Lesser known songs do you really like? I really like the bewlay brothers, in the heat of the morning, move on, and up the hill backwards. I thought of this cause a girl I know only likes his most famous songs.
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shareI guess by lesser known you mean not the big hits, real Bowie fanatics would know these.
Karma Man
Wild-Eyed Boy from Freecloud
Saviour Machine
Soul Love
We Are the Dead
Win
Stay
Art Decade
Blackout
Move on
I’m Deranged
Afraid
The Loneliest Guy
I agree, most of those are excellent! Especially the first 5 you listed!
shareMr. Gravedigger from his first album is a masterpiece.
We Are Hungry Men from the first album is also great, and an early sci-fi Bowie song.
Saviour Machine is another sci-fi great.
His cover of the Pixie's Cactus always grabbed me on Heathen
Everyone Says Hi, also off of Heathen, has always seemed so, so very sad to me. It's really touching.
I’m afraid of Americans
shareOh my lord those first 3 you named are so awesome!
shareMr. Gravedigger is such a phenomenon. First album out of the gate and Bowie was like, "I think I'll just quietly challenge what a song even is..." It's a revelation. It's like a short story in four minutes, but also a poem, but also an audio drama...
shareI don't know about his lesser known songs, but my favorites:
Space Oddity
Fame
Let's Dance
Changes
There's a brilliant version of Let's Dance in this set (time signature: 6:15):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LBO46J2xmc
It's also got some great versions of "Heroes" and China Girl, but I think Let's Dance in particular stands out because it's such a heavily-produced pop number on the album version that hearing this stripped down version puts it into a totally different realm.
For his lesser known stuff you should check out golden years, panic in Detroit, move on, fantastic voyage, up the hill backwards, Janine, red money, one shot, all the madmen, oh you pretty things, soul love, cracked actor
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