Your Favourite David Bowie Deep Cuts?

Ziggy Stardust
Life on Mars
Let's Dance
China Girl
Ashes To Ashes
Hallo Spaceboy
Starman
Space Oddity
Rebel Rebel
Heroes
Changes
Suffragette City
Jean Genie
Young Americans
Sound And Vision
Blue Jean
Fame
Under Pressure
Loving The Alien
Thurday's Child
New Killer Star
Fashion
Modern Love
Absolute Beginners
This Is Not America
Golden Years
I'm Afraid of Americans





... did I forget any 'deep cut' not mentioned, or can the thread be closed?

 

Off the top of my head:

Thru' These Architect's Eyes
I Have Not Been To Oxford Town
Dirty Boys
Atomica
Bombers
African Night Flight
Dodo
V-2 Schneider
The Secret Life Of Arabia
The Pretty Things Are Going To Hell

 

Lady Grinning Soul.
Always Crashing In The Same Car.
Word On A Wing.
Wild Is The Wind.

 

How can the majority of these songs be labeled as "deep cuts". Aren't "deep cuts" songs that weren't commercial hit singles -- that is, atmospheric album tracks?

 

That was my attempt at irony, my friend - as almost all of those Bowie hits have already been mentioned in this thread as 'deep cuts'.

 

Let Me Sleep Beside You
God Knows I'm Good
After All
The Bewlay Brothers
Soul Love
Lady Grinning Soul
See Emily Play
Rock and Roll With Me
Somebody Up There Likes Me
Word on a Wing
Be My Wife
Blackout
Red Sails
Kingdom Come
I Feel Free
No Control
Battle for Britain (the Letter)
New Angels of Promise
5:15 The Angels Have Gone
Bring Me the Disco King
If You Can See Me

 

Don't Look Down
Zeroes
This is Not America
Girls
Star
Man in the Middle

I think it's hard to make a case for most cuts before Diamond Dogs being deep--they're pretty well known to everyone.

 

Joe the Lion
Wild is the Wind
African Night Flight
It's No Game
Deranged
Jump They Said
I'm afraid of Americans
The Secret Life of Arabia
Fascination
Breaking Glass
Subterranians
Yassassin
Because You're Young
Sweet Thing

 

Ok, my favorite Bowie deep cuts (no singles or otherwise well-known songs):

1. Blackout
2. A New Career In A New Town
3. Velvet Goldmine
4. The Voyeur Of Utter Destruction (As Beauty)
5. Slip Away

 

Win
What in the World
Stay
Look Back In Anger
Watch That Man
Hang On To Yourself

 

Every deeper album cut from almost every Bowie album released since (after) Tin Machine II.

(90% serious. And the only 10% I'm not serious about is Hours... -- which doesn't do a whole lot for me, neither its singles, nor practically any of its deeper album cuts.)

I'll work on an actual list and post it, but 75% of it will probably be post-"Tin Machine" tracks.

 

Too many to mention. A few...

Lady Grinning Soul
Lady Stardust
The Width Of A Circle
Quicksand
Andy Warhol
Queen Bitch
Big Brother
Word On A Wing
TVC15
Stay
Win
Somebody Up There Likes Me
Always Crashing In The Same Car
Joe The Lion
Sons Of The Silent Age
Red Sails
Because You're Young
Without You
Nite Flights
Thru' These Architects' Eyes
I'm Deranged
I Have Not Been To Oxford Town
So She
Dancing Out In Space
I'd Rather Be High
Boss Of Me

 

Let me sleep beside you
Unwashed and Slightly Dazed

 

Good to see so many mentions for Win. Massively underrated song.

 

If I understand correctly:

Queen Bitch
Hang on to Yourself
Cracked Actor
Sweet Thing
Win
Stay
Always Crashing in the Same Car
V-2 Schneider
Up the Hill Backwards or Teenage Wildlife

-E

 

It's not a Bowie song, but if Wild is the Wind is OK, this is a great performance.

 

What Is the Best David Bowie Deep Cut?

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Cactus
Pablo Picasso

 

Teenage Wildlife

 

Shake It

 

"Win" from Young Americans

 

"Ricochet" from "Let's Dance". Kind of weird rhythmical almost like a "Lodger" track. It's not very commercial to my ears featured on what's been dubbed his 'sell-out'.
"Heaven's in Here" from "Tin Machine". It's a bluesy and wild jam with Reeves Gabrels going berserk on his guitar. Love it!
"Fall Dog Bombs the Moon" from "Reality". Love the surreal lyrics and the guitars.
"Dead Man Walking" from "Earthling". One of Bowie's best 90s 'techno-beat' experiments to my ears.
"Rubber Band" from "David Bowie" (1967). Bowie and 'Salvation Army Music' . Any song song on his debut is like a deep cut to me. A fun and charming non-rock 'cabaret album'.
"Teenage Wildlife" form "Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)". A cover version of a Tom Verlaine song. I love Bowie's vocals on it.
"African Night Flight" from "Lodger". Such a loony and fun track.

Well. Enough for now. I'm hungry....

 

Far too many to mention on his LP's, so if I go non album:

'In The Heat Of The Morning' from Bowie At The Beeb
'Holy Holy' from Diamond Dogs B-Side & CD bonus track
'John I'm Only Dancing (Again)' - full 12" version.
'Bombers' - bonus from Hunky Dory Ryko/EMI CD
'The Prettiest Star' 1970 single version with Marc Bolan on guitar.
'Heroes' German 12" version. Half sung in English, half sung in German. Half sung in French on B-side.

Bowie's back catalogue has so much quality and depth keeping it to a short non album list isn't easy!

 

Good pick! I remember on the 2004 tour, some fans apparently kept pestering Bowie to play that one - they may have had signs they brought to the shows.

At one concert - New Jersey, I think? - Bowie actually teased that he'd play the song. He seemed semi-up for it, and the band gradually started to play it in a subdued manner - kind of an approach whereby they showed they knew it but didn't go all-in because they weren't sure the boss would go for it.

And they were right. While Bowie seemed like he might, once the band started to play the song, he quickly put the kibosh on it - and he didn't look that happy they'd indulged the fans!

 

You're confusing "TW" with "Kingdom Come", the next song on the album. "KC" is the Verlaine song - Bowie wrote "TW"...