10 Greatest Posthumous Rock Songs

The passing of David Bowie transpired so fast than many fans weren't ready for it. After getting psyched for the Thin White Duke to surprise drop his album Blackstar, Bowie was gone just a few days afterward having succumbed to the cancer he had kept hidden from the world for years. As many people were grieving, fans were also taking a bit of a closer look at that album track list.

Sculpted almost like a meditation on his own demise, Bowie paints a beautiful portrait of bravery on Blackstar, almost as if he's staring into the unknown with a certain determination. Though death is just alluded to at many points on the record, the real gut punch comes on Lazarus, which featured one of the final videos we got from the Starman. Clad in a blindfold in bed, Bowie's subtle utterances of looking up and being in heaven is much more than any casual music listener could bare.

Set to an almost jazzy tune, Bowie defies going quietly and chooses to fade into the abyss just like a bluebird floating through the sky. Knowing that this is one of the last artistic gasps from one of rock's giants, it's songs like these that make us realize how much Bowie's music was an extension of himself. No one may know what it's like to see the other side and live to tell the tale, but when it comes time to travel beyond this world, one can only hope to tackle it with as much bravery as this.