Talk:Hunky Dory

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Contents 1 Move 2 Bowie paying tribute to Andy Warhol and Bob Dylan 3 Requested move 4 release/recording dates

[edit] Move

This article needs moving. The album is titled on the common-ish English idiom of hunky dory meaning "ok". The idiom should be the main article, as it is the original usage of the term.

I would tend to agree. I certainly came to this page looking up "hunky dory" (the idiom). I think it is appropriate to either have a disambiguation page, or to link to "Hunky Dory (album)" within a subsection of the main article explaining the etymology of the term. dot Tom (talk) 04:29, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

How this idiom came about is debatable. The etymology may or may not be known, but it apparently derives from the name of a road in Tokyo (dori = street in Japanese) that Allied troops frequented during the occupation of Japan after WW2, presumably a red light district.

The term is in somewhat frequent usage in the UK, and perhaps elsewhere (unknown to me). Anon. - unsigned comment by 218.102.181.20 on 23:42, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Removed "move" because not added to Wikipedia:Requested moves and no alternative name suggested.

It doesn't matter what the name of the page is. If Hunky Dory is the name of Captain Ahab's first boat and (more to the point) it was the first article of this name on Wikipedia, it would be called Hunky Dory and this one Hunky Dory (album).

The etymology of the term is interesting, but not to the point - Wikitionary is the place. hunky dory Fantailfan 10:58, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bowie paying tribute to Andy Warhol and Bob Dylan

In the article it says:

"However, the composer also took time to pay tribute to his influences in the songs "Song for Bob Dylan", "Andy Warhol"".

Maybe this sentence should be rephrased, it looks to the cursory reader as if David Bowie is paying tribute to Bob Dylan and Andy Warhol, while this maybe is not the case.

Examples:

Superseventies: "Fellow artists are not spared -- listen to "Fill Your Heart Andy Warhol" and "Song For Bob Dylan""

Sputnikmusic: "The song Andy Warhol is a short look inside the mind of pop artist Andy Warhol, who has his name put to this song, which contains an almost quickstep-like riff in the introduction, the lyrics describe how Warhol "Dressed his friends up just for show, see them as they really are" the lyrics then go on to say how obsessed Warhol was with his work "He'll think about paint and he'll think about blue, what a jolly boring thing to do"" —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.125.156.44 (talk • contribs) 10:53, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

I don't think "pay tribute to his influences" is quite the same as saying that he's paying uncritical tribute to the guys themselves. In any case most Bowie commentators contend that Warhol and Dylan were major influences on him. If you feel the phrasing "took time to acknowledge his influences" works better than "took time to pay tribute to his influences", I'd have no argument with that ch-ch-change. Cheers, Ian Rose 14:09, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Requested move

Hunky Dory (album) → Hunky Dory — redundant disambig, Hunky Dory is a redirect to Hunky Dory (album) PEJL 14:16, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

• Support Yes, why not? It was obviously moved from 'Hunky Dory' to 'Hunky Dory (album)' at some stage without any consensus and nobody (including me) noticed or took action at the time. Even if works in other media used the name this will always be the obvious 'Hunky Dory' without need of any disambiguation. Cheers, Ian Rose

This article has been renamed from Hunky Dory (album) to Hunky Dory as the result of a move request. --Stemonitis 18:15, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] release/recording dates

as currently written, this album was released before it was recorded!

anyone know the right dates? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.90.156.235 (talk) 03:26, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

God help us, you're right - don't know when the wrong date crept in but sorted now. Tks/cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 03:37, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

my bad (light touch on keyboard). I changed 'wikidate' [[17 December]] [[1971]] to {{start date|1971|1|17}} instead of {{start date|1971|12|17}} Fantailfan (talk) 11:23, 7 June 2008 (UTC)