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''Outside'' (also known as ''1. Outside'') is the twentieth studio album by Music/DavidBowie, released in 1995. This album also sees Bowie reunite with Music/BrianEno for the first time since [[Music/LowDavidBowiealbum the]] [[Music/HeroesDavidBowieAlbum Berlin]] [[Music/{{Lodger}} Trilogy.]]
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''Outside'' (also known as ''1. Outside'') is the twentieth studio album by Music/DavidBowie, released in 1995. This album also sees Bowie reunite with Music/BrianEno for the first time since [[Music/LowDavidBowiealbum the]] [[Music/HeroesDavidBowieAlbum Berlin]] [[Music/{{Lodger}} Trilogy.]]
''Music/{{Lodger}}'' in 1979.
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* EpicRocking: "The Motel" at 6:51, "A Small Plot of Land" at 6:34. The album itself is also notable for its length; at 74:36, it is the longest studio album Bowie ever put out
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* EpicRocking: "The Motel" at 6:51, "A Small Plot of Land" at 6:34. The album itself is also notable for its length; at 74:36, it is the longest studio album Bowie ever put outout; Bowie later regretted its length and suggested in interviews that it would've been more digestible as a double album (as in, keeping the tracklist identical but splitting it across two [=CDs=] even though it can fit snugly on just one).
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* ClipShow: "Hallo Spaceboy" consists of Bowie and PSB interspersed with old-timey video clips.
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* ClipShow: "Hallo Spaceboy" consists of Bowie and PSB Pet Shop Boys interspersed with old-timey video clips.
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* EpicRocking: "The Motel" at 6:51, "A Small Plot of Land" at 6:34. The album itself is also notable for its length; at 74:36, it is the longest studio album Bowie ever put out
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* ShoutOut: A sample from a [[Music/{{Queen}} Brian May]] concert is played near the end of "Segue - Ramona A. Stone/I Am With Name".
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* MadnessMantra: "The Voyeur of Utter Destruction (As Beauty)" ends with one, with the Minotaur repeating the words "call it a day" ad-infinitum.
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''Outside'' (also known as ''1. Outside'') is the twentieth studio album by Music/DavidBowie, released in 1995. This album also sees Bowie reunite with Music/BrianEno for the first time since the Berlin Trilogy.
[[Music/LowDavidBowiealbum the]] [[Music/HeroesDavidBowieAlbum Berlin]] [[Music/{{Lodger}} Trilogy.]]
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The album is considered a continuation of Bowie's CareerResurrection that started with ''Black Tie, White Noise'', and spawned three singles "The Hearts Filthy Lesson", "Strangers When We Meet" (itself a re-recording of a track from ''Music/TheBuddhaOfSuburbia''), and "Hallo Spaceboy", the latter of which was remixed by the Music/PetShopBoys and incorporated into the [[Characters/DavidBowie Major Tom]] saga.
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The album is considered a continuation of Bowie's CareerResurrection that started with ''Black Tie, White Noise'', ''Music/BlackTieWhiteNoise'' and spawned three singles singles: "The Hearts Filthy Lesson", "Strangers When We Meet" (itself a re-recording of a track from ''Music/TheBuddhaOfSuburbia''), and "Hallo Spaceboy", the latter of which was remixed by the Music/PetShopBoys and incorporated into the [[Characters/DavidBowie Major Tom]] saga.
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* CelebrityParadox: Played with in the short story that accompanies the album, which is written as the diary of Detective Nathan Adler. Briefly recounting the history of the shocking performance art that paved the way for the "art-crime" fad, he notes that in TheSeventies "Bowie the singer remarked on a coupla goons who frequented the Berlin bars wearing dull surgery regalia: caps, aprons, rubber gloves and masks." No first name is given...
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* CelebrityParadox: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with with]] in the short story that accompanies the album, which is written as the diary of Detective Nathan Adler. Briefly recounting the history of the shocking performance art that paved the way for the "art-crime" fad, he notes that in TheSeventies "Bowie the singer remarked on a coupla goons who frequented the Berlin bars wearing dull surgery regalia: caps, aprons, rubber gloves and masks." No first name is given...given.
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The album is considered a continuation of Bowie's CareerResurrection that started with ''Black Tie, White Noise'', and spawned three singles "The Hearts Filthy Lesson", [[Music/TheBuddhaOfSuburbia "Strangers When We Meet"]], Meet" (itself a re-recording of a track from ''Music/TheBuddhaOfSuburbia''), and "Hallo Spaceboy", the latter of which was remixed by the Music/PetShopBoys and incorporated into the [[Characters/DavidBowie Major Tom]] saga.
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* {{Title 1}}: The title was written as ''1. Earthling'' because it was planned as the first part of a trilogy.
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* {{Title 1}}: The title was written as ''1. Earthling'' '''''1.''''' ''Outside'' because it was planned as the first part of a trilogy.
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* LongTitle: "1. Outside: The Art-Ritual Murder of Baby Grace Blue. A non-linear Gothic Drama Hyper-cycle''
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** The full title presented in the linear notes reads ''The Diary of Nathan Alder, or The Art-Ritual Murder of Baby GraceBlue. Blue: A non-linear Gothic Drama Hyper-cycle''
** The full title as presented on the album cover and interior insert reads ''1. Outside: The Nathan Alder Diaries: A Hyper-Cycle''
** The full title presented in the linear notes reads ''The Diary of Nathan Alder, or The Art-Ritual Murder of Baby Grace
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The album is considered a continuation of Bowie's CareerResurrection that started with ''Black Tie, White Noise'', and spawned three singles "The Hearts Filthy Lesson", [[Music/TheBuddhaOfSuburbia "Strangers When We Meet" Meet"]], and "Hallo Spaceboy", the latter of which was remixed by the Music/PetShopBoys and incorporated into the [[Characters/DavidBowie Major Tom]] saga.
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* RearrangeTheSong: "Strangers When We Meet" originally appeared in ''The Buddha of Suburbia'' before being remixed and released as a single from this album.
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* RearrangeTheSong: "Strangers When We Meet" originally appeared in ''The Buddha of Suburbia'' on ''Music/TheBuddhaOfSuburbia'' before being remixed re-recorded and released as a single from this album.
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''Outside'' (also known as ''1. Outside'') is the nineteenth studio album by Music/DavidBowie, released in 1995. This album also sees Bowie reunite with Music/BrianEno for the first time since the Berlin Trilogy.
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''Outside'' (also known as ''1. Outside'') is the nineteenth twentieth studio album by Music/DavidBowie, released in 1995. This album also sees Bowie reunite with Music/BrianEno for the first time since the Berlin Trilogy.
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Bowie planned for the album to be the album to be the first of a trio of [[ConceptAlbum concept albums]] (the second would have been called ''2. Contamination''), but Bowie ultimately [[WhatCouldHaveBeen scrapped the other two records]] and left the story unfinished.
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* BlackSheepHit: The PSB remix of "Hallo Spaceboy" would be a good candidate for Bowie, being more of a song you'd find playing in nightclubs or discos.
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''Outside'' (also known as ''1. Outside'') is the nineteenth studio album by Music/DavidBowie, released in 1995. This album also sees Bowie reunite with BrianEno Music/BrianEno for the first time since the Berlin Trilogy.
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* ClipShow: "Hallo Spaceboy consists of Bowie and PSB interspersed with old-timey video clips.
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* EpicRocking: "The Motel" at 6:51, "A Small Plot of Land" at 6:34.
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfRoles: Bowie gives voice to a 52-year-old detective, a 14-year-old ''female'' murder victim, {{mad artist}}s of both genders, a 78-year-old shopkeeper, etc. (There are pictures of most of them in the booklet, via the magic of makeup, costume, and image manipulation.)
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfRoles: Bowie gives voice to a 52-year-old detective, a 14-year-old ''female'' murder victim, {{mad artist}}s of both genders, a 78-year-old shopkeeper, etc. (There are pictures of most of them in the booklet, via the magic of makeup, costume, and image manipulation.)manipulation of Bowie himself)
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* SpokenWordInMusic: Aside from the segues, this is used quite a bit in "The Hearts Filthy Lesson"
-->"Paddy, who's been wearing Miranda's clothes?"
-->"Paddy, who's been wearing Miranda's clothes?"
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The album is considered a continuation of Bowie's CareerResurrection that started with ''Black Tie, White Noise'', and spawned three singles "The Hearts Filthy Lesson", "Strangers When We Meet" and "Hallo Spaceboy", the latter of which was remixed by the Music/PetShopBoys and incorporated into the [[Characters/{{DavidBowie}} [[Characters/DavidBowie Major Tom]] saga.
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* CelebrityParadox: Played with in the short story that accompanies the album, which is written as the diary of Detective Nathan Adler. Briefly recounting the history of the shocking performance art that paved the way for the "art-crime" fad, he notes that in TheSeventies "Bowie the singer remarked on a coupla goons who frequented the Berlin bars wearing dull surgery regalia: caps, aprons, rubber gloves and masks." No first name is given…
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* CelebrityParadox: Played with in the short story that accompanies the album, which is written as the diary of Detective Nathan Adler. Briefly recounting the history of the shocking performance art that paved the way for the "art-crime" fad, he notes that in TheSeventies "Bowie the singer remarked on a coupla goons who frequented the Berlin bars wearing dull surgery regalia: caps, aprons, rubber gloves and masks." No first name is given…given...
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* TitleTrack: Double subverted with the opening piece "Leon Takes Us Outside", which is then followed by "Outside"... but [[{{YMMV}} both these only count]] if you treat ''Outside'' as the official album title.
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* TitleTrack: Double subverted with the opening piece "Leon Takes Us Outside", which is then followed by "Outside"... but [[{{YMMV}} both these only count]] count if you treat ''Outside'' as the official album title.
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* TitleTrack: Double subverted with the opening piece "Leon Takes Us Outside", which is then followed by "Outside"... but [[YMMV both these only count]] if you treat ''Outside'' as the official album title.
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* TitleTrack: Double subverted with the opening piece "Leon Takes Us Outside", which is then followed by "Outside"... but [[YMMV [[{{YMMV}} both these only count]] if you treat ''Outside'' as the official album title.
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* DeathSong: Well, Death ''Album'' in this case.
* EvilLaugh: Forms part of the music for "Wishful Beginnings".
* HellIsThatNoise: The voice for Ramona A. Stone is that distorted and disturbing it comes as a relief when her act segues into "I Am With Name".
* RefrainFromAssuming: "I Have Not Been to Oxford Town" is not actually about the Oxford in England, but the one in NewJersey instead.
**There is no apostrophe in "The Hearts Filthy Lesson", but there is an extra apostrophe in "Thru' These Architects' Eyes" instead.
**There is no apostrophe in "The Hearts Filthy Lesson", but there is an extra apostrophe in "Thru' These Architects' Eyes" instead.
* SanitySlippageSong: "I'm Deranged"
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* CallBack: The PSB remix of Hallo Spaceboy not only references Major Tom, but also cuts up and mixes up the lyrics for "Space Oddity" in the second verse.
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* ClipShow: "Hallo Spaceboy consists of Bowie and PSB interspersed with old-timey video clips.
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* RearrangeTheSong: "Strangers When We Meet" originally appeared in ''The Buddha of Suburbia'' before being released a single from this album.
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* BlackSheepHit: The PSB remix of "Hallo Spaceboy" would be a good candidate for Bowie, being more of a song you'd find playing in nightclubs or discos.
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* SlasherSmile: [[https://luxatarnia.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/bowie.png Definitely helps to stand next to a dismembered corpse too]].
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'''''Outside''''' (also known as '''''1. Outside''''') is the nineteenth studio album by Music/DavidBowie, released in 1995. This album also sees Bowie reunite with BrianEno for the first time since the Berlin Trilogy.
Set TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture in 1999, a new art craze is sweeping the world - the [[Main/{{Gorn}} murdering and mutilation of human bodies]]. Known as "Art Crime", Detective Professor Nathan Adler has been tasked by the government to investigate the phenomenon.
The album is considered a continuation of Bowie's CareerResurrection that started with ''Black Tie, White Noise'', and spawned three singles "The Hearts Filthy Lesson", "Strangers When We Meet" and "Hallo Spaceboy", the latter of which was remixed by the Music/PetShopBoys and incorporated into the [[Characters/{{DavidBowie}} Major Tom]] saga.
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# "Leon Takes Us Outside" (1:25)
# "Outside" (4:04)
# "The Hearts Filthy Lesson" (4:57)
# "A Small Plot of Land" (6:34)
# "(Segue) – Baby Grace (A Horrid Cassette)" (1:39)
# "Hallo Spaceboy" (5:14)
# "The Motel" (6:49)
# "I Have Not Been to Oxford Town" (3:47)
# "No Control" (4:33)
# "(Segue) – Algeria Touchshriek" (2:03)
# "The Voyeur of Utter Destruction (as Beauty)" (4:21)
# "(Segue) – Ramona A. Stone/I Am with Name" (4:01)
# "Wishful Beginnings" (5:08)
# "We Prick You" (4:33)
# "(Segue) – Nathan Adler" (1:00)
# "I'm Deranged" (4:31)
# "Thru' These Architects' Eyes" (4:22)
# "(Segue) – Nathan Adler" (0:28)
# "Strangers When We Meet" (5:07)
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* AbortedArc: The album was intended as the first of a trilogy, but since it became an OrphanedSeries, the world shall never know what was to become of its characters.
* AlbumIntroTrack: "Leon Takes Us Outside", an instrumental piece with cryptic spoken-word phrases on top of it.
* AnachronicOrder: Applies to both the liner notes' short story and the arrangement of songs and spoken-word segues on the album itself.
* CallBack: The PSB remix of Hallo Spaceboy not only references Major Tom, but also cuts up and mixes up the lyrics for "Space Oddity" in the second verse.
* CelebrityParadox: Played with in the short story that accompanies the album, which is written as the diary of Detective Nathan Adler. Briefly recounting the history of the shocking performance art that paved the way for the "art-crime" fad, he notes that in TheSeventies "Bowie the singer remarked on a coupla goons who frequented the Berlin bars wearing dull surgery regalia: caps, aprons, rubber gloves and masks." No first name is given…
* DarkerAndEdgier: One of the darkest albums in Bowie's discography.
* TheExoticDetective: Detective Professor Nathan Adler of Art-Crime Inc. in ''1. Outside'': It's his job to not only investigate grisly "art-crimes" to find out who done 'em, but also determine whether they actually qualify as works of art or not. ("Art's a farmyard. It's my job to pick thru the manure heap looking for peppercorns.") He has aspects of the HardboiledDetective -- he wears a trenchcoat and fedora, and has a world-weary, growling voice in his spoken-word segues -- but is far more erudite and intellectual.
* ALoadOfBull: One of the [[MadArtist mad artists]] pictured in the booklet is known only as "The Minotaur" and conceals his face beneath an elaborate bull head mask. Bowie wears a similar mask in the video for the album's first single, "The Hearts Filthy Lesson", in which a cabal of other bizarre artists create a minotaur of their own (as Bowie explained in an interview. He's also a painter in RealLife and has created several works featuring minotaurs).
* LoadsAndLoadsOfRoles: Bowie gives voice to a 52-year-old detective, a 14-year-old ''female'' murder victim, {{mad artist}}s of both genders, a 78-year-old shopkeeper, etc. (There are pictures of most of them in the booklet, via the magic of makeup, costume, and image manipulation.)
* LongTitle: "1. Outside: The Diary of Nathan Adler or The Art-Ritual Murder of Baby Grace Blue. A non-linear Gothic Drama Hyper-cycle
* NewSoundAlbum: Industrial rock and electronic.
* OrphanedSeries: Was supposed to have two follow-ups.
* PietaPlagiarism: "The Hearts Filthy Lesson" where Bowie can be seen "cradled" by a mutilated mannequin in a few shots.
* RearrangeTheSong: "Strangers When We Meet" originally appeared in ''The Buddha of Suburbia'' before being released a single from this album.
* RockOpera: More specific about its storyline and characters than his other concept albums.
* ShownTheirWork: The Bowie-penned short story that makes up the bulk of the liner notes for ''1. Outside'' not only establishes the album's storyline and characters, but also weaves in stories of the grisly "precursors" of the art-crime movement. These are mostly RealLife 20th century artists of the TrueArtIsIncomprehensible school, and often particularly grisly ones at that: Hermann Nitsch, Chris Burden, Damien Hirst, Ron Athey, and Guy Bourdin. (Burden had previously inspired the ''"Heroes"'' song "Joe the Lion".)
* TitleTrack: Double subverted with the opening piece "Leon Takes Us Outside", which is then followed by "Outside".
* WordSaladLyrics
[[caption-width-right:350:''"Paddy? What a fantastic death abyss"'']]
'''''Outside''''' (also known as '''''1. Outside''''') is the nineteenth studio album by Music/DavidBowie, released in 1995. This album also sees Bowie reunite with BrianEno for the first time since the Berlin Trilogy.
Set TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture in 1999, a new art craze is sweeping the world - the [[Main/{{Gorn}} murdering and mutilation of human bodies]]. Known as "Art Crime", Detective Professor Nathan Adler has been tasked by the government to investigate the phenomenon.
The album is considered a continuation of Bowie's CareerResurrection that started with ''Black Tie, White Noise'', and spawned three singles "The Hearts Filthy Lesson", "Strangers When We Meet" and "Hallo Spaceboy", the latter of which was remixed by the Music/PetShopBoys and incorporated into the [[Characters/{{DavidBowie}} Major Tom]] saga.
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!! Tracklist:
# "Leon Takes Us Outside" (1:25)
# "Outside" (4:04)
# "The Hearts Filthy Lesson" (4:57)
# "A Small Plot of Land" (6:34)
# "(Segue) – Baby Grace (A Horrid Cassette)" (1:39)
# "Hallo Spaceboy" (5:14)
# "The Motel" (6:49)
# "I Have Not Been to Oxford Town" (3:47)
# "No Control" (4:33)
# "(Segue) – Algeria Touchshriek" (2:03)
# "The Voyeur of Utter Destruction (as Beauty)" (4:21)
# "(Segue) – Ramona A. Stone/I Am with Name" (4:01)
# "Wishful Beginnings" (5:08)
# "We Prick You" (4:33)
# "(Segue) – Nathan Adler" (1:00)
# "I'm Deranged" (4:31)
# "Thru' These Architects' Eyes" (4:22)
# "(Segue) – Nathan Adler" (0:28)
# "Strangers When We Meet" (5:07)
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* AbortedArc: The album was intended as the first of a trilogy, but since it became an OrphanedSeries, the world shall never know what was to become of its characters.
* AlbumIntroTrack: "Leon Takes Us Outside", an instrumental piece with cryptic spoken-word phrases on top of it.
* AnachronicOrder: Applies to both the liner notes' short story and the arrangement of songs and spoken-word segues on the album itself.
* CallBack: The PSB remix of Hallo Spaceboy not only references Major Tom, but also cuts up and mixes up the lyrics for "Space Oddity" in the second verse.
* CelebrityParadox: Played with in the short story that accompanies the album, which is written as the diary of Detective Nathan Adler. Briefly recounting the history of the shocking performance art that paved the way for the "art-crime" fad, he notes that in TheSeventies "Bowie the singer remarked on a coupla goons who frequented the Berlin bars wearing dull surgery regalia: caps, aprons, rubber gloves and masks." No first name is given…
* DarkerAndEdgier: One of the darkest albums in Bowie's discography.
* TheExoticDetective: Detective Professor Nathan Adler of Art-Crime Inc. in ''1. Outside'': It's his job to not only investigate grisly "art-crimes" to find out who done 'em, but also determine whether they actually qualify as works of art or not. ("Art's a farmyard. It's my job to pick thru the manure heap looking for peppercorns.") He has aspects of the HardboiledDetective -- he wears a trenchcoat and fedora, and has a world-weary, growling voice in his spoken-word segues -- but is far more erudite and intellectual.
* ALoadOfBull: One of the [[MadArtist mad artists]] pictured in the booklet is known only as "The Minotaur" and conceals his face beneath an elaborate bull head mask. Bowie wears a similar mask in the video for the album's first single, "The Hearts Filthy Lesson", in which a cabal of other bizarre artists create a minotaur of their own (as Bowie explained in an interview. He's also a painter in RealLife and has created several works featuring minotaurs).
* LoadsAndLoadsOfRoles: Bowie gives voice to a 52-year-old detective, a 14-year-old ''female'' murder victim, {{mad artist}}s of both genders, a 78-year-old shopkeeper, etc. (There are pictures of most of them in the booklet, via the magic of makeup, costume, and image manipulation.)
* LongTitle: "1. Outside: The Diary of Nathan Adler or The Art-Ritual Murder of Baby Grace Blue. A non-linear Gothic Drama Hyper-cycle
* NewSoundAlbum: Industrial rock and electronic.
* OrphanedSeries: Was supposed to have two follow-ups.
* PietaPlagiarism: "The Hearts Filthy Lesson" where Bowie can be seen "cradled" by a mutilated mannequin in a few shots.
* RearrangeTheSong: "Strangers When We Meet" originally appeared in ''The Buddha of Suburbia'' before being released a single from this album.
* RockOpera: More specific about its storyline and characters than his other concept albums.
* ShownTheirWork: The Bowie-penned short story that makes up the bulk of the liner notes for ''1. Outside'' not only establishes the album's storyline and characters, but also weaves in stories of the grisly "precursors" of the art-crime movement. These are mostly RealLife 20th century artists of the TrueArtIsIncomprehensible school, and often particularly grisly ones at that: Hermann Nitsch, Chris Burden, Damien Hirst, Ron Athey, and Guy Bourdin. (Burden had previously inspired the ''"Heroes"'' song "Joe the Lion".)
* TitleTrack: Double subverted with the opening piece "Leon Takes Us Outside", which is then followed by "Outside".
* WordSaladLyrics
