What's the best track on "Station To Station"

The title track all the way for me. And this may be one of those cases of a non-single winning the poll although I guess the lurkers will go for "TV15" or "Golden Years".

I would just like to rep the poll below for alerting me to the true majesty of the title track:
Best Bit of Station to Station

Yes, that's the original 1976 cover.

If "Wild is the wind" isn't his best ever, it's certainly his best ever cover version. So, I vote.

4-way tie between tracks 1, 2, 4 & 5 really. Voted for "TVC 15"--just because. And darn those pesky lurkers, Geir!

title track, easy

Surely the title track will cream everything else? It's probably the best thing Bowie has ever done. Rest of the album is great too of course (I find TVC15 a little weak though). Wild Is The Wind easily the best cover he's ever done. Hmmm, I think this is my all-time favourite Bowie album.

When it came out I was all "SIX SONGS??? Easy life!"

actually i think i prefer the orig b+w cover to the rebranded colour version.
for me its the title track again for this classic.
though its a touch choice as i love it all.

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Yeah, only six songs - nonetheless no shorter than your average 70s Bowie album I think. One of the great things about it is how those songs are kind of stretched out to breaking point, it kind of adds to the weird tension of the whole thing...

Toughie, but I'll take the title track

The title track. Though this is an amazing album, not a tough decision.

"Station To Station", but "Wild Is The Wind" is great too.

Let me be the one to rep for "Word On a Wing," which is pure, heartbroken camp that's tremendously moving, in part because you sense that Bowie's about to collapse with laughter. A much better performance than WITW, which might be a keeper if Bowie didn't sing on it.

my favorite bowie album

title track gets my vote, though on a different day it could be "wild is the wind"

"Stay", because of the two note guitar solo and the line "you can never really tell when somebody wants something you want to".

Is it true that OH MY TVC-15 is about a vibrator?

"TVC-15" is about his TVC-15.

Torn between title track and Wild Is The Wind.

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TVC-15 -- I love the title track, but ever since I saw him do it live in 1990 w/ Belew reprising his Stage role, the studio version's always paled in comparison...

Another vote for "Word on a Wing" here, though I don't see it as quite that camp- it's legitimately affecting for me, though that may be because of memories associated with it as much as the actual song.

At first I was stimied—I love TVC-15, but recognize that I always remember it as better than it actually is (mostly, I think, because it ends better than it starts). But then I recognized that, hey, that memory of it is good enough. Best song. Sure. Why not?

is this the album that bowie doesn't remember making?

i thought that was young americans

It was both, I think. Vapid empty that;s what he do best train chug the return of the thing while duck

No, it's STS.

The joy of this is the faux-soul of Young Americans dragged thru mis-prog tho.

I say this cos I'm convinced by yr "when he tries to sing he sounds awful" argumint Alfred.

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That is some walkover. I think I voted for Wild Is The Wind in the end.

i thought i voted for wild is the wind but i'm pretty sure at least 2 other people did upthread (??)

oh i found my post oops

wow blow me that's a shocker.

he BEGAN his GLASTONBURY 2000 career-turnaraound set with the song ILM considers the worst on the album! jeepers.

i think a lot of people consider it the 2nd best actually

but that doesn't help in this poll

Wild is so my #2 choice

he BEGAN his GLASTONBURY 2000 career-turnaraound set with the song ILM considers the worst on the album! jeepers.

A nod towards ILM's collective wisdom?

haha yeah

golden years is like one of my favorite singles ever. funkiest thing he ever did and also still somehow totally full of the coked-up WEIRDNESS of this whole album

goooold

can't sleep!

lol go to bed dar1a you are SICK

Damn it, I knew I should have voted for "Stay"!

New ILM Top 20 Bowie songs based on albums polled so far:

1 Station to Station
2 Heroes
3 Life on Mars?
4 Moonage Daydream
5 TVC 15
6 Sound and Vision
7 Suffragette City
8 Five Years
9 Warszawa
10 Always Crashing in the Same Car
11 Golden Years
12 Quicksand
13 The Bewlay Brothers
14 Be My Wife
15 Sons of the Silent Age
16 Queen Bitch
17 Blackout
18 A New Career in a New Town
19 Oh! You Pretty Things
20 V2-Schneider

Diamond Dogs next?