Infobox Album
Name = The Best of David Bowie 1974/1979
Type = compilation
Artist = David Bowie


Released = start date|1998|4
Recorded = 1974-1979
Genre = Rock
Length = 69:33
Label = EMI
Producer = "Producer varies from track to track"
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:hvfoxqrjldse link]
*Pitchfork Media (8.6/10) [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/15617-the-best-of-1974-1979 link]
Misc = Extra chronology 2
Artist = David Bowie compilation
Type = compilation
Last album = "The Best of David Bowie 1969/1974" (1997)
This album = "The Best of David Bowie 1974/1979" (1998)
Next album = "Bowie at the Beeb" (2000)

"The Best of David Bowie 1974/1979" is a compilation album by David Bowie released in 1998 (see 1998 in music). This album was also included as the second disc of the compilation "The Platinum Collection" (2005/06).

Track listing

All songs written by David Bowie except as noted.
# "Sound and Vision" – 3:02
# "Golden Years" (single edit) – 3:28
# "Fame" (Bowie, Carlos Alomar, John Lennon) – 4:13
# "Young Americans" (single version) – 3:12
# "John, I'm Only Dancing (Again)" – 6:59
# "Can You Hear Me?" – 5:05
# "Wild Is the Wind" (Dimitri Tiomkin, Ned Washington) – 5:59
# "Knock on Wood" (Cropper, Eddie Floyd) (live) – 2:58
# "TVC 15" (single version) – 3:52
# "1984" – 3:25
# "It's Hard to Be a Saint in the City" (Bruce Springsteen) – 3:46
# "Look Back in Anger" (Bowie, Brian Eno) – 3:06
# "The Secret Life of Arabia" (Bowie, Eno, Alomar) – 3:45
# "DJ" (Bowie, Eno, Alomar) – 4:02
# "Beauty and the Beast" – 3:34
# "Breaking Glass" (Bowie, Dennis Davis, George Murray) – 1:51
# "Boys Keep Swinging" (Bowie, Eno) – 3:18
# "Heroes" (Bowie, Eno) (single version) – 3:33