Next week, David Bowie’s re-releasing his odd, accessible, oddly accessible 1976 classic Station To Station with individually numbered deluxe box sets containing enough audio/video media, memorabilia, and collector’s ephemera to make any diehard blush. We thought it’d be a nice gift for one of you, so welcome to our first giveaway in awhile. (It’s our first since February, actually.) Here’s a rundown of what’s in the box:
- Station To Station: the original analogue master and the 1985 RCA CD master 5-track singles version EP
- 3x heavyweight vinyl, and audio DVD
- Previously unreleased Live @ Nassau Coliseum 1976 concert on 2 CDs
- 24-page booklet with never before seen photos and press shots
- Replica fan folders, collector’s cards, individually numbered replica concert tickets and badges
Here’s how it looks:
To be eligible to win, all you have to do is be a fan of Stereogum on Facebook, and submit a comment on this post with your favorite Bowie song after logging in via Facebook Connect (do not use your ‘Gum user account on this post — we’ll have to be able to check if you are a fan of Stereogum on FB when the sweeps ends!). We’ll pick a winner from the comments posted here, at random. Deadline to enter is in two weeks: 10/6 at 5:30PM EST. Also this particular contest is open to US residents only. Sorry, Canada.
More info on the box set is available at davidbowiestationtostation.com.
This is our first giveaway in awhile. If you like ‘em, we’ll consider more. Feel free to let us know.
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i would have to go with “Sound and Vision”
Heroes for me!
So hard to pick but Suffragatte City is always fun.
Don’t know that it’s even possible to pick just one Bowie song as a favorite! Think I’ll go with Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps), from the album of the same name.
While I love Station to Station, Young Americans is my go-to album. Win is my favorite song.
My favorite David Bowie song is “Right” which I believe when I onced owned the 45 it was the flip side of “Fame”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C1Q3ySvzD4
I absolutely adore the song ‘Beauty and the Beast’. It’s Bowie at some of his most experimental (which is still melodic and catchy as all hell) and it has a sharper edge to it, which is to be expected from any song in his Berlin Trilogy. It’s just a perfect mix of all the sounds Bowie was playing with at the time and it makes you wanna just fist pump.
Queen Bitch – reminds me of my ex. Makes me laugh, because I think Bowie back in the day could have been bitchier!
I need this, I am poor. And by poor I mean I pay rent and buy food. And for my Sophie’s Choice of fav song I will have to pick Rebel, Rebel because as a little girl my dog was named after the song (Rebel, as it were) and when we used to sing it to him he would get really excited and start dancing. And that dog could dance.
my favorite is “Watch That Man” from Aladdin Sane
Under Pressure w/ Queen
“drive-in saturday”! come on now. sci-fi doowop.
Ashes to Ashes
Bowie was my first rock concert back in 1974 when I saw him on his Diamond Dogs tour. I also saw his Station to Station tour in 1976 and on his most recent, but hopefully not his last, tour in 2004. As to a favorite song of his, it’s difficult to say, however, I can say with certainty that my favorite song off Station to Station is the title track itself. The guitar work of Carlos Alomar and Earl Slick is amazing!
Hard to choose, but if I have to, it’d be Ashes to Ashes. No, wait. Heroes.
No, uhm, Oh! You Pretty Things. Gah this is hard.
All of them!
(Note: I will pick Ashes to Ashes if I must.)
That’s a hard one…pretty much anything off ‘The Man Who Sold The World’ versus ‘Breaking Glass’…
Move On. From “Lodger,” my favorite album. And, a bit of trivia … if you play “Move On” backwards, it is “All the Young Dudes.” No lie.
David Bowie should make an instructional video entitled “Bowling Bowie.”
queen bitch. what a song. the way he mutters at the beginning is so fucking sexy
Lots of love for “Sound and Vision.”
All about the title track off “Station to Station”…the part that kicks in with the line “It’s not the side effects of the cocaine…” is an utterly brilliant move, especially following the build up that it takes to get there.
Secondly “Right” off “Young Americans” is so smooth I might die.
Alladin Sane I think!
Drive in Saturday is one of my favorite Bowie songs.
Blackout from ‘heroes’
Five Years
Five Years, Cat People, Rock n’ Roll Suicide, Width of a Circle, All the Madmen
Rebel Rebel
China Girllll
Space Oddity
the song is perfect
station to station
Ashes to Ashes
My favorite David Bowie song has to be Rebel, Rebel.
This album is my life!
“Wild is the Wind” from this album actually… just a beautiful, haunting, chilling piece of music.
My pick is the classic “Heroes”.
When I was very young I remember crying to the image of a man losing himself in space, drifting away from his family. So +1 for Space Oddity.
Station to Station
I just changed my mind 3 times… but Teenage Wildlife
oh! you pretty things
“Under Pressure”
Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide !
I would be Bowie’s Little China Girl anyday….
Oh! You Pretty Things
There’s a lot of his that is awesome. It’s hard to choose. Suffragette City may be the best.
Hands down, “The Laughing Gnome.”
space oddity
Sound and Vision is my favorite, followed by a bajillion others — Ashes to Ashes, Suffragette City, Let’s Dance, Quicksand, Kooks, Lady Stardust, the list is endless!
“Station To Station” was the first Bowie album I ever bought. My favorite song of his varies depending on my mood, but if I had to go with one song it would have to be “Life On Mars”.
Kooks!
My all-time favorite Bowie song is “Be My Wife” from the “Low” album. (That was really easy)
“My T V C one five, he, he just
Stares back unblinking
So hologramic,
oh my T V C one five
One of these nights I may just
Jump down that rainbow way, be with my baby, then
We’ll spend some time together”
Probably the strangest and most catchy way to reflect on man’s relation with technology….and what you may feel like if your gf totally crawls into your awesome tv
rock n’ roll suicide
Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed from Space Oddity. First Bowie song I heard. Still love it.
(Great contest, by the way.)
Space Oddity
“Heroes” , of course
“The Secret Life of Arabia”. The most slept-on Bowie classic.
I’m always torn between All The Madmen from MWSTW and Stay from STS.
Letter to Hermione
golden years always makes me wanna dance.
My favorite Bowie song is actually Station to Station.
Rebel, Rebel
Starman.. hands down.
I think his cover of Wild is the Wind is the greatest song ever. If I have to chose a song written by Bowie, I am gonna go with Move On from Lodger.
Jesus, you expect me to pick? Well, “Station To Station” is one of my all-time favorites. But so are “Young Americans”, “TVC 15″, and “Sweet Thing/Candidate/Sweet Thing (Reprise)”. I hope my indefinitiveness doesn’t count against me in my chances of winning this set, though.
life on mars
“Always Crashing In The Same Car”, without contest.
Love Bowie. Love Heroes and Life on Mars. Favourite song though is Changes.
Favorite tracks from each album:
David Bowie (S/T): “Love You till Tuesday”
Beautiful Baby Bowie, how could you not donate your heart to this dapper Mod?
Space Oddity: “Space Oddity”
Tripping without drugs. I was able to Just Say No thanks to this tune. My imagination lives this narrative every time I take a spin around the Technics table to this song.
The Man Who Sold the World: “The Man Who Sold the World”
Apocalyptic. Bowie at his Heinlein/Bradbury best.
Hunky Dory: “Oh! You Pretty Things”
Piano by Rick Wakeman-death by white chocolate binging!
I imagine this song as depicting the glory of Rodney’s English Disco at its shimmering peak followed by a nightmare tumble down a slippery black slope into which the glimmer kids clash into their soulless repli-can’ts – the tacky cocks of of 80s Sunset glam-rock.
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars: “Five Years”
I’ve never wallowed so willfully in face of the coming of the end of the world.
Aladdin Sane: “Panic in Detroit”
Bowie channels James Newell Osterberg, Junior’s clashes with slot machines, authority, and reluctant revolutionaries. Armchair politicians live-on vicariously through this song.
Pin Ups: all covers so technically not DB’s songs BUT he did a fine interpretation of “Shapes of Things”. …Biased as it’s origins can be traced to the sci-fi-fantasy of HG Wells. Jeff Beck still owned the solo, sorry slick Mick.
Diamond Dogs: “Rebel Rebel” you tore youR drehssss OH! my! WILD YOUTH*
Young Americans: “Young Americans”
My Saturday night into Sunday morning I’m wrecked-chord, where’s the activated charcoal?
Station to Station: “Wild is the Wind”
Another cover yes, but Bowie’s vocal performance is stunning! Creating a ripple in time with
his haunting performance-a bit detached as the mix is dripping wet and cool as October rains,
but the man nailed his name to this song.
I used to live right down the street from Cherokee Studios in Hollywood (R.I.P. – thanks to ill conceived lofts, blech!) where this was recorded. What a time for Bowie!
He’d just completed the visionary, cinematographic masterpiece The Man Who Fell to Earth – and talk about artistic ChhuhchuchuchuchAYnges…new directional masterpiece this album.
———And I would be ohh so grateful for the box set*
^xx^
Definitely Space Oddity.
five years
It changes but I think Soul Love.
Queen Bitch is awesome. Makes me wanna run around like the end of Life Aquatic.
Suffragette City. But Station to Station is my favorite album.
Width of a Circle
Sound and Vision
Another vote for “TVC 15″ here.
Life on Mars! That song gets into my head when I am least expecting it, and stays for days.
If I had to pick one song, it would have to be Heroes.
This box set is gorgeous! My favorite Bowie tune is “I’m Afraid of Americans.” It’s obviously really hard to choose… Please do more giveaways. Stay Frosty – K.L.
“Life on Mars?” It sums up so much of what Bowie’s music is about. Its origins are in Classical music, its sound is expansive and atmospheric, its lyrics poetic and surrealistic.
“It’s No Game (Pt. I)”
“Five Years” It moves me deeply.
Life on Mars?
Definitely The Man Who Sold The World. It’s one of the greatest songs of all-time.
Word on a Wing for sure.
“Station to Station” is not only the best Bowie song, but the best Bowie album.
This is an incredibly difficult decision, but I’ll have to go with “Queen Bitch.”
Suffragette City
Not a unique or original choice, but none less valid for it: “Heroes”.
It Ain’t Easy
Life on Mars followed by Queen Bitch
My favorite Bowie song would have to be Bombers…. A BOMBS H BOMBS EVEN VERY SMALL ONES RIPPED APART THAT SAND
I still can’t get over “The Man Who Sold the World.”
The Man Who Sold The World
KOOKS? YEAH, KOOKS!
Port of Amsterdam
I’m a big fan of his theme to Absolute Beginners.
Heroes
cracked actor
Five Years!