Talk:David Sylvian

Hi 205.188.117.72, can you please tell me why you keep de-linking Damage? Best wishes, <KF> 04:34, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

Alchemy: An Index of Possibilities & Gone to Earth are both credited as Sylvians second solo album!

Japan

User [65.217.204.139]: many of your copy edits are excellent and welcome, but if you want to delete entire blocks of text -- in need of a good haircut though they may be -- please discuss here first and provide justification. Also, your edits will be taken more seriously if you register a user name and sign your entries on discussion pages with four tildes (~). Aloha. Arjuna 03:42, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

runnin amok

i apologize for the tendency to monopolize. i honestly did not realize....65.217.204.139 (talk)

Seriously???--Doktor Who 02:38, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

) point made. point taken. i now know that i should've checked out the rules and regulations before jumping in head first like a maniacal zealot all obsessed with cohesiveness. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 65.217.204.139 (talk) 20:34, 2 April 2007 (UTC).

Hehe, well, you do not deserve words such as "maniacal zealot", I think you made a good work here, though, I can't check for now whether some of the text that you removed was grounded on proper sources or not. Doktor Who 22:13, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

His Name

Does anyone know why changed his surname to Sylvian as a recording artist?

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This is pure speculation, but it was thought back in the late 1970s, Japan's glam period, that he did it to make himself and his brother associated more with earlier glam. Steve Jansen= David Johansen? David Sylvian= Sylvain Sylvain? This was actually discussed at the time, and people who sneered at Japan for its glamminess (Obscure and AS) used to sneer at those names for that very reason. Funny thing, people tend to forget that Roxy Music was actually considered glam in the Eno days, so to divide Japan into a pre Roxy influenced period and a Roxy influenced period is absolutely wrong. Japan was supposedly to have originally been more or less a combination of NYDolls, Roxy, Motown and Funk anyway, and were actually considered heavy metal at the time because they were not punk or disco. At that time, "glam" and "heavy metal" were used almost interchangeably by the media, which sneered at both. JBDay 04:42, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

Disassociating themselves from Mike Batt might also have had something to with it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.138.235.243 (talk) 22:41, August 25, 2007 (UTC)

So those Batts didn't wish to be connected with Wombles. Wasn't Chris Spedding a Womble? His prog credentials were impeccable. As for the name change, the red herring of same certainly took the focus off of any connections with Mike Batt. They very well could have done it for both reasons, yes.JBDay 19:16, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

David Sylvian

David got his name from the Bowie song.... Drive in Saturday.

Quote:

Jung the foreman prayed at work (dom du aaah) Neither hands nor limbs would burst It's hard enough to keep formation with this fall out saturation (bah dom bah) Cursing at the Astronette (dom du aaah) Who stands in steel by his cabinet He's crashing out with Sylvian The Bureau Supply for ageing men With snorting head he gazes to the shore Once had raged a sea that raged no more Like the video films we saw —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.132.139.242 (talk) 21:12, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

Makes sense to me. Of course, those who got into Japan from the third album on would be offended. You know, early 1970s Bowie not "artistic" enough. What I said above about the names was still what was speculated all those years ago, as I recall "Rock Scene" magazine helped to perpetuate it. By the way, which Astronette did he curse*joke*?JBDay 17:10, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Voice

His singing voice is similar in tone to (Bruce Forsyth)'s.