Beside all his best known songs, which I like as well, there's:
The Bewlay Brothers
his cover of Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere
and his new/final album Black Star has made a big impression,
not simply because of the circumstances surrounding it (though it plays a role)
but because I find it awesome.
There ought to be a thread dedicated to the best final albums by artists who knew that
they were making their last album.
Interesting (to me anyway) that he was born in '47 and Black Star was his 47th album,
and that his career really began to take off in '69 and he died at the age of 69....
You'll be missed Mr. Jones.
I'm not 100% sold that he knew this would be his last. I read that he was still working on new material as recently as last week. Certainly he knew that Blackstar
could be his last album and created it with that in mind. Still, You can go back to the final song on The Next Day 'Heat' and say that would have been a fitting career capper. You could even do it with the final song on Reality, 'Bring Me the Disco King', and say
that would be a fitting ending. The way it worked out though was quite profound. I don't know that there could ever be anything like it again. Bowie was such a singular talent.
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