What is your favorite David Bowie song?

".........blue, blue, electric blue that's the color of my room"

"Sound & Vision"

Simple and beautiful. It's like a painting.

 

"Changes" followed by "A Space Oddity"

 

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Can't name just one, but Space Oddity, Starman, Rebel Rebel, It's No Game Pt. 1, Scream Like A Baby, Ashes To Ashes and Never Let Me Down are my faves.

 

Let's Dance (single version)
Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy (with Der Bingle)

 

I'll vote for the entire "Hunky Dory" album, side one or side two.

 

Ah, gee, just one?

Well, forced into a corner, I'll have to go with the Sound + Vision version of Rebel Rebel. The album version is terrific, but to these ears, the alternate version on the box is even better....

Close to the top spot is Always Crashing in the Same Car, Golden Years, I Have Not Been to Oxford Town, Ziggy Stardust, TVC 15, Drive-In Saturday, and especially Heroes, Station to Station, and the great Panic in Detroit.

Shalom, y'all!

L. Bangs

 

Heroes is not only my favorite Bowie song, but my favorite song of all time, period!

 

Where to begin?

Starman
Heroes
Always Crashing In The Same Car
Blue Jean (really!)
Life On Mars
The Man Who Sold The World
Young Americans
TVC15
Word On A Wing
Ashes To Ashes
Seven

 

Space Oddity

 

For me it's a toss-up between:

Life on Mars?
Sound and Vision
Always Crashing in the Same Car
Be My Wife
Heroes
Boys Keep Swinging

(I like Low a lot.)

 

One song? ONE SONG?!?!

(Calming down).

If I had to pick one: "Teenage Wildlife."

Then "Word on a Wing."

Then "Fantastic Voyage."

Then all the others.

 

Time
Sweet Thing
Memory of a Free Festival
Alladin Sane

 

Drive in Saturday - the chorus of this song has always given more the chills though I have no idea what he's going on about...

John, I'm Only Dancing as well.

 

THE LAUGHING GNOME

 

Moonage Daydream
It's No Game/Parts 1&2
Space Oddity

 

"Space Oddity" Hands Down. Maybe because that was the first Bowie song that I was introduced to back in the early 70's .

 

1. 1984/Dodo (from the 1980 Floor Show)
2. Rebel Rebel (single mix)
3. John I'm Only Dancing (original U.K. single mix)
4. Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)
5. What In The World
6. Look Back In Anger
7. Always Crashing In The Same Car
8. Heroes/Helden/Héros
9. Absolute Beginners
10. Ziggy Stardust

The list changes from time to time.

 

So many great ones (one of my favorite artists): Space Oddity, Life on Mars, Station to Station, TVC15, Aladdin Sane, Jean Genie, Ashes to Ashes, Heroes, Sound and Vision, Moonage Daydream, Starman.....

I'll go with Aladdin Sane

 

Right on, dude. It's like a British pastoral by way of late-1970's Berlin. If that makes any sense. My other faves are Moonage Daydream and Drive-In Saturday (another evocative song...). Or maybe just the whole Ziggy album except It Ain't Easy.

 

Wow, as has been said many times, Bowie has so many great songs that to pick one would show direspect to the rest of his work.
I think Bowie is at his best when he sings with unabashed emotion, so I would pick "Heroes".

I, I can remember (I remember)
Standing, by the wall (by the wall)
And the guns, shot above our heads (over our heads)
And we kissed, as though nothing could fall (nothing could fall)
And the shame, was on the other side
Oh we can beat them, for ever and ever
Then we could be Heroes, just for one day

 

"Stay"
Peace-
Norm

 

"Stay" is one that I consistently play. A disco song that never sounds dated.

There can be no "one" favorite Bowie song. It really depends on what mood I'm in. Some other worthy contenders:

Panic In Detroit
Repetition
The Width Of A Circle
the entire second side of Heroes

 

all of hunky dory. but if it's one song only, i'd say quicksand...

 

all of hunky dory. but if it's one song only, i'd say quicksand...