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Wow, I didn't realize the digital download would be available the same day as the physical release. I'm a BN completist in terms of his music but not necessarily the physical CDs. I would have gladly given up my CD to someone who missed out had I known this was immediately available. Actually it's available now while my CD is somewhere over the Atlantic! Perhaps I should have known about the simultaneous release but I haven't been following the forum as often as I had been. Regardless, I'm looking forward to the music. Per samples it sounds like a laid-back soundtrack for a quiet C-19 afternoon indoors.

Fashion ~ Love ShadowFashion - Love Shadow

Pretty Little Bubble Of Dreams won over another BN convert last night

The Boy Who Knew The Names of Trains great track and always reminds me of my young nephew

Golden Balloon

METROBOLIST (AKA THE MAN WHO SOLD THE WORLD) 50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITIONMetrobolist (AKA The Man Who Sold The World) 50th anniversary edition — David Bowie DAVID BOWIE Metrobolist (2020 UK/EU limited edition 9-track LP pressed on 180-gram Gold Vinyl, individually hand-numbered on the red centre label, limited to just 50 copies and randomly distributed among the black and white vinyl variants. The gold vinyl records are numbered 1971 to 2020, this example is number 2003. ...Yours, for £3000. DAVID BOWIE - 'METROBOLIST’ (AKA ‘THE MAN WHO SOLD THE WORLD') 50th ANNIVERSARY EDITION REMIXED BY TONY VISCONTI WITH ARTWORK BASED ON ORIGINAL TITLE & DESIGN RELEASED 6th NOVEMBER, 2020 ON LIMITED VINYL AND CD FORMATS, ALSO FOR STREAMING AND DOWNLOAD AT STANDARD AND HIGH RESOLUTION DOWNLOAD (96kHz/24bit) Parlophone Records is proud to announce release details for METROBOLIST (aka THE MAN WHO SOLD THE WORLD) 50th ANNIVERSARY EDITION to be released on 6th NOVEMBER, 2020. This November sees the 50th Anniversary of the release of David Bowie’s The Man Who Sold The World in North America. The rest of the world would have to wait until April 1971 to witness Bowie’s landmark entry into the 1970s, marking the beginning of a collaboration with guitarist Mick Ronson that would last through classic works including Hunky Dory, Ziggy Stardust and Aladdin Sane—as well as the first in a 10-year series of indispensable albums stretching through 1980’s Scary Monsters… Originally titled Metrobolist, the album's name was changed at the last minute to The Man Who Sold The World -- the original stereo master tapes were in fact labelled Metrobolist, with the title ultimately crossed out. The 2020 re-release of the album under its Metrobolist moniker has been remixed by original producer Tony Visconti, with the exception of the track ‘After All’ which Tony considered perfect as is, and is featured in its 2015 remaster incarnation. The Metrobolist 50th anniversary artwork has been created by Mike Weller who was behind the originally intended album artwork which Mercury refused to release. The gatefold sleeve also features many images from the infamous Keith MacMillan Mr Fish ‘dress’ shoot at Haddon Hall which would cause so much controversy when one of the shots was used on the cover of the The Man Who Sold The World album in the rest of the world in spring of 1971. The original U.S. release of The Man Who Sold The World utilised some of the original Metrobolist design elements. As with the Space Oddity 50th anniversary vinyl, as well as a 180g black vinyl edition, it will come in 2020 limited edition handwritten numbered copies on gold vinyl (# 1971 - 2020) and on white vinyl (# 1 - 1970) all randomly distributed. For the 50th anniversary the 1970 story of the gatefold sleeve can be told in full with unused ‘dress’ photos. As Mike Weller explains: “There is a story concealed in the carpet-scattered playing cards, David has thrown a plain 52 card deck in the air as though “casting the runes” but in a significant break from 60s Tarot divinations such as I Ching etc he casts runes using a four-suit pack and switches man-dress, along with the Court Card of the Future from right hand to left, signifying a new decade and new cultural era.” David personally delivered the Metrobolist concept and his gatefold plan to the record company for production and now with this release, it can finally be seen much closer to its original concept. Bowie speaking in 2000 said of the sleeve imagery: "Mick Weller devised this kind of very subversive looking cartoon and put in some quite personalised things. The building in the background on the cartoon in fact was the hospital where my half brother had committed himself to. So for me, it had lots of personal resonance about it.” DAVID BOWIE METROBOLIST TRACKLISTING The Width of a Circle All the Madmen Black Country Rock After All Running Gun Blues Saviour Machine She Shook Me Cold The Man Who Sold the World The Supermen METROBOLIST ALBUM AVAILABLE 6th NOVEMBER, 2020 ON PARLOPHONE

I got myself banned from it

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😬 I am timing the official announcement to coincide with Bandcamp Friday early tomorrow morning! We have to give Burning Shed the opportunity to get their ‘Store’ set up with the pre-order before our newsletter goes out. 😜

The album years podcast is like listening to the same things the NME used to print in the late 70s early 80s .... banal opinions about most of the music I had no interest in at the time ... Steven Wilsons opinions are a lot like his music ...occasionally insightful but mostly conservative and derivative ...... sounds a little harsh but there you go 😉

I've got a vague memory of seeing one of those in a box at a record fair about forty years ago. Obviously, in those days, the idea of buying a copy in a different sleeve just wasn't affordable. It's nice to now know that it was real and I didn't just dream it! [Yes, I used to have dreams about finding amazing records in boxes at record fairs! Sad, I know.]

So how much of Bill's music is in it?

😎💗 That is awesome! Didn't she wind up in Upstate NY???

I was a bit disappointed in it did not come in a jewel case and not much info inside the double folded sleeve, just images. so a bit of a let down in that respect

This series of grins reminds me of a dream I once had that was about 10 seconds in length where Alec Guinness and David were in an old-time looking b&w movie together. David had a bowler on and was grinning as Alec was telling a funny story inaudible to the viewer. Alec looked as he did in ‘The Lavender Hill Mob.’