David Bowie Song Survivor: Introduction and Master List

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Welcome to B&C's David Bowie Song Survivor. Screwtape and I will be running this with assistance from LMP and LMel.

This song survivor will be different from any song survivor done before, though the main idea is the same. The idea is this: Take the best Bowie songs and place them in a field of 64 to compete for the title of best Bowie song.

To get to the field of 64, the first steps occur now. Each album will receive at least one bid into the tournament. There are then going to be at-large bids to fill it out. Based on the voting in this thread, which will be of your ten favorite Bowie albums, the at-large bids will be given to each album based on popularity.

After that, each album will hold voting to pick its alloted number of songs. As opposed to voting off the least favorite, as in the previous survivors, you will be voting for your favorite to get a bid to the tournament.

The tournament will then consist of single rounds of voting for each song match-up.

Here are the David Bowie album tracklistings, plus the listing for the Non-Album tracks, which will have its own round(s) of voting.

David Bowie (1967)
1. Uncle Arthur
2. Sell Me a Coat
3. Rubber Band
4. Love You Till Tuesday
5. There Is a Happy Land
6. We Are Hungry Men
7. When I Live My Dream
8. Little Bombardier
9. Silly Boy Blue
10. Come and Buy My Toys
11. Join the Gang
12. She's Got Medals
13. Maid of Bond Street
14. Please Mr. Gravedigger

Space Oddity (1969)
1. Space Oddity
2. Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed
3. Don't Sit Down
4. Letter to Hermione
5. Signet Committee
6. Janine
7. An Occasional Dream
8. Wild Eyed Boy from Freecloud
9. God Knows I'm Good
10. Memory of a Free Festival

The Man Who Sold the World (1970)
1. The Width of a Circle
2. All the Madmen
3. Black Country Rock
4. After All
5. Running Gun Blues
6. Savior Machine
7. She Shook Me Cold
8. The Man Who Sold the World
9. The Supermen

Hunky Dory (1971)
1. Changes
2. Oh! You Pretty Things
3. Eight Line Poem
4. Life on Mars?
5. Kooks
6. Quicksand
7. Fill Your Heart
8. Andy Warhol
9. Song for Bob Dylan
10. Queen Bitch
11. The Bewlay Brothers

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972)
1. Five Years
2. Soul Love
3. Moonage Daydream
4. Starman
5. It Ain't Easy
6. Lady Stardust
7. Star
8. Hang on to Yourself
9. Ziggy Stardust
10. Suffragette City
11. Rock 'n' Roll Suicide

Aladdin Sane (1973)
1. Watch That Man
2. Aladdin Sane (1913-1938-197?)
3. Drive-In Saturday
4. Panic in Detroit
5. Cracked Actor
6. Time
7. The Prettiest Star
8. Let's Spend the Night Together
9. The Jean Genie
10. Lady Grinning Soul

Pin Ups (1973)
1. Rosalyn
2. Here Comes the Night
3. I Wish You Would
4. See Emily Play
5. Everything's Alright
6. I Can't Explain
7. Friday on My Mind
8. Sorrow
9. Don't Bring Me Down
10. Shapes of Things
11. Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere
12. Where Have All the Good Times Gone

Diamond Dogs (1974)
1. Future Legend
2. Diamond Dogs
3. Sweet Thing
4. Candidate
5. Sweet Things (Reprise)
6. Rebel Rebel
7. Rock 'n' Roll With Me
8. We Are the Dead
9. 1984
10. Big Brother
11. Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family

Young Americans (1975)
1. Young Americans
2. Win
3. Fascination
4. Right
5. Somebody Up There Likes Me
6. Across the Universe
7. Can You Hear Me?
8. Fame

Station to Station (1976)
1. Station to Station
2. Golden Years
3. Word on a Wing
4. TVC 15
5. Stay
6. Wild Is the Wind

Low (1977)
1. Speed of Life
2. Breaking Glass
3. What in the World
4. Sound and Vision
5. Always Crashing in the Same Car
6. Be My Wife
7. A New Career in a New Town
8. Warszawa
9. Art Decade
10. Weeping Wall
11. Subterraneans

"Heroes" (1977)
1. Beauty and the Beast
2. Joe the Lion
3. "Heroes"
4. Sons of the Silent Age
5. Blackout
6. V-2 Schneider
7. Sense of Doubt
8. Moss Garden
9. Neuköln
10. The Secret Life of Arabia

Lodger (1979)
1. Fantastic Voyage
2. African Night Flight
3. Move On
4. Yassassin (Turkish for Long Live)
5. Red Sails
6. DJ
7. Look Back in Anger
8. Boys Keep Swinging
9. Repetition
10. Red Money

Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) (1980)
1. It's No Game (No. 1)
2. Up the Hill Backwards
3. Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)
4. Ashes to Ashes
5. Fashion
6. Teenage Wildlife
7. Scream Like a Baby
8. Kingdom Come
9. Because You're Young
10. It's No Game (No. 2)

Let's Dance (1983)
1. Modern Love
2. China Girl
3. Let's Dance
4. Without You
5. Ricochet
6. Criminal World
7. Cat People (Putting Out Fire)
8. Shake It

Tonight (1984)
1. Loving the Alien
2. Don't Look Down
3. God Only Knows
4. Tonight
5. Neighborhood Threat
6. Blue Jean
7. Tumble and Twirl
8. I Keep Forgettin'
9. Dancing With the Big Boys

Labyrinth Soundtrack (1986)
1. Opening Titles Including Underground
2. Magic Dance
3. Chilly Down
4. As the World Falls Down
5. Within You
6. Underground

Never Let Me Down (1987)
1. Day-In Day-Out
2. Time Will Crawl
3. Beat Your Drum
4. Never Let Me Down
5. Zeroes
6. Glass Spider
7. Shining Stars (Makin' My Love)
8. New York's in Love
9. '87 and Cry
10. Too Dizzy
11. Bang Bang

Black Tie White Noise (1993)
1. The Wedding
2. I've Been Around
3. I Feel Free
4. Black Tie White Noise
5. Jump They Say
6. Nite Flights
7. Pallas Athena
8. Miracle Goodnight
9. Don't Let Me Down & Down
10. Looking for Lester
11. I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday
12. The Wedding Song

The Buddha of Suburbia (1993)
1. Buddha of Suburbia
2. Sex and the Church
3. South Horizon
4. The Mysteries
5. Bleed Like a Craze, Dad
6. Strangers When We Meet
7. Dead Against It
8. Untitled No. 1
9. Ian Fish, U.K. Heir
10. Buddha of Suburbia (feat. Lenny Kravitz)

1. Outside (1995)
1. Leon Takes Us Outside
2. Outside
3. The Hearts Filthy Listen
4. A Small Plot of Land
5. (Segue) - Baby Grace (A Horrid Cassette)
6. Hallo Spaceboy
7. The Motel
8. I Have Not Been to Oxford Town
9. No Control
10. (Segue) – Algeria Touchschriek
11. The Voyeur of Utter Destruction (As Beauty)
12. (Segue) – Ramona A. Stone/I Am With Name
13. Wishful Beginnings
14. We Prick You
15. (Segue) – Nathan Adler
16. I'm Deranged
17. Thru These Architects' Eyes
18. (Segue) – Nathan Adler
19. Strangers When We Meet

Earthling (1997)
1. Little Wonder
2. Looking for Satellites
3. Battle for Britain (The Letter)
4. Seven Years in Tibet
5. Dead Man Walking
6. Telling Lies
7. The Last Thing You Should Do
8. I'm Afraid of Americans
9. Law (Earthlings on Fire)

'hours...' (1999)
1. Thursday's Child
2. Something in the Air
3. Survive
4. If I'm Dreaming My Life
5. Seven
6. What's Really Happening?
7. The Pretty Things Are Going to Hell
8. New Angels of Promise
9. Brilliant Adventure
10. The Dreamers
11. We All Go Through

Heathen (2002)
1. Sunday
2. Cactus
3. Slip Away
4. Slow Burn
5. Afraid
6. I've Been Waiting for You
7. I Would Be Your Slave
8. I Took a Trip on a Gemini Spaceship
9. 5:15 The Angels Have Gone
10. Everyone Says "Hi"
11. A Better Future
12. Heathen (The Rays)
13. Wood Jackson

Reality (2003)
1. New Killer Star
2. Pablo Picasso
3. Never Get Old
4. The Loneliest Guy
5. Looking for Water
6. She'll Drive the Big Car
7. Days
8. Fall Dog Bombs the Moon
9. Try Some, Buy Some
10. Reality
11. Bring Me the Disco King

Non-Album Tracks
Liza Jane (as Davie Jones and the King Bees)
Louie, Louie Go Home (as Davie Jones and the King Bees)
I Pity the Fool (as The Manish Boys)
Take My Tip (as The Manish Boys)
You’ve Got a Habit of Leaving (as Davy Jones and the Lower Third)
Baby Loves the Way (as Davy Jones and the Lower Third)
Can’t Help Thinking About Me (as Davy Jones and the Lower Third)
And I Say to Myself (as Davy Jones and the Lower Third)
Do Anything You Say
I Dig Everything
I’m Not Losing Sleep
The London Boys
The Laughing Gnome
The Gospel According to Tony Day
Conversation Peace
Love You Till Tuesday
Did You Ever Have a Dream
Lightning Frightening
Holy Holy
Bombers
John, I’m Only Dancing (Single)
Velvet Goldmine
Sweet Head
Amsterdam
Round and Round
John, I’m Only Dancing (Sax)
All the Young Dudes
One of the Boys
Growin’ Up
Dodo
1984/Dodo
Who Can I Be Now?
It’s Gonne Be Me
John, I’m Only Dancing (Again)
Some Are
All Saints
Abdulmajid
I Pray, Olé
Crystal Japan
Alabama Song
Absolute Beginners
Under Pressure
This Is Not America
Dancing in the Streets
Girls
Julie
When the Wind Blows
It’s Hard to Be a Saint in the City
After Today
Baal’s Hymn
Remembering Marie A
Ballad of the Adventurers
The Drowned Girl
The Dirty Song
Fame ‘90
Lucy Can’t Dance
Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy (with Bing Crosby)
Get Real
Nothing to Be Desired
1917
We Shall Go to Town
We All Go Through
No One Calls
Fly
Queen of All the Tarts
Paul’s Theme (Jogging Chase)
Real Cool World
I Can’t Read
Shadow Man
When the Boys Come Marching Home
Safe
Love Missile F1-11
Waterloo Sunset
Rebel Never Gets Old

If you have any questions, feel free to ask them in this thread.

Album voting will begin tomorrow.
 
Fantastic :drool:

Oh and if you guys need any hekp with polls or whatever I'm happy to help if needed.

Just wanted to know asI'm kinda confused... what will we be voting on tomorrow exactly? Which albums are represented?
 
COBL_04 said:
Fantastic :drool:

Oh and if you guys need any hekp with polls or whatever I'm happy to help if needed.

Just wanted to know asI'm kinda confused... what will we be voting on tomorrow exactly? Which albums are represented?

Every album gets at least one song in the field of 64. We will vote on which albums deserve more songs in.
 
ah, namckuR's weighting idea. Awesome!!

Can't wait for this kick off, hopefully we get good participation.

We need to get Canadiens and Beav in here... all those who posted in the thread.
 
DaveC said:
Wasn't it already decided that Led Zeppelin would come after Radiohead and Pink Floyd? :scratch:

It took Pfan like 56 hours to type out those track listings. There's no turning back now.
 
DaveC said:

:shrug:

Looks like I'm gonna have to sit out this one, then.

Same here. Just cos I don't know more than half his stuff! And what little I've heard I have mixed feelings about. :shifty:
 
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