Hot Take/ Musical Confession Thread!

gouis said:
A 'Problematic Fave thread' has been created. Please take this discussion there.

This thread should be reserved for discussions about how David Bowie is at least 10 times more important and influential than the Beatles and Rolling Stones combined.

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you could make a case for that, that's not that spicy of a take
 
sorcerer said:
I've def heard it at some point. I think it was this old big record store run by one dude with long hair. He priced all his records at discogs market value, so maybe some correlation exists b/t that and weird pronunciations of names
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Maybe you are getting David Bowie and James Bowie mixed up cuz James Bowie is pronounced Boo-wie he also invented quite a knife.
 
Aron said:
I like the way British announcers pronounce Bowie. They go with Boww-ee rather than Bo-ee. I don't do it myself, but I like hearing it.
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Boo-ee? really? Weird

Both pronunciations are Bowie. 99% of people in the U.K. would pronounce it as bow as in bow and arrow rather than bow as in bow to the queen.
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
Maybe you are getting David Bowie and James Bowie mixed up cuz James Bowie is pronounced Boo-wie he also invented quite a knife.
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As an American History Major (many many many many many many years ago) I feel compelled to clear this up. James Boo-wie did not "invent" a knife (although there is some debate among historians, most do not ascirbe to the conclusion that Bowie designed/crafted the knife but was just a badass who carried it) and the story behind that is WAY more interesting than he just "invented" a knife.

Bowie and the knife became famous because of what happened in Bowie's duel with Sherriff Norris Wright (at The Sandbar Fight).The knife was reportedly Bowie's regular hunting knife that he carried with him at all times after Wright shot at Bowie. After that altercation and sometime later, Bowie and Wright got in to another altercation resulting in a duel. During that duel (using pistols), neither man was hit by a bullet. After the two men shook hands to resolve the fight, their entourage began fighting. Bowie gets shot by Wright's entourage, then charges at the man who shot him with his knife. The man pistol whips Bowie and knocks Bowie down. Then Wright shoots at Bowie as he is laying on the ground. Wright then draws his sword and impales Bowie and then places his foot in Bowie's chest retrieve the sword. That's when Bowie pulls Wright down to him and guts him with this hunting knife. With Wright's sword sticking out of him, Bowie gets up, gets shot again and stabbed again by Wright's entourage. Somehow, Bowie survives and later dies in the Battle of Alamo.

James Bowie was basically John Wick of the 1800's .
 
The Commish said:

As an American History Major (many many many many many many years ago) I feel compelled to clear this up. James Boo-wie did not "invent" a knife (although there is some debate among historians, most do not ascirbe to the conclusion that Bowie designed/crafted the knife but was just a badass who carried it) and the story behind that is WAY more interesting than he just "invented" a knife.

Bowie and the knife became famous because of what happened in Bowie's duel with Sherriff Norris Wright (at The Sandbar Fight).The knife was reportedly Bowie's regular hunting knife that he carried with him at all times after Wright shot at Bowie. After that altercation and sometime later, Bowie and Wright got in to another altercation resulting in a duel. During that duel (using pistols), neither man was hit by a bullet. After the two men shook hands to resolve the fight, their entourage began fighting. Bowie gets shot by Wright's entourage, then charges at the man who shot him with his knife. The man pistol whips Bowie and knocks Bowie down. Then Wright shoots at Bowie as he is laying on the ground. Wright then draws his sword and impales Bowie and then places his foot in Bowie's chest retrieve the sword. That's when Bowie pulls Wright down to him and guts him with this hunting knife. With Wright's sword sticking out of him, Bowie gets up, gets shot again and stabbed again by Wright's entourage. Somehow, Bowie survives and later dies in the Battle of Alamo.

James Bowie was basically John Wick of the 1800's .
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Ho.Ly.Shit.

Awesome
 
Joe Mac said:
Boo-ee? really? Weird

Both pronunciations are Bowie. 99% of people in the U.K. would pronounce it as bow as in bow and arrow rather than bow as in bow to the queen.
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I shouldn't have implied that all presenters pronounce it that way. But I have heard a number of them over the years pronounce his last name Bow-ee as in Bow to the Queen. I remember Lauren Laverne saying it that way when I listened to here xfm show years back.
 
The Commish said:

As an American History Major (many many many many many many years ago) I feel compelled to clear this up. James Boo-wie did not "invent" a knife (although there is some debate among historians, most do not ascirbe to the conclusion that Bowie designed/crafted the knife but was just a badass who carried it) and the story behind that is WAY more interesting than he just "invented" a knife.

Bowie and the knife became famous because of what happened in Bowie's duel with Sherriff Norris Wright (at The Sandbar Fight).The knife was reportedly Bowie's regular hunting knife that he carried with him at all times after Wright shot at Bowie. After that altercation and sometime later, Bowie and Wright got in to another altercation resulting in a duel. During that duel (using pistols), neither man was hit by a bullet. After the two men shook hands to resolve the fight, their entourage began fighting. Bowie gets shot by Wright's entourage, then charges at the man who shot him with his knife. The man pistol whips Bowie and knocks Bowie down. Then Wright shoots at Bowie as he is laying on the ground. Wright then draws his sword and impales Bowie and then places his foot in Bowie's chest retrieve the sword. That's when Bowie pulls Wright down to him and guts him with this hunting knife. With Wright's sword sticking out of him, Bowie gets up, gets shot again and stabbed again by Wright's entourage. Somehow, Bowie survives and later dies in the Battle of Alamo.

James Bowie was basically John Wick of the 1800's .
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That’s amazing. Inventor or not, he definitely deserves having the knife named after him after that! Thanks for the history lesson.
 
I always thought Boo-ey was the American pronunciation. I heard George Clinton (I think) on P-Funk pronounce it that way and there's the old clip of Tony Orlando singing Tie a Yellow Ribbon where he stops mid way because David is in the audience and he pronounces it Boo-ey too. That's a fun clip btw for those who haven't seen it, watch from about 12.50 in.

 
Aron said:
I shouldn't have implied that all presenters pronounce it that way. But I have heard a number of them over the years pronounce his last name Bow-ee as in Bow to the Queen. I remember Lauren Laverne saying it that way when I listened to here xfm show years back.
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In my experience it's a much more even 50/50 split over here for how people pronounce it so it doesn't surprise me at all that you've heard bow as in to the Queen.
 
ranbalam said:
Neil Peart's last name is pronounced Peert not Pert. He said it one of his books, and yet it seems weird to pronounce it his way (the correct way) all these years later.
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I remember hearing that apparently in the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde story, Jekyll was originally supposed to be pronounced Jee-kyll but that pronunciation went to the wayside when the first sound movie adaptations used the pronunciation everyone uses nowadays [citatation needed]
 
sorcerer said:
Bjork's name is pronounced "Bee-Yerk" instead of "Bee-York." A project in one of my old English classes involved writing a feminism-related quote on a shirt from someone and wearing it around school the whole day, and she was the first to come to mind.
Also her last name is pronounced "Goond-Men-Staht-Er" iirc
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I immediately thought of Gretchen Scacchi's character in The Player, or more specifically, the way Tim Robbins' character pronounced her last name.
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