Although 'As The World Falls Down' is a close second.

It seems odd that an obscure demo track would be my favorite song of his, but it amazes me to this day.

I'll make you a deal:
I'll say I came from Earth
And my tongue is tame...

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The stuff he discarded from the Leon project was superb, but in the man's own words, 'I am a grasshoppwe. I jump and see things in quite different ways. Excepting Ziggy, !this is the truth behind the phony parade of characters .whom Bowie once described this as norhing more than a new sets of trousers.

If Bowie found patience, it came to him very late in in life. The Orwell 1984 stage show was doomed whatever the Blair Eatate was thinking because David coul barely devote six months to anything. On the Ziggy album he insisted on no more than three takes on each track. If. none of the ttakes met his expectations there was hell to pay, No one can approach a theatre project like thi?approach a theatre project like this. The ins gestation is of Lazarus should give the fanatics enough to chew on beyond the span of a new set of dentures.

During the recorsing sessions for 1. Outside David decided to junk Heart's Filthy Leasob, but was talked out of it by everyone else involved. Ultimately, he listened to Brian Eno. Mr Jpnes was keenly aware of the edges of sanity. Jump they say, Jump.

I got a real kick of some elderly people doing "Golden Years" for a choir performance in a PBS show a few years back. I'll see if I can find it on YouTube. (They also did "Road to Nowhere" and other non-Bowie songs, but the whole thing is well worth watching).

There was also an old TV science fiction show (maybe late 1980's) where the family traveled (through wormholes or something) from one world to another and, in one of them, there was no music, so they recorded some David Bowie songs. I guess copyright didn't apply in a parallel universe. Anyway, it made no sense, but it was the first time I really started to appreciate the music.

Also, when Jessica Lange sang "Life on Mars" in American Horror Story. Weird, but it sometimes takes other people's interpretations for me to appreciate the original artist. (I mean this as no slam on Jessica Lange, but it makes me go back and listen to the original). I've done this with other artists as well, notably Bob Dylan.

And many, many movie soundtracks. One I saw recently was called "Hunky Dory" and starred Minnie Driver as a high school teacher who was putting on a musical version of The Tempest with rock songs, including at least two Bowie songs. There may have been more. I know now that the title references one of Bowie's early albums.

I've only been a casual fan, but I like his music a lot more than, say, Paul McCartney's non-Beatle output. And way, way, more than Michael Jackson, whom I detest on many levels. MJ was weird, but not in a good way.

So I'm listening to a Spotify playlist and I am struck by how much I like these songs and how familiar so many of them are. I have never consciously sought out a David Bowie song that I know of, but I hear them all the time and they hold up well, unlike a lot of other 70s music, in particular.

Many people have said that David Bowie, through his music and his various personas, made it okay to be different. While I embrace weirdness now, as as teenager, I was a complete goody two-shoes and I guess the glam rock think must have put me off in some way so I David Bowie is one of the artists I have not paid much attention to. And I think that was a mistake.

According to Carlos Alamos, David though he could take those cords wholesLe. The bands efforts were directed at changing enough to avoid a copyright lawsuit. Broadway first appeared in the title song on Aladon Sane. Bowie apparently believed that great artists steal.

Detest the guy but he had some good songs along the way. And his New York concert (Madison Square?) was great too. Man in the Mirror had some great lyrics as well.

and Billie Jean gets my vote as the best ever MV, finding a nealy perfect balance between art and commerce.

And there is at least one off the YouTube multi millionaire who has the same view: Park Jae Sang who currently has 5 Billion views on YouTube starting off with the infamous Gangnam Style.

When asked on Reddit what is the greatest video of all time 'PSY' typed back Billie Jean in less than ten seconds, Well he's got one thing right.

It's strange to think of a world without him in it.