Part of the fun of this project is obviously discovering a whole vault of David Bowie songs I've never heard before. Part of this process is clearly a quest to find my favourite Bowie songs, and probably make my own definitive Bowie Top Twenty. Woo! If you asked me to do this at Christmas the top twenty would be made up off a stack of singles and maybe two tracks from Ziggy Stardust. Now, it could potentially be twenty album tracks, all songs I had never heard up to the time this mission began.
So, as I go through the albums (and I am sure Ben will be doing the same), I need to think: which of these songs are coming with me. Which songs are good enough and wow me enough to maybe feature in the fantastic twenty.
Sadly, nothing on album number one will be making that illustrious trip onwards into the pantheon of Bowie greatness. They barely make it into the same country I am building my pantheon in. However, for album number two, title track Space Oddity has a chance - its always been a favourite of mine (and not just for the memories of childhood it brings). If anything else was going as well, it would be Janine, for all its jingle-jangle goodness. It represents a real bite sized chunk of Bromley goodness, and is fast becoming a favourite of mine.
And that is what this is all about. Taking songs that have stagnated on albums and holding them up into the sun. Its like delving into a biscuit barrel and finding a chocolate digestive you never knew existed. The Man Who Sold the World is proving to be the best so far, showing just how exciting all this is going to be.
So, as I go through the albums (and I am sure Ben will be doing the same), I need to think: which of these songs are coming with me. Which songs are good enough and wow me enough to maybe feature in the fantastic twenty.
Sadly, nothing on album number one will be making that illustrious trip onwards into the pantheon of Bowie greatness. They barely make it into the same country I am building my pantheon in. However, for album number two, title track Space Oddity has a chance - its always been a favourite of mine (and not just for the memories of childhood it brings). If anything else was going as well, it would be Janine, for all its jingle-jangle goodness. It represents a real bite sized chunk of Bromley goodness, and is fast becoming a favourite of mine.
And that is what this is all about. Taking songs that have stagnated on albums and holding them up into the sun. Its like delving into a biscuit barrel and finding a chocolate digestive you never knew existed. The Man Who Sold the World is proving to be the best so far, showing just how exciting all this is going to be.
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