These Foolish Polls: 1973ish covers albums

Don't you mean 'These Foolish Things', 'Another Time,...' was '74?

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These Foolish Things, for god's sake.

agreed re. These Foolish Things. I've been reading Jonathan Rigby's Both Ends Burning on Roxy and it mentions that Ferry was bothered by Bowie's decision to release a covers album so close to These Foolish Things, thinking Bowie's would overshadow his. That got me thinking how many other projects of this sort came together in 1973, early 1974. Maybe there are others too.

Basically, what Ferry did to the songs he covered was much more interesting than Bowie's results (and I like Pin Ups fine).

Re. interesting covers, Pussy Cats comes from a similar place to These Foolish Things. I remember the 1992 Rolling Stone Record Guide calling its version of "Subterranean Homesick Blues" a "desecration" or something similar, comparing it to These Foolish Things (and Tonight's The Night on vibe, though obv. not covers).

These Foolish Things followed by Pussy Cats

These Foolish Things

Like "Pin Ups" because it sounds so Bowie, in spite of not being his songs.

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Yeah, what 1973 zeitgeist explains this?

There was a whole nostalgia wave that year--i think movies like american graffiti were out, i believe

Pin Ups is ok but underwhelming. For me it's the song selection: mostly straightforward rock, where you wonder what exactly Bowie can bring that's new. "Shapes Of Things" is an exception, and I dig the Springsteen cover.

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It should NOT have been this close.

yeah, I'm guessing those Schmilsson votes were jokes, although I'd love to hear why someone treasures that album over the others. Pussy Cats I can get with. I'm surprised no one stepped up for Lennon, too; you'd think a Beatle would always get someone's vote.

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Funnily enough I listened to the Nilsson album this morning for the first time (my first Nilsson purchase - from the bargain bins) and wasn't impressed, probably more for the fact that I'm not big into old-tyme music, I also didn't go for that Ferry album of standards he released a few years back..

These Foolish Things is the winner here, although I prefer Another Time, Another Place for the selection of songs..

I'm listening to The Bunch's 1972 Rock On, which just misses this 1973 thing by a bit. It's a bunch of Fairport Convention folks. So far I am not impressed with anything here except "When Will I Be Loved?" (a couple years before Heart Like A Wheel) and "Learning The Game". The songs are just sluggish...yes, a lot more sluggish than you'd expect than a band with Richard Thompson in this era.