and experimented with alternative lifestyles, did wind up spending his last 20+ years as a devoted husband and family man. As if he realized after all the experimentation that indeed the traditional ways were the best.


21 posted on 01/12/2016 3:44:35 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: DallasBiff

The Heart’s Filthy Lesson


22 posted on 01/12/2016 3:44:49 PM PST by Rock Eye Jack
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To: DallasBiff

His best song? Every song from the Ziggy Stardust album was his “best song”. That album just plain rocks.


23 posted on 01/12/2016 3:47:10 PM PST by Bullish (Face it, insanity is just not presidential.)
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To: Beowulf9

One of his most underrated songs and videos IMHO was “Jump They Say”, I’ve had this one playing in my head a lot:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avJt0SQec0I


24 posted on 01/12/2016 3:47:57 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: DallasBiff

My favorite is “Moonage Daydream”. It has some killer guitar riffs!


25 posted on 01/12/2016 3:50:28 PM PST by Commander X (TOTUS...destroying the USA one lie at a time.)
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To: DallasBiff
Bowie's best song - TVC15
26 posted on 01/12/2016 3:52:30 PM PST by skeeter
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To: Bullish
Every song from the Ziggy Stardust album was his “best song”. That album just plain rocks.

Absolutely! I bought that album after hearing "Star Man" on the radio one evening back in 1982. First time I played the album, I didn't know what to make of it. It quickly became my favorite, and I listened to it incessantly, and still do today (33 years later!).

RIP David.

27 posted on 01/12/2016 3:54:54 PM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: DallasBiff

“Fashion” is another of my favorites...

I frequently quote the line “We are the Goon Squad and We’re Coming To Town...Beep Beep” on threads referring to the Leftists coming in and imposing their PC-Sharia.


28 posted on 01/12/2016 3:59:44 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Snickering Hound

A really great cover of The Man Who Sold The World by Nirvana

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fregObNcHC8


29 posted on 01/12/2016 4:00:12 PM PST by cripplecreek (Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
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To: DallasBiff

He had more songs that I like than I first recalled.

My favorites are...

Rebel Rebel
Young Americans
Under Pressure (w/Queen)
Changes
Fame
Space Oddity


30 posted on 01/12/2016 4:00:33 PM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better, safer America)
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To: djf

He was once quoted as saying (and I may be paraphrasing here) “you know, I’m a flaming heterosexual.”


31 posted on 01/12/2016 4:03:20 PM PST by EDINVA
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To: DallasBiff

I rode past on my bike today where he used to live in downtown Manhattan. There were a bunch of people gathered outside with some police presence.


32 posted on 01/12/2016 4:04:02 PM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better, safer America)
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To: DallasBiff

Bowie was a loser at life and then became a winner with Imam in 1992. My parents snuck into my oldest brother’s room in 1976 and stole his ticket to Diamond Dogs show at the Los Angeles Convention Center. My brother was fuming. My father just hated Bowie.
Heroes is the one song I listen to the most after Young Americans. May the Lord have mercy on his soul.


33 posted on 01/12/2016 4:08:41 PM PST by Falconspeed ("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94))
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To: DallasBiff

Can’t pick a favorite from Bowie’s catalog - way too many good songs. Some personal favorites off the top of my head: “Aladdin Sane”, “Drive-In Saturday”, “Panic in Detroit” (been listening to the Aladdin Sane album since I heard Bowie passed), “The Man Who Sold The World”, “Station to Station”, “Fame”, “Golden Years”, “The Speed of Life”.


34 posted on 01/12/2016 4:12:34 PM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: Sicon
Yeah, same here. I heard the song “surrogate city” on the radio and had to run out and buy the album. First listen of it didn't do much for me but boy did all of it grow on me. An absolute masterpiece.
35 posted on 01/12/2016 4:16:41 PM PST by Bullish (Face it, insanity is just not presidential.)
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Oops, that should have read “suffragette city”
36 posted on 01/12/2016 4:19:49 PM PST by Bullish (Face it, insanity is just not presidential.)
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To: djf
If anything else, I think it proves what an icon he was!"

It goes to show how big a part of our lives Bowie's music was - part of the "soundtrack of our lives", pardon the cliche. I've been listening to David Bowie since I was in grade school.

And two other factors:

1) The music he made back in the '70s still sounds fresh and innovative.

2) He was still making good music almost literally until the day he died.

RIP
37 posted on 01/12/2016 4:20:26 PM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: DallasBiff

So many great songs it is hard to pick one as best. Always liked Diamond Dogs. Also he had a “ David Live “ album which was superb !!! One of my all time favorites.


38 posted on 01/12/2016 4:36:51 PM PST by Cautious Optimism
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Not just his music, he made a durn good knife too.


39 posted on 01/12/2016 4:44:20 PM PST by BipolarBob
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To: dfwgator

Tragic song about his brother’s suicide.


40 posted on 01/12/2016 4:45:44 PM PST by Mr. Blond
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