I'll have to check those out. For me Hours just doesn't have any energy behind it; Bowie sounds kind of resigned and tired and the whole thing just kind of drifts by in a lugubrious haze. And it's especially galling considering the advance word was that Hours was supposedly a conscious throwback to the Hunk Dory days……

Lodger works better for me overall as well. Even though African Night Flight almost always stops me cold, Move On brings me right back.

I'll have to go back and listen to it, interludes excluded. Though I do much prefer the PSB Hallo Spaceboy remix to the album version.

I tend not to even count Never Let Me Down as part of the discography. I've never listened to it, therefore it doesn't exist.

Outside would have been better divested from its crazy, incomplete, concept and probably 1/3 of its actual songs. That said, Hearts Filthy Lesson and Strangers When We Meet are still very special to the sexually ambiguous gothy teenager that still lives inside me.

I agree, but I'd cut If You Can See Me as well. At 14 tracks it drags a little, but at 11 it would really kill.

Hard question. You probably want to start in the 70s. Hunky Dory or Ziggy Stardust are both natural introductions, because then you can go backward to The Man Who Sold the World, or forward to Aladdin Sane/Diamond Dogs quite naturally. Or you could start with Low/'Heroes'/Lodger (probably not in that order:…

I think Heathen is pretty great, actually. So much better than Reality and/or his 90s trend-hopping albums.

Yeah, between Daredevil and The Cell I feel like D'Onofrio could pull off the otherworldly menace. Just shave him, make him pasty, do some camera trickery to make him 7 feet tall, and he's your man.

Noonan would be good too. Clancy Brown also comes to mind. Or present-day Vincent D'Onofrio.

I haven't even seen this movie, but my first thought upon reading this article was that Danny Huston would make a fine Judge Holden.

Eric Burdon & the Animals "Good Times"

Nu Shooz "Point of No Return"

The Hold Steady "Your Little Hoodrat Friend"

Owen Pallett "This Lamb Sells Condos"

Leonard Cohen "I'm Your Man"

Jens Lekman "Rocky Dennis's Farewell Song"

Anything by Sigur Ros that's in Hopelandic.

Phosphorescent "Song for Zula"

Only if they get an actor to sit there with a look of dawning horror and understanding.