| 1 | A New Career in a New Town | instrumentals |
| 2 | All the Madmen | hospitals |
| 3 | Always Crashing in the Same Car | cars & driving |
| 4 | Ashes to Ashes | mistaken identity |
| 5 | Blackstar | stars |
| 6 | Changes | change #2 |
| 7 | Come and Buy My Toys | toys |
| 8 | Fame | funk |
| 9 | Fashion | fear of missing out |
| 10 | Five Years | meta-songs |
| 11 | God Knows I’m Good | deception |
| 12 | Golden Years | whistling |
| 13 | “Heroes” | obstacles |
| 14 | “Heroes” | album tracks better than the singles |
| 15 | Kooks | fathers |
| 16 | Kooks | survival |
| 17 | Lady Stardust | other musicians |
| 18 | Let’s Dance | start with the chorus |
| 19 | Letter to Hermione | written correspondence |
| 20 | Life on Mars? | questions for titles |
| 21 | The London Boys | youth cults |
| 22 | Look Back in Anger | surprise encounters |
| 23 | Memory of a Free Festival | music venues |
| 24 | Modern Love | punctuality |
| 25 | Moss Garden | lyrical or musical onomatopoeia |
| 26 | Neuköln | electronic music to 1983 |
| 27 | Oh! You Pretty Things | oddballs, outcasts & outsiders |
| 28 | The Prettiest Star | different 7″ versions |
| 29 | Ragazzo solo, ragazzo sola | foreign language versions |
| 30 | Rebel Rebel | gender & LGBTQ+ |
| 31 | Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide | suicide |
| 32 | Space Oddity | without a chorus |
| 33 | Speed of Life | dance instrumentals |
| 34 | Star | celebrity |
| 35 | Starman | aliens |
| 36 | Station to Station | impressive intros |
| 37 | Stay | staying |
| 38 | Subterraneans | indecipherable songs |
| 39 | The Width of a Circle | id, ego & superego |
| 40 | Time | stop-start songs |
| 41 | Under Pressure (with Queen) | duets |
| 42 | Where Are We Now? | specific or obscure places |
| 43 | Wild Eyed Boy from Freecloud | capital punishment |
| 44 | Ziggy Stardust | saints & martyrs |