Bowie's Worst

A sequel to the "Bowie's Best & Worst" thread I had yesterday.

Since we mostly focused on Bowie's best (because let's face it he's amazing) , I figured it'd be interesting to focus more on what people's least favorite Bowie songs are.

No 'one per album' requirement this time, just list off some songs in Bowie's catalog you think are weaker/bad. Bonus points for explaining why they're in your worst list

>The Laughing Gnome (Non Album Single)
A shitty, annoying novelty song. Pretty much every Bowie fan calls it his worst

>It Ain't Easy (From Ziggy Stardust)
Didn't fit on the album at all. Wasn't a fan of the Melody

>All of the Pinups album
Cover albums are generally weak and this was no exception. Probably the least talked about album in Bowie's discography

>Without You and Ricochet (Let's Dance)
Annoying melodies and production. Most likely could have been cut without affecting the album that much

>All of Never Let Me Down (Except Time Will Crawl)
Cheesy 80s production and some weak Bowie vocal performance (Shining Star being the worst)

>All of Tin Machine
Shitty Grunge.

>Wishful Beginnings (1. Outside)
Ungodly annoying song with terrible production and goes on for way too long

>Something in the Air ('hours...')
Dated in all the worst ways. While his other dated songs are pleasantly dated this one just has a grating beat and some TERRIBLE lyrics.

>Days (Reality)
Forgettable song. Feels more like Bowie doing a bad cover than it does an actual Bowie song.


And that's all I can think of for his BAD songs. Everything else he made is pretty fantastic.

Thoughts?

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>where the fuck did MONDAY GO

Come on Cred Forums, you know it to be true.

Was that really one of his 'bad' ones?

>not liking Day In Day Out
fuck you

Ok fine that one was pretty good, I'll admit, I'll adjust it

>*MOST of Never Let Me Down (Excluding Time Will Crawl and Pinups)

Wow I'm stupid. I don't know how I mixed that up
*Minus Day in Day Out and Time Will Crawl

>No Dancing in the Street on that list
Such a shitty and disappointing with 2 cool people.
>Girl Loves Me
>bad

>>It Ain't Easy (From Ziggy Stardust)
what the fuck is your problem

1984, I like Diamond Dogs but this song kind of annoys me.

scary monsters besides like 4 songsm

>>It Ain't Easy (From Ziggy Stardust)
I love that song though.
>Pinups album
It was decent
>Except Time Will Crawl
I think title track and day in day out is better

>Dancing in the Street
Just a bit of fun for charity m8
The first 6 tracks are literally flawless

In my honest opinion I think Black Tie White Noise as a whole is his most forgettable album
Even "Never Let Me Down" had "Glass Spider"
None of the songs clicked with me
Feel free to correct me and call me a pleb

BTWN is great.

eck I posted my least favourite per album list yesterday

Only thing of his I've given a 1/10 is Tin Machine II. Everything about it made me wanna die. Stateside especially; Bowie singing about living on the countryside in a rock n roll doo-wop... bleh

>Something in the Air
Agreed dude
The American Psycho version is waaaay better

Kingdom Come is the only track on Scary Monsters that isn't fucking amazing

I think we can all agree that this is the worst bowie song:youtube.com/watch?v=VL3_Hu6nHRU

dancing in the street is a banger my dude

what on earth

what the fuck
this
what the fuck
WHAT THE FUCK?

Station to station

Awful taste

too obvious m8

Seconded x4

1984 is fucking good tho

i never liked amsterdam tho

I kinda like his 1967 album because I appreciate campy '60s pop (The Laughing Gnome is just really funny; shameful considering Bowie later career, but as a novelty song, it's as good as Please Mr Gravedigger, etc.)

Albums I really can't get into it:

>The Man Who Sold The World
Boring, too much guitars solos, no subtlety. Plain buttrock, awful dated "boogie rock". David's voice doesn't match this sound at all IMHO. Better arrangements in their later glam-rock LPs.
I'd save All the Madmen tho.
Worst tracks: Running Gun Blues, She Shook Me Cold

>Diamond Dogs, Young Americans, Station To Station
ew, I hate his funk/soul era.
Good tracks: Word On A Wing, Wild is the Wind
Pure trash: TVC15

I skip his '80s/'90s stuff after let's Dance until Heathen where Cactus is just a musical turd (of course what else we can expect from the pixies...)

>The Next Day
f o r g e t t a b l e

New Blackstar release of some kind just announced on Facebook.

Fucking this that album is perfect

>Station To Station
u fukin wot?

>tvc15 pure trash
what lad

Especially the Dance version on the EP. Never Let Me Down is one of my favorites.
For least faves, I'd say pretty much half of Tonight and Across the Universe

if you like TRVE 1960's/70's soul & funk, his takes on these genre are more than laughable.

>you aren't allowed to like plastic soul because black people exist

It's not like Bowie is trying to claims to be the new James Brown or anything, he knows a white english guy doing soul is laughable but he still does it fucking great. Even the blackies loved his stuff and invited him on Soultrane.

All of Earthling

>Wishful Beginnings from 1. Outside

Love the album but I do agree it's one of the worst tracks; it does fit the noir theme of the album but like you say, it's unnecessarily long. Should have been 2 minutes.

As for more terrible, terrible Bowie

>I Took A Trip on a Gemini Spacecraft from Heathen
Cringeworthy imagery, no exertion of voice, the refrain 'and I thought about... You!' is a combination of both and otherwise is ultimately forgettable

>invited him on Soultrane
>"let's invite this cracker, I love how White people dance so awkwardly, they ain't got no soul, brotha"
don't be delusional, they laugh at him :/

You mean that gif? Man i really fuckin hope it's some of the unreleased stuff from the 70's. Who doesn't want to hear new bowie in his fucking prime.

And yet Young Americans was a huge success with both black and white audiences. I don't think they thought he could pull it off, but honestly he looked great and i think it attracted a new audience to his music.

This
Diamond Dogs would be a perfect album without 1984

Fuck off tin machine is great