The Friday Canon: DAME DAVID BOWIE

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

What a lot of singles David Bowie has had! But which are the best? This week's instalment of the canon polls casts a spotlight on the mysterious Pierrot of Pop through the prism of his Top 40 hits, including collaborations and....side projects.

You get NINETEEN ticks to sum up Bowie's style-spanning career.




[Poll #838332]

Comments

[koganbot]

Was actually shocked when I heard the singles collection a couple of years ago at how few of my favorite songs of his were singles. For practical purposes, "Changes," "Queen Bitch," and "Suffragette City" might as well be considered singles, since those were the ones that broke the guy onto American FM radio. I'd have been happy to tick those and "Man Who Sold the World" and "Cracked Actor" and "Panic In Detroit" and "Big Brother" and pretty much anything from Station to Station.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty amazed that Changes wasn't on the list either, as it's always on his greatest hits comps. I guess it was a single here but not any kind of hit.

[koganbot]

My guess is that it was never an actual released-on-its-own single, even though it and "Suffragette City" get on the first Bowie best-of, changesonebowie. (In the U.S. the Stones' record co. was smart enough to put "Under My Thumb," "Sympathy for the Devil," and the live "Midnight Rambler" on Hot Rocks, even though none had been actual singles.)

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Wiki has a Bowie singles chronology. Confirms that "Changes" was a proper single. Did nothing in UK. Charted at #66 in US originally and then #41 on reissue in 1975.

"Suffragette City" was belatedly released as a UK single to promote Changesonebowie but again did not chart.

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yes wanted to give more tickies than I did.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

I thought you might have ticked the Brechtgesangen, julio.

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not heard it and i see that dubdobdee doesn't like it.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

You are allowed to have your own opinions, you know ;)

NO HE'S NOT

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

it's the law

breaking the law! breaking the law!!

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haha well if you ysi I'll let you and dubdobdee know :-)