David Bowie saved Rock music from the turgid, monolithic, adolescent, linear sounds of the mid-70's and 80's, as Prince and the grundge bands were to save Rock again in the nineties.  This CD show why. Although the  breadth of Bowie's work really needs a boxed set, this is an excellent  single-disc collection of Bowie's most popular years (although you'll  undoubtedly regret the exclusion of one or more of your favorites:  No  "TVC-15," "Cracked Actor," no works from "Station to Station," "Low," or  his brilliant "Pinups").