Monday, January 11, 2016

"THE STARS LOOK VERY DIFFERENT TODAY"

I CAN'T TELL YOU WHAT A SHOCK IT WAS TO LEARN OF DAVID BOWIE'S DEATH.  
My mother has always been a huge Bowie fan so I pretty much grew up listening to his music since I was the size of a little bitty alien.  "THE RISE AND FALL OF ZIGGY STARDUST AND THE SPIDERS FROM MARS" remains one of my top 10 favourite albums.  And Bowie himself has proved to be a major formative influence in my life.  He famously was a chameleon and strove to be a leader and not a follower; to head in directions that were least expected.  Robert Frost's "road less travelled".  Along the way he's managed to create some phenomenal music.  As a woefully inadequate tribute, I thought I'd list my top 10 favourite Bowie songs.  Now, this is a particularly impossible and painful task -- to pick only 10 -- but I've taken my protein pills and put my helmet on.  So here goes . . .

  • 10.  MODERN LOVE
  • 9.   PLEASE MR. GRAVEDIGGER
  • 8.   THIS IS NOT AMERICA
  • 7.   LADY STARDUST
  • 6.   FIVE YEARS
  • 5.   QUEEN BITCH
  • 4.   HEROES
  • 3.   SPACE ODDITY
  • 2.   ASHES TO ASHES
  • 1.   LIFE ON MARS
LIFTOFF!

All I can say is that the world just got a lot less interesting.

3 comments:

  1. It is truly a sad day with the passing of The Thin White Duke. Denise took it harder than I did but overall quite a shock. I took your lead and also came up with my top 10 Bowie songs. In no particular order:
    Please Mr. Gravedigger
    Space Oddity
    The Man Who Sold the World
    Starman
    Ziggy Stardust
    Sorrow
    Heroes
    Ashes to Ashes
    Modern Love
    Blue Jean

    "may God's love be with you"

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  2. Life on Mars is my fave Bowie song, too. I was so tickled that he performed it when I saw him live for the Reality tour a handful of years ago. I never knew that it was one of his more well know tunes, I just immediately connected with the girl with the mousy hair...Such a god damn shame to think that he is no more.

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  3. I read that Bowie was fond of this version: Seu Jorge - life on mars

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHo26IhDxx0

    Cheers.

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