Day 21 | Quicksand
On the three-week anniversary of Bowie's death I offer what was probably his most depressing, hopeless song. There's only way to make this song any gloomier-- sing it as a duet with Robert Smith. (By the way, I think Rosemary…
Day 20 | Width Of A Circle
Listen to this and tell me it's not a heavy metal song. From 1970. That means he was a pioneer in that genera too Album: the Man Who Sold the World.
Day 19 | Crystal Japan
I'm posting this song as representative of Bowie's many instrumental songs. I've been listening to a compilation of them as background music, but unlike the other songs on the compilation, Crystal Japan didn't originally appear on any album. It was…
Day 18 | Strangers When We Meet
Bowie probably never invested so much in a song you probably don’t remember. He first put this on the somewhat obscure soundtrack album, the Buddha of Suburbia, the added a slightly different version to Outside, which mostly had an entirely…
Day 17 | Sue (Or a Season of Crime)
This version of the song was released as the one new contribution to a 2014 compilation album. Since I already had all the other songs, I downloaded this one and... didn't like it. I think I read it would appear…
Day 16 | Modern Love
Rolling Stone polled readers on their favorite Bowie videos, songs and deep cuts and from the polls came up with three top ten lists. It isn't clear if they are presented in order, but Modern Love is first on the…
Day 15 | It’s Hard to Be A Saint in the City
Bowie usually included one or more songs on his albums that he did not first make famous. He covered the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Beach Boys, Cream and many others. This, along with Growin' Up, is one of two…
Day 14 | We Are The Dead
On the second week anniversary of his passing, I'm choosing another death related song in part to answer a request from Susan. This is from Bowie's abandoned project to make a musical out of George Orwell's 1984. The Orwell's widow…
Day 13 | Ashes to Ashes
I read today that Bowie's ashes will be spread in the Catskill Mountains, near his Woodstock home, which is about an hour from where I live. Thus today's song, which comes with one of the handful of early videos that…
Day 12 | Heaven’s In Here
I could never be in the same city as Tin Machine when the band was touring, usually performing in intimate venues. Subsequently Bowie never performed any of the band's songs in his solo concerts, so although I saw him live…