S8E425 - David Bowie 'Hunky Dory' (Revisited) with David J
For one of our first episodes back in 2018 (S1E3), we discussed 'Hunky Dory' by David Bowie with then co-host Barry Stock. Honestly, though, for our first 20 episodes or so we were still finding our way and weren't even playing any music clips at that point. So when this week's guest, musician David J (Bauhaus, Love and Rockets), suggested taking on Bowie's fourth studio album, we couldn't resist revisiting this stone cold classic with such a thoughtful, well-informed guest. Essential listening!
Songs discussed in this episode: Changes (David Bowie cover) - The Muffs/Robyn Hitchcock/Shawn Mullins/Cybernauts/Bananarama; Bela Lugosi's Dead - Bauhaus; No New Tale To Tell - Love and Rockets; Mambo Sun - T Rex; 10538 Overture - Electric Light Orchestra; The Shape Of Things To Come - Slade; You Can Get It If You Really Want - Desmond Dekker; Ziggy Stardust, Starman, Changes - David Bowie; Sheep (Pink Floyd cover) - Arthur Brown, Rick Wakeman, Jan Akkerman, David J., Carmine Appice; Oh! You Pretty Things - David Bowie; Oh! You Pretty Things - Peter Noone; The Bewlay Brothers, Eight Line Poem - David Bowie; My Way - Frank Sinatra; Life On Mars - David Bowie; Judy Teen - Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel; Kooks - David Bowie; This Guy's In Love With You - Burt Bacharach; Exquisite Corpse - Bauhaus; Quicksand - David Bowie; An Old Fashioned Love Song - Paul Williams; Fill Your Heart, Andy Warhol, Song For Bob Dylan - David Bowie; Ziggy Stardust (David Bowie cover) - Bauhaus; Waiting For The Man - The Velvet Underground; Amsterdam (Live, Olympia 1964) - Jacques Brel; Queen Bitch, The Bewlay Brothers - David Bowie; Oh No! Not Another Songwriter! - David J
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David J
Musician / Writer
David John Haskins, better known as David J, is a British alternative rock musician, producer, and writer. He is the bassist for the gothic rock band Bauhaus and for Love and Rockets.
He has composed the scores for a number of plays and films, and also wrote and directed his own plays, Silver for Gold (The Odyssey of Edie Sedgwick), in 2008, which was restaged at REDCAT in Los Angeles in 2011, and The Chanteuse and The Devil's Muse in 2011. His artwork has been shown in galleries internationally, and he has been a resident DJ at venues such as the Knitting Factory.
David J has released a number of singles and solo albums, and in 1990 he released one of the first No. 1 hits on the then nascent Modern Rock Tracks charts, with "I'll Be Your Chauffeur". His latest release is The Mother Tree, which features spoken poetry with music from the band RAQIA.