The Jukebox Rebel

Arriving in October ’73, just six months after “Aladdin Sane”, was “Pin Ups”, David Bowie’s cover-versions album. Ever since he started his career in the mid-60s he demonstrated that he was an accomplished imitator and recycler, although it seems quite a strange move that he would resort to an all-covers album at the height of his innovative powers. It’s not a bad effort, but I don’t hear anything which improves or adds to the originals, which makes it seem all rather pointless to me, pretty green notwithstanding.

The Jukebox Rebel
04–Feb–2016

A1	[02:27] David Bowie - Rosalyn (Jimmy Duncan, Bill Farley) Rock n Roll / Rockabilly
A2	[03:09] David Bowie - Here Comes The Night (Bert Berns) Pop
A3	[02:40] David Bowie - I Wish You Would (Billy Boy Arnold) Rock
A4	[04:03] David Bowie - See Emily Play (Syd Barrett) Cerebral Pop
A5	[02:26] David Bowie - Everything’s Alright (Nicky Crouch, John Konrad, Simon Stavely, Stuart James, Keith Karlson) Blues Rock / Soul Rock
A6	[02:07] David Bowie - I Can’t Explain (Pete Townshend) Rock
B1	[03:18] David Bowie - Friday On My Mind (George Young, Harry Vanda) New Wave
B2	[02:48] David Bowie - Sorrow (Bob Feldman, Jerry Goldstein, Richard Gottehrer) New Wave
B3	[02:01] David Bowie - Don’t Bring Me Down (Johnnie Dee) Blues Rock / Soul Rock
B4	[02:47] David Bowie - Shapes Of Things (Paul Samwell-Smith, Jim McCarty, Keith Relf) Cerebral Pop
B5	[03:04] David Bowie - Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere (Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend) Rock
B6	[02:35] David Bowie - Where Have All The Good Times Gone (Ray Davies) Rock

ratings by TJR