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The All-Purpose Getting-To-Know-BBers Questions Thread
12 May 2020
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QuarryMan said
I like The Next Day cover. It’s provocative.

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The Next Day is a decent cover. I don’t know what it means but it isn’t ugly, it’s kind of a creative “reminiscing the past but still moving forward” kind of thing, probably.

but it’s not pretty a-hard-days-night-paul-7a-hard-days-night-paul-7a-hard-days-night-paul-7

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If it isn’t either wHy ArE wE mEnTiOnInG iT?

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I think it’s much less appealing than the music it represents, so it’s definitely part of the category for me.

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QuarryMan said
I like The Next Day cover. It’s provocative.

On the topic of Bowie, though, how on Earth haven’t we mentioned Reality? Looks like my guy just discovered clipart..

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BUT NO HE IS ANIME MAN

At least it’s better than The Next Day (it’s just the heroes cover but weird!!! what is so interesting about that?) and the Space Oddity cover a-hard-days-night-george-10

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50yearslate said

QuarryMan said

I like The Next Day cover. It’s provocative.

On the topic of Bowie, though, how on Earth haven’t we mentioned Reality? Looks like my guy just discovered clipart..

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BUT NO HE IS ANIME MAN

At least it’s better than The Next Day (it’s just the heroes cover but weird!!! what is so interesting about that?) and the Space Oddity cover a-hard-days-night-george-10

1) The Next Day is a bad cover

2) Reality creeps me the f—- out and I hate it. It always reminds me of this from one episode of Courage the Cowardly Dog for some reason:

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Space Oddity is better than TND or Reality, but it’s still not that great. Just okay. The best thing about it is Bowie’s face and pooodle perm, but they’re only half there. So. mccartney-shrug_01_gif

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I prefer the American cover

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How about the “Man Who…” cover, which is better…original UK cover…

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…1970 American cover on Mercury label, the one I’ve got…

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…or the 1972 RCA edition…

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I adore the dress cover for The Man Who Sold The World… It makes me want to cross-dress so badly every time I see itpaul-mccartney

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QuarryMan said
I adore the dress cover for The Man Who Sold The World… It makes me want to cross-dress so badly every time I see itpaul-mccartney

  

TMWSTW is an EXCELLENT cover.

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Uggggghhhhh I looooove the dress cover it is  i c o n i c – aesthetically pleasing on a textural/color scheme level as well as Bowie being an androgynous king beatlemaniacs_02_gif every time I see it I want to un-cross-dress* a-hard-days-night-john-6

*This is actually tricky. It’s a dress, and he’s a man, so you’d assume he’s cross-dressing, but he also insistently insisted that it’s a man’s dress, which I suppose it is as it’s designed for a male body (albeit a very scrawny one), so if it’s a dress but it’s a men’s garment and I wore it, would I be cross dressing? Who is crossing who? I am confused a-hard-days-night-ringo-14 but I’m always happy to be confused by David Bowie a-hard-days-night-george-4

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He is just dressing. 

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50yearslate said
He is just dressing. 

  

He is just

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That ugly cartoon drawing is likely inspired by “Running Gun Blues”, and the inclusion of the clock tower suggests that Bowie was also thinking of Charles Whitman.

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lovelyritametermaid said

He is just

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I have a sudden urge to draw David Bowie as a bottle of salad dressing – be right back…

also I did not mean to thank Fiddy’s post 209 times – in my defense, it made me laugh… a-hard-days-night-paul-10

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a-hard-days-night-ringo-8The thank button on Fiddy’s post wasn’t working at first so I spammed it out of frustration and… paul-mccartney-facepalm_gifpaul-mccartney-facepalm_gif

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50yearslate said
He is just dressing. 

  

So this post has 19 thanks – and if you ignore WeepyC’s single thanks, 18 of them are made by 4 people.

New forum record?

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The Hole Got Fixed said

50yearslate said

He is just dressing. 

So this post has 19 thanks – and if you ignore WeepyC’s single thanks, 18 of them are made by 4 people.

New forum record?

Or something to annoy Joe whose dislike of multiple thanks seems to be being ignored a lot at the minute?

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But we apologized, so that makes it okay! Right? a-hard-days-night-ringo-12

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To be fair, I think since Joe’s frustration was made known there has been quite a bit less spam-thanking for the sake of it, but sometimes you accidentally double click and it happens even if you don’t mean it to. What can I say, we’re imperfect peoplemccartney-shrug_01_gif

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QuarryMan said
To be fair, I think since Joe’s frustration was made known there has been quite a bit less spam-thanking for the sake of it, but sometimes you accidentally double click and it happens even if you don’t mean it to. What can I say, we’re imperfect peoplemccartney-shrug_01_gif

  

I doubt a thank appears eight times by accidentally clicking once.

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