Top ten favourite Bowie tunes, continued: 5. "Win" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mB9RSG-56wU): A great song from his most underrated album, which includes three others that would be in my top twenty list: "Young Americans", "Right" and "Can You Hear Me" (and maybe "Somebody Up There Likes Me", too, come to think of it). 4. "Moonage Daydream" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE4Mu_cZcIA): Just an amazing song from an album full of them, with lyrics that deserve to be memorized and quoted. There's an allusion to it at the end of Ian Hunter's "The Great Escape" from his 2009 Man Overboard, in fact, and a band that I was in once got its name from it (if you're interested). 3. "Aladdin Sane" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2y9inP4CqE): The mesmerizing title track of the album where Bowie's collagist lyrics were at their most powerful. And apparently Bowie was conceptually responsible for the piece's signature, Mike Garson's expressive Cecil Tayloresque piano performance, by asking for an avant-garde approach, rather than the latin or blues inspired playing that he'd done on earlier takes. Garson has said that a week hasn't gone by since during which someone hasn't asked him about it. 2. "Life On Mars?" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C0RmRGTePw): A beautifully constructed piece with chord progressions that are surprising and yet completely logical. It's terrifically orchestrated and sung, as well. 1. "Stay" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJVtv9LlK9Y&feature=related): I've always had a particular affection for this one since seeing the concert mentioned yesterday. I got in early to see the soundcheck which Bowie showed up at part way through, and while the band was playing this one, he took over the vocals from Carlos Alomar with a very funny "Hey! What do you think you're doing?" gesture. A magical memory and a brilliant song.