Thursday, June 16, 2016

June 16 - Growin' Up

David Bowie recorded a lot of cover songs. His version of The Rolling Stones' Let's Spend The Night Together from Aladdin Sane is fantastic, as is his version of The Pixies' Cactus - and then there is the Pin Ups album. It is not great by any standard - I am not a fan of it, in case you couldn't tell (I think it's one of my least played Bowie albums, although some of the cover version are decent by cover band standards, they are not by Bowie standards...) - but the reissue has a couple of interesting tracks on it. The last song is the great The Port Of Amsterdam, which shows what great song interpreter Bowie can be - and then there is the song of the day. It is not spectacular, but Bowie and Springsteen came up together and were very aware of one another, and Bowie's version of Springsteen's Growin' Up is an ok song for today.


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