Originally Posted by
chaim
Oh, Bowie is a giant. I love something from his every "era". Even Tin Machine II, which is bashed even more than the first one, contains a few fantastic songs.
Like Bowie has observed himself, he sometimes had one song on an album that was "predicting" what was to come on the next album. Like 1984 on Diamond Dogs -> the Young Americans album.
Some favorites off the top of my head:
Heathen
Always crashing in the same car
Repetition
She'll drive the big car (The story is a bit similar to that in Lyin' Eyes. But in SDTBG it's suggested in the end it seems that she eventually drives the car into Hudson river, killing herself and her family. Bowie left the ending open, but that's what he thinks will happen "after the song.")
Sweet thing
Zeroes (Yes, I'm not joking)
Loving the alien
Bewlay brothers
Lady grinning soul
Rock'n'roll suicide
Blackout
Space oddity
Life on Mars
Thursday's child (which already contains the "Where are we now" chorus melody)
Scream like a baby