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11 de ene. de 2023 · He was a true one-off and perfectly made music from various genres, from glam rock to jazz-funk to minimalist electronica. We've picked 20 of his greatest-ever songs to make for a perfect David Bowie playlist.
- Tom Eames
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8 de ene. de 2020 · Here are 30 essential songs by David Bowie, the late, great art-pop shapeshifter.
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- Gavin Edwards,Christopher R. Weingarten,Brittany Spanos,Jason Newman,Simon Vozick-Levinson,Maura Johnston,Patrick Doyle,Scott Sterling,Andy Greene,Rob Sheffield
MOJO’s team of writers select David Bowie's greatest ever songs. 100. Let Me Sleep Beside You. 99. Bring Me The Disco King 98. Move On
- Let Me Sleep Beside You
- I Would Be Your Slave
- Loving The Alien
- Jump They Say
- The London Boys
- Fantastic Voyage
- Lady Stardust
- Seven Years in Tibet
- Something in The Air
- Joe The Lion
A rejected single finally released on a 1970 cash-in compilation, Bowie’s first collaboration with the producer Tony Visconti is better than anything on his debut album. Driven by acoustic guitar, its sound points the way ahead and there’s something appealingly odd, even sinister about the lyrical come-ons: “Wear the dress your mother wore.”
Uniformly strong, the songwriting on Heathenstretched from the prosaic – the letter-to-adult-son of Everyone Says Hi – to the baffling. Its highlight sits somewhere between: ostensibly a love song that gradually reveals itself to be about God. The melody is beautiful, the arrangement – very Visconti strings over electronic beats – perfectly poised.
The solitary moment that sparked on 1984’s inspiration-free Tonight. A strange, genuinely great song about religion smothered by overproduction. A 2018 remix helps matters a little, and the stripped-back 00s live versions available onlineare better yet. The demo version – much talked up by Bowie in later years – remains unheard.
Hailed as a return to peak form on release, Black Tie White Noise was nothing of the sort, but its first single was authentically fantastic. Jittery but commercial funk is undercut by a dark lyric that returned to the subject of Bowie’s mentally ill half-brother Terry, this time brooding on his 1985 suicide.
Tellingly, Bowie’s first great song centred on outsiders. A stark, brass- and woodwind-assisted depiction of those – like Bowie himself – left with their noses pressed against the glass of the Swinging London party, it feels like a monochrome kitchen-sink drama compressed into three minutes.
The album Lodger opened with that rarest of things in the Bowie canon, a protest song. Inspired by the ongoing cold war and its attendant nuclear paranoia, its combination of anger and fatalism still sounds pertinent. The music meanwhile is essentially a gentle reworking of Boys Keep Swinging: same key, same chords, only slower.
Ziggy Stardust’s most emotionally affecting moment is one of its most straightforward songs. Driven by Mick Ronson’s piano, it paints a poignant picture beautifully: an overhyped gig by a hot new band, one man in the crowd sadly looking on as his younger ex-lover becomes a star. “I smiled sadly for a love I could not obey.”
There was something charming about Bowie’s enthusiastic drum’n’bass experiments on Earthling, but its finest track had nothing to do with them: Bowie suggested it was inspired by 60s soul and the Pixies. Either way, its leaps from eerie atmospherics to blasting, wall-of-noise chorus are really exhilarating: an overlooked triumph.
Another overlooked 90s gem, from the coolly received Hours, Something in the Air is both limpid and melancholy. The lyrics are filled with regret, the vocal parched and pained behind a liberal sprinkling of electronic distortion – and, when it hits its chorus, anthemic in a way that hints at All the Young Dudes.
Joe the Lion defies explication. Once you get past the opening lines about the transgressive self-mutilating performance artist Chris Burden – “Tell you who you are if you nail me to my car” – the lyrics make virtually no sense at all. The music – arcing, frantic atonal guitar and gibbering backing vocals – sounds deranged; Bowie sings like a man o...
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- Alexis Petridis
David Bowie: his 50 greatest songs, ranked · Playlist · 50 songs · 5.6K likes.
8 de ene. de 2024 · READ MORE: Top 10 David Bowie Songs. Choosing the Best Song From Every David Bowie Album got a little easier during some of the more fallow periods of his career – the '80s after Let's Dance ...
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