Chuck Your Bowie Top Tens In Here

charlie clown · January 14, 2016

We've not done one of these for ages and obviously we've all been listening to him this week. And with any luck it'll unearth a few gems that either people don't know or which haven't been played for ages. Here's mine as a starter. In no patrticular order of preference:

1 Drive In Saturday (first single I ever bought and still send shivers down my spine)

2 Its No Game Pt.1 (the best guitar on any record. Ever)

3 Lady Stardust (I just love the line that goes 'laughed at his long black hair, his animal grace')

4 Can You Hear Me (the acapella ending and the langorous guitar are just wondrous)

5 The London Boys (a fabulous vocal from the much neglected Decca years)

6 Cygnet Committee (just lovely to start with and then mushrooms into what sounds and feels like some kind of freaked out manifesto)

7 Who Can I Be Now (just a stunning record and as I posted in the RIP thread, it is criminally,rarely heard)

8 Blackout (when I was in my teens I wanted to LIVE the 'kissed you in the rain' scene that it plays out)

9 Five Years (desolate beauty - just magnificent - and with the most sinister drum intro imaginable)

10 Sound And Vision (motorik and astonishing double-tracked vocals)

Mike · January 14, 2016