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Pin Ups [Enhanced] [Original recording reissued]

~ David Bowie
4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
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  • Audio CD (6 Sep 1999)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Enhanced, Original recording reissued
  • Label: EMI
  • ASIN: B00001OH7R
  • Other Editions: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 7,033 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Song Title Time Price
Listen  1. Rosalyn (1999 Digital Remaster) 2:21£0.69
Listen  2. Here Comes The Night (1999 Digital Remaster) 3:09£0.69
Listen  3. I Wish You Would (1999 Digital Remaster) 2:47£0.69
Listen  4. See Emily Play (1999 Digital Remaster) 4:12£0.69
Listen  5. Everything's Alright (1999 Digital Remaster) 2:28£0.69
Listen  6. I Can't Explain (1999 Digital Remaster) 2:11£0.69
Listen  7. Friday On My Mind (1999 Digital Remaster) 2:56£0.69
Listen  8. Sorrow (1999 Digital Remaster) 2:53£0.69
Listen  9. Don't Bring Me Down (1999 Digital Remaster) 2:05£0.69
Listen10. Shapes Of Things (1999 Digital Remaster) 2:53£0.69
Listen11. Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere? (1999 Digital Remaster) 3:06£0.69
Listen12. Where Have All The Good Times Gone (1999 Digital Remaster) 2:41£0.69

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PIN UPS served as a sort of "how to" guide to David Bowie'scareer. This all-covers album shed light on his ability to adopt personas and emulate musical genres with amazing speedand diversity. It also showed that Bowie was anticipating adifferent musical climate for the rest of the decade, signifying a change from what was admired during the 1960s.
The psychedelic overtones of Pink Floyd's "See Emily Play" andthe garage rock cynicism of the Easybeats' "Friday On My Mind" perfectly display Bowie's ear for melody and eye for pop-culture posturing. He even tips a hat to his more established influences. The Kinks' "Where Have All The Good Times Gone" sparks his interest as a memory-soaked ballad (a Ray Davies speciality), and with The Who's "Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere" Bowie admits to not having invented the rock 'n' roll ego.
PIN UPS served another suitable purpose for the chameleonic performer, down-playing his other-worldly image by betraying his influences. By presenting Bowie as an actual fan--and not just an image/style manipulator--the album portrayed the singer in a different light, allowing him to loosen up his approach to performing and to step outside the multiple characters he had created for himself.

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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Odd Collection - Great Band!, 7 Jan 2003
By Martin A Hogan "Marty From SF" (San Francisco, CA. (Hercules)) - See all my reviews
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Bowie's first and only complete 'covers' album was a mediocre sales item, as most people wanted Bowie tunes. Taken from UK sixties hits, Bowie brandishes a cracker of a band and ups the ante with every song. Updated (at that time) to modern hard driving rock and roll, Bowie improves (in his own way) each song. "Sorrow" may be the slowest song here, but it's one of the best and one that's been chosen to represent this album on later collections many times. It's easy to argue with the choices, but not with the delivery. The band is tight and the sound is perfect. Not bad at all for a covers album. Definitely deserves a listen!
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Bowie's great 'forgotten' album, 15 Jul 2005
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One of Bowie's most underrated albums, Pin-Ups really is a wonderful piece of work - almost the perfect snapshot of its time. It probably helped that when I first heard this album as a teenager I wasn't familiar with the original songs, so all I heard was an outstanding Spiders from Mars album, with the band at their tightest and most assured. Even now, I still prefer the Bowie versions to most of the originals. It definitely deserves a better press than it's been given over the years. It's also a myth that this one was a commercial failure for Bowie, as is suggested in many reviews and reference books. It spent five weeks at number one in the album charts - the same as its predecessor Aladdin Sane - so even if the critics weren't especially enamoured, the public certainly were!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Highly Recommended Album!, 14 Aug 2003
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The fact that this is an album of other people’s songs rather than Bowie originals still does not stop this from being one of my favourite Bowie albums! The arrangements for each track are absolutely stomping fantastic and quintessential Bowie. It’s hard to name a favourite but, in my opinion, the standout tracks for me are probably: ‘Here Comes The Night’, ‘See Emily Play’, ‘Friday on my Mind’, ‘Sorrow’,‘Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere’, ‘Shapes of Things’… oh what the hell, all of them! It would be really good to hear David play some of these in his live sets now.

Cool album cover too.

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3.0 out of 5 stars A Strange Brew
In retrospect it seemed a strange career move for Bowie to bring out an album of covers after three of the greatest rock albums in the history of the genre. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Mr. Peter Steward

3.0 out of 5 stars Pinups: What Ed thinks
Pinups- the clue is in the title, these are some of the tracks that influenced Bowie when he was growing up in south London in the mid-60s. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Edward Hough

5.0 out of 5 stars A bit overpriced but a well crafted and honest homage
As much as we all decry albums of covers, 'cause they lack artistic merit, they are often very entertaining and informative. This one is no exception. Read more
Published on 29 May 2007 by Moz

4.0 out of 5 stars A decent covers album
This album is of Bowies fav songs from the sixties and id pretty much say he sings them spot on. See emily play is a particulary good song as well as the single sorrow, a decent... Read more
Published on 18 Mar 2006 by Raven

4.0 out of 5 stars The Unthinkable: A Covers Album..............?
Cover albums are rarely any good and tend to just anger most people. However, Bowie is such an incredibly unique and talented artist that he gives each song his own stamp and... Read more
Published on 28 Sep 2005 by KPA Lowe

4.0 out of 5 stars Insight into Bowie's Roots
This album didn't go down too well when it was first released, but it hada hard act to follow, coming on the heels of 'Aladdin Sane'. Read more
Published on 21 April 2004 by robojam

2.0 out of 5 stars Bowie's Covers Album
The rest of the reviewers all seem to rate this album highly, but after several listens , I still can't warm to it. Read more
Published on 24 Oct 2003 by L. Davidson

3.0 out of 5 stars Cohesive covers album
Bowie's tribute to the sixties contains familiar and obscure covers from The Kinks, The Merseys, Yardbirds and Pink Floyd among others. Read more
Published on 16 Feb 2003 by Pieter

5.0 out of 5 stars The David Bowie 'how to cover songs' masterclass
I've only recently bought this album, having deliberately avoided it (not sure why) while I've been hoovering up the other back catalogue I didn't have. Read more
Published on 23 Feb 2002 by rob@robsoft.co.uk

5.0 out of 5 stars Probably the finest cover-version album ever made
Much is made nowadays of the paucity of good new pop songs. It is fashionable to knock the boy (and girl and unisex) band karioke versions of old hits. But hey! Read more
Published on 5 Jan 2001 by sweetalkinguy@aol.com

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