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“Ziggy Stardust” by Bauhaus
From the EP Bauhaus E.P. (1983)
“Ziggy Stardust” by Bauhaus appears on 7 radio countdowns from 5 stations between 1982 and 2024. It was first released in 1983 on the EP Bauhaus E.P.. Its best result is #14 (tie) on the John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1982. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #44 alternative song of 1982 and #2,870 alternative song of all time.
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Bauhaus took on David Bowie's "Ziggy Stardust" in 1982, and it's a cover that plays the song straight and still sounds like theirs. Bowie's tale of a bisexual alien rock star who rises and crashes comes from his 1972 album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, and the English gothic rockers treat it less as a glam anthem than as a black-clad victory lap, guitars sharp and chilly and the vocal full of arch theatre.
The band produced it with John Sparrow, with Mike Robinson engineering, and it later turned up on the Bauhaus E.P. It went to number 15 on the UK Singles Chart.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 14 (tie) | John Peel (BBC Radio 1) | John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1982 | 50 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 590 | CFNY 102.1 The Edge | CFNY Top 1002 Songs of All-Time (1991 Edition) | 1002 |
| 1999 | 532 | 107.7 The End | The End Top 1077 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 1077 |
| 1999 | 775 | CFNY 102.1 The Edge | CFNY Top 1002 Songs of All-Time (November 1999) | 1002 |
| 2002 | 764 | Fred (XM 44) | Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002) | 2002 |
| 2003 | 545 | Fred (XM 44) | Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003) | 2044 |
| 2024 | 734 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 850 Cover Songs | 850 |
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