New field of 64: best song

[jinx]

Into the mystic

[lumberjim]

yeah....I'm reneging on my abstention.

Into the Mystic

because Van IS the Man

[glatt]

Van IS the man, but I never would have chosen that song to show it.

[lumberjim]

well....we WERE born before the Sun.....


which song would you have selected to represent the little drunken Mc?

[Undertoad]

The field!

All the Young Dudes

- or -

The Boxer

[Pico and ME]

The Boxer

[xoxoxoBruce]

Dudes

[lumberjim]

I'm going to be at the gym when Whole Lotta Love comes up again. Consider this my mail in vote.

[Undertoad]

Can't do that, wouldn't be prudent... but Sundays are light sometimes so maybe the vote won't be up when you get back.

[Undertoad]

Plus I should really concentrate on other things too so maybe I won't be around to tally the vote in a timely fashion

[skysidhe]

All The Young Dudes.

Even though I like S&G very much I like Bowie more plus we need something of another genre and that song is one of the best of all time too.

Interesting factoid about the Boxer. It took over 100 hours to record.



A little about Into The Mystic.



Listed as number 7 on the All Time 885 Greatest Songs compiled in 2004

Moondance( of which Into the Mystic is a song thereof) was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999 and has continued to be a highly acclaimed album in the 2000s

In March 2007, Moondance was listed as #72 on the NARM Rock and Roll Hall of Fame list of the "Definitive 200".
In December 2009, it was voted #11 top Irish album of all time.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by skysidhe

All The Young Dudes.

Even though I like S&G very much I like Bowie more plus we need something of another genre and that song is one of the best of all time too.

Bowie?

[Ibby]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Bowie?

To be fair, he DID "help" write it (most people agree that he probably basically wrote it himself) and played it live pretty consistently in the 70s.

[skysidhe]

Originally Posted by Ibram

To be fair, he DID "help" write it (most people agree that he probably basically wrote it himself) and played it live pretty consistently in the 70s.

Thanks.

Bowie did write it and sang his own dang song which as been included in his Albums.

The song originated after Bowie came into contact with Mott the Hoople's bassist Peter Watts and learned that the band was ready to split due to continued lack of commercial success. When Mott rejected his first offer of a composition, "Suffragette City" (from The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars), Bowie wrote "All the Young Dudes" in short order specially for them, allegedly sitting cross-legged on the floor of a room in Regent Street, London, in front of the band's lead singer, Ian Hunter.



David Bowie's own studio version from 1973's sessions for Aladdin Sane, went unreleased until 1994 when it appeared in mono on the semi-legal album RarestOneBowie. It was subsequently included, again in mono, on The Best of David Bowie 1969/1974, the 30th Anniversary edition of Aladdin Sane, and the 2-disc US version of Best of Bowie. A stereo version circulates unofficially among collectors, as does a version consisting of the backing track for Mott the Hoople's version with Bowie's guide vocal. A variant of this version, combining Bowie's vocal on the choruses with Ian Hunter on the verses, was released on the 2006 reissue of All the Young Dudes. Bowie's first released version was in 1974 on the David Live double LP. Bowie

[Ibby]

Originally Posted by skysidhe

Thanks.

Bowie did write it and sang his own dang song which as been included in his Albums.

...even though we ARE voting on the Mott the Hoople version.