David Bowie tribute album

[METALMAN]

this is the tracklist:

'Space Oddity' (Exitmusic)

'John, I'm Only Dancing' (Vivian Girls)

'Sound + Vision' (Megapuss)

'Absolute Beginners' (Carla Bruni)

'World Falls Down' (Lights)

'Heroes' (VOICEsVOICEs)

'Boys Keep Swinging' (Duran Duran)

'TBA' (MGMT)

'Always Crashing In The Same Car' (Charlift)

'African Night Flight' (Aska w/ Moon & Moon)

'Suffragette City' (A Place to Bury Strangers)

'Theme From Cat People' (The Polyamorous Affair)

'Life on Mars' (Keren Ann)

'Red Money' (Swahili Blonde feat. John Frusciante)

'Art Decade' (Marco Benevento)

'Be My Wife' (Corridor)

'The Superman' (Aquaserge)

'Ashes To Ashes' (Warpaint)

'Quicksand' (Rainbow Arabia)

'Afraid of Americans' (We Are The World)

'Within You' (Laco$te)

'Ziggy Stardust' (Ariana Delawari)

'Modern Love' (Pizza!)

'Secret Life Of Arabia' (St Clair Board)

'Starman' (Caroline Weeks)

'The Man Who Sold The World' (Amanda Jo Williams)

'Ashes To Ashes' (Mick Karn)

'TBA' (Soulwax)

what do we think?

[apsham]

So.. is it out yet, coming out, date set, etc?

I have a few favorite Bowie tracks that I'd like to check out.

[METALMAN]

no it's still quite a bit away, as you can see mgmt and soulwax haven't even confirmed what songs they are doing yet.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

No doubt I'll incur wrath for this but why bother covering tracks when the new attempts will pale into insignificance against the original performance?

Well, apart from making money of course.

[METALMAN]

For charity?

[Crybaby Bunting]

I know I'm getting out of touch with the music world when I can only recognise about 3 of the bands (Duran Duran, MGMT and Soulwax) and one cameo appearence (John Frushowyouspellit) ¬_¬

But should at least provide us with two or three good covers... even though I've already got an awesome Bowie tribute CD for free in a magazine (with King Crimson covering 'Heroes' )

[GhostMachine]

No 'Lets Dance' or 'China Girl'? (N)

Isn't Carla Bruni the first lady of Italy or France or something?

Any yeah, what General said; I only recognize those same acts he does.

[Skummy]

Carla Bruni is the first lady of France, and has a smokey jazz chanteuse career on the side.

I'm pretty sure Duran Duran have covered "Boys Keep Swinging" in the past, though I may be delusional. Vivian Girls are nice enough, but can't imagine them being able to do anything special with a Bowie song. Keren Ann will almost certainly give the ubiquitous lo-fi acoustic indie treatment to "Life On Mars", which doesn't need it, A Place To Bury Strangers could do alright with "Suffragette City", that's about the only track on there I'm especially interested to hear so far - at least until I find out what MGMT are doing, they could have a fun go at some '80s Bowie.

I'll probably check it out, as the Bowie obsessive that I am, but I'm not expecting anything spectacular - tribute albums rarely are.

[apsham]

I only saw one of the TBA's and assumed it was a song.