“A couple of songs from your old scrapbook“
As revealed in the headline and accompanying image, MOJO magazine has given Bowie fans an early Christmas present in the shape of a 32-page article featuring The 100 Greatest Bowie Songs as voted by Mojo writers.
The piece features interviews with George Underwood, Carlos Alomar, Dana Gillespie, Robert Fripp, Tony Visconti, Rick Wakeman, Mike Garson, Reeves Gabrels, Ken Scott and Lindsay Kemp.
See DavidBowie.com for a further breakdown of the content and an introduction by Billy Corgan.
Scroll the images here for a further breakdown of the content and an introduction by Billy Corgan.
The three separate front covers each feature striking black and white Sukita photographs, and the cover-mount CD, DAVIDHEROESBOWIE, boasts fifteen bowie-related tracks which the magazine claims were all an influence on Bowie at one time or another. Indeed, he has certainly recorded the majority of them himself over the years.
The DAVIDHEROESBOWIE tracklisting is;
01 Little Richard – The Girl Can’t Help It
02 Chuck Berry – Almost Grown
03 Bobby Bland – I Pity The Fool
04 Ronnie Ross Quintet – Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
05 Frank Sinatra – Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
06 Jacques Brel – La Mort
07 Lotte Lenya – Alabama Song
08 Nina Simone – Wild Is The Wind
09 Nat King Cole – Nature Boy
10 Billy Fury – Wondrous Place
11 Anthony Newley – What Kind Of Fool Am I?
12 The Flares – Foot Stomping
13 Vince Taylor And His Playboys – Jet Black Machine
14 The Yardbirds – Shapes Of Things
15 The Pretty – Things Rosalyn
We won’t reveal the top 100 tracks the magazine chose just yet, suffice to say it’s a great list peppered with recordings you might not expect.
However, we will leave you with the top ten instrumentals they chose, followed by their five favourite tracks Bowie has covered.
Instrumentals
10 Crystal Japan
09 Ian Fish UK Heir
08 Abdulmajid
07 All Saints
06 Moss Garden
05 Neukoln
04 A New Career In A New Town
03 Sense Of Doubt
02 Subterraneans
01 Warszawa
Covers
05 It Ain’t Easy
04 Fill Your Heart
03 Nite Flights
02 Wild Is The Wind
01 Sorrow
The February edition of MOJO will be available over the next day or so.