Talk:The Buddha of Suburbia (album)

Move?
Considering the album's tenuous relationship to the TV play (little more than the title track, and a few song titles and chord sequences) would it not make more sense to move this to The Buddha of Suburbia (album), with *(soundtrack) working as a redirect instead?

Tom Prankerd 17:45, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Copyright infringement?
The bulk of this article is a lengthy quote from the UK album's liner notes. We could probably use a brief excerpt as fair use, but not the amount that's quoted here. -- Heath 66.32.1.24 01:51, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Followup
Copyrights advises, ''It is not the job of rank-and-file Wikipedians to police content for possible copyright infringement, but if you suspect one, you should at the very least bring up the issue on that page's talk page. Others can then examine the situation and take action if needed. The most helpful piece of information you can provide is a URL or other reference to what you believe may be the source of the text.'' I did that on January 2, above.

When that fails, the advice continues, ''If some of the content of a page really is an infringement, then the infringing content should be removed, and a note to that effect should be made on the talk page, along with the original source. If the author's permission is obtained later, the text can be restored.

If all of the content of a page is a suspected copyright infringement, then the page should be listed on Copyright problems and the content of the page replaced by the standard notice which you can find there. If, after a week, the page still appears to be a copyright infringement, then it may be deleted following the procedures on the votes page.''

Not quite all of the article is a suspected copyright infringement, but certainly the lion's share was, so I have listed the page accordingly. -- Heath 68.118.23.158 21:55, 11 February 2006 (UTC)


 * I have just removed the copyvio section. If anyone wants to see the content and its source it's located at this url.  Otherwise we will rely on good sourcing and writing to rebuild this article's length. gren グレン ? 19:11, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Requested move
The Buddha of Suburbia (soundtrack) → The Buddha of Suburbia (album) — correct disambig per WP:ALBUM, see also —PEJL 18:16, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

This article has been renamed as the result of a move request. --Stemonitis 18:44, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Requested move again
Even though someone keeps redirecting this album to the soundtrack section it should be correctly moved to the albums category where it belongs. Even the article itself states that it is NOT the soundtrack to Buddha of Suburbia TV play. Very inconstistent. See also: and --Tel33 (talk) 08:31, 20 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Absolutely right. But the first sentence would have to be rewritten. Perhaps it keeps getting designated as a soundtrack simply because of that first sentence. D.Holt (talk) 04:08, 5 January 2016 (UTC)

confusion... soundtrack or not?
The first line reads:

"The Buddha of Suburbia is a 1993 soundtrack album"

The second paragraph states:

"The album is a soundtrack album"

The third paragraph says:

"The album has been classified as a soundtrack although the title track was the only song to be featured in the television programme"

Then we have the 'soundtrack' section:

"Although classified on the album cover as a soundtrack, this album is not the soundtrack Bowie wrote for the BBC dramatisation"

Will any consensus ever be reached, even within this article? It's rather unfortunate that text appeared on the first release of the record, or the album would be recognized for what it is: not a soundtrack, but a fully-fledged David Bowie studio album. At the very least, can any effort be made to clear up the contradicting statements within the article?59.102.46.83 (talk) 15:10, 15 September 2017 (UTC)

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Requested move 4 November 2021

 * 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. (closed by non-admin page mover) SkyWarrior  17:32, 11 November 2021 (UTC)

The Buddha of Suburbia (soundtrack) → The Buddha of Suburbia (album) – Based on research for this album, The Buddha of Suburbia was not actually a soundtrack album. It was marketed as such by Bowie's label when in reality, he himself stated "This collection of music bears little resemblance to the small instrumentation of the BBC play." (only the album's title track appears in the BBC serial). As such, having it labeled "soundtrack" is wrong, as Bowie's biographers and numerous other reviewers consider it a studio album with the rest of his catalog. In fact, it's quite different from Bowie's other actual soundtracks such as Labyrinth, in that it contains new material that didn't appear anywhere else but on this album. Really, its only connection to the BBC serial is the title track happens to be in it and based on it. Other than that, I would say it's an album that was inspired by the serial, not an actual soundtrack from it. – zmbro (talk) 16:24, 4 November 2021 (UTC) The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
 * I agree. All the research from biographers indicates this was not a soundtrack. 87Fan (talk) 17:01, 4 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Agree - per nomination. (And I note that this move was made in 2007 as per the comment above, and then reverted in 2008 without comment.) -- Beardo (talk) 22:45, 4 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Support. Seems sensible to me as it's not a full soundtrack.  Ss  112   11:17, 5 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Support, especially given the opinions of secondary sources like Bowie's biographers.  Tkbrett  (✉) 13:29, 5 November 2021 (UTC)