Two years ago today, the death of David Bowie brought too much shock and sadness to the world. His work is filled with full-length albums that have shaped new directions for the future of pop, but David Bowie is also one of the greatest songwriters of rock music of all time.
Only when you fully listen to his best songs spanning forty years, from "Space Oddity" in 1969 to "Lazarus" in 2016, can you most intuitively feel his genius.
Translated by Moonlight Daydream
1
Space Oddity
In 1969
2
Changes
In 1972
"Watch out, you rockers," he sings, "soon you're going to get a little old." It may seem a little arrogant to say such a thing by someone who is not yet very popular, but it turns out to predict David Bowie's next great success.
3
Five Years
As the first song from David Bowie's 1972 breakthrough album, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars, Five Years kicks off this desperate and bizarre story.
4
Ziggy Stardust
Let's review what we can learn about Z-word stardust from this song. He's left-handed. He improvised with "Freak" and "Gillette". Like David Bowie, he has pale skin and "twisted eyes." He also had strange hair, huge tintin and "God-given ass."
5
Rebel Rebel
In 1974
David Bowie also met Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards during the recording of the album Diamond Dogs. The smooth guitar jingle in Rebel Rebel is undoubtedly him.
6
Young Americans
In 1975
7
Fame
Lennon accepted, and improvised Fame with Bowie and his guitarist Carlos Allomar during his visit. Lennon contributed harmony and guitar performances to the song, and it became David Bowie's first number-one single in the United States.
8
"Station to Station"
In 1976
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9
Heroes
In 1977
As the years passed, Heroes' fame grew, and by the 1990s most fans had come to consider it one of David Bowie's greatest masterpieces.
10
Ashes to Ashes
In 1980
Despite the song's unconventionality, the international success of Ashes to Ashes is a testament to David Bowie's artistic rock talent.
11
China Girl
In 1983
David Bowie polished the original song into a hit single with the help of Neil Rogers' production, Steve Ray Vaughn's unique guitar playing and his own rich expressiveness, which reached the top 10 on the Billboard charts in 1983.
12
I'm Afraid of Americans
In 1997
In addition, Trent Rezzeno, the band Nine Inch Nails, also made a cameo in the song mv as a stalker who followed David Bowie on the streets of New York.
13
"Sunday"
In 2002
"Sunday" mixes e-pop with spooky harmonies, sending out his warning of a dark future — that it's pointless to obsess over the past, where you thought everything you knew would burn out. But there was still some strange excitement in his voice, as if he was preparing to throw himself into a whole new round of the unknown.
14
Where are we now? （Where Are We Now）》
In 2013
In the song "Where Are We Now?", David Bowie more explicitly emphasizes his mission to recall the past, mentioning many of the places he visited when he lived in Berlin in the late '70s. His soft and ascetic singing carried the weight of his life and memory.
15
Lazarus
（2016）
Lazarus is a musical of the same name, about a once wealthy but lonely New Yorker. In a terrifying and hypnotic melody, David Bowie creates a character as convincing as the Z-word Stardust and the Skinny White Duke. After his death, the lyrics of the song also seemed to be stained with a deeper meaning.
“
Look up, I'm in heaven
I have invisible scars
I played a good play that I couldn't steal
Now everyone knows me
Oh, I'll be free
It's like that blue bird
Isn't that like me?
”
references：
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/david-bowie-30-essential-songs-20160111/space-oddity-1969-20160111