Artist	Song
Mott the Hoople	All the Young Dudes
from All the Young Dudes (Legacy Edition) (2006)
Nirvana	The Man Who Sold the World
from Nirvana (2002)
The Cure	Young Americans
from Join the Dots: B-Sides and Rarities, 1978-2001 (2005)
Bauhaus	Ziggy Stardust
from Crackle (1998)
Seu Jorge	Rebel Rebel
from The Life Aquatic - Studio Sessions featuring Seu Jorge (2005)
Blondie	Heroes
from Atomic - EP (2005)
Barbra Streisand	Life On Mars
from Butterfly (1986)
Tina Turner	1984
from Private Dancer (1997)
James Brown	Hot (I Need to Be Loved, Loved, Loved, Loved)
from Dead On the Heavy Funk (1975-83) (1998)
Peter Noone	Oh You Pretty Things
from David Bowie: Cover to Cover (2007)
Lulu	The Man Who Sold the World
from Greatest Hits (2003)
The Beatstalkers	Silver Tree Top School for Boys
from Scotland's No. 1 Beat Group (2005)
Tears for Fears	Ashes to Ashes
from Saturnine Martial & Lunatic (1996)
The Dandy Warhols	Jean Genie
from David Bowie: Cover to Cover (2007)
My Chemical Romance & The Used	Under Pressure
from Under Pressure - Single (2005)
The Mission UK	After All
from The Best oF The Mission UK (2006)
Dramarama	Candidate
from Cinema Verite (2005)
The Polyphonic Spree	Five Years
from Five Years (Live) - Single (2004)
Lisbon Improvisation Players	Memory of a Free Festival
from Live At LX Meskla (2002)
M. Ward	Let's Dance
from Transfiguration of Vincent (2003)
Golden Smog	Starman
from Blood On the Slacks (2007)
Alien Sex Fiend	All the Madmen
from All the Madmen - EP (2007)
Infectious Grooves	Fame
from Sarsippius' Ark (1993)
The Beatstalkers	When I'm Five
from Scotland's No. 1 Beat Group (2005)
Zen Guerrilla	Moonage Daydream
from Trance States In Tongues (1999)
OK Go	Rock 'N' Roll Suicide
from You're Not Alone - EP (2008)
Culture Club	Starman
from Culture Club (2003)
Poison	Suffragette City
from Poison'd! (2007)
Shawn Mullins	Changes
from The First Ten Years (1999)
Superchunk	Scary Monsters and Super Creeps
from Cup of Sand (2003)
Charlie Haden	This Is Not America
from Not In Our Name (2005)
Polecats	John I'm Only Dancing
from The Best Of Polecats (2006)
Stupendams	Golden Years
from Pernassos (2005)
Frail	Space Oddity
from Watching You Fall (2002)
The Blood Brothers	Under Pressure
from Dynamite With a Laser Beam: Queen As Heard Through the Meat Grinder of Three One G (2006)

Comment:

Go to the pop spectrum’s most distant pole and you’ll find someone there who’s covered Bowie. For instance, grunge gods Nirvana and ’60s pop princess Lulu, who both cut his “The Man Who Sold the World”: while Nirvana blew some Seattle-style grit onto its pop polish, Lulu dragged it down into Berlin’s underground — thanks to Bowie’s sleaze-ified production. Speaking of Bowie behind the boards, most people think Mott the Hoople’s biggest-ever hit is also their song. [i]Wrong[/i]. Hearing that the band was breaking up, fan-boy Bowie offered to glam-up their flagging career with a new tune (which he also produced). Ian Hunter’s fashion-burnout vocals, the screamy soaring of Mick Ralphs’ guitar, and Verden Allen’s First Gospel Church of Glitter organ riffs defined an era in three-and-a-half minutes. And it didn’t take ’60s Scottish popsters the Beatstalkers even [i]that long[/i] to recognize a young Bowie’s genius when they recorded three of his tunes, including the mod-meets-music-hall masterpiece “When I’m Five.” From Barbra Streisand to Poison, from Alien Sex Fiend to M. Ward, Bowie’s pen (and, occasionally, his face) has turned up in the most astonishingly unexpected places.

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