Artist	Song
Radiohead	Creep
from The Best of Radiohead (2008)
The Sex Pistols	Pretty Vacant
from Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols (2007)
The Psychedelic Furs	Love My Way
from The Psychedelic Furs: Greatest Hits (2001)
blur	Girls and Boys
from The Best of Blur (2000)
Marilyn Manson	The Beautiful People
from Lest We Forget - The Best of Marilyn Manson (2004)
Flight of the Conchords	Bowie
from Flight of the Conchords (2008)
The Human League	(Keep Feeling) Fascination
from The Very Best of the Human League (2005)
ABC	Poison Arrow
from Look of Love - The Very Best of ABC (2001)
Gary Numan	Cars
from The Pleasure Principle (1998)
The Damned	New Rose
from Damned Damned Damned (2009)
Adam Ant	Stand and Deliver
from The Essential Adam Ant (2003)
Orchestral Manoeuvres In the Dark	Enola Gay
from Organisation (2003)
Simple Minds	New Gold Dream
from New Gold Dream (2003)
Ultravox	Vienna
from The Voice - The Best of Ultravox (2003)
Heaven 17	(We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang
from Best of Heaven 17 (2003)
Marc Almond & Gene Pitney	Something's Gotten Hold of My Heart
from The Stars We Are (2003)
Japan	Ghosts
from Tin Drum (2003)
The Associates	Club Country
from Sulk / Fourth Drawer Down (2008)
Pulp	Common People (Full Length Version)
from Different Class (1999)
The London Suede	The Drowners
from Suede (Deluxe Version) (2011)

Comment:

Back in 2000, an [i]NME[/i] survey of 100 pop stars pegged David Bowie as the most influential artist [i]ever[/i]. Judging by our playlist, we’re not about to disagree. With his spiky hair, gender-bending, and seemingly bottomless capacity to shock, his attitude — not to mention his music — served as punk’s petri dish. In the wake of his “Fashion” statement, ABC’s “Poison Arrow” sashayed onto the new romantic dance floor, tweaking disco’s creaking formula with high-wire melodrama and a stratosphere-grazing falsetto. Even before Marilyn Manson helped himself to the Ziggy/Spiders From Mars concept on [i]Mechanical Animals[/i], the Antichrist Superstar loaded his aggro-goth anthem “The Beautiful People” with a “Jean Genie”-style stompin’ beat. And from the androgyny of Suede to the cheeky-chic glam of Pulp, Bowie’s influence on Britpop is undeniable, but it’s on the minor-chord musings of Radiohead’s breakthrough single, “Creep,” where his impact is palpable, piercing a haze of steely-grey fuzz. Bowie’s influence resonates out to the farthest corners of the pop globe, and from Simple Minds to Ultravox and beyond, there’s not an artist who hasn’t turned to him for inspiration.

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