David Bowie's "iSelect"

1. "Life on Mars?" (from Hunky Dory) – 3:49
2. "Sweet Thing/Candidate/Sweet Thing (Reprise)" (from Diamond Dogs) – 8:47
3. "The Bewlay Brothers" (from Hunky Dory) – 5:23
4. "Lady Grinning Soul" (from Aladdin Sane) – 3:51
5. "Win" (from Young Americans) – 4:44
6. "Some Are" (bonus track on the 1991 re-issue of Low[4]) – 3:13
7. "Teenage Wildlife" (from Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)) – 6:51
8. "Repetition" (from Lodger) – 3:01
9. "Fantastic Voyage" (from Lodger) – 2:54
10. "Loving the Alien" (from Tonight) – 7:08
11. "Time Will Crawl (MM Remix)" (the original version is on Never Let Me Down) – 4:54
* Contains 30 seconds of silence at the end of the track.
12. "Hang on to Yourself (Live)" (from Live Santa Monica '72) – 3:06

iSelect (or iSelectBowie)[1] is a David Bowie compilation CD first released 29 June, 2008 in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland only.

This CD is a collection of personal favourites compiled by Bowie himself [2] and was available exclusively as a free gift with the June 29th edition of British newspaper The Mail On Sunday.

The compilation is notable for two reasons. Firstly that Bowie avoided the usual greatest hits route and instead compiled a selection of favourite album tracks. Indeed the album contains only three singles (Life On Mars, Loving the Alien, and Time Will Crawl).

Sorry if we did this before. I thought we had. But I couldn't track it down.

What would be your 12 song Bowie 'iSelect' type compilation and running order?

Wow, he really avoided my Bowie favs!

Originally posted by Seitse
Wow, he really avoided my Bowie favs!

Apparently that was deliberate.

Originally posted by FMF
Apparently that was deliberate.

Oh well, it's just that it happens to be quite frustrating that my taste doesn't match with Bowie's taste... er... regarding... er... Bowie himself.

Would you be so kind to psychoanalyze me?

1. Speed of Life
2. Fame
3. Cat People (original version, i.e. not the Let's Dance version)
4. Always Crashing in the Same Car
5. "Heroes"
6. Aladdin Sane
7. Moonage Daydream
8. Stay
9. Bewlay Brothers
10. Ashes to Ashes
11. Sweet Thing/Candidate/Sweet Thing (reprise)
12. Rock'n'Roll Suicide

my second 12 would be

1. It's No Game (part 1)
2. Hallo Spaceboy (PS Boys remix)
3. Golden Years
4. Space Oddity
5. After All
6. Rebel Rebel
7. The Width of a Circle
8. Young Americans
9. The Man Who Sold the World
10. D.J.
11. Quicksand
12. Station to Station

my third 12 would be:

1. Fashion
2. Suffragette City
3. All the Madmen
4. Thursday's Child
5. 1984
6. Weeping Wall
7. Battle For Britain (The Letter)
8. Criminal World
9. Breaking Glass
10. A New Career in a New Town
11. The Heart's Filthy Lession
12. It's No Game (Part 2)

Ashes to Ashes
Joe the Lion
Sons of the Silent Age
Station to Station
Sorrow
Sound and Vision
Boys Keep Swinging
I Can't Read
Little Wonder
Starman
Scary Monsters
Space Oddity