[16.1.07] Bowie @ 60: 25 fav songs

Rampaging journalistic pundits seem to be compiling list after list on Bowie at the moment as the lovely old codger has just turned sixty. I've decided to get in on the filthy action and compile a list of my 25 favourite Bowie songs. You may find some unfamiliar and alarming selections here. After all there are two songs each from his peroxide yuppie phase (Let's Dance) and the start of his WTF phase (Tonight).. but who doesn't go for pop trash now and again?

• 01. Fashion - Scary Monsters (1980): contains third greatest guitar solo of all time.
  
• 02. Always Crashing In The Same Car - Low (1977): contains fifth greatest guitar solo of all time.
  
• 03. China Girl - Let's Dance (1983): contains twelth best middle-8 of all time.
  
• 04. Art Decade - Low (1977): nice bubbly synth and synthestic strings.
  
• 05. "Heroes" - "Heroes" (1978): Eno's wall of sound that builds up.
  
• 06. Golden Years - Station To Station (1976): funky, chunky and melodica.
  
• 07. Sunday - Heathen (2002): glitchy, Scott Walker-ish, then those drums kick in at the end.
  
• 08. The Man Who Sold The World (1971): GREATEST guitar riff of all time.
  
• 09. Sound And Vision - Low (1977): Blue, blue electric blue...
  
• 10. Loving The Alien - Tonight (1984): great song, but has the most OTT video of Dav's career.
  
• 11. Seven Years In Tibet - Earthling (1997): goodness, what a beastly wall of guitar!
  
• 12. The Heart's Filthy Lesson - 1.Outside (1995): goodness, what a beastly NIN omage!
  
• 13. Space Oddity - Space Oddity (1969): lovely and quaint, 400 years ahead of it's time.
  
• 14. I'm Afraid Of Americans - Earthling (1997): angular.
  
• 15. New Killer Star - Reality (2003): those chord changes.
  
• 16. Bring Me The Disco King - Reality (2003): a jazz number with origins in Weimar, Berio, Mingus and Neptune.
  
• 17. Buddha Of Suburbia - Buddha Of Suburbia (1994): nice ditty.
  
• 18. Ziggy Stardust - ZS And The Spiders From Mars (1972): oh, you know.
  
• 19. Blue Jean - Tonight (1984): pure pop smut, veritable sonic pornograhy.
  
• 20. Let's Dance - Let's Dance (1983): pure pop gold.
  
• 21. Ashes To Ashes - Scary Monsters (1980): [insert superlatives]
  
• 22. Look Back In Anger - Lodger (1979): nice atmospherics.
  
• 23. V2-Schnieder - "Heroes" (1978): horn(y).
  
• 24. Young Americans - Young Americans (1975): oh matron it swings.
  
• 25. Rebel Rebel - Diamond Dogs (1974): another decent riff.