{"id":1028,"date":"2007-11-29T13:35:48","date_gmt":"2007-11-29T17:35:48","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-02-24T11:29:37","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T15:29:37","slug":"mr-mod-releases-the-list-of-30-bowie-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/mr-mod-releases-the-list-of-30-bowie-son\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Mod Releases the List of 30 Bowie Songs He Loves"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jfTdyfwSB04?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>It&#8217;s long been known that I&#8217;ve had trouble warming up to David Bowie despite loving 30 of his songs. That&#8217;s probably more songs than I love by a bands like <strong>The Rascals<\/strong> and The Turtles, both of whom I&#8217;m quick to defend at &#8220;underrated.&#8221; It&#8217;s less songs than I love by Iggy Pop, whose music with The Stooges I can say &#8220;I love,&#8221; excluding half of the Bowie-produced <em>Raw Power<\/em>, of course.<\/p>\n<p>What I&#8217;ve kept to myself all these years is the list of 30 Bowie songs that I <em>love<\/em>. Today, at the request of <strong>Townsman Alexmagic<\/strong>, I am coming forth with this list. Thank you, Alexmagic, for encouraging me to publish these long-held secrets. Already I feel a weight lifting from my soul.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><big><strong>30 Bowie Songs I <em>Love<\/em>* (in no particular order)<\/strong><\/big><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Space Oddity<\/li>\n<li>Changes<\/li>\n<li>Moonage Daydream<\/li>\n<li>Suffragette City<\/li>\n<li>Ziggy Stardust<\/li>\n<li>Starman<\/li>\n<li>Panic in Detroit<\/li>\n<li>Rebel Rebel<\/li>\n<li>Diamond Dogs<\/li>\n<li>Young Americans<\/li>\n<li>Fame<\/li>\n<li>Golden Years<\/li>\n<li>TVC15<\/li>\n<li>Sound and Vision<\/li>\n<li>Heroes<\/li>\n<li>Ashes to Ashes<\/li>\n<li>Star<\/li>\n<li>Hang Onto Yourself<\/li>\n<li>Soul Love<\/li>\n<li>Oh! You Pretty Things<\/li>\n<li>Kooks<\/li>\n<li>Quicksand<\/li>\n<li>Queen Bitch<\/li>\n<li>Breaking Glass<\/li>\n<li>The Jean Genie<\/li>\n<li>John, I&#8217;m Only Dancing<\/li>\n<li>Boys Keep Swinging<\/li>\n<li>DJ<\/li>\n<li>Sweet Head<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>OK, for those of you who took the time to count, that&#8217;s 29 Bowie songs I love.<\/p>\n<p><small>*Not including &#8220;All the Young Dudes&#8221; and &#8220;Under Pressure&#8221;.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s long been known that I&#8217;ve had trouble warming up to David Bowie despite loving 30 of his songs. That&#8217;s probably more songs than I love by a bands like The Rascals and The Turtles, both of whom I&#8217;m quick to defend at &#8220;underrated.&#8221; It&#8217;s less songs than I love by Iggy Pop, whose music <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/mr-mod-releases-the-list-of-30-bowie-son\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[153,22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}