I am a firm believer in perfect pop songs, the little nuggets of sound that come together so wholly and completely that they become transcendent, like the artists that created them were tapping into something on a level no mere mortal will ever truly comprehend. Like gold lifted from the ether. Like gently feeling the pulse of some collective cosmic consciousness. Like harmonizing with the divine. And while in my heart i am an atheist, the closest i ever come to believing in a god is when hearing these sonic revelations, these tastes of audio bliss. An artist would be lucky to even grace the world with just one of these perfect pop compositions in a lifetime. Bowie did it twice. Let's listen to one of them for today's Daily Bowie. From 1978, "Heroes."
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