Just who is the Canadian Bowie?

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As partial reparation for crimes committed in the band/artist country names thread, the United Nations is requiring ILM to name the Bowie of all its member nations. So, who is the German Bowie? Who is the Brazilian Bowie? Discuss.

The correct answer, actually, is Nick Gilder. Nick Gilder is the Canadian Bowie.

― briania, Friday, 7 May 2004 11:17 (twenty-one years ago)

naw, dan bejar.

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 7 May 2004 11:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Destroyer seconded.

― alex in montreal, Friday, 7 May 2004 11:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Deferring to the Canadian delegation, Dan Bejar is hereby confirmed as the Canadian Bowie. Nick Gilder drops to the status of ...ummm... Canadian Bolan?

― briania, Friday, 7 May 2004 11:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Canadian Bejar?

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 7 May 2004 13:32 (twenty-one years ago)

The REAL correct answer is Martin Tielli. There is no other choice for Canadian Bowie. Trust me on this.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Friday, 7 May 2004 13:34 (twenty-one years ago)

With Tielli's rebel forces gaining ground in the Bowie of Canada conflict, UN peacekeepers may have to be called in. Of course, this will place a burden on the already strained resources committed to the Bowie of the Hiphop Nation fight.

― briania, Friday, 7 May 2004 13:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Bowies of Canada

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 7 May 2004 13:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Tielli's nice and all, but he's not nearly got the s-e-x appeal that Bowie is rumoured to have. Musically, Bejar probably maybe. But Hawksley Workman seems to be actively campaigning for the title in the fashion/image/faux-sexual-amiguity > music category.

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Friday, 7 May 2004 13:48 (twenty-one years ago)

So many contenders! Who knew the Great Dominion provided such a fertile environment for Bowie-ness? Perhaps naming a Quebeqois Bowie or a Canadian vice-Bowie will help to resolve this mess.

― briania, Friday, 7 May 2004 14:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Meanwhile, field reports continue to trickle in that, following a bloodless coup, followers are claiming Gackt has assumed power as the Japanese Bowie.

― briania, Friday, 7 May 2004 14:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Sakamoto Ryuichi's whereabouts remain unknown.

― briania, Friday, 7 May 2004 14:30 (twenty-one years ago)

The canadian Bowie is Neil Young.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 7 May 2004 14:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Rumors persist that Neil Young has abdicated as Canadian Bowie and retreated to a secret Southern California location (Greendale?) while amassing resources to contend for the title of American Bowie.

― briania, Friday, 7 May 2004 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Canadian Nikki Sixx, only way shittier:
http://www.fims.uwo.ca/olr/mar702/eighties.jpg

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Friday, 7 May 2004 15:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I would have agreed with Hawksley as the Canadian Bowie if he'd stayed the damn course after his first album, but it's more apparent to me after a couple more albums that he's really aiming for the Canadian Bono nomination.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Friday, 7 May 2004 15:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Moe Berg?

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 7 May 2004 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I briefly saw him in a remake of the Richard Pryor/Jackie Gleason film The Toy on CBC last night. I think.
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― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Friday, 7 May 2004 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

The Canadian Bono race is, surprisingly, far less hotly contended.

― briania, Friday, 7 May 2004 15:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Though I think Alanis Morrisette would be more of a contender if she wasn't dating that guy from all those shitty movies and TV shows. It's actually a step down from Uncle Joey.

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Friday, 7 May 2004 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Sundar, Moe Berg was once the undisputed Bowie of Baseball. These days, its the enigmatic, bafflingly inconsistent Pedro Martinez.

― briania, Friday, 7 May 2004 15:22 (twenty-one years ago)

That flew right by me.

Leonard Cohen? He's old, he's flaky, he can't sing, and he got laid a lot.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 7 May 2004 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)

(there was also a baseball player named Moe Berg)

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Friday, 7 May 2004 15:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Off-topic, but there's a great book about the baseball Moe Berg called "The Catcher Was a Spy". He was apparently a gifted linguist and maintained a swashbuckling secret career as an allied intelligence agent while playing ball.

― briania, Friday, 7 May 2004 15:42 (twenty-one years ago)

by Nicholas Dawidoff (sp??) who also wrote a great book about country music called In The Country of Country where he basically just went around and hung out with a bunch of people who really matter in their hometowns.

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Friday, 7 May 2004 15:45 (twenty-one years ago)

But in AN URGENT UNITED NATIONS BOWIE UPDATE: Occupying forces have again pushed back the date for the naming of the new Bowie of Iraq. With Brian Molko wandering the earth in search of his own base of Bowie power, fears are that he will be appointed as a US-backed puppet-Bowie, thwarting the efforts of nationalist groups to establish a legitimate Iraqi Bowie.

― briania, Friday, 7 May 2004 15:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Are we talking about David or Jim here?

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Friday, 7 May 2004 15:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Jim was the Bowie of the Republic of Texas until Lyle Lovett came along. Gotta read that Dawidoff book on country music!

― briania, Friday, 7 May 2004 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.wiseacre.clara.net/images/music/h/hawksleyphoto.jpg

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 May 2004 16:02 (twenty-one years ago)

@d@ml, the sheer Bowieness of Hawksley Workman's pose is indeed convincing.

On an unrelated note, the lack of a clear Philippino Bowie is leading the the perception of a Bowie-vacuum that threatens to destablize the coolness of the entire Southeast Asian region. Maybe Canada could lend them one.

― briania, Friday, 7 May 2004 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I believe Sam Bowie is in need of employment...

― wetmink (wetmink), Friday, 7 May 2004 19:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Meanwhile, somewhere Martha Johnson contemplates her own brief tenure as the Canadian Bowie, while a wistful, forgotten Joey Shithead wonders what might have been.

― briania, Friday, 7 May 2004 21:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Glass Tiger

― duek canuck, Friday, 7 May 2004 21:28 (twenty-one years ago)

In a stunning declaration, Finland has stepped forward as the first EEU member to name its own Bowie. Ville Valo is the Finnish Bowie.

― briania, Friday, 7 May 2004 21:42 (twenty-one years ago)

No question, it's Stompin' Tom Connors!

― King Kobra (King Kobra), Friday, 7 May 2004 23:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I hate to say it, but it's probably Peaches.

― Kim (Kim), Saturday, 8 May 2004 00:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Well she has "worked" with Iggy!

― briania, Saturday, 8 May 2004 00:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm somewhat surprised the nobody's been able to weigh in with an Australian Bowie. Was the position was retired with Michael Hutchence?

― briania, Saturday, 8 May 2004 03:48 (twenty-one years ago)

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/nitassinan/Bertholus%206.jpg

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 8 May 2004 04:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Above, the most recent known photograph of the reclusive Costa Rican Bowie.

― briania, Saturday, 8 May 2004 05:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Peaches is Canada's Falco.
But if Tielli is Bowie, what does that make Neil Young?

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Saturday, 8 May 2004 11:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Neil Young is way too rootsy and dressed-down.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Saturday, 8 May 2004 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Alice Bowie is the Mexican Bowie.

― briania, Saturday, 8 May 2004 20:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Neil Young is the Canadian Dylan.
Peaches is the Canadian Divine.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Saturday, 8 May 2004 23:56 (twenty-one years ago)

and Hawksley Workman is the Divine Young Canadian.

― briania, Sunday, 9 May 2004 00:08 (twenty-one years ago)

michael reno. and his ass.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 9 May 2004 00:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry, Mike Reno and his ass are the Canadian Trevor & Woody.

― briania, Sunday, 9 May 2004 00:28 (twenty-one years ago)

alternate name for loverboy: the spiders from manitoba

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 9 May 2004 00:29 (twenty-one years ago)

haaahahahaha

"Ziggy played left wing.."

― briania, Sunday, 9 May 2004 00:35 (twenty-one years ago)

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