David Bowie - Pin Ups [ECD]
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Free Music Review: David Bowie - 'Pin Ups' (Virgin)
Hit: 4 Stars
Yet another David Bowie release that I've forgot ALL about.I think I used to have this album on 8-track.May,in fact even still have it.Either way,it's a pleasure to check out these twelve covers,remastered on CD.Tracks that I vaguely remember are Pink Floyd's "See Emily Play",the two Who covers "I Can't Explain" and "Anyway,Anyhow,Anywhere" as well as the two Yardbirds cuts "Shapes Of Things" and the rousing "I Wish You Would".But one of the absolute better tunes on here may very well be the Pretty Thing's party-stomper "Rosalyn".Every band should cover this tune at one time or another.A should-have.Free Music Review: Bowie Does The Covertune Album That Time Forgot
Hit: 5 Stars
In 1973 David Bowie came out with an album of Covers called Pin Ups. The cover had himself and the model Twiggy dressed like Fembots from an episode of The Bionic Woman or some post Logan's Run version of clones. Anyway... most people don't remember this Bowie outing, sandwiched in between Aladin Sane and Diamond Dogs. Mostly tunes by The Who, Pretty Things and Syd's Pink Floyd, there are some cool stuff here. Rosalyn, I Can't Explain, Where Have All The Good Times Gone, Shapes Of Things & Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere. Overall a very enjoyable listen. The original Ryko re-issue had two extra tracks: Springsteen's Growin' Up & Port Of Amsterdam. Definitely worth it to find that edition.
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Free Music Review: A Toss Off, and a Classic
Hit: 4 Stars
At the time, Pinups appeared to be little more than a quick toss-off, a means of pushing out something fun before digging into the next serious `project'. I suppose that it still remains the same even now, only that it has taken on an aura all its own in the past thirty years (my God, has it been that long?). Pinups shows Bowie paying tribute to the bands that had influenced and inspired him while growing up in the sixties. From the perspective of a new millennium, it might be hard to conceive of a time when, like most other English kids, David Bowie was a fan and not a superstar, but he was. In his pre-Ziggy, pre-superstar, pre-pubescent era, he loved Pink Floyd, the Who the Kinks and the Pretty Things like any school-aged English boy would. As it turns out, he was no ordinary schoolboy, and his interpretations of these songs are hardly ordinary, either. Bowie plays with the arrangements of these classic (or semi-classic) compositions, treating them reverently but never resorting to straight cover versions.
Taking a cue from his magnificent remake of the Rolling Stones' "Let's Spend the Night Together" on Aladdin Sane, Bowie brings as much as he borrows. Because of its oddities and idiosyncasies, Syd Barrett's (of Pink Floyd) "See Emily Play" is not a song that could normally be considered for a cover version, but Bowie does a magnificent job of it, retooling it as a psycho-surreal workout for the fabulously gifted pianist Mike Garson and drummer Aynsley Dunbar. Other arrangements that transcend expectations are "Friday On My Mind" (with the `zoom zoom zoom-zoom-zoom' backing vocals a la Esquivel) and "Rosalyn", a rocker that Bowie turns into something resembling psycho-billy.
As for the rest of the album, there are high points ("Sorrow", "Everything's Alright") and moments of mediocrity ("Shapes of Things" "Where Have All the Good Times Gone", and "I Can't Explain" don't offer much that's new in their interpretation here), but it never gets bland, and it's never anywhere near bad. At this point, Bowie was cruising high and firing on all cylinders. He was slowly working his way away from the `Ziggy' persona, but Pinups catches Bowie at a time when he and his creation melded naturally, and as such, it is also one of the least pretentious works of Bowie's career. A- Tom Ryan
Free Music Review: MEMORIES.
Hit: 4 Stars
THIS IS THE DAVID BOWIE 'COVERS' ALBUM FROM THE EARLY 70'S AND IT IS GOOD. I REMEMBER MY BROTHER IN HIS VARIOUS BANDS PLAYING THEIR VERSIONS OF BOWIE'S VERSION OF 'ROSALYN"...AND I CAN REMEMBER THE DANCE HALLS ROCKING IN 1979 TO 80-ISH ERA CIRCA AROUND TORRANCE AND THE S. BAY.....ALOT OF PUNKER AND NEW WAVE BANDS WERE INTO THIS...AND YOU CAN TELL THE CARS AND DEVO AND ALOT OF PEOPLE DUG BOWIE ESPECIALLY THIS ALBUM...BOWIE BUTCHERS A COUPLE OF WHO SONGS HERE BUT ITS ALL FUN...HIS COVER OF PINK FLOYDS SEE EMILY PLAY IS BETTER THAN SYD BARRET'S ORIGINAL AND SYD BARRET'S WAS KILLER ! FRIDAY ON MY MIND COMPLETELY ROCKS...THERE IS NO BETTER BOWIE SONG THAN THIS!--AND 'HERE COMES THE NIGHT' AND 'SORROW' ARE AWESOME...THE LET DOWN HERE MIGHT BE THE KINKS 'WHERE HAVE ALL THE GOOD TIMES GONE" LATER DONE WELL BY VAN HALEN AND DIAMOND DAVE...BUT THIS HERE DAVE CAN ROCK TOO; FOUR STARS !Free Music Review: Irony Can Be So Sweet Sometimes!
Hit: 5 Stars
I find it a tad bit ironic that David Bowie, the most original musician in the hystory of music actually made a album full of covers songs and no originals. The gender-binding, glamed soulman who invented new wave and helped pioner folk rock made and album with not one self written song, call me crazy but it seems a little ironic to me, or maybe it was just pure genius! Lets find out, shall we?
The albums starts out with the hard rocking 'Rosalyn' that Bowie turns into a glam-rock song is done very well and is a great way to start off the album. 'Here Comes The Night' is a nice rocker done very well and is one of the better songs on Pin-Ups. 'I Wish You Would' is another solid hard rocker with great guitar through and through, if you never heard the original you'd swear it was a Bowie original. I was never a big fan of Pink Floyd with Sydd Barret and I hated the song 'See Emily Play' but David Bowie does it amazingly and I love this version! 'Everythings Alright' is another yet another hard rocker done very well with excelently, and it's one of my favorites on the album. David Bowies cover of The Who's 'I Can't Explain' is really really really bad. It's slow and drawn out and oh so boring, I just absolutly hate it! I killed everything that was good about the original. The original 'Friday On My Mind' has become somewhat of a standard and Bowie did it nothing like the original and it is just fantastic. 'Sorrow' is kind of Doo-Whop is but not and then at the same time its a very soulful song with great sax. This is a very nicley done cover. 'Dont Bring Me Down' is a guitar driven little rocker thats very good and the harmonica adds a really nice touch to. 'Shapes Of Things' is classic Jeff Beck and The Yardbirds that has never been covered poorly, and Bowies version is no exception to that rule, this is a killer version of the original, very good! 'Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere' is a nice piano driven song full of down right amazingly powerful vocals by Bowie, easily the best song on the album. 'Where Have All The Good Times Gone' is such a good song, either version, but I actually prefer Bowies version because of the great guitar playing. One thing I have always loved about David Bowie is he always has an amazing guitar player and this album is full of great guitar playing.
Pin-Ups is perhaps David Bowies most underrated album. Being released right after the sucsess of Aladdin Sane people thought this was rushed and forced to cash in on the sucess of Aladdin Sane, but it's not true this is actually a very good album of cover songs, with the exception of the terriable 'I Can't Explain' cover which totaly ruined the song. This album got the same rep as It's Only Rock And Roll by The Rolling Stones, both album being released right after largely sucessful albums like Exile On main Street and Aladdin Sane. And yet both album, this and Rock and Roll are amazing albums once you give them a try. So do your self a favor and pick up this highly underrated diamond in the ruff, Pin-Ups.