Talk:The Man Who Sold the World (song)

message: *Why is a 1970 Bowie album being shown with so amny refernces to Niravana, it was one cover 16 years ago, the cover itself is porly regraded and is so litte relevence to the album 88.111.35.38 (talk) 15:20, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, it is a relevant to those who were introduced to the song through the Nirvana cover. Plus the whole discussion is worth it for the "fuck you, you little tosser" quote from David Bowie. I rarely laugh when I read a wiki article, but I did here...jackbrown (talk) 10:09, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Nirvana

message: "Bowie performed the song live for the first time in 1979 with Klaus Nomi and Joey Arias on Saturday Night Live."
This seems an awfully late live debut for a song recorded in 1970. Not impossible, obviously - Bewlay Brothers took 32 years to make it - but I think a citation would be in order. BTLizard (talk) 12:38, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: TMWSTW was basically "forgotten" until Nirvana covered it. Remember, it was never a single! It's difficult to cite something that doesn't exist, but if you look through the early setlists from teenagewildlife.com you will find that the song never appears. 69.92.150.204 (talk) 05:01, 28 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: For the record, in the UK, at least, the song was well remembered because of the Lulu hit. -- Beardo (talk) 20:23, 22 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Late live debut 

message: There's a long-standing discussion regarding the redirect for this page, over on the talk page for the album of the same name, if anyone wants to comment - under the heading "Redirection". It'd be nice to wrap it up. Nortonius (talk) 21:13, 4 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redirection 

message: It most probably meant he became a selfish man eventually just like any human above a certain age. --5.54.108.220 (talk) 17:24, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  It probably means 

message: So, it "only" made its top 50 debut five days after it was released? Is that a long time? But more remarkably, it entered the chart on 16 January after she performed it on 24 January. Was time running backwards that year? Can anybody translate this into English, or should I just zap it?  Scolaire (talk) 19:24, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks like it was a typo. According to source it first charted 26/1, which makes more sense. Doctorhawkes (talk) 01:56, 4 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  What? 

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 
The result of the move request was: Moved (non-admin closure)  BegbertBiggs (talk) 19:59, 21 November 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: The Man Who Sold the World →  – Statistics of the last 90 days and of this year prove that neither song nor the album is the primary topic. If stats aren't enough, as I must say furthermore, both the song and the album have equal historical significance. Like ...Baby One More Time, Fly Like an Eagle, Like a Virgin, etc., the base title should be of the dabpage. George Ho (talk) 19:28, 14 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 14 November 2020