Your Favourite David Bowie Deep Cuts?

Here are some of my choices (1969-2013)

God Knows I'm Good
The Man Who Sold The World
Quicksand
Five Years
Lady Grinning Soul
Sweet Thing
Right
Word On A Wing
Art Decade
The Secret Life Of Arabia
Repetition
Scream Like A Baby
South Horizon
I'm Deranged
Heat

 

Rock and Roll Suicide. One of the best opening lines in a song!

 

Off the top of my head:

"Width of a Circle"
"All the Madmen"
"Win"
"Stay"
"Red Sails"
"Teenage Wildlife"
"It's No Game Part One"

Plenty more - those just came to mind immediately!

 

I know it's a cover, but I love Took a Trip on a Gemini Spacecraft from Heathen...

 

This thread will be interesting partly because it'll depend on the definition of "deep cut". Is that anything that never made a hits compilation?

 

Yes, I guess that's a good way of doing it. Hope I haven't broken that rule in the first post!

 

"Man Who Sold the World" is probably on a compilation or 2. It was never a "hit" but it became a "Bowie standard" in the 90s after Nirvana popularized it - like "All the Young Dudes", it's not a song that scored Bowie a true "hit" but it's also not one I'd call a "deep cut" because of its ancillary fame.

It's like "Nothing Compares 2 U" for Prince. His version wasn't the hit, but it's too famous to be a "deep cut".

I'd also argue that nothing off of "Ziggy" is a "deep cut" because the album's too famous!

 

Wow. My list is scarily similar to yours. I would also have:

Bring Me The Disco King;
Stranger's When We Meet and
Seven Years in Tibet

 

OK Oatsdad, I will comply! I will trade Five Years for Bombers (Hunky Dory era) and TMWSTW for After All. How's that?

 

"Stay," "Oh! You Pretty Things" and "Panic in Detroit."

 

Can't Help Thinking About Me
Love You Till Tuesday
All The Madmen
Kooks
Watch That Man
Fascination
Look Back in Anger
Up The Hill Backwards
Zeroes
Country Bus Stop
Magic Dance
Pretty Pink Rose
Little Wonder
The Pretty Things Are Going To Hell
Everyone Says Hi
Shadow Man
I'd Rather Be High

 

Karma Man
London Bye Ta Ta (1968 version)
Sell Me a Coat (Feathers version)
Occasional Dream
The Prettiest Star (1970 version)
We Are The Dead
It's Gonna Be Me
Win
Always Crashing in the Same Car
Fantastic Voyage
Zeroes
Thru These Architect Eyes

Does "As The World Falls Down" count as a deep cut? Not in Brazil, where it was a big radio hit.

 

Prisoner of Love
Amazing (Live)
It Ain't Easy
Cracked Actor
Right
Cat People (soundtrack version)
Always Crashing In The Same Car (Bowie at the Beeb version)
Up The Hill Backwards
Time Will Crawl (MM Remix)
Outside
Conversation Piece (2001)
Sunday (Moby mix)

 

Conversation Piece

 

Sweet Thing
Subterraneans
A Small Plot of Land
Prisoner of Love
After All
Breaking Glass
An Occasional Dream
Win
The Motel
Moss Garden
Warszawa
There is a Happy Land
What In The World
Looking for Satellites
Cygnet Committee
Crack City
All The Madmen
Letter to Hermoine
Always Crashing in the Same Car
I’m Deranged
Lady Grinning Soul
Thru These Architects Eyes
Pretty Thing
Because You’re Young
Law (Earthlings on Fire)
Rubber Band (single version)
Black Country Rock
Teenage Wildlife

 

Yes, Cat People - Soundtrack Version

 

Wild is the Wind. Beautiful

 

Black Country Rock
Teenage Wildlife
Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed
London Bye Ta Ta

 

Great list

Is there another version of London Bye TaTa? I'm only aware of the one version...

 

Space Oddity
1979 version

 

I was with you until this one. Bowie for people who don't like Bowie.

I love "Bring Me the Disco King", both the album and Underworld soundtrack versions.

 

I'll go with "Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family" since it hasn't been cited yet and it's such an odd song.

 

Great song, but wasn't that on Changestwobowie?

 

<— essentially all of the songs on this album, sans 'Strangers When We Meet', 'Hallo Spaceboy' and 'The Hearts Filthy Lesson' if you count 'em as 'hits'.

 

"Subterraneans", the final track on Low, is my all time favourite Bowie track, and probably my second favourite piece of music ever (the first, for the record, is Eno's "Julie With...").
There's something both incredibly sad, yet oddly uplifting about "Subterraneans" and it became a very important piece of music to me the moment I first heard it in 1981, aged 14. I can't really explain what it does to me, but I'm certain that it's somehow vital to me, and has been for the past 34 years.

Other deep Bowie cuts -
"I'm Deranged" from 1. Outside absolutely blew me away when I first heard it.
"Red Sails" from Lodger, because it's so wonderfully carefree and more than a little bonkers.
"Because You're Young" from Scary Monsters, which feels awfully personal, and is clearly influenced by his divorce from Angie - there's a few lines in this song that cut so deep, "she took back everything she'd said, and left him nearly out of his mind" being one that makes me wince with shared pain as I can identify so much with it.
"Shopping For Girls" - surely the best track on Tin Machine II, and one that really should be better known.
"Heathen (The Rays)" - my favourite Bowie song of the 21st century. Great lyrics, a lovely melody, and on the brilliant live version recorded at the BBC in 2002 Bowie's vocals are mind-blowingly good.