What's the best track on "Heroes"?

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My vote for "Sons Of The Silent Age", just to secure that the title track doesn't get every single vote.

This is my least favourite album of the Bowie/Eno trilogy

The album that started me down this lonesome path of musical obsession.

Title track, predictably. Joe The Lion is very cool, though.

The title track really, but V-2 Schneider pushes it very close, so I voted for that.

whats the story behind the " " in "heroes"?

The songs protagonists are not real heroes, nor are they likely to be

"the quotation marks are part of the title, for reasons of irony"
wikipedia

I voted with Geir

hey, i'm predictable. bite me.
title track still sends shivers down my spine despite having heard it literally 1000's of times.
though, i do prefer the german version of "Heroes" (Helden ??) that i used to have on the Rare collection that EMI released ages ago.

I saw a cassette copy of the "Rare" set.

Wonders if that is "Rare" nowadays, probably not.

I can still remember the first time I heard "Beauty and the Beast" and how awesomesly scary it sounded.

Objectively "Heroes" but I've heard it too often, and Bowie also licensed it for Microsoft ads which spoilt it for me. So I'll go left-field and vote for Neuköln. I think the "Heroes" instrumentals are better than the Low ones.

I think the "Heroes" instrumentals are better than the Low ones.

Oh no, not at all. We don't seem to agree on much when it comes to Bowie!

Seems not! I just like the looser, deconstructed feel of them - they really are "ambient" pieces, more surprisingly different, whereas the instrumentals on Low are more structured, more like songs without words. Not that they're not great as well, of course.

In fact on the Low poll I think I voted for Subterraneans...

SECRET SECRETS NEVER SEEN
SECRET SECRETS EVER GREEN

hey, i'm predictable. bite me

me too.

title track still sends shivers down my spine despite having heard it literally 1000's of times

me too (qv the post on the "low" thread -- at least, i think that's where it is -- about listening to a six-minute mobile-phone version).

though, i do prefer the german version of "Heroes"

me too.

Obviously "Heroes" will win, but I voted for Blackout. Why does it get no love? I think it's Bowie's most amazing track - the fact that it hangs together is amazing, when there are a million different things going on in there. There's a brilliant live version on Stage too.

"Secret Life of Arabia"

It's like an early prediction of "New Gold Dream".

I like 'em all better than the title track, but esp. "Sons of the Silent Age".

V2-Schneider or "Heroes". Went for "Heroes" in the end since everyone else seems to be assuming someone else will vote for it.

I voted for "Heroes". I like the whole album but for me this is the peak.

I voted for V2-Schneider as it captures the feeling of Berlin perfectly for me although the title track is one of my favourite songs of all time.

blackout

Horrible choice between "Blackout" and "Secret Life of Arabia" for me. I'm going with "Blackout" but I'm sad about it.

V2 for me too, thanks.

It was tough deciding between BLackout & V-2. Went with V-2 because I want to hear it more at the moment.

"Blackout" gets mine with "Beauty & the Beast" a very close 2nd though if I'd been asked during the full heat of first loving the album, title track all the way

In this poll, the lurkers will be right. Arguably the finest track in the Bowie oeuvre.

everytime i go back to listen to this album thinking i'm going to finally going to appreciate it.. nothing.

(except "heroes")

This is my least favourite album of the Bowie/Eno trilogy

TOM D. OTM

(though i like heroes very much, too! it's just my least favorite of the bowie/eno troika.)

if i didn't vote for the title track, then it would've been very close b/w "beauty and the beast," "v2-schneider," or "the secret life of arabia."

I voted for "Blackout", with "Sons of the Silent Age" a close second.

a couple of drinks and HE WAS A FORTUNE TELLAH

I'm amazed anyone would vote for "Blackout"

i am amazed @ all of the love for "sons of the silent age" -- it's actually one of my least favorite "classic" bowie songs, it always struck me as being kinda aimless.

This is my favorite album of the Berlin trilogy.

I went for Sense of Doubt, because, well I like it an awful lot.

And it goes 'dun dun dun-dun'

"Beauty and the Beast," followed closely by "Heroes" and "Blackout."

But "Beauty" gets it not simply b/c it sounds scary, but b/c it announces itself so brilliantly, with the metallic piano followed by the all-time greatest Eno treatment ever (Fripp's guitar, which I've never been able to even remotely duplicate), which just propels the verse right into the shouty chorus.

Favorite track of the Berlin Trilogy.

Sons Of the Silent Age for me.

v-2 schneider for fun

Blackout for me--surprise silver for it, you heard it here first

Title track -- every time.

TS: Fripp's shredding on Heroes vs. Fripp's shredding on Scary Monsters

I would like go with "Sons of the Silent Age" because even with its avant/ futurist approach, still manages to reside firmly in the aire of his folky roots.

But, odd man out that i am, must place my vote for a write-in candidate in the form of "Helden", the German language version of Heroes.

I would like *to* go...

agreed with blackout. one of my favorite bowie tracks. nicely sums up the whole "berlin" vibe - desperation, sex, lotsa whooshing eno soundz.

Blackout is kind of New York-y too, with the chaos of the 77 blackout and everything

I'm not that into "'Heroes'". I love "Sons of the Silent Age" tho.

Sons of the Silent Age for me. But a tough choice.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

TS: Fripp's shredding on Heroes vs. Fripp's shredding on Scary Monsters

Scary Monsters, easy. Fripp's pretty much the best thing on it.

What's the point of these "The Beatles vs. L.A. Guns" threads? Yeesh

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Nobody likes airy japonisme, I see.

Sons of the Silent Age? You have got to be kidding me, that song is such an embarrasment!

Sons of the Silent Age? You have got to be kidding me, that song is such an embarrasment!

i heart you.

also, so little love for "secret life of arabia" ;_;

i heart you too, buddy

Bit surprised nobody voted for "Moss Garden". I thought that one was sort of the most famous of the instrumentals on "Heroes" (Well, apart from "V-2 Schneider", but that one isn't really instrumental)

Ok, if I'm doing the maths right, and I think I am, ILM's top 20 Bowie songs based on the albums polled so far (Ziggy, Low, Heroes & Hunky Dory), looks like this:

1 Heroes
2 Life on Mars?
3 Moonage Daydream
4 Sound and Vision
5 Suffragette City
6 Five Years
7 Warszawa
8 Always Crashing in the Same Car
9 Quicksand
10 The Bewlay Brothers
11 Be My Wife
12 Sons of the Silent Age
13 Queen Bitch
14 Blackout
15 A New Career in a New Town
16 Oh! You Pretty Things
17 V-2 Schneider
18 Ziggy Stardust
19 Speed of Life
20 Changes

Which seems about right to me.

Except we haven't polled any of his best albums.

Well, maybe Low. But that list is unscientific until we do Aladdin Sane/Station to Station/Lodger. Diamond Dogs, even.

Well, one day we'll make the 'CHANGESNINETYNINEONETRACKPEREVERYALBMBOWIE' based upon these geirpolls.

Suffragette City Bowie's fifth best song?! Surely not.

Would've voted for Blackout. Side 1 of Heroes is my favourite side of Bowie music. When I put it on, I cannot believe how exciting the intros are.

nate's list implies that his polled albums are roughly the same quality. And maybe they are`