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Your ultimate 6 track Bowie mix

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BearSoFair · 08/01/2020 14:02

Shamelessly stolen from 6 Music, I'm really enjoying seeing the mix on Twitter! I've changed my choices multiple times already but as of this moment...

  1. Sound & Vision
  2. Moonage Daydream
  3. Soul Love
  4. The Prettiest Star
  5. Changes
  6. Magic Dance, if it counts.
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Mistlewoeandwhine · 09/01/2020 13:15
  1. Moonage Daydream (live from the Ziggy Stardust the motion picture album)
  2. Drive in Saturday
  3. Absolute Beginners
  4. Bewlay Brothers
  5. Always Crashing in the Same Car
  6. Wild is the Wind
CuriousaboutSamphire · 09/01/2020 13:19

I'ved decided. My listo s the last 3 tracks I listened to and the next 3 I will be hearing!

Letter to Hermione - always surprises me!

DarlingNikita · 09/01/2020 13:23

Oh God. I might need more than one run at this.
In no order apart from the top one, which is my all-time favourite:
Golden Years
Drive in Saturday
Wild is the Wind
Absolute Beginners
Young Americans
Kooks

Fuck, is that six already?!?

Rock N Roll Suicide
Heroes
China Girl
Where Are We Now?
Oh You Pretty Things
The Man Who Sold The World

...

I could go on!

Branleuse · 09/01/2020 13:25

oh you pretty things
Kooks
TVC15
rock and roll suicide
young americans
John i'm only dancing

wow, theres so many more i want to put

Bumpitybumper · 09/01/2020 13:26
  1. We Are The Dead
  2. Moonage Daydream
  3. When You Rock and Roll with me
  4. Bewlay Brothers
  5. Lady Stardust
  6. Five Years
DarlingNikita · 09/01/2020 13:29

Forgot about Five Years!!

CuriousaboutSamphire · 09/01/2020 13:41

I'm hiding this now. I've got work to do... Doesn't include shuffling Bowie albums Grin

Lessstressedhemum · 09/01/2020 15:07

Wild is the wind
Rebel, rebel
Sorrow
Diamond dogs,
Suffragette City
Time

And then I'd have to start again. It's impossible.

Flowerheadz · 09/01/2020 17:01

Life on Mars
Rock n roll suicide
Quicksand
Young Americans
Five years
Across the universe

BovaryX · 09/01/2020 18:35

Lady Stardust
Bewlay Brothers
Always Crashing in the same car
Aladdin Sane
Heroes
Letter to Hermione
Hang on to yourself

mrwalkensir · 09/01/2020 18:41

Width of a Circle,
Hang on to Yourself
Stay
Sweet Thing/Candidate/Sweet Thing Reprise
Cygnet Committee
Always Crashing in the Same Car
(for video - the TOTPs canned backing/live vocals of Heroes)
oh hang on....what about my other 6(0)…..

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BearSoFair · 09/01/2020 21:26

Grin I'm glad everyone seemed to be struggling to narrow it down too!

If I was picking six today I think I'd change it up from what I had yesterday...

  1. Sound & Vision (always number one for me)
  2. Blackstar (I have a Blackstar tattoo so should probably have been in my list from the start!)
  3. Rock & Roll Suicide
  4. Five Years
  5. Ashes to Ashes
  6. Hallo Spaceboy (with the Pet Shop Boys, what a collaboration)
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IamPickleRick · 09/01/2020 21:30

Modern love
Wild is the wind
As the world falls down
Lady stardust
Sorrow
Under pressure

And I have a real soft spot for loving the alien, even though it’s not very good 😂

IamPickleRick · 09/01/2020 21:39

Ok my cd2 with my alternative choices (that probably aren’t considered to be very good but I love their weirdness) would be;

Loving the Alien
Ricohet
Fame
Beauty and the Beast
TVC-15
We are the dead

SixStringFanjo · 09/01/2020 22:11

Soul Love
Drive in Saturday
Hang onto Yourself
The Man who Sold the World
Prettiest Star
John I'm only Dancing

Fruityb · 09/01/2020 22:19

Aaaahhh I loved Hallo Spaceboy!

HalfBrick · 09/01/2020 22:24

The ones I listen to the most (lately) in order:

Five years
Young Americans
Golden Years
Rebel Rebel
Queen Bitch

Bonus listen - the brief Bowie backing vocals on Lou Reed's Satellite of Love are just gorgeous.

Also been watching his Young Americans on the Dick Cavett show a lot too (you tube).

Starksforthewin · 10/01/2020 01:32

Can you believe it’s been four years already?

RIP dear David. You are still so loved, even this little thread shows how much.

ALongHardWinter · 10/01/2020 02:11
  1. Life on Mars.
  2. Suffragette City.
  3. Jean Genie.
  4. Rebel Rebel
  5. Star man
  6. Golden Years
DressingGown · 10/01/2020 02:30

Drive in Saturday
All the young dudes
Five years
Lazarus
Rock n roll suicide
Let’s Dance

I’ve rewritten that list, a lot.

I love Labyrinth. It’s all sorts of wrong.

DecadeEnds · 10/01/2020 02:35

Let’s Dance
Kooks
Wild is the Wind
Ashes to Ashes
Absolute Beginners
Lazarus

ImASlatternGetMeOutOfHere · 10/01/2020 02:55

I can’t put together a list of six, it’s just not possible. I’ve been a fan since the beginning and have seen him live so many times. He was such a legend. I still haven’t been able to listen to Blackstar. It really is too raw.

We managed to see Labyrinth on the big screen recently and it was brilliant. I loved being able to introduce my kids to it. They are all Bowie fans anyway ( they didn’t get much choice in this household).

DarlingNikita · 10/01/2020 10:43

Forgot about Sorrow too! That would be my Bowie- oke song.

BovaryX · 11/01/2020 13:17

It's very difficult to reduce it to a six song playlist. I think it's easier to reduce it to three albums
Ziggy Stardust
Hunky Dory
Low
Here's my missing playlist which I couldn't fit into first six....
Five Years
Golden Years
The man who sold the world
John I'm only dancing
Secret life of Arabia
Rebel Rebel

isseywith4vampirecats · 11/01/2020 13:19

Space Oddity
Drive in Saturday
Life on Mars
Gene Genie
Rebel Rebel
Japanese Girl
could carry on but you said six