Pin Ups

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共24首歌曲

艺人: David Bowie
语种: 英语
厂牌: RCA
发行时间: 1973年10月19日
专辑类别: 录音室专辑

专辑介绍

《Pin Ups》是一张翻唱专辑，里面的歌曲来自The Pretty Things、Them、The Yardbirds、Pink Floyd、The Mojos、The Who、The Easybeats、The Merseybeats和The Kinks。

《Pin Ups》在David Bowie的音乐生涯中起了一种“技术性”指南的作用。这张all-covers专辑溢显了他在采用多重人格和效仿各种音乐类型时令人吃惊的速度和多样性方面的能力。它还表明了Bowie那时对那个十年里剩下日子音乐气候的提前展示，标志了60年代期间那些倍受追慕的音乐风格的一种转变。

Pink Floyd“See Emily Play”迷幻的泛音和Easybeats“Friday On My Mind”车库摇滚的愤世嫉俗完美地显示了Bowie的耳朵对旋律和他的眼光对流行文化的姿态。他甚至对他已日益建立起来的影响致别。The Kinks的“Where Have All The Good Times Gone”引起了他对思忆情歌（特别是Ray Davies式的）的兴趣，而通过The Who的“Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere”，Bowie打开了摇滚的自我。

《Pin Ups》对这个变色龙般的表演者来说还有另一个适合的作用，就是通过背叛自己的影响淡化了他异世界的形象。通过呈现Bowie为一个更现实的狂热者——而非仅仅是一个形象/类型操纵者，这张专辑把歌唱者塑造成了一个完全不同的人物，让他从自己向表演的接近中解脱出来，走出了他以往为自己创造的多重角色。

by Bruce Eder

Pin Ups fits into David Bowie's output roughly where Moondog Matinee (which, strangely enough, appeared the very same month) did into the Band's output, which is to say that it didn't seem to fit in at all. Just as a lot of fans of Levon Helm et al. couldn't figure where a bunch of rock & roll and R&B covers fit alongside their output of original songs, so Bowie's fans -- after enjoying a string of fiercely original LPs going back to 1970's The Man Who Sold the World -- weren't able to make too much out of Pin Ups' new recordings of a brace of '60s British hits. Ziggy Stardust and Aladdin Sane had established Bowie as perhaps the most fiercely original of all England's glam rockers (though Marc Bolan's fans would dispute that to their dying day), so an album of covers didn't make any sense and was especially confusing for American fans -- apart from the Easybeats' "Friday on My Mind" and the Yardbirds' "Shapes of Things," little here was among the biggest hits of their respective artists' careers, and the Who's "I Can't Explain" and "Anyway Anyhow Anywhere" were the only ones whose original versions were easily available or played very often on the radio; everything else was as much a history lesson, for Pink Floyd fans whose knowledge of that band went back no further than Atom Heart Mother, or into Liverpool rock (the Merseys' "Sorrow"), as it was a tour through Bowie's taste in '60s music. The latter was a mixed bag stylistically, opening with the Pretty Things' high-energy Bo Diddley homage "Rosalyn" and segueing directly into a hard, surging rendition of Them's version of Bert Berns' "Here Comes the Night," filled with crunchy guitars; "I Wish You Would" and "Shapes of Things" were both showcases for Bowie's and Mick Ronson's guitars, and "See Emily Play" emphasized the punkish (as opposed to the psychedelic) side of the song. "Sorrow," which benefited from a new saxophone break, was actually a distinct improvement over the original, managing to be edgier and more elegant all at once, and could easily have been a single at the time, and Bowie's slow version of "I Can't Explain" was distinctly different from the Who's original -- in other words, Pin Ups was an artistic statement, of sorts, with some thought behind it, rather than just a quick album of oldies covers to buy some time, as it was often dismissed as being. In the broader context of Bowie's career, Pin Ups was more than an anomaly -- it marked the swan song for the Spiders from Mars and something of an interlude between the first and second phases of his international career; the next, beginning with Diamond Dogs, would be a break from his glam rock phase, going off in new directions. It's not a bad bridge between the two, and it has endured across the decades -- and the CD remasterings since the late '90s have made it worth discovering all over again.

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