Bob Magaw
Footballguy
Note - What is a deep cut to some may not be others. But in general, Space Oddity, Changes, Ziggy Stardust, Moonage Daydream, Suffragette City, Aladdin Sane, Jean Genie, Diamond Dogs, Rebel Rebel, Fame, Golden Years, Heroes, Ashes To Ashes, Fashion and Let's Dance probably aren't deep cuts except to the most casual and newest listeners.
Not putting a number like three or five, as few or many as you like (probably less worthy deep cuts than hits, and live albums relative to studio excursions, though actual concerts greatly expands the former past the latter, feel free to include those if warranted - the night Bowie killed Ziggy an example, captured on both the Ziggy Stardust film and soundtrack). Great live renditions of non-deep cuts as they mutated and evolved through the kaleidoscope of time and different bands/tours are encouraged.
I am especially interested in any and all material post-Let's Dance. I don't have much from that era and after [[[so basically, three plus decades, though he went dark in the decade between Reality in '03 and The Next Day in '13, as far as his own studio output]]] - currently just Blackstar and The Reality Tour Live album, as well as the respective Serious Moonlight (Let's Dance) and Glass Spider (?) tour videos. I'll soon be filling in some gaps with the Sound + Vision and Nothing Has Changed greatest hits compilations and career spanning retrospectives (latter placing emphasis on his more recent work by placing it in the foreground, with atypical reverse chronological track sequencing).
Deep Cuts (?)
Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud (from Space Oddity)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDCor7efUOc
Saviour Machine (from The Man Who Sold The World)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-AMec7yr7c
It Ain't Easy (from Ziggy Stardust)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnI_ko3_r_c
See Emily Play and Sorrow (from Pinups, not sure the latter is a "deep cut", but this covers album one of the lower profile from his canon - VIDEO)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjg5_0ztQI4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxDVc80Z3FI
Future Legend (from Diamond Dogs), the cinematic bleakness makes the background and setting of Orwell's 1984, its original inspiration and catalyst, look like Shangri-La in comparison, and the dark, brooding, evil synth intro brilliantly sets the tone for the rest of the chilling, sonic dystopian masterpiece.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q7ABB8h7KA
>>> Somebody Up There Likes Me <<< (from Young Americans, alto sax intro by David Sanborn), for the genre, very artistic, complex, layered, rocking & jazzy soul/funk, also key album contributions from John Lennon (co-wrote Fame '75 the album's big hit, iconically performed by Bowie with Golden Years '76 from the immediately following album STS on Soul Train) and then-unknown Luther Vandross - representing his breakout. Some who prefer his more rock genre-inflected or experimental work may have written this off as light weight and derivative, *TRANSITIONAL* somewhat of a clichéd but accurate description of where this somewhat critically eclipsed and overshadowed album is situated in his overall body of work, starkly different from but strategically placed just after and before the more widely acclaimed Diamond Dogs and Station To Station, respectively - though the former album's song 1984 (especially the Shaft-like, heavily Blaxploitation-influenced guitar riffs) signals the shift towards the more soul and funk-based direction soon to come with YA & STS. Don't get me wrong, I prefer DD and STS, and find them both more classic and timeless, but while YA may seem more date-stamped by its era and signature sound, it still may be underrated, deserving of critical reappraisal for those who previously dismissed it, and at the time, somewhat prescient for a rock/pop star of his caliber and stature to venture into the funk and disco realms.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4a9ppLMx3I
Stay (from Station To Station, like Sorrow from Pinups, not sure a "deep cut", but more so than Golden Years from that album, and better an error of commission than omission in case some aren't familiar with one of my favorite Bowie songs, not only from this era, but period - though it is coincidentally my favorite era, through the Berlin Trilogy and bookended by Scary Monsters
)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DanDvAfCcs
Weeping Wall and Subterraneans (from Low, initial entry from his the Eno collaboration that was eventually to become known as his Berlin Trilogy masterpiece, basically layering the synths of Eno and Bowie on to the funk rhythm section nucleus of rhythm guitarist Carlos Alomar, bassist George Murray and drummer Dennis Davis, all alumni of legendary soul/funk/jazz vibes artist and band leader Roy Ayers - their collective body of work together within Bowie's total body of work spanned from STS through Scary Monsters, including The Berlin Trilogy and Stage, see latter below)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK1alQN3MDg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh-jDMuzuIE
V-2 Schneider and Moss Garden (from Heroes, Berlin Trilogy installment #2, add King Crimson's Robert Fripp on guitar to funk/synths core)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dC20rI6mOiE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eTvCiMjJWc
It's No Game No. 1 & 2 AND Kingdom Come (from Scary Monsters), sans Eno but with more Frippertronics weird/goodness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO86RTrqUAY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J10iqmqWL_I
As The World Falls Down (from the film Labyrinth* - VIDEO)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt2zoY45508
Live
Stage '78 in two parts (Isolar II Tour, Low/Heroes), Adrian Belew guitar, synths player from Utopia, violinist from Hawkwind (?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paK7UqZXaQo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9z4yQgUqR4
David Live '74 in two parts (Diamond Dogs Tour, just pre-Young Americans, before Station To Station and The Berlin Trilogy), David Sanborn, also late synth's wizard Michael Kamen, who later collaborated with Pink Floyd and emerged as a talented film scorer, but died very early
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFC1PCotJus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXG3uXybVKs
Ziggy Stardust Movie Soundtrack (final show, title track excerpt - VIDEO), lyrics are typically post- modern and self-referential, about breaking up the band, as he breaks up the band, the final song on the album and final concert was titled Rock & Roll Suicide, an example of planning ahead his exit strategy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8sdsW93ThQ
* "Deep Cut" doc, Inside The Labyrinth - The Making Of Labyrinth '86 (VIDEO 56 minutes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8h_g4t4bYus
Not putting a number like three or five, as few or many as you like (probably less worthy deep cuts than hits, and live albums relative to studio excursions, though actual concerts greatly expands the former past the latter, feel free to include those if warranted - the night Bowie killed Ziggy an example, captured on both the Ziggy Stardust film and soundtrack). Great live renditions of non-deep cuts as they mutated and evolved through the kaleidoscope of time and different bands/tours are encouraged.
I am especially interested in any and all material post-Let's Dance. I don't have much from that era and after [[[so basically, three plus decades, though he went dark in the decade between Reality in '03 and The Next Day in '13, as far as his own studio output]]] - currently just Blackstar and The Reality Tour Live album, as well as the respective Serious Moonlight (Let's Dance) and Glass Spider (?) tour videos. I'll soon be filling in some gaps with the Sound + Vision and Nothing Has Changed greatest hits compilations and career spanning retrospectives (latter placing emphasis on his more recent work by placing it in the foreground, with atypical reverse chronological track sequencing).
Deep Cuts (?)
Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud (from Space Oddity)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDCor7efUOc
Saviour Machine (from The Man Who Sold The World)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-AMec7yr7c
It Ain't Easy (from Ziggy Stardust)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnI_ko3_r_c
See Emily Play and Sorrow (from Pinups, not sure the latter is a "deep cut", but this covers album one of the lower profile from his canon - VIDEO)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjg5_0ztQI4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxDVc80Z3FI
Future Legend (from Diamond Dogs), the cinematic bleakness makes the background and setting of Orwell's 1984, its original inspiration and catalyst, look like Shangri-La in comparison, and the dark, brooding, evil synth intro brilliantly sets the tone for the rest of the chilling, sonic dystopian masterpiece.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q7ABB8h7KA
>>> Somebody Up There Likes Me <<< (from Young Americans, alto sax intro by David Sanborn), for the genre, very artistic, complex, layered, rocking & jazzy soul/funk, also key album contributions from John Lennon (co-wrote Fame '75 the album's big hit, iconically performed by Bowie with Golden Years '76 from the immediately following album STS on Soul Train) and then-unknown Luther Vandross - representing his breakout. Some who prefer his more rock genre-inflected or experimental work may have written this off as light weight and derivative, *TRANSITIONAL* somewhat of a clichéd but accurate description of where this somewhat critically eclipsed and overshadowed album is situated in his overall body of work, starkly different from but strategically placed just after and before the more widely acclaimed Diamond Dogs and Station To Station, respectively - though the former album's song 1984 (especially the Shaft-like, heavily Blaxploitation-influenced guitar riffs) signals the shift towards the more soul and funk-based direction soon to come with YA & STS. Don't get me wrong, I prefer DD and STS, and find them both more classic and timeless, but while YA may seem more date-stamped by its era and signature sound, it still may be underrated, deserving of critical reappraisal for those who previously dismissed it, and at the time, somewhat prescient for a rock/pop star of his caliber and stature to venture into the funk and disco realms.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4a9ppLMx3I
Stay (from Station To Station, like Sorrow from Pinups, not sure a "deep cut", but more so than Golden Years from that album, and better an error of commission than omission in case some aren't familiar with one of my favorite Bowie songs, not only from this era, but period - though it is coincidentally my favorite era, through the Berlin Trilogy and bookended by Scary Monsters
)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DanDvAfCcs
Weeping Wall and Subterraneans (from Low, initial entry from his the Eno collaboration that was eventually to become known as his Berlin Trilogy masterpiece, basically layering the synths of Eno and Bowie on to the funk rhythm section nucleus of rhythm guitarist Carlos Alomar, bassist George Murray and drummer Dennis Davis, all alumni of legendary soul/funk/jazz vibes artist and band leader Roy Ayers - their collective body of work together within Bowie's total body of work spanned from STS through Scary Monsters, including The Berlin Trilogy and Stage, see latter below)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK1alQN3MDg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh-jDMuzuIE
V-2 Schneider and Moss Garden (from Heroes, Berlin Trilogy installment #2, add King Crimson's Robert Fripp on guitar to funk/synths core)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dC20rI6mOiE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eTvCiMjJWc
It's No Game No. 1 & 2 AND Kingdom Come (from Scary Monsters), sans Eno but with more Frippertronics weird/goodness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO86RTrqUAY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J10iqmqWL_I
As The World Falls Down (from the film Labyrinth* - VIDEO)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt2zoY45508
Live
Stage '78 in two parts (Isolar II Tour, Low/Heroes), Adrian Belew guitar, synths player from Utopia, violinist from Hawkwind (?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paK7UqZXaQo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9z4yQgUqR4
David Live '74 in two parts (Diamond Dogs Tour, just pre-Young Americans, before Station To Station and The Berlin Trilogy), David Sanborn, also late synth's wizard Michael Kamen, who later collaborated with Pink Floyd and emerged as a talented film scorer, but died very early
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFC1PCotJus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXG3uXybVKs
Ziggy Stardust Movie Soundtrack (final show, title track excerpt - VIDEO), lyrics are typically post- modern and self-referential, about breaking up the band, as he breaks up the band, the final song on the album and final concert was titled Rock & Roll Suicide, an example of planning ahead his exit strategy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8sdsW93ThQ
* "Deep Cut" doc, Inside The Labyrinth - The Making Of Labyrinth '86 (VIDEO 56 minutes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8h_g4t4bYus
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