Your Favourite David Bowie Deep Cuts?

One of my all time favs, there something about that tune, I can't put my finger on it but I love it. I really like the jam at the end...and then the tape loop ...bro bro bro bro

 

I think the tape loop is saying "riot"

 

Many already listed. Also enjoy "Toy (Your Turn To Drive)"...

 

01. Warszawa (Low)
02. African Night Flight (Lodger)
03. Some Are (Low Outtake)
04. Wood Jackson (Heathen B side)
05. It's Gonna Be Me ( Young Americans Outtake)
07. Always Crashing In The Same Car (Low)
08. It's No Game 2 (Scary Monsters)
09. No One Calls (Hours B side)
10. The Shadowman (Toy, Heathen B side)
11. Baal EP ( single 1982)
12. Joe The Lion ("Heroes")
13. Time (Aladdin Sane)
14. After All ( The Man Who Sold The World)
15. Repetition (Lodger)
16. The London Boys (David Bowie 1967 album)
17. Sons Of The Silent Age ("Heroes")
18. You Feel So Lonely You Could Die ( The Next Day)
19. My Death (Ziggy Stardust Motion Picture)
20. Neukoln ("Heroes")

 

It's so ahead of it's time - 'post-punk' before punk happened! It has the same sort of infectious energy as Blur's "Song 2".

 

Memory Of A Free Festival.

 

It seems "Deep Cut" means diff things too diff folks [which is OK by me i guess]; for me, in this case, a non-album cut & not released all over the world [at 1st].
"John, I'm Only Dancing" [studio]
Two UK singles [at 1st/'72 & '73]; tho not released in the US.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John,_I'm_Only_Dancing

i 1st heard it on a 'boot' in like '78 & luv'ED it!
http://www.algonet.se/~bassman/bootlegs/
likED the ["duo-tonED"] cover too!!

 

Surprised that not a single forum member has mentioned STATION TO STATION yet!
Especially since we not not long ago had a dedicated thread to the song, we many a member cited it as being among their favourite tracks. Maybe it's because it's not considered a deep cut??? Anyway, the studio version has never made a compilation in any form.

Here is my top 10 (in random order):

Station To Station
Sweet Thing / Candidate / Sweet Thing (Reprise)
Slip Away
Big Brother
Warsawa
Sense Of Doubt
The Secret Life Of Arabia
African Night Flight
Move On
Under The God

 

I love lying in the bath and singing 'Eight Line Poem'. I can't sing to save my life but with 8LP and an echo-y bathroom, it doesn't seem to matter.

Although, if the house isn't empty when I start it is by the time I finish.

 

There's even a music video for it:

 

What's this from?

 

run run run run

 

I wouldn't consider it a deep cut. Rather, it's a musically ambitious major statement. The lead off track for an album that shares its title.
I hadn't realized that it's never appeared on a compilation. That a song that awesome could be left off of a 'best of' really speaks to the strength of Bowie's catalog.

 

Please Mr. Gravedigger
Black Country Rock
The Superman
She Shook Me Cold
Bewlay Brothers - Queen Bitch - Oh! You Pretty Things
Unwashed And Somewhat Slightly Dazed
God Knows I'm Good
Janine
Memory - part 1
Rosalyn - Friday On My Mind - Port Of Amsterdam - cover tunes from Pin Ups...I like them
Drive In Saturday
Big Brother + Chant
Sweet Thing
Fascination - Who Can I Be Now
Wild Is The Wind
Always Crashing In The Same Car
Be My Wife
Subterraneans
Sons Of The Silent Age
V-2 Scheider
Red Money
Red Sails
Look Back Anger

 

Love the lumbering heaviness of "Black Country Rock" and several others on The Man Who Sold The World, that whole album (besides the title track and perhaps "The Supermen" and "Width Of a Circle") is made up of favourite deep cuts.

 

This is a great pop single for sure! Love it as long as I don't have to see Bowie dancing around to it in those ridiculously too-tight tights he wears in the movie!!

 

I think WITW was a hit for Bowie too. I think it was released as a single in the UK in the early 80s and made the Top 20.

Strangers When We Meet is my current Bowie fave. It is on the latest Bowie compilation, but it's still relatively obscure for non-Bowie fans.

The Informer, one of The Next Day outtakes, is another excellent track.

 

I didn't know that. Any idea why so many years after the album's release?

 

Bowie contributed "Pictures of Lily" for a 2001 Who tribute; it was likely recorded during the Toy sessions.

http://www.discogs.com/Various-Substitute-The-Songs-Of-The-Who/master/224669

 

"Low" is my favorite so that's chock full of favorite deep cuts. Off the pop stuff, maybe "Fall Dog Bombs the Moon."

 

I'd say it was because his contract with RCA was ending and they wanted to release another hit while they had a chance.

Reached #24 in the UK and #16 in Ireland. There was a video too, shot in 1981.

 

Nite flights

 

I think the problem with someone like Bowie is that he is such an icon that Deep Cuts becomes an entirely relative concept with his pored over catalog. I think I would nominate Julie but even that is not obscure .

 

Hey, it's your thread - don't let me dictate terms!

 

African Night Flight - weird and creepy
Repetition - great anti-domestic abuse song with some chilling lyrics
Be My Wife
Scream Like A Baby
V2 Schneider