Every David Bowie Album Ranked Worst To Best (By Guitar Power)
4. Pin Ups (1973)
The album that the critics loved to hate from the day it was released. Comprised entirely of covers, this was Bowie’s tip of the hat to the songs that influenced him in the ‘60s. The outrage that Bowie would dare to take on the likes of Pink Floyd, The Kinks and The Who was palpable.
Bowie makes every song his own, adding an epic, grandiose, glam-tinged aura to each track. The hit was ‘Sorrow’, but the versions of ‘Where Have All The Good Times Gone’ and ‘Here Comes The Night’ show that Bowie could take an already great song to a new level. Mick Ronson is spectacular on the beat boom R’n’B of ‘Everything’s Alright’, ‘Rosalyn’ and ‘I Wish You Would’.
The value of original songwriting is lost when the latter albums revealed that the cupboard was often bare when it came to great self-penned songs on later Bowie albums.