Last year as a project I listened to everything I could find that David Bowie recorded. Let's just say that took a while (over 400 songs). Some of those songs I may never listen to again. But it was more than worth it, because there are some I don't remember hearing before that are now in my rotation as often as "Oh You Pretty Things," "Fashion," or "Absolute Beginners."

To mark the fourth anniversary of Bowie's transcendance to the Blackstar, here five of those gems.

Come and Buy My Toys 1967
Evoking the Pied Piper, this could be an anthem for Bowie's career.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=se8Slira_k4

A Better Future (Remix by Air) 2002
Don't stop, David. Don't stop.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srW0DcdQf2A

Let Me Sleep Beside You 1970
It seems even more mysterious because it's so obvious. Was that one of his secrets?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_hX482pLbE

Strangers When We Meet (Buddha of Suburbia version) 1993
Can't say what it is, but I like this version better than the one from Outside. Grows on me the more I hear it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlQpWl955T8

Please Mr. Gravedigger 1967
Gesundheit!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1w3yn8uqGg


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