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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