#MusicChallenge #Top31DavidBowie 17 Lady Grinning Soul David Bowie 1973 Zipping back 20 years for this enigmatic track from Aladdin Sane. This song sounds almost like it could be from any era, even one that hasn't happened yet. youtu.be/18d_pLKgMoY

Christmas night: "But Santa, you've hardly touched your Zardoz cookies."

#MusicChallenge #Top31DavidBowie 18 Jump They Say David Bowie 1993 A dancy, driving track with a frenetic trumpet solo from Lester Bowie. youtu.be/xPZWgCLMsW8

TIL the original lyrics to Deck the Halls are awesome and “don we now our gay apparel” is temperance movement bullshit

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Twin Peaks: Sheriff Truman and Agent Cooper sitting at of a table of donuts.

Shared with me by my father. So cool how they weave these two melodies together, at times settling into harmonies. #radiohead youtu.be/nZoHuoFQyrI

#MusicChallenge #Top31DavidBowie 19 Slip Away David Bowie 2002 Evocative of his soaring 70s ballads, this track brought a bit of nostalgia to an otherwise emotionally unsettled album. youtu.be/FQrJE56oU7I

#MusicChallenge #Top31DavidBowie 20 Bring Me The Disco King David Bowie 2003 "Don't let me know when you're opening the door Close me in the dark, let me disappear Soon there'll be nothing left of me Nothing left to release" Jazzy late night jam with a superb piano part. youtu.be/3I3k9h4KaAg

#MusicChallenge #Top31DavidBowie 21 5:15 The Angels Have Gone David Bowie 2002 This ranks on account of the interesting songwriting…in particular, how the pieces are never fully formed until it reaches its crescendos. youtu.be/YK7ketEwLbY

What if they constantly want culture war because policy war is complicated and hard and culture war is stupid and easy

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#MusicChallenge #Top31DavidBowie 22 Young Americans David Bowie 1975 Bowie messing with the Philadelphia soul sound. Luther Vandross had a hand in the unique backing vocal arrangements. Love the offbeat groove. youtu.be/ydLcs4VrjZQ

Also the, um, "we should do something about it" part is seriously crazy.

Great to see her enter the race. Jasmine Crockett and James Talarico are two rising stars in the US left. This raises the profile of both, and no matter who wins, Texas gets a strong candidate. Contested primaries are great…such an important part of the vetting process.

#MusicChallenge #Top31DavidBowie 23 Cat People (Putting Out Fire) David Bowie • Giorgio Moroder 1982 The original synthy new wave track. Either version could have made the list, but didn’t want the same song twice. Also notable because while recording he ran into Queen... youtu.be/sJJjSh7jBSQ

Twin Peaks: Albert Rosenfield at the end of a table.

This became a joke in my town. Anytime someone notices a work site and asks what is going in, people are like “probably another car wash”. I get the appeal of touchless car washes: basically a turnkey business, no staff except the people servicing the equipment. Cash flow. But FFS; we have enough

The Expos got fucked by the events of 1994. Although my guess is it’s a long shot, I’d like to see a team return to Montréal. I wouldn’t mind seeing the MLB in Vancouver, Mexico City, and Monterrey. San Juan would be amazing, but it may be too small. My money is on Charlotte or Vegas.

#MusicChallenge #Top31DavidBowie 24 A Foggy Day (In London Town) David Bowie • Angelo Badalamenti 1998 Another cover, this time of Gershwin. The arrangement they came up with feels like the soundtrack to a foggy day, and night. Talk about ambiance... youtu.be/wcpP57jxq74

Dragonflies fun facts - Just one dragonfly can consume over 100 mosquitos in a day - Dragonflies can fly backwards - They have nearly 360° vision - Their wings inhibit bacterial growth due to their natural structures - They're actually beautiful

Twin Peaks: Garland Briggs showing Cooper a print-out of an alien signal.

Somehow, every week, I forget that Sunday morning is when lying, disingenuous politicians go on TV news shows to be interviewed by ill-prepared, journalists who don't ever hold anyone's feet to the fire. And then I wake up and it's clips galore. Why is this a thing?

Picture of the staff who operate this Bluesky account.

it's good that we have hellfire missiles to defend ourselves from two guys hanging on to a capsized boat, who knows what might have happened otherwise

Aspirationally named, perhaps an attempt to manifest that which is desired? #minnesotatwins

#MusicChallenge #Top31DavidBowie 25 Golden Years David Bowie 1976 TIL this song may have been written for Elvis, but he declined it. It’s a nice little disco and doo wop mashup. (Excuse me while I ponder the alternate timeline where white jumpsuit Elvis sang Bowie songs.) youtu.be/ApHM1ct4tdM

Just noticed in a Volkswagen commercial an attempt to coin the term “SUVW”. #cringemarketing

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#MusicChallenge #Top31DavidBowie 26 Loving The Alien David Bowie 1984 Underneath the 80s sheen there’s some interesting songwriting. Oh yes, and a video truly made for MTV. youtu.be/ns2hmyP0mGY

A friend said: “it’s like when you give a sheriff’s badge to a four year-old”. I do think they’re doing it so he won’t steal the actual World Cup, and insist on moving games to other cities because he doesn’t like the mayors or Stephen Miller showed him AI videos of buildings burning. #worldcup

some days you just have to laugh at how unbelievably stupid everything is

#MusicChallenge #Top31DavidBowie 27 If You Can See Me David Bowie 2013 An insistent, almost nagging track…relentlessly tense, on a knife’s edge, until it just kind of dissolves, fading away with no real release. youtu.be/wyy0px4duLM

It's amusing to me that humanity invented a series of decentralized technologies capable of storing human knowledge and serving application functionality in a distributed, fault-tolerant way, and then collectively decided to wall it all off behind a single gatekeeper. #cloudflare

Finally had a chance to read this post. It's very good! As I'm gearing up to get back to work on my Pacific Drive talk, the Motivations section especially connected for me, but lots of really excellent food for thought and distillation throughout, besides that. www.raphkoster.com/2025/11/03/g...

#MusicChallenge #Top31DavidBowie 28 Moonage Daydream David Bowie 1972 "Keep your 'lectric eye on me, babe Put your ray gun to my head Press your space face close to mine, love Freak out in a moonage daydream, oh yeah" youtu.be/RPUAldgS7Sg

This is fascinating...

#MusicChallenge #Top31DavidBowie 29 Cactus David Bowie 2002 He puts his stamp on a Pixies tune. There are a couple more tracks from this album coming up on my list. youtu.be/qFCDKYCevYs

Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.

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My comment has nothing to do with JB. I applaud his artist/single/album diversity. I just find it annoying that streaming services decided to create yearly roundup features when there’s an entire month of the year that hasn’t happened. Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk. #applemusicreplay

#MusicChallenge #Top31DavidBowie 30 I’m Afraid Of Americans David Bowie 1997 Fresh off touring with NIN, here Bowie was messing with industrial influences. Trent Reznor appeared in the video, and helmed a remix EP. youtu.be/LT3cERVRoQo

#MusicChallenge #Top31DavidBowie 31 I’m Deranged David Bowie 1995 This one was a great fit in David Lynch's Lost Highway. (I need more like a top 50.) youtu.be/IzIXlttNCyo

#MusicChallenge #Top31DavidBowie I was going to sit out for December, but decided to take part after seeing this challenge, since I already had a playlist of Bowie faves. No one delivered such a diverse body of work for so long. Mine will be a countdown, from 31 to 1. First, a side thread... 🧵

Possibly unpopular opinion: After listening to tons of both, 1980s new wave/modern rock is superior to 1990s alternative, even though the latter gets more attention. Rhythms were more interesting in the 90s, and of course there’s Björk, Radiohead et al., but 80s stuff is more diverse overall.

Today is World AIDS Day, a day that reminds me of the decades-long fight for dignity, science, and compassion. We’ve come so far because activists, researchers, and communities refused to be ignored.

The number of House members who've announced they aren't running for reelection is running a fair bit ahead of recent cycles. Not dramatically so, but a noticeable uptick. ballotpedia.org/List_of_U.S....

Great reminders here. FYI for anyone who might care: “lsof" also works in macOS.