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MythicalkingDonatedPosted at 2026-05-29 13:18:13(2 wks ago) (Bowie General / What constitutes a Pin-Up?)


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What is it with the current trend of compiling anything and everything that Bowie covered and labelling it as a Pin-Ups sequel – I just don’t get it!

The ethos of the Pin-Ups album was to collect together songs from the 60s that Bowie loved with the final album selection narrowed down to UK only bands primarily from the London scene.  Much of the stuff now being bundled together as Pin-Ups 2, 3 & 4 simply doesn’t fit with the original concept.

In my view tracks that could be justified would include: Let’s Spend The Night Together, It Ain’t Easy, Pictures Of Lily, I Feel Free, Waterloo Sunset and (although it’s one of my least favourite Bowie covers) Across The Universe.

I think that there is also a case for including tracks like I Got You Babe, White Light/White Heat, Waiting For The Man, Round And Round and God Only Knows (although that is probably my least favourite Bowie cover ever).

Perhaps I’m just a grumpy old man who shouldn’t be getting so exercised over something like this.  What do others think?

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homebrewPosted at 2026-05-30 15:00:07(1 wk ago) (Bowie General / What constitutes a Pin-Up?)


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People like to stroke themselves and seek out validation from strangers online by cobbling together a collection of songs and saying "hey! look what I just did!" They don't get the original concept. All they see is a collection of cover songs and so gather together anything they can find.


""I don't begrudge any artist for finding an audience"
- David Bowie abt. 1987
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professormouseDonatedPosted at 2026-05-31 00:33:48(1 wk ago) (Bowie General / What constitutes a Pin-Up?)


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how much is a decent cd printer these days
?
them things are pretend CD bootlegs
u been over to Russia or something 'online' ??
if one was gonna happen
it would have

anyone 'played' the Hallo Spaceboy 12'' EP
:-@
yet
?

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SillyBoyBlueDonatedPosted at 2026-06-02 22:42:02(1 wk ago) (Bowie General / What constitutes a Pin-Up?)


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or we could go completely in another Direction and just say
"If david covered a song. During the Recording of it He most have had some Fond thoughts about it"
Thus if its good enuff for Bowie then I should consider Hearing it some day LOL

Of course, later he may not have liked the RESULTS of the attempt.
But I dont recall him ever Disavowing it and trying to take it off Market AFTER the release of it.
(if he never wanted a song to be released. We All want to HEAR IT and Suss out Why)

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professormouseDonatedPosted at 2026-06-05 01:30:13(1 wk ago) (Bowie General / What constitutes a Pin-Up?)


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"of course they're all terrible compared to the originals"
so
don't
Adventures In Bowieland = we want some product/anything ! ?

i have heard the 'remix' on the last RSD 12''
it's either a
spins @ 45 RPM 'Disco Mix'
or
is the album version shaved a tiny bit

Pin Ups 2 gets a passing mention in one or two books
the other 'first' album is more real
that got to a note-pad ?

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barryhPosted at 2026-06-08 09:36:56(5 days ago) (Bowie General / What constitutes a Pin-Up?)


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UK
Love Song (Elton John)
Criminal World (Metro)
Cosmic Dancer (T. Rex)
I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday (Morrissey)
Nite Flights (Scott Walker)
Mother (John Lennon)
Try Some, Buy Some (George Harrison)
Love Missile F1-11 (Sigue Sigue Sputnik)
Arnold Layne (Pink Floyd)

US (/Canada)
Louie, Louie Go Home (Paul Revere and the Raiders)
Life Is a Circus (Roger Bunn)
Fill Your Heart (Biff Rose)
Buzz the Fuzz (Biff Rose)
Almost Grown (Chuck Berry)
Growin' Up (Bruce Springsteen)
It's Hard to Be a Saint in the City (Bruce Springsteen)
Footstompin' (The Flares)
Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate (jazz standard)
Here Today, Gone Tomorrow (Ohio Players)
Knock on Wood (Eddie Floyd)
Wild Is the Wind (Johnny Mathis)
Little Drummer Boy (Trapp Family Singers)
Kingdom Come (Tom Verlaine)
Don't Look Down (Iggy Pop)
I Keep Forgettin (Chuck Jackson)
Dancing in the Street (Martha and the Vandellas)
Bang Bang (Iggy Pop)
Tryin' To Get To Heaven (Bob Dylan)
A Foggy Day in London Town (Fred Astaire)
Nature Boy (Nat King Cole)
America (Simon and Garfunkel)
Cactus (Pixies)
I Took a Trip on a Gemini Spaceship (The Legendary Stardust Cowboy)
I've Been Waiting for You (Neil Young)
Pablo Picasso (The Modern Lovers)

Neither
My Death (Jacques Brel)
Amsterdam (Jacques Brel)
Alabama Song, Baal's Hymn, Remembering Marie A., Ballad of the Adventurers, The Drowned Girl, The Dirty Song (Bertolt Brecht)
Volare (Domenico Modugno)
Don't Let Me Down & Down (Tahra)

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