A Sense of Doubt blog post #4004 - Bowie Cover Songs from Albums

A Sense of Doubt blog post #4004 - Bowie Cover Songs from Albums

David Bowie month is over, but I still have three posts that are delayed and scheduled, starting with this one.

I have collected all the covers Bowie did on his studio albums in a single mix. Not including the entire PinUps album.

Though I am a huge Bowie fan, I am a little embarrassed to share that I did not know that some of these were covers for many years.

I am not sure when I discovered that "Wild is The Wind" and "Kingdom Come" were not written by Bowie, but it was after many, many years of believing that they were.

I may have figured it out when Heathen came out on which he covered the song "Cactus" by the Pixies, which was the first one I knew since "Let's Spend the Night Together" and "Across the Universe."

Also, for awhile, I thought it was a thing for Bowie to have one cover on each album, but that's also NOT the case.

Some albums feature NO covers, such as Diamond Dogs, Lodger, etc.

And some have more than one, like Heathen and Tonight.

That's all.

Kind of a quick Music Monday today as I was catching up.

Thanks for tuning in.


My David Bowie Covers Mix

David Bowie covered numerous songs on his studio albums, most notably on the 1973 covers album Pin Ups, featuring glam-rock takes on The Who, The Kinks, and The Pretty Things; other key covers include "Across the Universe" (Young Americans), "Wild is the Wind" (Station to Station), "Kingdom Come" (Scary Monsters), "I Feel Free" (Black Tie, White Noise), "Cactus" (Heathen), and "Try Some, Buy Some" (Reality). 

From Pin Ups (1973): 

• "Rosalyn" (The Pretty Things)
• "Don't Bring Me Down" (The Pretty Things)
• "Here Comes the Night" (Them)
• "See Emily Play" (Pink Floyd)
• "Everything's Alright" (The Mojos)
• "Shapes of Things" (The Yardbirds)
• "I Wish You Would" (Billy Boy Arnold)
• "Friday on My Mind" (The Easybeats)
• "Sorrow" (The Merseys)
• "I Can't Explain" (The Who)
• "Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere" (The Who)
• "Where Have All the Good Times Gone" (The Kinks) 

Other Studio Albums: 

• The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust... (1972): "It Ain't Easy" (Ron Davies)
• Aladdin Sane (1973): "Let's Spend the Night Together" (Jagger/Richards)
• Young Americans (1975): "Across the Universe" (Lennon/McCartney)
• Station to Station (1976): "Wild is the Wind" (Washington/Tiomkin)
• Scary Monsters... (1980): "Kingdom Come" (Tom Verlaine)
• Black Tie, White Noise (1993): "I Feel Free" (Brown/Bruce), "Nite Flights" (Noel Scott Engel)
• Tin Machine (1989): "Working Class Hero" (John Lennon)
• Never Let Me Down (1987): "Bang Bang" (Osterberg/Williamson)
• Tonight (1984): "I Keep Forgetting" (Lieber/Stoller/Garfield), "God Only Knows" (Wilson/Asher), "Don't Look Down" (Osterberg/Williamson)
• Heathen (2002): "Cactus" (Francis Black), "I've Been Waiting For You" (Neil Young), "I Took a Trip on a Gemini Spaceship" (Norman Odam)
• Reality (2003): "Picasso" (Jonathan Richman), "Try Some, Buy Some" (George Harrison) 

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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - date - time

- Days ago: MOM = ## days ago & DAD = ## days ago

- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I post Hey Mom blog entries on special occasions. I post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day, and now I have a second count for Days since my Dad died on August 28, 2024. I am now in the same time zone as Google! So, when I post at 10:10 a.m. PDT to coincide with the time of Mom's death, I am now actually posting late, so it's really 1:10 p.m. EDT. But I will continue to use the time stamp of 10:10 a.m. to remember the time of her death and sometimes 13:40 EDT for the time of Dad's death. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.

A Sense of Doubt blog post #4003 - AWESOME: Bruce Springsteen Raises His Music in Resistance Against ICE and the Trump Administration

A Sense of Doubt blog post #4003 - AWESOME: Bruce Springsteen Raises His Music in Resistance Against ICE and the Trump Administration

Not Comic Book Sunday, but I am still in quick share mode. Last day of the Winter quarter at Walden Graduate School.

Bruce Springsteen made a song for the people of Minnesota following the MURDERS of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

Of course, the Trump administration doesn't like it but has to comment because they cannot take criticism let alone open resistance.

The actions of this administration and their thugs are brutal, cruel, and inhuman.

This is because they do not see immigrants -- illegal or otherwise -- as humans. And they do not consider those who resist to be "real" Americans.

And then Trump, who cannot hold back lack a mature adult or someone with the position of power he has and respect for the office he holds from spewing the most vile, offensive, insulting hate filled rants about people who oppose him and the actions of his cronies.

It's disgusting, vile, and despicable.

And then there's SPRINGSTEEEN!!

I wonder if he has more followers on social media than Trump?

I am disappointed in myself that I posted about Alex Pretti but have not yet made my post about Renee Good. When I do, I will use these sources:

Renee Good - video analysis

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/video/ice-shooting-renee-good-minneapolis-videos.html

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/minneapolis-transformed-federal-immigration-alex-pretti-renee-good-rcna256032

Thank you Bruce Springsteen.

Thank you people of Minneapolis/St. Paul.

Thank you for tuning in.

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Lyric Video)

Bruce Springsteen

Jan 29, 2026

Directed by Thom Zimny

Edited by Thom Zimny and Samuel Shapiro

Production Footage: Pam Springsteen and Thom Zimny

Trump administration slams Bruce Springsteen's 'irrelevant' anti-ICE protest song

The song is the latest offering from Springsteen, who has heavily criticized Trump's policies since he was first elected in 2016.

By 

Mekishana Pierre

 

 

January 29, 2026 3:29 p.m. ET

https://ew.com/trump-administration-slams-bruce-springsteen-anti-ice-protest-song-11895474

Bruce Springsteen's new protest song is getting rave reviews from music lovers and activists alike, but the White House is definitively not a fan.

Springsteen released the song, titled "Streets of Minneapolis," on Wednesday, which boasts lyrics condemning the presence and actions of federal immigration enforcement in the city, and calls out "King Trump" and his "federal thugs." The song also narrates the killings of Renee Macklin Good and Alex Pretti, who were fatally shot by federal agents this month.

"I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis," the 76-year-old rocker wrote on Bluesky alongside the single's release. "It's dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free."

Saturday was the same day immigration agents killed Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse, during a confrontation. Good, a 37-year-old mother of three, was killed by an ICE agent on Jan. 7, with both occurrences going viral on social media.

Their deaths are the latest to gain national attention as at least 32 people died in ICE custody in 2025 amid Donald Trump's aggressive immigration crackdown, making it the agency's deadliest year in two decades, per The American Prospect.

In response to Springsteen's song making headlines, Abigail Jackson, a White House spokeswoman, told Entertainment Weekly in a statement that "the Trump administration is focused on encouraging state and local Democrats to work with federal law enforcement officers on removing dangerous criminal illegal aliens from their communities — not random songs with irrelevant opinions and inaccurate information."

Jackson added, "The media should cover how Democrats have refused to work with the Administration, and instead, opted to provide sanctuary for these criminal illegals."

Springsteen released a new video for the song, directed by longtime collaborator Thom Zimny, on Thursday. The video features scenes on the ground in Minneapolis and studio performance shots of Springsteen. Pam Springsteen, the Boss' sister, is credited with production footage along with Zimny.

Springsteen, who has written politically driven music for decades, has been heavily critical of Trump since he was first elected in 2016. Their spat was renewed with Trump's second term, with the "Dancing in the Dark" singer dubbing the current administration as "corrupt, incompetent, and treasonous" during the opening night of his Land of Hope and Dreams tour in Manchester last May.

"Tonight, we ask all who believe in democracy and the best of our American experience to rise with us," Springsteen told his crowd at the time. "Raise your voices against the authoritarianism, and let freedom ring."

The president fired back at the musician a day later on Truth Social, calling him a "dried-out 'prune' of a rocker" and stating that he "never liked him, never liked his music, or his Radical Left Politics."

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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 2602.01 - 10:10

- Days ago: MOM = 3866 days ago & DAD = 522 days ago

- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I post Hey Mom blog entries on special occasions. I post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day, and now I have a second count for Days since my Dad died on August 28, 2024. I am now in the same time zone as Google! So, when I post at 10:10 a.m. PDT to coincide with the time of Mom's death, I am now actually posting late, so it's really 1:10 p.m. EDT. But I will continue to use the time stamp of 10:10 a.m. to remember the time of her death and sometimes 13:40 EDT for the time of Dad's death. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.